Ending the Pursuit of Happiness A Zen Guide

Name: Ending the Pursuit of Happiness A Zen Guide
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ISBN: 9780861715534

ISBN-10: 0861715535

ISBN-13: 9780861715534

Edition: 2008

Authors: Barry Magid

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Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Publication date: 3/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction



Our Secret Practice



What Is Meditation?



Why Are We (Really) Meditating?



Three Stages of Practice



The Zen Way. The Psychoanalytic Way



Zen and Psychoanalysis



What Is the Self?



Psychologically-Minded Zen



Learning from Problems



Ordinary Life



Your Ordinary Mind Is the Way



Ordinary or Special?



Psychological versus Spiritual Insight



The Search for Enlightenment?



Flypaper



That's Me



You're Perfect, and You Can Use a Little Improvement



Rinzai's "Buji" Zen



If This Was It



Body and Mind



The First Noble Truth



Thinking about Thinking



Spiritual versus Material



Sitting Long Becomes Tiring



Three Buddhas



Love, Sex, and Compassion



Desire and Suffering



Asses and Horses



Thomas Merton in Love



Relationships



Being Alone



Attachment and Detachment



If It Is Broke...Fix It



A Mother's Kiss



Who, What, and Why



Why Practice?



Who's Listening?



The Meaning of Life



Something or Nothing



Doing Nothing



Not Knowing



No Helping



It's A Mystery to Me



A Pilgrimage



Angels



Row, Row, Row Your Boat


Conclusion: No Path, No Wisdom, and No Gain


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index


About the Author