Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You AreWe don’t have to look to the East for the secrets of awakening—the wisdom and peace we seek is available right here, in our ordinary daily lives If you want to find inner peace and wisdom, you don’t need to move to an ashram or monastery. Your life, just as it is, is the perfect place to be. Here Jack Kornfield, one of America’s most respected Buddhist teachers, shares this and other key lessons gleaned from more than forty years of committed study and practice. Topics include: • How to cultivate loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity • Conscious parenting • Spirituality and sexuality • The way of forgiveness • Committing ourselves to healing the suffering in the world Bringing Home the Dharma includes simple meditation practices for awakening our buddha nature—our wise and understanding heart—amid the ups and downs of our ordinary daily lives. |
Contents
The Liberating Practice of Mindfulness | 1 |
The Way of Meditation | 11 |
Learning to Rest in Awareness | 17 |
8 | 61 |
9 | 73 |
11 | 111 |
Developing a Steady Concentrated Mind | 125 |
Spiritual Maturity | 133 |
Establishing the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock | 211 |
Sex Lives ofthe Gurus | 225 |
Psychedelics Antidepressants and Spiritual Practice | 235 |
Even the Best Meditators Have Old Wounds to Heal | 245 |
22 | 250 |
Enlightenments | 258 |
practices | 267 |
Basic Meditation Practice | 269 |
lessons from modern masters | 147 |
The Teachings ofAjahn Chah | 149 |
The Inspiration of Dipa Ma Barua | 167 |
Celebrating Chögyam Trungpa | 175 |
practicing the dharma in the west | 191 |
Preserving and Adapting the Dharma | 193 |
7 | 271 |
Lovingkindness Meditation Metta | 273 |
Credits | 277 |
About the Author | 281 |
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