How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and SorrowIntimately and without jargon, How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow describes the path to peace amid all of life's ups and downs. Using step by step instructions, the author illustrates how to be fully present in the moment without clinging to joy or resisting sorrow. This opens the door to a kind of wellness that goes beyond circumstances. Actively engaging life as it is in this fashion holds the potential for awakening to a peace and well-being that are not dependent on whether a particular experience is joyful or sorrowful. This is a practical book, containing dozens of exercises and practices, all of which are illustrated with easy-to-relate to personal stories from the author's experience. |
Contents
Change Change Change | |
Self as EverShifting Flow | |
Cant Get No Satisfaction | |
The Unquenchable Thirst | |
Looking More Deeply at Suffering and Dissatisfaction | |
Choiceless Awareness 11 Awakening tothe Body through Mindfulness 12 | |
Kindness Compassion Appreciative Joy and Equanimity 13 ThePsychological Statesof Awakened Beings 14 To Cultivate anOpenHeart Set Aside Jud... | |
Start withYourself 17 Appreciative JoyAnAntidote toEnvyand Resentment 18 Equanimity Fully Engaging ThisLife as It Is 19 Intentionally Turning ... | |
In the End | |
Onward Down the Path | |
Common terms and phrases
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