Turning the Mind Into an Ally
By Sakyong Mipham
By Sakyong Mipham
By Sakyong Mipham
By Sakyong Mipham
Category: Meditation & Mindfulness | Philosophy | Religion
Category: Meditation & Mindfulness | Philosophy | Religion
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$17.00
Jan 06, 2004 | ISBN 9781573223454
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Jan 06, 2004 | ISBN 9781101043257
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Praise
“In language totally fresh and jargon-free, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche distills the wisdom of many centuries. Simple as it is profound, his book bears reading many times.”—Peter Conradi, author of Iris Murdoch: A Life
“With warmhearted clarity and wise simplicity, Sakyong Mipham offers some of the best advice you can find for establishing and sustaining a strong, dedicated, and genuinely transformative meditation experience.”—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
“Like Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, this book addresses the complexities, obstacles, and joys of meditation with a simple and extraordinarly generous voice. It’s an amazing guidebook for a beginner, in the sense that one is always a beginner and that the journey never ends.”—Rudy Wurlitzer, author of Hard Travel to Sacred Places
“One of the best of the Buddhism-for-Westerners genre.”—Publishers Weekly
Table Of Contents
Turning the Mind Into an AllyForeward by Pema Ch?dr?n
Preface
One: Why Meditate?
1. The Rock and the Flower
2. Bewilderment and Suffering
3. Peaceful Abiding
Two: The Art of Peacefully Abiding
4. Taking Our Seat
5. Mindfulness and Awareness
6. How to Gather a Scattered Mind
7. The Virtues of Boredom
8. Laziness
9. Forgetting the Instructions
10. Not Too Tight, Not Too Loose
11. Nine Stages of Training the Mind
Three: Turning the Mind Into An Alley
12. Turning the Mind
13. The Joy of Being Human
14. The Unchanging Truth of Change
15. First We Got Old
16. And Then We Die
17. Samsara and Karma
18. Jumping into the Heart of the Buddha
Four: Warrior in the World
19. Rousing Motivation
20. Wisdom and Emptiness
21. Warrior in the World
Appendixes
A. Preparing to Practice
B. The Posture of Meditation
C. Instructions for Contempletive Meditation
Resources
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