Awakening
Subtitle: a paradigm shift of the heart
By: Rodney Smith
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781611801262
Subjects: Spirituality; Buddhism; Spiritual life; Enlightenment (Buddhism)
Description: "An amazingly succinct and accessible answer to the question "What is enlightenment?"--from one of America's most prominent teachers of Insight Meditation. One of today's most highly regarded Insight Meditation teachers describes the process of enlightenment in a way anyone can understand--demonstrating in clear language why we operate with the illusion of separation, how we can move out of it to the realization of emptiness and no-self, and how we can live from that state of awakening. He provides brief, powerful exercises that enable us to challenge the reality of our thoughts in order free ourselves from the illusion they keep us bound to, all the while steering us away from the temptation to regard spiritual practice as a process of self-improvement or a goal to be obtained"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: 1. In Search of the Essence; title: 2. Consensus Paradigm and Abstract Thought; title: 3. The Divided Mind; title: 4. Governing Laws of the Formless Paradigm; title: 5. Comparing Strategies: Adaptation and Surrender; title: 6. Crossing the Divide; title: 7. The Buddhist Continuum: Suffering and the End of Suffering; title: 8. Other Continuums; title: 9. The Discerning Power of Awareness; title: 10. The Principles of Practice; title: 11. The Applications of Practice; title: 12. A Paradigm's Shift Toward the Heart; title: 13. Living Non-Separation.