- Subjects
- Published
-
New York :
Hyperion
c2005.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Physical Description
- xiii, 631 p. ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-615) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780786886548
9780786867561
- Introduction: The Challenge of a Life's Time-and a Lifetime
- Part 1. Meditation: It's Not What You Think
- Meditation Is Not for the Faint-Hearted
- Witnessing Hippocratic Integrity
- Meditation Is Everywhere
- Original Moments
- Odysseus and the Blind Seer
- No Attachments
- The Origin of Shoes: A Tale
- Meditation-It's Not What You Think
- Two Ways to Think about Meditation
- Why Even Bother? The Importance of Motivation
- Aiming and Sustaining
- Presence
- A Radical Act of Love
- Awareness and Freedom
- On Lineage and the Uses and Limitations of Scaffolding
- Ethics and Karma
- Mindfulness
- Part 2. The Power of Attention and the Dis-Ease of the World
- Why Paying Attention Is So Supremely Important
- Dis-Ease
- Dukkha
- Dukkha Magnets
- Dharma
- The Stress Reduction Clinic
- A.D.D. Nation
- 24/7 Connectivity
- Continual Partial Attention
- The "Sense" of Time Passing
- Awareness Has No Center and No Periphery
- Emptiness
- Part 3. The Sensory World: Your One Wild and Precious Life
- The Mystery of the Senses and the Spell of the Sensuous
- Seeing
- Being Seen
- Hearing
- Soundscape
- Airscape
- Touchscape
- In Touch with Your Skin
- Smellscape
- Tastescape
- Mindscape
- Nowscape
- Part 4. Embracing Formal Practice: Tasting Mindfulness
- Lying Down Meditations
- Sitting Meditations
- Standing Meditations
- Walking Meditations
- Yoga
- Just Knowing
- Just Hearing
- Just Breathing
- Lovingkindness Meditation
- Am I Doing It Right?
- Common Obstacles to Practice
- Supports for Your Practice
- Part 5. Healing Possibilities: The Realm of Mind and Body
- Sentience
- Nothing Personal, But, Excuse Me...Are We Who We Think We Are?
- Even Our Molecules Touch
- No Fragmentation
- No Separation
- Orienting in Time and Space: A Tribute to My Father
- Orthogonal Reality-Rotating in Consciousness
- Orthogonal Institutions
- A Study in Healing and the Mind
- A Study in Happiness-Meditation, the Brain, and the Immune System
- Homunculus
- Proprioception-The Felt Sense of the Body
- Neuroplasticity and the Unknown Limits of the Possible
- Part 6. Arriving at Your Own Door
- "I Can't Hear Myself Think!"
- I Didn't Have a Moment to Catch My Breath
- The Infidelity of Busyness
- Interrupting Ourselves
- Filling Up All Our Moments
- Attaining Place
- You Can't Get There from Here
- Overwhelmed
- Dialogues and Discussions
- Sitting on the Bench
- You Crazy!
- Phase Changes
- You Make, You Have
- Any Ideal of Practice Is Just Another Fabrication
- You Want to Make Something of It?
- Who Won the Super Bowl?
- Arrogance and Entitlement
- Death
- Dying Before You Die
- Dying Before You Die-Deux
- Don't Know Mind
- Arriving at Your Own Door
- Part 7. Healing the Body Politic
- Healing the Body Politic
- "I Read the News Today, Oh Boy"
- Reminding Myself That Self-Righteousness Is Not Helpful
- Politics Not as Usual in the Twenty-First Century
- Lessons from Medicine
- The Taming Power of the Small
- Mindfulness and Democracy
- Talking Vietnam Meditation Blues-A Snapshot from the Past, or Is It the Future?
- Wag the Dog
- "I Don't Know What I Would Have Done Without My Practice!"
- The Suspension of Distraction
- Moments of Silence
- The Ascendancy of the Mindful
- Part 8. Let the Beauty We Love Be What We Do
- Different Ways of Knowing Make Us Wiser
- On the Doorstep: Karma Meets Dharma-A Quantum Leap for Homo Sapiens Sapiens
- Reflections on the Nature of Nature and Where We Fit In
- Hidden Dimensions Unfurled
- Getting Things in Perspective
- Related Readings
- Index
- Credits and Permissions
- Mindfulness Meditation Practice CDs