The Way of Selflessness
Subtitle: A Practical Guide to Enlightenment Based on the Teachings of the World's Great Mystics
Publisher: Center for Sacred Sciences
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Eugene, OR
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780962038723
Table of contents: title: vii
label: Preface; title: Part I: Overview of the Way; title: 3
label: Chapter 1: The Truth That Makes You Free; title: 13
label: Chapter 2: Who Are You, Really?; title: 27
label: Chapter 3: Enlightenment; title: 35
label: Chapter 4: Understanding Delusion; title: 41
label: Chapter 5: Love and Truth; title: 49
label: Chapter 6: Four Principles of the Path; title: Part II: Making Preparations; title: 63
label: Chapter 7: Finding a Teacher; title: 73
label: Chapter 8: Tracking Dreams; title: 85
label: Chapter 9: Going on Retreat; title: Part III: Entering the Path of Knowledge ( Jnana); title: 93
label: Chapter 10: The Chain of Conditioning; title: 101
label: Chapter 11: Concentration Meditation; title: 115
label: Chapter 12: Choiceless Awareness Meditation; title: 123
label: Chapter 13: Contemplating Impermanence; title: Part IV: Entering the Path of Devotion ( Bhakti); title: 133
label: Chapter 14: Verbal Prayer; title: 143
label: Chapter 15: Prayer-in-the-Heart; title: 153
label: Chapter 16: Remembrance through Unceasing Prayer; title: Part V: Cultivating Love and Compassion; title: 163
label: Chapter 17: The Mystics’ View of Morality; title: 169
label: Chapter 18: Keeping Precepts; title: 185
label: Chapter 19: Sending and Taking; title: 195
label: Chapter 20: Serving Others; title: 205
label: Chapter 21: Serving God; title: 211
label: Chapter 22: Be Grateful for Everything; title: 221
label: Chapter 23: Effort and Grace; title: Part VI: Dismantling the Delusion of Self; title: 229
label: Chapter 24: Liberating Thoughts; title: 237
label: Chapter 25: Purifying Emotions; title: 249
label: Chapter 26: Deconstructing the Delusion of Time; title: 261
label: Chapter 27: Avoiding Pitfalls; title: Part VII: Contemplating Reality; title: 271
label: Chapter 28: Contemplating the Nature of Objects; title: 287
label: Chapter 29: Contemplating the Nature of Self; title: 301
label: Chapter 30: Contemplating the Nature of God; title: 309
label: Chapter 31: Contemplating Nothing; title: 321
label: Chapter 32: Returning to the Source; title: Part VIII: End of the Way; title: 331
label: Chapter 33: Kenosis; title: 341
label: Chapter 34: Gnosis; title: 353
label: Chapter 35: Life after Gnosis; title: 365
label: Endnotes; title: 383
label: Quotation Index; title: 387
label: Subject Index