Mindfulness in Action: Making Friends with Yourself through Meditation and Everyday Awareness

214 Pages·2015·3.481 MB·English

by  Chogyam Trungpa, Carolyn Rose Gimian

"Mindfulness is the direct path to insight—and no one has ever illumi­
nated that wonderful path more skillfully than Chogyam Trungpa."
—PEMA CHODRON
Mindfulness
in Action
Making Friends with Yourself
through Meditation and
Everyday Awareness
Chogyam Trungpa
Edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian

Mindfulness
Action
in
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Mindfulness
Action
in
Making Friends withYourself
through Meditation and
Everyday Awareness
Chögyam Trungpa
Compiled, arranged, and edited by
Carolyn Rose Gimian
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Trungpa, Chogyam, 1939-1987, author.
Mindfulness in action: making friends with yourself through meditation and
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To the vast family of all those who practice and live mindfully

Contents
Editor’s Preface ix
Part One
MAKING FRIENDS W ITH YOURSELF
1. Meditation: An Intimate Relationship
with Ourselves 3
2. Discovering Our Capacity to Love 9
3. How to Meditate 14
4. The Teddy Bear of Breath 27
5. Cool Boredom 32
6. Gentleness 36
7. Rhinoceros and Parrot 40
8. The Present Moment 45
9. The Bridge of Compassion 52
viii Contents
Part Two
FOUNDATIONS OF M INDFULNESS
10. First Thought 61
11. Appreciation 70
12. Life Force 76
13. Spontaneous Discipline 83
14. Touching the Surface of Mind 91
15. Recollection 97
Part Three
M INDFULNESS IN ACTION
16. Touch and Go 105
17. Meditation and the Fourth Moment 114
18. The Sword in Your Heart 122
19. Galaxies of Stars, Grains of Sand 129
20. The Fringe of Our Emotions 138
21. The Heart of Emotion 146
22. A Mindful Society 153
Editor’s Afterword 162
Acknowledgments and Gratitudes 176
Sources 179
A Short Biography of Chogyam Trungpa 183
Index 186