From the Book - Regular Print
Part 1 Technique of Meditation --
1 Preparing for Practice and Making the Commitment 17 --
2 Stabilizing the Mind 23 --
3 Six Points of Posture 29 --
4 Breath: The Practice of Letting Go 37 --
5 Attitude: Keep Coming Back 41 --
6 Unconditional Friendliness 47 --
7 You Are Your Own Meditation Instructor 53 --
Part 2 Working With Thoughts --
9 Three Levels of Discursive Thought 63 --
10 Thoughts as the Object of Meditation 69 --
11 Regard All Dharmas as Dreams 73 --
Part 3 Working With Emotions --
12 Becoming Intimate with Our Emotions 79 --
13 Space within the Emotion 85 --
14 Emotions as the Object of Meditation 87 --
15 Getting Our Hands Dirty 93 --
16 Hold the Experience 99 --
17 Breathing with the Emotion 103 --
18 Drop the Story and Find the Feeling 107 --
Part 4 Working With Sense Perceptions --
19 Sense Perceptions 115 --
20 Interconnection of All Perceptions 133 --
Part 5 Opening Your Heart to Include everything --
21 Giving Up the Struggle 139 --
23 Bearable Lightness of Being 153 --
25 Relaxing with Groundlessness 161 --
26 Create a Circle of Practitioners 165 --
27 Cultivate a Sense of Wonder 167 --
28 Way of the Bodhisattva 171.