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Contents: TOUCHING ENLIGHTENMENT |
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Acknowledgments |
xi |
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Preface |
xv |
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INTRODUCTION |
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1. |
Touching Enlightenment with the Body |
3 |
2. |
What Has Become of the Buddha's Dharma? |
6 |
3. |
The Call of the Forest |
10 |
4. |
The Ultimate Challenge of Buddhism |
13 |
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l. OUR SOMATIC DISEMBODIMENT |
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Modern Buddhism and Global Crisis |
21 |
6. |
Our Physical Divestment |
28 |
7. |
Our Emotional Disconnection |
31 |
8. |
Some Historical Roots of Our Modern Disembodiment |
35 |
9. |
Meditating without the Body |
44 |
10. |
The Somatic Challenge of Tibetan Yoga |
50 |
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ll. ENGAGING THE PROCESS: MEDITATING WITH THE BODY |
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The Call to Return |
57 |
12. |
How Do We Proceed? |
61 |
13. |
Entering the Gate |
66 |
14. |
Discomfort in the Somatic Practice |
73 |
15. |
The Background and Process of Discomfort |
79 |
16. |
The Process of Letting Go |
84 |
17. |
The Unfolding Journey |
88 |
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The Body's Own Agenda |
91 |
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lll. UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF MEDITATING WITH THE BODY |
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The Importance of Non-conceptual Understanding in the Body Work and Where Concepts Are Needed |
99 |
20. |
What the Body Knows |
105 |
21. |
What Happens to What Is Rejected? |
109 |
22. |
An Example |
116 |
23. |
Karma of Cause, Karma of Result |
121 |
24. |
Our Unlived Life |
126 |
25. |
The Body and Its Dimensions: The Full Extent of the Karma of Result |
129 |
26. |
The Moment of Greatest Alienation |
133 |
27. |
Beyond the Reactivity of Ego |
140 |
28. |
Empowerment |
145 |
29. |
Impersonal and Individual |
151 |
30. |
The "Good News" of Chaos |
157 |
31. |
The Body of the Buddha |
166 |
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lV. DYNAMICS OF THE PATH, PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES, AND EXPERIENCES |
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Developing Peace: Somatic Shamatha |
177 |
33. |
Are We Willing to See? Somatic Vipashyana |
182 |
34. |
Falling Apart |
186 |
35. |
Tracking Our Emotions |
191 |
36. |
Trusting Our Emotions |
195 |
37. |
Imagination in the Body Work |
200 |
38. |
A Tibetan Yoga Approach to Physical Pain |
209 |
39. |
Some Fundamental Shifts |
215 |
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V. THE BODY AND BECOMING A PERSON |
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40. |
The Body Is the Buddha Nature |
223 |
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The Journey Is Our Unfolding Relation with the Buddha Nature |
227 |
42. |
Ego, the Body, and the Journey |
233 |
43. |
The First Stages of the Journey |
239 |
44. |
Aspects of the Unfolding Process |
247 |
45. |
A Tibetan View of the Major Stages of Unfolding |
254 |
46. |
The Body as Guide on the Journey |
261 |
47. |
Encountering the Shadow |
264 |
48. |
The Personal Body |
270 |
49. |
The Next Layer: The Interpersonal Body |
278 |
50. |
Layers of the Interpersonal Body |
285 |
51. |
How Other People Help Us Meet Our Shadow |
289 |
52. |
Integrating Further Depths of the Shadow |
297 |
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The Cosmic Body l: Transcending the Scientific Worldview |
301 |
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The Cosmic Body ll: The Earth as Our Body |
306 |
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The Cosmic Body lll: The Initiatory Process |
310 |
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The Cosmic Body lV: Until the Very End of Being |
317 |
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Who Am I? |
324 |
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CONCLUSION |
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Becoming Who We Are |
333 |
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Appendix: A Glimpse of the Body Work |
341 |
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Index |
383 |
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About the Author |
395 |