Introduction: Ten Thousand Joys, Ten Thousand Sorrows
Cultivating Wisdom
1. Change, Change, Change
2. Self as Ever-Shifting Flow
3. Can’t Get No Satisfaction
4. Want/Don’t-Want: The Unquenchable Thirst
5. Looking More Deeply at Suffering and Dissatisfaction
6. Five Habits of Mind that Are Obstacles to Waking Up
Cultivating Mindfulness
7. The Mindfulness Path
8. Tools for Sharpening Your Mindfulness Skills
9. From Multiple Hindrance Attack to Five-Minute Mindfulness
10. Choiceless Awareness
11. Awakening to the Body through Mindfulness
12. Death Awareness Practice
Cultivating an Open Heart: Kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity
13. The Psychological States of Awakened Beings
14. To Cultivate an Open Heart, Set Aside Judging
15. Kindness and Friendliness
16. Compassion: Start with Yourself
17. Appreciative Joy: An Antidote to Envy and Resentment
18. Equanimity: Fully Engaging This Life as It Is
19. Intentionally Turning Your Mind to the Sublime States
In the End…
20. Onward Down the Path
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
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