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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part One: The Givens of Life
1. Everything Changes and Ends
How We Avoid or Accept
Attracted or Repelled
Growing Older: A Changing Image in the Mirror
What Makes Us So Controlling
Nothing Separate
A Two-Handed Practice
Death and Renewal
2. Things Do Not Always Go According to Plan
Nature’s Design
Our Calling
The Larger Life
It All Balances in Love
3. Life Is Not Always Fair
Revenge or Reconcile?
Why Does Harm Come to the Innocent?
The Art of Taming Ego
Commitments beyond Ego
A Mindful Reply to Unfairness
4. Pain Is Part of Life
Are We Victims?
A Yes to the Pain Nature Brings
Being with the Suffering of Others
When Cheer Doesn’t Work
The Fertile Void
5. People Are Not Loving and Loyal All the Time
The Lifelong Influence of Childhood
Taking Care of Yourself As You Open to Others
Givens of Adult Relating
A Checklist on Boundaries in Our Relationships
Egoless Love
6. Refuges from the Givens
Religion as a Refuge
Religion and Refuge in Nature
Three Refuges
Distraction or Resource?
Magical Thinking
Backstreet Refuges
Safety in No Refuge
Wisdom within Us
Part Two: An Unconditional Yes to Our Conditioned Existence
7. How to Become Yes
Loving-Kindness
Tonglen Practice
No Outside
Nature Practices Yes
8. Yes to Feelings
Our Gifts from Nature
How Feelings Become SAFE
Love Liberates
How Fear Holds Us Back
The Life Span of a Feeling
How Do We Receive the Feelings of Others?
Tracking Our Feelings
What Feelings Are Not
Feelings Are Three-Dimensional
9. A Yes to Who I Am
Psychologically
Spiritually
Mystically
Self or No-Self?
A Stable Sense of Myself
Epilogue
About the Author
Also by David Richo
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