Chapter headings: About 1. When We Become 2. The Great I Am 3. 500 BC 4. Inner Space Travel 5. Awareness 6. We Are Responsible 7. Sitting Meditation 8. Insight Meditation 9. A Nonviolent Diet 10. Run and Become 11. Our Friend Death 12. Enlightenment Appendix
Chapter headings: Preface Introduction Part One: Surrender(Step One; Meditation Exercise: Vipassana; Step Two; Step Three) Part Two: Investigation and responsibility(Step Four; Meditation exercise: noting the hindrances; Step Five; Step Six; Step Seven; Step Eight; Step Nine) Part Three: Fulfillment(Step Ten; Step Eleven; Meditation exercise: cultivating the wholesome: mudita and karuna; Step Twelve; Back to Step…
(Vipassana in Tihar Jail, New Delhi)www.vri.dhamma.org Distributed by Dhamma Books. Selected excerpts: “Continuous awareness of physical sensations, without reacting, is the core of the Vipassana practice. Every sound, vision, taste, smell, everything that contacts the body, instantly produces some sensation. The technique focuses on natural physical sensations, as the crucial link between mind and body, the…
Chapter headings: Dedication Preface Introduction The Way of Mindfulness and Recovery PART ONE: SURRENDER For the Newcomer Step One Step Two Step Three PART TWO: INVESTIGATION AND RESPONSIBILITY Step Four Step Five Step Six Step Seven Step Eight Step Nine PART THREE: FULFILLMENT Step Ten Step Eleven Step Twelve Appendix A: Buddhist Recovery Meetings Appendix…
Chapter headings: Part I – A Path with Heart: The Fundamentals A Beginning 1. Did I Love Well? 2. Stopping the War 3. Take the One Seat 4. Necessary Healing 5. Training the Puppy: Mindfulness of Breathing Part II – Promises and Perils 6. Turning Straw into Gold 7. Naming the Demons 8. Difficult Problems…
Selected excerpts: (transcription of the conclusion to Step 7) “We are a conscious part of the Universe, or we are the Universe being conscious…aware…and that consciousness is at root pure, it’s not addictive, it’s not full of craving, and clinging and egoism. Those are all kind of ways that consciousness goes astray, but fundamentally that’s…