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1. Profoundly Simple
– simplicity, gratitude to teachers, determination, effort to remember,
valuing insight, gentleness
2. We are all Translators
– communal task of translating, discerning essence, respect for
tradition, creative involvement, source and goal oriented practice
3. More than our Feelings
– cultivating mindfulness, middle way, right detachment, learning from
everything, spontaneity and confidence
4. Getting to Know our Emotional Household
– uncovering denied life, encountering ourselves, raw emotions, feeling
empty, letting go of gilt, fearlessness
5. When We Fall in Love
– capacity to be loving, absence of fear, undivided attention, pain of
separateness, transformative power, intimacy
6. No Blame
– capacity to hold anger, motivation, arising of good and bad,
accommodating pain, right preparation
7. Meeting our Anger
– restraining initial reactions, investigating assumptions, five degrees
of distraction, conscious endurance, forgiveness
8. Who says it’s Wrong to Feel Afraid
– questioning wrong-making, listening deeply, feeding on praise and
blame, false energy, realising a new identity in awareness
9. The Power of Paradox
– judgment-free awareness, multidimensional mind, compulsive judging,
polluted awareness, not taking sides, relative forms
10. Truly Comfortable
– finding comfort, friendship, sanctuary, ritual, storehouse of
goodness, restraining sexual desire, frustration of preferences
11. What is Renunciation
– reclaiming our energy, nothing extra, just ‘do it’, not over-doing it,
not morality, letting go of ego
12. Prayer and Devotion
– what is prayer?, caught not taught, giving direction to life, fearless
prayer, insight practice, accumulating potential
13 A Question of Identity
–– investigation of self, natural and unnatural identity, daily-life
investigation, abiding as awareness, at-oneness, anatta
14 Alone Together
– monastic and lay lifestyle, encountering loneliness, learning from
pain, living in relationship, healthy uncertainty
15 And I Know I Should Let Go
– allowing, not doing, we have the authority, self-doubt, loss of
identity, fear of insanity, unexpected release
16 Contemplating Happiness
– real happiness, cultivating good companionship, wise frugality,
discovering contentment as we approach death, real refuge© 2005 Aruna Publications |