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| Editor's Preface | |
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| The Trellis | |
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| General guidelines for an inner journey | |
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| Contemplation can be practiced anyplace | |
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| Spiritual motivation changes in the course of practice | |
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| To help human goodness grow | |
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| Freedom and Forgiveness | |
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| Structure, boundary, and freedom | |
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| Freedom of not knowing | |
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| Freedom in clear awareness | |
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| Freedom in an undefended place | |
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| The knife needs some place to land | |
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| Freedom from guilt | |
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| Freedom in the mind's mirror | |
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| Freedom and skillful means | |
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| The quality of our permeability | |
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| Freedom from comparison | |
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| Freedom from fear | |
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| What does it mean that I have this car? | |
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| Urgency and impermanence | |
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| Nonattachment | |
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| Generosity | |
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| Benefit of all | |
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| Look at each other and ask for forgiveness | |
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| Not easy to enter, not easy to leave | |
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| Doubt as a fresh frontier | |
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| Vows that can't be kept completely but can be constantly repaired | |
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| Transforming spiritual crisis into awakening | |
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| Love and emptiness | |
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| Discipline and Spontaneity | |
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| Something a little more steady and normal in our lives | |
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| Discipline requires teacher, practice, community | |
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| Discipline overcomes impulse | |
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| Discipline becomes natural | |
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| Restraint and spontaneity | |
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| Why be good? | |
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| Impermanence and many lives | |
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| The psalms and the million recitations | |
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| Discipline beyond what one "can do" | |
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| Shopping for yogurt | |
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| The proper amount of food and drink | |
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| Kitchen work a form of spiritual cultivation | |
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| Eating supports spiritual practice | |
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| It all depends on motivation | |
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| Tradition and Adaptation | |
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| Commitments in constantly changing circumstances | |
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| Crucible for transformation | |
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| Mandala of community | |
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| Usual criteria for leadership don't apply | |
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| Embodying the spirit of the tradition | |
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| Walking a tightrope across a chasm | |
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| There is no way not to adapt | |
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| How I came to the Dharma | |
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| The resistance I faced | |
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| A never-ending learning and adapting | |
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| The Buddha's flexibility | |
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| Monastic similarities | |
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| Monastic differences | |
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| Teachers cannot teach everything | |
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| The paradox of will | |
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| God and the Dharma | |
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| Humility and adaptability | |
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| The monastery wall always permeable | |
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| Adjusting asceticism | |
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| Encountering differences | |
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| Succession and accessibility | |
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| Leadership and Humility | |
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| An experimental place | |
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| Benedict's warmheartedness | |
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| A path of self-transcendence | |
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| Developing joy and freedom | |
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| Contemplation and action | |
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| Gentleness and urgency | |
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| Getting unstuck | |
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| Descend with the view, ascend with the practice | |
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| Finding our inheritance | |
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| We tend to be too hard on ourselves | |
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| The building blocks of compassion | |
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| What happens at the summit | |
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| Resistance and renunciation | |
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| After all, one never knows | |
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| Spiritual leadership | |
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| Obedience as a skillful means for awakening | |
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| No one is up to the task | |
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| Nothing beneath attention | |
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| Taking care of one's own happiness | |
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| Deeds more than words | |
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| Just doing a monastic's business | |
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| Authority and empowerment | |
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| The oddness and usefulness of humility | |
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| Not eliminated, but turned | |
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| Depth and accuracy | |
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| Ladders and bridges | |
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| Afterword: Conclusions About a Beginning | |
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| Introduction to Saint Benedict's Rule | |
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| Saint Benedict's Rule | |