What is included with this book?
Introduction | p. ix |
The Buddha Way and the Christian Way | p. ix |
What Helps and What Doesn't | p. xi |
Dropping Your Story Line | p. xii |
Finding Freedom | p. xiii |
Big Mind, Big Medicine | p. 1 |
Everything Changes | p. 1 |
The Heart of Mindfulness | p. 5 |
The Weakest Link | p. 7 |
Small Mind, Big Mind | p. 10 |
Renunciation Practice | p. 13 |
A Refuge from Words | p. 16 |
Dropping into Freedom | p. 19 |
Blessed Relief: The Three-Minute Breathing Space | p. 24 |
The Cry for Help | p. 27 |
The Why and the What of Suffering | p. 27 |
An Exit from Hell | p. 29 |
Bearing Suffering | p. 32 |
The Work | p. 36 |
Clearing the Lens | p. 38 |
The Judging Mind Goes on Retreat | p. 41 |
Blessed Relief: The Work | p. 45 |
Beyond Belief | p. 49 |
A Happy Accident | p. 49 |
Spacious Awareness | p. 52 |
Incline Your Mind | p. 55 |
Who's Talking? | p. 57 |
The Cloud of Unknowing | p. 60 |
Blessed Relief: The Practice of Inquiry | p. 63 |
Quiet Ambition | p. 65 |
Not Enough | p. 65 |
Kind Attention | p. 69 |
Spontaneous Joy | p. 72 |
The Hungry Ghost | p. 74 |
Blessed Relief: The Sacred Breath | p. 77 |
An Instrument of Peace | p. 79 |
Angr-r-r-y | p. 79 |
Self-Soothing: Bringing Attentiveness to Anger | p. 81 |
Self-Defining: Being Willing to Speak Your Truth | p. 85 |
Self-Transcending: Bringing RAIN to Blame | p. 91 |
Blessed Relief: Working with RAIN | p. 98 |
Meeting Our Edges | p. 101 |
"You All Belong" | p. 101 |
The Failed Buddhist Bypass | p. 104 |
Nonviolent Communication | p. 110 |
May the Circle Be Unbroken | p. 114 |
Blessed Relief: Nonviolent Communication (NVC) | p. 117 |
Beginning Anew | p. 121 |
Unwrapping the Experience | p. 121 |
A Place to Begin | p. 123 |
True Intimacy | p. 125 |
Zazen in the Devil's Cauldron | p. 129 |
Blessed Relief: The Practice of Beginning Anew | p. 134 |
The Dharma of Dying | p. 137 |
Remembrances | p. 137 |
The Great Way | p. 140 |
Bowing to the Moment | p. 143 |
Old Wounds | p. 147 |
Blessed Relief: The Five Remembrances | p. 150 |
Mobile Loaves and Fishes | p. 153 |
Compassion Rising | p. 153 |
Beyond Us and Them | p. 157 |
A Retreat on the Streets | p. 159 |
Softening the Heart | p. 161 |
Blessed Relief: Compassion Practice | p. 166 |
Afterword | p. 168 |
Glossary | p. 173 |
Suggested Resources | p. 175 |
Acknowledgments | p. 179 |
Credits | p. 182 |
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