A Path With Heart by Kornfield, Jack -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Part I: A Path with Heart: The Fundamentals

A Beginning Chapter 1: Did I Love Well?

A Meditation on Loving-Kindness

Chapter 2: Stopping the War

A Meditation on Stopping the War Within

Chapter 3: Take the One Seat

A Meditation on Taking the One Seat

Chapter 4: Necessary Healing

Healing the Body Healing the Heart Healing the Mind Healing Through Emptiness Developing a Healing Attention A Meditative Visit to the Healing Temple

Chapter 5: Training the Puppy: Mindfulness of Breathing

Establishing a Daily Meditation Walking Meditation

Part II: Promises and Perils

Chapter 6: Turning Straw Into Gold

Meditation: Reflecting on Difficulty Meditation: Seeing All Beings as Enlightened

Chapter 7: Naming the Demons

How to Begin Naming Meditation on Making the Demons Part of the Path Meditation on the Impulses That Move Our Life

Chapter 8: Difficult Problems and Insistent Visitors

Expand the Field of Attention A Full Awareness of the Feelings Discover What Is Asking for Acceptance Open Through the Center Five More Skillful Means

Chapter 9: The Spiritual Roller Coaster: Kundalini and Other Side Effects

Attitudes Toward Altered States Some Common Altered States Skillful Means of Working with the Energetic and Emotional Openings Meditation: Reflecting on Your Attitude Toward Altered States

Chapter 10: Expanding and Dissolving the Self: Dark Night and Rebirth

Buddhist Maps of Absorption and Insight Stages The Entry to Expanded Consciousness: Access Concentration States of Absorption The Realms of Existence Dissolving the Self The Dark Night The Realm of Awakenings Meditation on Death and Rebirth

Chapter 11: Searching for the Buddha: A Lamp Unto Ourselves

Meditation: Becoming Simple and Transparent

Part III: Widening Our Circle

Chapter 12: Accepting the Cycles of Spiritual Life

Chapter 13: No Boundaries to the Sacred

The Near Enemies Meditation on Compartments and Wholeness

Chapter 14: No Self or True Self?

The Nature of Selflessness Misconceptions About Selflessness From No Self to True Self The Unique Expression of True Self Meditation: Who Am I?

Chapter 15: Generosity, Codependence, and Fearless Compassion

Meditation: Transforming Sorrow into Compassion

Chapter 16: You Can’t do it Alone: Finding and Working with a Teacher Chapter 17: Psychotherapy and Meditation Chapter 18: The Emperor’s: New Clothes: Problems with Teachers

Naming the Difficulties Why Problems Occur Transference and Projection How to Work with Teacher-Community Problems The Place of Forgiveness Leaving a Community Meditation: Reflecting on the Shadow of Your Form of Practice

Chapter 19: Karma: The Heart is our Garden

Meditation on Forgiveness

Chapter 20: Expanding Our Circle: An Undivided Heart

Daily Life as Meditation Moving into the World Conscious Conduct: The Five Precepts Reverence for Life Meditation on Service Undertaking the Five Precepts: Nonharming as a Gift to the World

Part IV: Spiritual Maturity

Chapter 21: Spiritual Maturity Chapter 22: The Great Song

Our Individual Song Within the Great Song A Hundred Thousand Forms of Awakening Meditation on Equanimity

Chapter 23: Enlightenment is Intimacy with all Things

Appendix: Insight Meditation Teachers Code of Ethics A Treasury of Books Glossary Dedication Acknowledgments Other Books by This Author About the Author