Takes you on a lively, sometimes light-hearted, journey through nine Buddhist practices that can bring "blessed relief" to a wide range of human suffering-and teaches you skills to reduce suffering in the long term for yourself and others.
Takes you on a lively, sometimes light-hearted, journey through nine Buddhist practices that can bring "blessed relief" to a wide range of human suffering-and teaches you skills to reduce suffering in the long term for yourself and others.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Gordon Peerman is an Episcopal priest and psychotherapist in private practice, and an adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt Divinity School, where he teaches seminars in Buddhist-Christian Dialogue. He also teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health, as well as mindfulness practices to Vanderbilt Law School and Vanderbilt Medical School students. He and his wife, Kathy Woods, lead a weekly meditation with the Nashville Mindfulness Meditation Group.
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Introduction ix The Buddha Way and the Christian Way ix What Helps and What Doesn't xi Dropping Your Story Line xii Finding Freedom xiii 1. Big Mind, Big Medicine 1 Everything Changes 1 The Heart of Mindfulness 5 The Weakest Link 7 Small Mind, Big Mind 10 Renunciation Practice 13 A Refuge from Words 16 Dropping into Freedom 19 Blessed Relief: The Three-Minute Breathing Space 24 2. The Cry for Help 27 The Why and the What of Suffering 27 An Exit from Hell 29 Bearing Suffering 32 The Work 36 Clearing the Lens 38 The Judging Mind Goes on Retreat 41 Blessed Relief: The Work 45 3. Beyond Belief 49 A Happy Accident 49 Spacious Awareness 52 Incline Your Mind 55 Who's Talking? 57 The Cloud of Unknowing 60 Blessed Relief: The Practice of Inquiry 63 4. Quiet Ambition 65 Not Enough 65 Kind Attention 69 Spontaneous Joy 72 The Hungry Ghost 74 Blessed Relief: The Sacred Breath 77 5. An Instrument of Peace 79 Angr-r-r-y 79 Self-Soothing: Bringing Attentiveness to Anger 81 Self-Defining: Being Willing to Speak Your Truth 85 Self-Transcending: Bringing RAIN to Blame 91 Blessed Relief: Working with RAIN 98 6. Meeting Our Edges 101 "You All Belong" 101 The Failed Buddhist Bypass 104 Nonviolent Communication 110 May the Circle Be Unbroken 114 Blessed Relief: Nonviolent Communication (NVC) 117 7. Beginning Anew 121 Unwrapping the Experience 121 A Place to Begin 123 True Intimacy 125 Zazen in the Devil's Cauldron 129 Blessed Relief: The Practice of Beginning Anew 134 8. The Dharma of Dying 137 Remembrances 137 The Great Way 140 Bowing to the Moment 143 Old Wounds 147 Blessed Relief: The Five Remembrances 150 9. Mobile Loaves and Fishes 153 Compassion Rising 153 Beyond Us and Them 157 A Retreat on the Streets 159 Softening the Heart 161 Blessed Relief: Compassion Practice 166 Afterword 168 Glossary 173 Suggested Resources 175 Acknowledgments 179 Credits 182
Introduction ix The Buddha Way and the Christian Way ix What Helps and What Doesn't xi Dropping Your Story Line xii Finding Freedom xiii 1. Big Mind, Big Medicine 1 Everything Changes 1 The Heart of Mindfulness 5 The Weakest Link 7 Small Mind, Big Mind 10 Renunciation Practice 13 A Refuge from Words 16 Dropping into Freedom 19 Blessed Relief: The Three-Minute Breathing Space 24 2. The Cry for Help 27 The Why and the What of Suffering 27 An Exit from Hell 29 Bearing Suffering 32 The Work 36 Clearing the Lens 38 The Judging Mind Goes on Retreat 41 Blessed Relief: The Work 45 3. Beyond Belief 49 A Happy Accident 49 Spacious Awareness 52 Incline Your Mind 55 Who's Talking? 57 The Cloud of Unknowing 60 Blessed Relief: The Practice of Inquiry 63 4. Quiet Ambition 65 Not Enough 65 Kind Attention 69 Spontaneous Joy 72 The Hungry Ghost 74 Blessed Relief: The Sacred Breath 77 5. An Instrument of Peace 79 Angr-r-r-y 79 Self-Soothing: Bringing Attentiveness to Anger 81 Self-Defining: Being Willing to Speak Your Truth 85 Self-Transcending: Bringing RAIN to Blame 91 Blessed Relief: Working with RAIN 98 6. Meeting Our Edges 101 "You All Belong" 101 The Failed Buddhist Bypass 104 Nonviolent Communication 110 May the Circle Be Unbroken 114 Blessed Relief: Nonviolent Communication (NVC) 117 7. Beginning Anew 121 Unwrapping the Experience 121 A Place to Begin 123 True Intimacy 125 Zazen in the Devil's Cauldron 129 Blessed Relief: The Practice of Beginning Anew 134 8. The Dharma of Dying 137 Remembrances 137 The Great Way 140 Bowing to the Moment 143 Old Wounds 147 Blessed Relief: The Five Remembrances 150 9. Mobile Loaves and Fishes 153 Compassion Rising 153 Beyond Us and Them 157 A Retreat on the Streets 159 Softening the Heart 161 Blessed Relief: Compassion Practice 166 Afterword 168 Glossary 173 Suggested Resources 175 Acknowledgments 179 Credits 182
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