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Coming to our senses: healing ourselves and the world through mindfulness
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Hyperion
Publication Date
[2005]
Language
English
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ISBN
9781401399498
9780786886548
9780786867561
9780786886548
9780786867561
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9781401399498
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Table of Contents
From the Book - Regular Print - First edition.
Introduction: The Challenge of a Life's Time-and a Lifetime 1 --
Part 1 Meditation: It's Not What You Think 19 --
Meditation Is Not for the Faint-Hearted 21 --
Witnessing Hippocratic Integrity 30 --
Meditation Is Everywhere 33 --
Original Moments 38 --
Odysseus and the Blind Seer 42 --
No Attachments 51 --
Origin of Shoes: A Tale 55 --
Meditation-It's Not What You Think 58 --
Two Ways to Think about Meditation 64 --
Why Even Bother? The Importance of Motivation 69 --
Aiming and Sustaining 75 --
Presence 79 --
A Radical Act of Love 84 --
Awareness and Freedom 88 --
On Lineage and the Uses and Limitations of Scaffolding 93 --
Ethics and Karma 102 --
Mindfulness 108 --
Part 2 Power of Attention and the Dis-Ease of the World 115 --
Why Paying Attention Is So Supremely Important 117 --
Dis-Ease 124 --
Dukkha 127 --
Dukkha Magnets 130 --
Dharma 134 --
Stress Reduction Clinic 139 --
A.D.D. Nation 143 --
24/7 Connectivity 151 --
Continual Partial Attention 157 --
"Sense" of Time Passing 162 --
Awareness Has No Center and No Periphery 167 --
Emptiness 172 --
Part 3 Sensory World: Your One Wild and Precious Life 185 --
Mystery of the Senses and the Spell of the Sensuous 187 --
Seeing 192 --
Being Seen 198 --
Hearing 202 --
Soundscape 205 --
Airscape 211 --
Touchscape 215 --
In Touch with Your Skin 221 --
Smellscape 224 --
Tastescape 228 --
Mindscape 234 --
Nowscape 237 --
Part 4 Embracing Formal Practice: Tasting Mindfulness 243 --
Lying Down Meditations 245 --
Sitting Meditations 254 --
Standing Meditations 264 --
Walking Meditations 268 --
Yoga 273 --
Just Knowing 278 --
Just Hearing 281 --
Just Breathing 283 --
Lovingkindness Meditation 285 --
Am I Doing It Right? 296 --
Common Obstacles to Practice 300 --
Supports for Your Practice 305 --
Part 5 Healing Possibilities: The Realm of Mind and Body 313 --
Sentience 315 --
Nothing Personal, But, Excuse Me...Are We Who We Think We Are? 321 --
Even Our Molecules Touch 331 --
No Fragmentation 336 --
No Separation 338 --
Orienting in Time and Space: A Tribute to My Father 340 --
Orthogonal Reality-Rotating in Consciousness 347 --
Orthogonal Institutions 353 --
A Study in Healing and the Mind 359 --
A Study in Happiness-Meditation, the Brain, and the Immune System 368 --
Homunculus 376 --
Proprioception-The Felt Sense of the Body 388 --
Neuroplasticity and the Unknown Limits of the Possible 392 --
Part 6 Arriving at Your Own Door 403 --
"I Can't Hear Myself Think!" 405 --
I Didn't Have a Moment to Catch My Breath 407 --
Infidelity of Busyness 410 --
Interrupting Ourselves 415 --
Filling Up All Our Moments 420 --
Attaining Place 425 --
You Can't Get There from Here 429 --
Overwhelmed 445 --
Dialogues and Discussions 448 --
Sitting on the Bench 451 --
You Crazy! 456 --
Phase Changes 458 --
You Make, You Have 462 --
Any Ideal of Practice Is Just Another Fabrication 467 --
You Want to Make Something of It? 469 --
Who Won the Super Bowl? 472 --
Arrogance and Entitlement 477 --
Death 482 --
Dying Before You Die 486 --
Dying Before You Die-Deux 491 --
Don't Know Mind 494 --
Arriving at Your Own Door 496 --
Part 7 Healing the Body Politic 499 --
Healing the Body Politic 501 --
"I Read the News Today, Oh Boy" 513 --
Reminding Myself That Self-Righteousness Is Not Helpful 522 --
Politics Not as Usual in the Twenty-First Century 528 --
Lessons from Medicine 536 --
Taming Power of the Small 547 --
Mindfulness and Democracy 551 --
Talking Vietnam Meditation Blues-A Snapshot from the Past, or Is It the Future? 555 --
Wag the Dog 562 --
"I Don't Know What I Would Have Done Without My Practice!" 566 --
Suspension of Distraction 569 --
Moments of Silence 573 --
Ascendancy of the Mindful 576 --
Part 8 Let the Beauty We Love Be What We Do 581 --
Different Ways of Knowing Make Us Wiser 583 --
On the Doorstep: Karma Meets Dharma-A Quantum Leap for Homo Sapiens Sapiens 591 --
Reflections on the Nature of Nature and Where We Fit In 598 --
Hidden Dimensions Unfurled 604 --
Getting Things in Perspective 606 --
Mindfulness Meditation Practice CDs 632.
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