Epigraph: Excerpts from The Heart of Awareness: A Transla-tion of the Ashtavakra Gita, translated by Thomas Byrom (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1990). Copyright © 1990 by Thomas Byrom. Reprinted by arrangement with The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Shambhala Publications Inc., Boulder, Colorado, shambhala.com.
Epigraphs for parts 1, 3, 4, 6, and chapter 12: Excerpts from “The Invitation,” in Only This! by Dorothy S. Hunt (San Francisco: San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy, 2004). Copyright © 2004 by Dorothy S. Hunt. Reprinted by permission of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy.
“Nakedness Has No Preference” and “Silence Empty of Nothing”: From Only This! by Dorothy Hunt. See above.
Poem in chapter 2: From Kabir: Ecstatic Poems by Robert Bly (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004). Copyright © 2004 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press.
“Meditation Without Memory” is adapted from one of Douglas Harding’s experiments. Used here by permission of Richard Lang, coordinator of The Shollond Trust, the UK charity set up in 1996 to help share Douglas Harding’s The Headless Way, headless.org.
Rumi poem: “Chickpea to Cook,” in The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks (San Francisco: Harper, 1995). Reprinted by permission of Coleman Barks.
Epigraph for chapter 11: Excerpt from Seng Ts’an, Hsin-hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith-Mind, translated by Richard B. Clark (Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2001). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
“Until you have fully embraced . . .”; excerpt from “What Can Be Said About Love?”; “A Floating Leaf”; and epigraph for the afterword: From Leaves from Moon Mountain by Dorothy Hunt (San Francisco: Moon Mountain Sangha, 2015). Copyright © 2015 by Dorothy Hunt. Reprinted by permission of Moon Mountain Sangha.
Excerpts from Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters, translated by David Hinton (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1998). Copyright © 1997 by David Hinton. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint, Berkeley, California.