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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Perfection and guilt | |
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| Two bad bricks | |
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| The temple garden | |
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| What's done is finished | |
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| The idiot's guide to peace of mind | |
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| Guilt and absolution | |
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| Criminal guilt | |
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| The class b kids | |
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| The child in the supermarket | |
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| We are all crims | |
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| Letting go of guilt, forever | |
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| Love and commitment | |
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| Unconditional love | |
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| Opening the door of your heart | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Commitment | |
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| The chicken and the duck | |
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| Gratitude | |
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| Romance | |
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| True love | |
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| Fear and pain | |
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| Freedom from fear | |
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| Predicting the future | |
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| Gambling | |
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| What is fear? | |
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| Fear of public speaking | |
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| Fear of pain | |
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| Letting go of pain | |
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| TM, or how to transcend-dental medication | |
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| No worries | |
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| Anger and forgiveness | |
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| Anger | |
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| The trial | |
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| The retreat | |
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| The anger-eating demon | |
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| Right! that's it! I'm leaving! | |
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| How to stop an insurgency | |
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| Cooling off with forgiveness | |
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| Positive forgiveness | |
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| Creating happiness | |
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| Flattery gets you everywhere | |
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| How to be a VIP | |
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| The two-finger smile | |
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| Priceless teachings | |
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| This too will pass | |
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| The heroic sacrifice | |
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| A truckload of dung | |
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| It's too much to hope for | |
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| Being a dustbin | |
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| Maybe it is fair! | |
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| Critical problems and their compassionate solutions | |
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| The law of karma | |
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| Drinking tea when there's no way out | |
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| Going with the flow | |
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| Caught between a tiger and a snake | |
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| Give it everything you've got | |
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| Is there a problem? | |
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| Making decisions | |
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| Blaming others | |
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| The emperor's three questions | |
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| The cow that cried | |
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| The little girl and her friend | |
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| The snake, the mayor, and the monk | |
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| The bad snake | |
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| Wisdom and inner silence | |
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| The wings of compassion | |
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| Caring for a son | |
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| What is wisdom? | |
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| Eating wisely | |
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| Solving the problem | |
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| Unwise listening | |
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| What wisdom is not | |
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| The danger of an open mouth | |
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| The talkative tortoise | |
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| Free speech | |
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| The mind and reality | |
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| The exorcist | |
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| The biggest thing in the world | |
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| Searching for the mind | |
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| Science | |
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| The science of silence | |
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| Blind faith | |
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| Values and the spiritual life | |
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| The most beautiful sound | |
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| What's in a name? | |
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| Pyramid power | |
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| Precious stones | |
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| Then i'll be happy | |
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| The mexican fisherman | |
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| When all my wishes were fulfilled | |
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| Freedom and humility | |
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| Two kinds of freedom | |
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| Which type of freedom would you like? | |
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| The free world | |
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| A dinner with amnesty international | |
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| The dress code of a monk | |
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| Laughing at yourself | |
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| The dog that had the last laugh | |
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| Abuse and enlightenment | |
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| When i became enlightened | |
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| The road hog | |
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| Hare krishna | |
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| The hammer | |
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| Enjoying a joke at no one's expense | |
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| The idiot | |
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| Suffering and letting go | |
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| Thinking about washing | |
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| A moving experience | |
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| Poor me, lucky them | |
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| Advice for when you are sick | |
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| What's wrong with being sick? | |
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| Visiting the sick | |
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| The lighter side of death | |
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| Grief, loss, and celebrating a life | |
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| Falling leaves | |
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| The ups and downs of death | |
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| The man with four wives | |
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| Cracking up | |
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| The worm and his lovely pile of dung | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| About the author | |