How To Be Less Tense | GuoGu
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Plus: How to take your thoughts less seriously and be the calmest person in the room.
GuoGu (AKA Dr. Jimmy Yu) is the founder of the Tallahassee Chan Center and a Professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at Florida State University. He is the author of several books, including The Essence of Chan (2012), Passing Through the Gateless Barrier (2016), and Silent Illumination (2021).
In this episode we talk about:
- Embodied experiencing
- How words and language shape our reality
- The practice of wonderment
- Body scan meditation
- The importance of relaxation — and how to do it if you have pain
- The 4 things you need in order for meditation to do its job
- How to carry all of this into daily life — GuoGu gets super practical here
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Tallahassee Chan Center & Talks by Guo Gu (YouTube Channel)
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