In this episode, Eric Zimmer and Shinzen Young discuss his book, The Science of Enlightenment, the skill set of mindful awareness, how meditation helps you concentrate, how the ability to concentrate is at the base of the pyramid of anything you want to do, that mindful awareness is the ability to focus on anything you want, whenever you want for as long as you want, how to break down our inner space, breaking the self down into these three things: Mental images, mental talk and body emotions, that when you have a strong emotion you almost always will have a change in body sensation, how to parcel body sensation into emotional and non-emotional, how to suffer less in life and be 10x happier, the difference between pain and suffering and much more.