Introduction: Grounded Enlightenment | p. 1 |
Questioning the Obvious | |
A Powerful Openness | p. 9 |
Beginning to Wonder | p. 9 |
Beyond the Self Mind | p. 11 |
Knowing and Not-Knowing | p. 14 |
Self and Being | p. 19 |
Moving Beyond Belief | p. 25 |
Learning to Not-Know | p. 25 |
Natural Contemplation | p. 27 |
Zen Influence | p. 29 |
Relating Differently to Beliefs | p. 31 |
Creating a New Perspective | p. 33 |
Empty Your Cup | p. 36 |
The Cultural Matrix | p. 41 |
We Are Culture | p. 41 |
Not-Knowing in Our Culture | p. 47 |
The Self in Our Culture | p. 50 |
The Cost of Our Assumptions | p. 52 |
Your Own Experience of These Consequences | p. 57 |
An Experience of Not-Knowing | p. 63 |
Learning versus Knowing | p. 63 |
Thinking without a Net | p. 66 |
What Is an Experience? | p. 69 |
What Is an Experience of Not-Knowing? | p. 74 |
What Is an Insight? | p. 77 |
The Principles of Discovery | p. 81 |
Four Cornerstones of Discovery | p. 81 |
Authentic Experience | p. 84 |
Honesty | p. 87 |
Grounded Openness | p. 90 |
Questioning | p. 95 |
Embracing Paradox | p. 101 |
Our Self Experience | |
Conceptual Dominance | p. 107 |
Creating a Conceptual World | p. 107 |
What Is a Concept? | p. 112 |
Concepts Dominate Our Perceptions | p. 115 |
There's More to Perception than Meets the Eye | p. 118 |
The Solidification of Concepts | p. 120 |
Challenging Conceptual Dominance | p. 122 |
You Don't Have to Rehearse to Be Yourself | p. 129 |
Being Yourself | p. 129 |
The Real and the False | p. 131 |
Masks and Hats | p. 133 |
Superficial Remedies | p. 137 |
Looking for Self in All the Wrong Places | p. 139 |
Unknown Origins | p. 143 |
Our "Need to Know" Level of Consciousness | p. 143 |
Mistaking the Uncognized Mind for the Real Self | p. 147 |
The Origins of Your Self | p. 151 |
In Search of Real Being | |
What Am I? | p. 159 |
Our Experience of "Being" | p. 159 |
Identifying Ourselves | p. 164 |
Our Conceptual Self Experience | p. 168 |
Self and Being | p. 173 |
What Is a Self? | p. 174 |
What Is Being? | p. 180 |
What Is Your Self and What Is Being? | p. 185 |
The Self: Noun or Verb? | p. 193 |
Am I a Noun or a Verb? | p. 196 |
To Noun or to Verb? | p. 199 |
"Doing" versus "Being" | p. 204 |
Creating Self | |
Inventing Self and World | p. 213 |
The Self-Identity Reinforces Itself | p. 216 |
The Never-Ending Story of Me | p. 219 |
Inventions | p. 221 |
Inventing Personalized Worlds | p. 226 |
Manipulating Circumstances | p. 230 |
Lost in Translation | p. 233 |
What Is Not and Never Was | p. 233 |
Interpretation Revisited | p. 236 |
Reconstructive Interpretation | p. 239 |
Self as We Know It | p. 243 |
Life in the Loop | p. 244 |
Creating an Experience of Self | p. 251 |
The Myth of Real Self | p. 251 |
Apples and Oranges | p. 254 |
Believing in Your Self | p. 257 |
Mandatory Misrepresentation | p. 259 |
Living as a False-Self | p. 260 |
The Snowball Effect | p. 262 |
Assembling a Particular Self | p. 267 |
The Way You Are in Particular | p. 270 |
The Self Principle | p. 273 |
All about You | p. 273 |
Meaning Steers the Self | p. 276 |
Two Domains of Survival: Physical and Conceptual | p. 279 |
Social Survival | p. 282 |
To Be Frank | p. 286 |
Surviving as a Self | p. 288 |
Survival Is Not Being | p. 291 |
Three Distinctions in Consciousness | p. 291 |
What Is "For-Itself"? | p. 297 |
Beyond Happiness and Suffering: Perceiving Something For-Itself | p. 301 |
For-Itself versus As-Itself | p. 308 |
Experiencing the Truth Is Not the Purpose of Self-Survival | p. 309 |
For-Itself versus As-Itself-an Ontological Overview | p. 315 |
Surviving Isn't Being | p. 317 |
What Does Persist? | p. 319 |
Entertaining the Possibility of Not Surviving | p. 320 |
Penetrating Experience | |
Recognizing Self-Survival in Your Own Experience | p. 325 |
Getting from Here to There | p. 326 |
What Is Being at Effect? | p. 327 |
Becoming More Conscious of Effects | p. 331 |
Experiencing Something For-Itself | p. 334 |
Changing from Reaction to Experience | p. 336 |
Changing Context Changes Effects | p. 341 |
Beyond Belief | p. 353 |
A Quick Review of Belief | p. 354 |
Getting Free of Our Need to Believe | p. 359 |
On the Shoulders of Giants | p. 362 |
Using Beliefs as a Map | p. 364 |
Radical Openness | p. 367 |
Eliminating Beliefs | p. 369 |
The Practice of Dispelling Beliefs | p. 372 |
A New Experience in Consciousness | p. 376 |
Freedom from Assumptions-Part One | p. 381 |
Making Connections | p. 383 |
Emptiness | p. 388 |
Freedom from Assumptions-Part Two | p. 407 |
Self-Doubt | p. 407 |
Feeling Trapped | p. 413 |
Suffering | p. 416 |
Struggle | p. 429 |
Contemplation | p. 437 |
Creating a Place to Stand | p. 437 |
Being as Unknown | p. 441 |
Contemplation | p. 444 |
Pre-contemplation | p. 445 |
Contemplating | p. 451 |
Developing a Steady Practice | p. 455 |
Looking Both Ways | p. 465 |
Awakening the Uncognized Mind | p. 467 |
Finding Our Way into the Unconscious | p. 469 |
Contemplating the Uncognized Mind | p. 470 |
The Process of Contemplating Uncognized Mind | p. 473 |
Explaining the Process | p. 476 |
A Sample Bottom-Line Contemplation | p. 478 |
Guidelines for Your Bottom-Line Contemplation | p. 482 |
Five Points of Reference | p. 484 |
The Nature of Reality | |
The Nature of Emotion | p. 491 |
Fear | p. 493 |
Anger | p. 501 |
Desire | p. 507 |
Pain | p. 515 |
The Nature of Everything | p. 523 |
What Is Everything? | p. 524 |
The Distinction "Distinction" | p. 528 |
Distinctions and Existence | p. 533 |
The Nature of Being | p. 539 |
Meaning Doesn't Mean Anything | p. 539 |
In Search of Absolute Knowledge | p. 541 |
The Possibility of Direct Consciousness | p. 545 |
The Nature of Being | p. 546 |
The Paradox of Being | p. 552 |
Being and Self | p. 553 |
Being and Life | p. 559 |
What Now? | p. 559 |
Life Principles | p. 563 |
Happiness: Don't Want It | p. 570 |
Discipline and Freedom | p. 575 |
The Lava Syndrome | p. 576 |
A Final Word | p. 578 |
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