Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
INTRODUCTION: Grounded Enlightenment
Questioning the Obvious
A Powerful Openness
Beginning to Wonder
Beyond the Self Mind
Knowing and Not-Knowing
Self and Being
Moving Beyond Belief
Learning to Not-Know
Natural Contemplation
Zen Influence
Relating Differently to Beliefs
Creating a New Perspective
Empty Your Cup
The Cultural Matrix
We Are Culture
Not-Knowing in Our Culture
The Self in Our Culture
The Cost of Our Assumptions
Your Own Experience of These Consequences
An Experience of Not-Knowing
Learning versus Knowing
Thinking without a Net
What Is an Experience?
What Is an Experience of Not-Knowing?
What Is an Insight?
The Principles of Discovery
Four Cornerstones of Discovery
Authentic Experience
Honesty
Grounded Openness
Questioning
Embracing Paradox
Our Self Experience
Conceptual Dominance
Creating a Conceptual World
What Is a Concept?
Concepts Dominate Our Perceptions
There’s More to Perception than Meets the Eye
The Solidification of Concepts
Challenging Conceptual Dominance
You Don’t Have to Rehearse to Be Yourself
Being Yourself
The Real and the False
Masks and Hats
Superficial Remedies
Looking for Self in All the Wrong Places
Unknown Origins
Our “Need to Know” Level of Consciousness
Mistaking the Uncognized Mind for the Real Self
The Origins of Your Self
In Search of Real Being
What Am I?
Our Experience of “Being”
Identifying Ourselves
Our Conceptual Self Experience
Self and Being
What Is a Self?
What Is Being?
What Is Your Self and What Is Being?
The Self: Noun or Verb?
Am I a Noun or a Verb?
To Noun or to Verb?
“Doing” versus “Being”
Creating Self
Inventing Self and World
The Self-Identity Reinforces Itself
The Never-Ending Story of Me
Inventions
Inventing Personalized Worlds
Manipulating Circumstances
Lost in Translation
What Is Not and Never Was
Interpretation Revisited
Reconstructive Interpretation
Self as We Know It
Life in the Loop
Creating an Experience of Self
The Myth of Real Self
Apples and Oranges
Believing in Your Self
Mandatory Misrepresentation
Living as a False-Self
The Snowball Effect
Assembling a Particular Self
The Way You Are in Particular
The Self Principle
All about You
Meaning Steers the Self
Two Domains of Survival: Physical and Conceptual
Social Survival
To Be Frank
Surviving as a Self
Survival Is Not Being
Three Distinctions in Consciousness
What Is “For-Itself”?
Beyond Happiness and Suffering: Perceiving Something For-Itself
For-Itself versus As-Itself
Experiencing the Truth Is Not the Purpose of Self-Survival
For-Itself versus As-Itself—an Ontological Overview
Surviving Isn’t Being
What Does Persist?
Entertaining the Possibility of Not Surviving
Penetrating Experience
Recognizing Self-Survival in Your Own Experience
Getting from Here to There
What Is Being at Effect?
Becoming More Conscious of Effects
Experiencing Something For-Itself
Changing from Reaction to Experience
Changing Context Changes Effects
Beyond Belief
A Quick Review of Belief
Getting Free of Our Need to Believe
On the Shoulders of Giants
Using Beliefs as a Map
Radical Openness
Eliminating Beliefs
The Practice of Dispelling Beliefs
A New Experience in Consciousness
Freedom from Assumptions—Part One
Making Connections
Emptiness
Freedom from Assumptions—Part Two
Self-Doubt
Feeling Trapped
Suffering
Struggle
Contemplation
Creating a Place to Stand
Being as Unknown
Contemplation
Pre-contemplation
Contemplating
Developing a Steady Practice
Looking Both Ways
Awakening the Uncognized Mind
Finding Our Way into the Unconscious
Contemplating the Uncognized Mind
The Process of Contemplating Uncognized Mind
Explaining the Process
A Sample Bottom-Line Contemplation
Guidelines for Your Bottom-Line Contemplation
Five Points of Reference
The Nature of Reality
The Nature of Emotion
Fear
Anger
Desire
Pain
The Nature of Everything
What Is Everything?
The Distinction “Distinction”
Distinctions and Existence
The Nature of Being
Meaning Doesn’t Mean Anything
In Search of Absolute Knowledge
The Possibility of Direct Consciousness
The Nature of Being
The Paradox of Being
Being and Self
Being and Life
What Now?
Life Principles
Happiness: Don’t Want It
Discipline and Freedom
The Lava Syndrome
A Final Word
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →