| Foreword |
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| Foreword |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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1 Start From Where You Are |
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1 | (19) |
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2 | (1) |
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So What Brings You Here, Now? |
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3 | (1) |
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4 | (1) |
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It Is Human to Resist Pain and Seek Pleasure |
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4 | (1) |
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It Is Human to Desire Happiness |
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4 | (1) |
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It Is Human to Not Know the Difference Between Pain and Suffering |
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5 | (1) |
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Recognizing Life's Inherent Unsatisfactoriness |
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5 | (3) |
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The Roots of Buddhist Psychology |
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8 | (1) |
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How Is Buddhist Psychology Relevant to a Western Psychological Sensibility? |
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9 | (5) |
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14 | (1) |
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The First Noble Truth of Suffering |
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15 | (3) |
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The Three Kinds of Unsatisfactoriness |
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16 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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How Does Suffering Absent Us From Our Lives? |
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18 | (1) |
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Does More Presence Always Equal Less Suffering? |
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18 | (1) |
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How Does Awakened Presence Change Our Relationship to Life's Ups and Downs? |
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19 | (1) |
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2 Know the Conditioned Mind |
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20 | (24) |
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What Is Conditioned Mind? |
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20 | (1) |
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Early Buddhist Source Materials |
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21 | (1) |
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Early Buddhist Teachings on Conditioned Mind |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (16) |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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Sankhara/Samskara and Karma in Early Buddhism |
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26 | (3) |
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29 | (1) |
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30 | (1) |
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30 | (1) |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (2) |
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34 | (1) |
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34 | (1) |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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The Need to Fix; the Need for a Fix |
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35 | (1) |
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The Neuroscience of Tanha |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (1) |
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38 | (1) |
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38 | (1) |
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39 | (1) |
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Contemplation of the Four Reflections |
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39 | (5) |
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3 The Conditioned Mind and Mental Health Disorders |
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44 | (27) |
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The Way Things Were and the Way We Are |
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44 | (2) |
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Dependent Co-arising: Childhood Trauma and Psychophysical Maladies |
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46 | (2) |
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Conditioned Mind and Specific Mental Health Disorders |
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48 | (6) |
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48 | (1) |
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49 | (1) |
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Emotional Dysregulation Is Trauma Symptomatology |
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50 | (2) |
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Bipolar and Schizophrenia |
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52 | (1) |
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52 | (2) |
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Mental Proliferation: Its Calculations and Miscalculations |
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54 | (2) |
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55 | (1) |
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Mind Wandering and Rumination |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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Narrative Focus: Recognizing the Inner Story |
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56 | (3) |
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57 | (1) |
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The Inner Narration That Is Untrue and Self-Destructive |
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58 | (1) |
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Experiential Focus: Being With The Actuality of Experience |
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59 | (1) |
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60 | (1) |
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Practices to Develop Presence in the Here and Now |
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60 | (11) |
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60 | (1) |
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61 | (1) |
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Resting in Physical Sensations |
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61 | (2) |
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Noting the Feeling Tone of Experience: Pleasant, Unpleasant and Neutral |
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63 | (8) |
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4 Know the Unconditioned Mind |
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71 | (31) |
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Revisiting Consciousness and Awareness |
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71 | (2) |
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73 | (1) |
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74 | (4) |
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Psychotherapeutic Attention |
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75 | (1) |
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Recollecting and Attentional Balance |
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75 | (1) |
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Mindfulness: Defining Our Terms |
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76 | (1) |
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Focused Attention Meditation |
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76 | (2) |
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Samatha: The Gift of Stillness |
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78 | (1) |
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Anapanasati: Cultivation of Samatha and Vipassana |
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79 | (1) |
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Mindfulness of Breath Meditation |
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80 | (4) |
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Anapanasati Group One: Knowing the Prana-Body and Flesh-Body |
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81 | (3) |
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84 | (7) |
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Anapanasati Group Two: Working With Vedana: Piti and Sukha |
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85 | (1) |
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Knowing Pleasure and Displeasure From the Inside |
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86 | (3) |
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Anapanasati Group Three: Working With Mind |
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89 | (2) |
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Not-Self, Part 1: The Phenomenological Self |
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91 | (2) |
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91 | (1) |
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The Illusion of an Enduring Self |
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92 | (1) |
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Recognizing the Knower and the Known |
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93 | (1) |
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Anapanasati Group Four: Knowing Truth |
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94 | (2) |
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96 | (2) |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (1) |
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The Prajnaparamita Sutras |
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98 | (4) |
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Seeing Through Subject/Object Duality |
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98 | (1) |
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Form Is Emptiness; Emptiness Is Form |
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99 | (3) |
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5 Know the Fully Awakened Heart |
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102 | (35) |
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102 | (2) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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Empathy: Feeling Into the Experience of the Other |
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104 | (2) |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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Lovingkindness: The Joy of Generating Well-Being for Self and Others |
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106 | (7) |
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The Self-Hating Western Psyche |
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107 | (1) |
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Lovingkindness Meditation |
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108 | (1) |
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Biased Love: The Near Enemy of Metta |
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109 | (1) |
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Hatred: The Far Enemy of Metta |
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109 | (2) |
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Lovingkindness Meditation Instruction |
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111 | (2) |
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Compassion: Responsiveness to Human Suffering |
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113 | (15) |
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Compassion in Buddhist Psychology |
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114 | (1) |
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How to Begin: Compassionate Recognition of the Difficulties of Human Life |
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115 | (1) |
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Referential Compassion (Attached or Reasoned Compassion) |
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116 | (1) |
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Compassion Meditation for Self and Loved Ones |
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116 | (2) |
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Pity: The Near Enemy of Karuna |
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118 | (1) |
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Cruelty: The Far Enemy of Karuna |
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118 | (1) |
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Compassion Meditation for a Difficult Person |
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119 | (2) |
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Therapeutic Compassion: Skillful Compassionate Care |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (2) |
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Clinical Compassion Protocols |
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124 | (1) |
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Non-referential Compassion |
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125 | (2) |
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127 | (1) |
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Altruistic Joy: Rejoicing in the Happiness of Others |
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128 | (1) |
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Mudita Meditation Instruction |
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129 | (1) |
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Equanimity: Unconditioned Impartiality |
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129 | (2) |
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Equanimity Meditation Instruction |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (6) |
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6 Know Spontaneous Awakened Presence |
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137 | (29) |
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Emptiness Redux: Madhyamaka and Yogacara |
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137 | (6) |
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137 | (1) |
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138 | (1) |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (1) |
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Psychotherapeutically Recognizing Constructed Reality |
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141 | (1) |
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Cutting Through Wrong View |
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141 | (2) |
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Not-Self, Part 2: The Multi-layered Empty Self |
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143 | (7) |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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The Eight Consciousnesses |
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144 | (1) |
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Alaya-vijnana: The Buddhist Unconscious |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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Self-Cherishing and Narcissistic Wounding |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (1) |
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150 | (7) |
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Open Monitoring Meditation Instruction |
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150 | (2) |
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152 | (1) |
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Interview With John D. Dunne |
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153 | (3) |
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Objectless Shamatha Instruction |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (2) |
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Unfindability: Looking for Mind |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (7) |
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Rigpa, the Nature of Mind |
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161 | (5) |
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7 Love Life Just as It Is |
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166 | (31) |
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The Buddhist Psychology of Happiness |
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166 | (4) |
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167 | (1) |
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Personal Exploration of Lesser and Greater Happiness |
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168 | (1) |
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Clinician's Exploration of Lesser and Greater Happiness |
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169 | (1) |
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Psyche/Soma Interdependence |
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170 | (6) |
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170 | (3) |
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Walking Meditation Instruction |
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173 | (1) |
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Subtle Body Health and Healing |
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173 | (1) |
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Gentle Vase Breathing Instruction |
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174 | (2) |
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Why Desire Is Not the Problem |
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176 | (7) |
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177 | (1) |
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Wholesome and Unwholesome Desires |
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178 | (1) |
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Discovering Pure Desire Exercise |
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179 | (1) |
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The Ultimate Desire: Being Good |
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180 | (1) |
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Bring Desire Onto the Path |
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181 | (2) |
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Abandon Clinging to Hope and Fear |
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183 | (2) |
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184 | (1) |
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Effortless Mindfulness: The Refuge of Resting in Awakened Presence |
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185 | (2) |
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Lojong: Daily Life Training in Awakened Presence |
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187 | (5) |
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Choosing to Live in Awareness |
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188 | (1) |
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Living in Interdependence |
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189 | (2) |
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Making Friends With Samsara |
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191 | (1) |
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Befriending Your Greatest Challenges Exercise |
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192 | (5) |
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8 Nirvana as Skillful Action and Transformation |
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197 | (31) |
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Being a Light in a World of Darkness |
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197 | (1) |
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Psychotherapy as Inner Pilgrimage |
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197 | (1) |
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198 | (7) |
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Assessing Right View and Right Intention |
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199 | (6) |
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205 | (6) |
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205 | (1) |
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The Seven Principles of Effective Inquiry |
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206 | (2) |
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208 | (1) |
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209 | (2) |
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211 | (3) |
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Right Effort (Samma Vayama) |
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211 | (2) |
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Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration |
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213 | (1) |
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214 | (6) |
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Interview With Psychiatrist Jose Calderon-Abbo, MD |
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214 | (6) |
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Life as a Path of Profound Transformation |
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220 | (1) |
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Your Action Plan for Transformation |
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220 | (8) |
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9 Genuine Mental Health: Offering Up the Illusion of Self |
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228 | (3) |
| Exercise and Meditation Lists |
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231 | (2) |
| Glossary of Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan Terms |
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233 | (5) |
| Resources |
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238 | (2) |
| Bibliography |
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240 | (5) |
| Index |
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