Wes Nisker

Being Nature (eBook, ePUB)

A Down-to-Earth Guide to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How to tune in to our own biology in pursuit of spiritual awakening • Provides a practical program, complete with enjoyable, even playful meditations, for realizing greater self-awareness, increased wisdom, and happiness • Shows how recent discoveries in physics, evolutionary biology, and psychology express in scientific terms the same insights the Buddha discovered more than 2,500 years ago • Reveals the origins of attachments, desires, emotions, and thoughts in our own bodies Taking us on an evolutionary journey to find the origins of emotions, desires, and thoughts in our own bodies, Wes "Scoop" Nisker shows not only how cutting-edge science is proving the tenets of the Buddha but also how we can interpret the traditional practices of Buddhism through this scientific lens for more personal freedom and peace of mind. Using the traditional Buddhist meditation series of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness as a framework, Nisker offers a witty narrative along with practical meditations and exercises to train the mind to overcome painful conditioning and gain greater self-awareness, increased wisdom, and happiness. He shows how recent discoveries in physics, evolutionary biology, and psychology express in scientific terms the same insights the Buddha discovered more than 2,500 years ago, such as the impermanence of the body, where thoughts come from, and how the body communicates within itself. Presenting a variety of new ways to harness the power of mindfulness to transform our understanding of both ourselves and the world, Nisker teaches us how to put our understanding of evolution in the service of spiritual awakening.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644115381
• Artikelnr.: 63487692

Autorenporträt

Wes "Scoop" Nisker (19422023) was an award-winning broadcast journalist and commentator. He was a meditation teacher and led mindfulness retreats internationally. The author of many books, including The Essential Crazy Wisdom, he was founding coeditor of The Inquiring Mind, an international Buddhist journal, and he was also a standup "dharma comic."

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Jack Kornfield, PhD
PROLOGUE
Who Goes There?
PART ONE
To Study the Self
CHAPTER ONE
A Case of Mistaken Identity
CHAPTER TWO
The Buddha Was a Biologist
PART TWO
The Gift of Mindfulness
CHAPTER THREE
Mindfulness: The Opposable Thumb of Consciousness
CHAPTER FOUR
The First Foundation of Mindfulness: The Body and Breath
CHAPTER FIVE
The Second Foundation of Mindfulness: The First Impression
CHAPTER SIX
The Third Foundation of Mindfulness: States of Mind
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness: Thinking about Thinking
EPILOGUE
Evolving toward Enlightenment Acknowledgments
References
Index
About the Author