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
Contents: Pledge to compose the work Acknowledgements Introduction Background Overview A twelve step guide for the buddhist A world view for spiritual seekers that believe there is no god A “lam rim” for westerners Step one What lies ahead Our ambitious goal Who is the buddha? What is enlightenment? The awakened state Our first realization…
Chapter headings: A Forward by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Introduction From the Wheel of Sharp Weapons Body The physical effects of ethyl alcohol General classification of traditional addictive patterns Stages of alcoholism The phases of alcohol addiction (and chart) A theory of brain chemistry and alcoholism Thirty questions for adults Fifteen questions for the female drinker Early…
Author BioGaylon Ferguson is a faculty member in both Religious Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies at Naropa University, in Boulder, Colorado. He is an acharya, or senior teacher, in the Shambhala International Buddhist community. After studying meditation and Buddhist philosophy with Tibetan master Chögyam Trungpa in the 1970s and 1980s, Ferguson became a Fulbright Fellow to…