FORWORD
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xv
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Embodiment and Authenticity in Dharma Practice |
xvii |
INTRODUCTION |
1 |
Be Here Now |
5
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Life as Experimental Dharma Art |
10 |
Structure |
12 |
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SECTION I: BODY |
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OUTER BODY |
17 |
Agency and Buddha-Nature |
24 |
Inculturation and Authenticity |
28 |
Bodies of Trauma (Trauma and Incarnation) |
34 |
INNER BODY |
37 |
Identity and Embodied Spiritual Formation |
37 |
Pastoralism and Certainty |
40 |
Individuation within Our Traditions |
46 |
Language, Time, and Ideas about the Path |
49 |
SECRET BODY |
55 |
Approaching Death |
55 |
Death as Guru |
57 |
Death and the Spiritual Path |
63 |
-- The Sensei and His Preparation for Death |
64 |
-- Joan: When Families Unravel |
69 |
-- Rosie's Sudden Loss |
73 |
Instructions from Milarepa |
78 |
-- The Intermediate State between Birth and Death |
80 |
-- The Intermediate State of Dreams |
84 |
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SECTION II: SPEECH |
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OUTER SPEECH |
113 |
Right Speech |
113 |
Activity and Power |
114 |
How We Carry Ourselves--Being Pregnant with Realization |
120 |
Practice and Self-Care |
125 |
Mantra: Milarepa and Chenrezik |
127 |
INNER SPEECH |
129 |
Ethics |
129 |
Samaya |
134 |
SECRET SPEECH |
151 |
CHOD/Charnel Grounds |
151
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Tantric Conduct |
172 |
Vamacara Practice |
191 |
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SECTION III: MIND |
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OUTER MIND |
199 |
Pure-View and Sacred Geography |
199 |
Obstacles and the Experience of Mind |
207 |
Yidam Practice |
213 |
The Lama as Appearance |
220 |
-- The Causal Condition |
221 |
-- The Empowering Condition |
222 |
-- The Objective Condition |
226 |
-- The Immediate Condition |
227 |
INNER MIND |
229 |
Padampa Sangye's Treasury of Bliss |
229 |
Ground, Path, Fruit, and Mahamudra |
244 |
-- The Ground |
244 |
-- The Path |
245 |
-- The Fruit |
247 |
SECRET MIND |
251 |
Tilopa's Six Nails |
251 |
Maitripa's Six Verses on the Coemergent |
259 |
Maitripa's Mahamudra Sancamitha |
265 |
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CONCLUSION: Resting Free |
273 |
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GLOSSARY |
279 |
NOTES |
289 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
293 |
INDEX |
297 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
317 |