Turning Suffering Inside Out: A Zen Approach to Living with Physical and Emotional Pain

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Turning Suffering Inside Out: A Zen Approach to Living with Physical and Emotional Pain
By: Cohen, Darlene

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Author: Cohen, Darlene
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The key to release from suffering lies in paying closer attention to it, according to Darlene Cohen - even forms of suffering as challenging as arthritis, depression, or chronic illness. Paradoxically, when we keep our pain at bay, we keep pleasure at bay, too. The two are interdependent, and our ability to experience each is totally dependent on our understanding of the other. "Enrich your life exponentially", she advises. "If your pain is one of ten things you are aware of, then it constitutes a tenth of your total awareness. Expand your awareness to a hundred things, however, and your pain is only a hundredth of your awareness". With stories, exercises, and an awareness born of long Zen practice, Cohen shows us how we can lead a satisfying - and even joyful - life in the midst of pain.

Turning Suffering Inside Out, Darlene Cohen, Shambhala Publications, 250 pages, $23.95

Darlene Cohen is a Zen teacher who counsels chronic pain clients and gives arthritis workshops, classes, lectures, and pain seminars in private practice and at medical facilities and meditation centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as Spokane, Washington, and Evanston, Illinois. She is author of Arthritis: Stop Suffering, Start Moving—Everyday Exercises for Body and Mind.

Table of Contents: Turning Suffering Inside Out

Acknowledgments xi
PART ONE: Suffering
1. The Problem: Caught under the Ever-Turning Wheel of Grasping and Aversion 3
2. At Hell's Gate: Physical Pain as a Model for Suffering 24
PART TWO: Delight
3. The Disinterested Pursuit of Pleasure 43
4. Controlling Your Sheep or Cow in the Large, Spacious Meadow 51
5. Ecstasy: The Pleasure That Refreshes 73
6. Nurturing Relationships 81
7. Mad as Hell and Can't Take One More Thing: Dealing with the Anger Pain Provokes 97
PART THREE: How to Be Alive For Everything
8. Accessing the Body's Wisdom 119
9. Connection: Turning Suffering Inside Out 147
PART FOUR: Returning to the Present Moment
10. Paying Attention 165
11. Swallowing the Whole World 201
12. Allowing Your Life to Unfold 227
Sources and Credits 249

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