BOOK PREVIEWS
in-depth book previews with chapter excerpts
Alan Watts Taoist Ways: Seeing Through The Great Social Lie?
“… My inside is not separable from the outside world … the one who either dominates the world or suffers under it … has vanished … never was there …” ~ Alan Watts
Order & Li: What & Why Important? Alan Watts Taoist Ways
“… The tao is a certain kind of order, and this kind of order is not quite what we call order … when you look at a plant it is perfectly obvious that the plant has order … In the Chinese language this is called li …” ~ Alan Watts
How To: Live Meaningful Life + Dissolve Ego: Jean Klein Listening
“… Returning to the root we regain the meaning, Chasing after appearances, we lose the origin. The moment our attention turns inward, We go beyond the void of worldly things …” ~ Seng-Ts’an
Mind Training: Suffering To Opportunity? Heroic Heart Lojong Palmo
“… life itself is a gymnasium of the soul … Life is where we have our workout … where we train … ~ Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Practicing Two Kinds of Warmth? Pema Chodron Heart Advice
“… there are two kinds of warmth that soften us up and make us more decent, loving beings … both come from the warmth of the heart …” ~ Pema Chödrön
How To Practice Calm Abiding? – Tenzin Wangyal Bon Buddhism
calm abiding : “… Dream yoga practice cultivates the stability in awareness needed to free yourself of conditioning and reactivity …” ~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Mind Training: How To Value Adversity? Heroic Heart Lojong Palmo
“lojong {mind training} is all about developing … the qualities that will help with whatever happens to us in our lives as our practice. ~ Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Taoist Ways Alan Watts: What’s Wu-Wei And Why Is It Important?
” … Wu-wei means always acting in accord with the pattern of things as they exist …” ~ Alan Watts
Pema Chödrön: Being More Alive Via Refraining, Buddha’s 1st Step To Courage
“… knowing how to work with our emotions is really the key to finding balance and equanimity …” ~ Pema Chödrön
What’s Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way To Awakening? In Search of Being
“… The Fourth Way is sometimes called the way of the shrewd, astute man. The “shrewd man” knows a certain secret that the fakir, monk and yogi do not know …” ~ G. I. Gurdjieff
What Is Dream Yoga? – Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Bon Buddhism
“… Dream yoga practice cultivates the stability in awareness needed to free yourself of conditioning and reactivity …” ~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Why This Moment, Silence Matters? Ocean of Silence Doyle Poems
“… the sun rises in silence and sets back into silence but Silence does not arise or set; it ever is …” ~ Billy Doyle
Book Of Listening Jean Klein: Why Is Not-Knowing Important?
“… You will find yourself in this stillness, this not-knowing, where there is a total absence of yourself …” ~ Jean Klein
Lojong: How To Be Kind When Wronged: Heroic Heart – Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
“All experiences are preceded by mind, have mind as their master, are created by mind“ ~ The Buddha
In Search of Being: What Are Gurdjieff’s Four Ways To Awakening?
“… Look at the Milky Way. The earth cannot even be called a grain of sand in this infinity. It dissolves and vanishes. And with it, you—where are you? …” … and “… what are we? …” ~ G. I. Gurdjieff
On Silence: Jean Klein’s Listening
“… Silence is the absence of oneself …” ~ Jean Klein
Lover & Love a la Rumi – Kabir Helminski
“… God is pleased when your love realizes it is part of something oceanic and begins to move with the whole …” ~ Rumi
Wonder, Wordsworth … via Klein
“The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.” ~ Henryk Skolimowski
Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns & Find Peace & Freedom
“… when we touch what is painful with awareness, the armoring around our heart melts and frees us to reconnect with our full aliveness, wisdom, and love.” ~ Tara Brach
Listening – Jean Klein
“… when you really listen, the listening refers to itself. In this listening, there’s not a listener, and nothing to listen to. There’s only quietness …” ~ Jean Klein
Zen Is Right Now – Suzuki Roshi
“… Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way …” ~ Suzuki Roshi
Jean Klein’s Teachings via Doyle: Yoga & Self-Enquiry
“… It is important to live this directionlessness, this not- knowing, this waiting without waiting for anything … All that remains is your directionless awareness. Live in this absolute absence of yourself. …” ~ Jean Klein
Choosing A Vision: Life Part Two by David Chernikoff
“Love everyone, serve everyone, and remember God.” ~ Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaji)
Life Part Two: 7 Keys To Awakening… David Chernikoff
“… We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery …” ~ Huston Smith
Relationship: More On Zen by Norman Fischer
“… The most important thing is coming back to presence every day, back to the breath, to sitting, walking, and standing, and remembering that this is what we are …” ~ Norman Fischer
When You Greet Me I Bow
“… simply being together with warmhearted kindness, dropping story lines, and appreciating each other’s profound human presence is the whole of the teaching …” ~ Norman Fischer
Choiceless Awareness & Meditation: Klein & Doyle
“… Meditation is not doing something, rather it is choiceless awareness …” ~ Billy Doyle
