Table Of ContentHard Zen, Soft Heart
by
Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.
&
Diana Rose Hartmann, M.A.
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In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.
— Suzuki Roshi
If there is a remedy when trouble strikes,
What reason is there for despondency?
And if there is no help for it,
What is the use of being sad?
So come what may, I’ll never harm
My cheery happiness of mind.
Depression never brings me what I want…
My virtue will be warped and marred by it.
— Nagarjuna
The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It’s the part of you that already cares, that is
already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes
stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will
literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.
— Andrew Cohen
We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.
— Fritz Perls
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Introduction
Foreword
To Know Enlightenment, Not Just To Know Of It
Bursting the Bubble of Perception
Part I
Where Am I Going and How Will I Know
I’ve Arrived When I Make It There?
“It’s the End of the World As You Know It”
Task #1: Become a Hero
The Hungry Ghosts of Past and Future
When You’re In Pain, Opiates Can Be A Good Thing
Claiming the Burden of Wings
What in the World is the World Made Of?
Time is the Mother of Many Worlds
Words and Words Only?
The Trance Is Over When the Music Stops
Cause and Effect & The Case of Cold Susan
Mind Versus Body
Time to Regroup
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At Play in the Field of Lies
Part II
The Practice of Putting Yourself On
The Psycho-Physical Journey
At Play in the Transactional Fields
Life As an Alchemical Process
A Lot of It Is in the Name
Breaking the Bonds of Fear
A Smart Pig Can Recognize a Pearl When He Sees One
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Self-Assessment
You Are the Artist That Paints Your Life
Finding Home in the State of Being
Something to Consider
Hi! Tension
How the Ego Works
Fight, Flight, or Be Still
Being Here Now Is Easier Said Than Done
ANS: The Bottom Line When It Comes to a Happy Mind
HAR and the Creation of the False Self
When Habitual Fear Paves the Road to Failure
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Part III
The Endless Meditation
Some Issues Concerning Meditation
The Western Method of “Mental Health”
Mental Health Means Functioning Like an Average Person
The Ego and The Art of Staying Liquid
Ego As “Evil”
The “Good” Ego: Ego as Authentic Self
Western Meditation
Devotion
A Special Message For the Over Thirty Crowd
The Enlightenment of Sex
Eris: Chaos as Prerequisite to Change
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Introduction
by Nicholas Tharcher
If you are a fan of Christopher Hyatt’s work, you are probably aware that the
publication of Hard Zen, Soft Heart has been a long time coming. Though it is just
now being released in 2013—five years after Hyatt’s death—the first drafts were
written in the 1990s. It has gone through several revisions, three editors and a recent
revisitation by co-author Diana Rose Hartmann.
The focus of the book has changed several times over its history. At one time the
authors envisioned it as a “Zen” book in the “hit you over the head” style of Hyatt’s
classic Undoing Yourself with Energized Meditation and Other Devices. But
because some readers have criticized Hyatt’s work as too “hard hitting” and
“demanding” the authors came to envision Hard Zen in an entirely different way: as
a more “gentle” entrée into Dr. Hyatt’s work, something that a wider audience could
connect with. However, before the book was finished circumstances changed.
Hyatt had always been dissatisfied with the inability of the written word to convey
the details of the many physical exercises that were key to his methods. When,
around the time that Hard Zen was being written, new audio and video technology
became more accessible, Hyatt finally felt able to demonstrate his methods through
these media, and he switched his attention to the development of the Radical
Undoing and Energized Hypnosis series. So Hard Zen sat on the shelf…until
now.
For those who are not familiar with Hyatt’s work, it will become clear very
quickly that—“gentle” as the approach of this book may be—Hyatt was
fundamentally an elitist who recognized that most people are satisfied to live “a life
of quiet desperation” rather than undertake the difficult process of transcending the
consequences of the ragtag physiology that evolution has built.
As a trained scientist, Hyatt gave great credence to the remarkable work done
over the past few years on the structure and physiology of the human brain in order
to better understand the true nature of homo sapiens and the future of the human
species. He concluded that, in its current form, it has no future. Only by conscious,
deliberate re-engineering—essentially creating an entirely new species with a very
different brain structure—can homo normalis be anything but a dead end. The
technology to do this is almost here and, among a few, there is the will to do it.
Whether this can be done in a world so terrified of itself, only time will tell. (Science
fiction writers have investigated this theme many times…and in their stories the
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