Shinzen Young lays it all out:
He has also started blogging (to add to his other online presences).
As I’ve mentioned in this space a few times before, I’ve learned a lot from him, especially about the relationship between a process-relational metaphysics (which is how I would describe Shinzen’s Buddhism) and the intimate bits of detail that make up the fabric of our experience.
Note, for instance, how this account of arising and vanishing resonates with Whitehead’s description of the percolation of actual occasions that constitutes the universe.
The mandala-of-everything-he-knows was posted a few feet in front of my cushion on retreat in November. A 10-year yoga practitioner, I found myself using it as a kind of yantra.
The resonance with Whitehead’s work is notable, yes. I’ve never heard him indicated that he’s read Whitehead – his tastes tend to run more to hard science or poetry – but who knows.
Thanks for that detail, (OvO). I wouldn’t be surprised if Shinzen has read some Whitehead, though he’s never mentioned it (even when I’ve mentioned Whitehead to him). If so, I’m guessing it might be something like Science and the Modern World, or maybe even the (Whitehead-Russell) Principia Mathematica. His geeky love of mathematics comes through a little in that first video.
welcome back, are you familiar with the work of Eugene Gendlin?
here is a conference he organized sometime back:
http://www.focusing.org/apm.htm#Online%20Papers