Stepping Out of Self-Deception The Buddha's Liberating Teaching of No-Self

by Smith, Rodney; Goldstein, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781590307298
• ISBN10: 1590307291
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-13
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

Leslie Cerier is a national authority on gluten-free cooking and baking, specializing in whole foods and organic cuisine. Foreword writer Kathie Madonna Swift, MS, RD, is a dietician, nutritionist, and co-director of Food as Medicine, a professional nutrition training programme.

Author Biography

Rodney Smith is founder and guiding teacher of the Seattle Insight Meditation Society and is a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. He is retired from a career as a hospice administrator. His first book, Lessons from the Dying, grew out of his experiences in hospice work.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xii
Aligned with Awakening	p. 1
The Sense-of-Self	p. 17
The View of Interconnection	p. 32
Finding Interconnection from the Pain of Contraction	p. 45
Questioning the Known	p. 62
Selfless Intention	p. 75
The Effort Needed	p. 91
Language Entrapping View	p. 108
Action from Emptiness	p. 124
Awakening through Livelihood, Stress, and Time	p. 140
Freeing Awareness from Self-Control	p. 155
Selfless Forgeries	p. 168
The Steady Mind	p. 181
The Resolution of Paradox	p. 195
Mature Awakening	p. 207
Notes	p. 221
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