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This book brings together leading figures who study the role of thinking in living and in the practice of meditation. It addresses questions of what thinking is, what is beyond cognitive thought, and what its roles are for the individual and society in mitigating suffering.
Sommario
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Charles Eigen
Part I: About ThinkingChapter 1: Every Kind of Seed, from
Understanding our Mind by Rev. Thich Nhat Hanh
Chapter 2: Thinking Problems by Frederick R. Gustafson
Chapter 3: How My Mind Works and Visualizes the World by Temple Grandin
Chapter 4: SEEKING Thinking: Greed and Need in Affective Neuroscience by Lucy Biven
Chapter 5: Thinking About Thinking by Raymond Tallis
Chapter 6: Introduction to Thinking at the Edge by Eugene T. Gendlin
Chapter 7: Mental Health and Normality: Toward a New Process oriented Perspective by Pierre Morin
Chapter 8: In Thought We Trust: A Podcast Conversation by Gangaji with Hillary Larson
Chapter 9: Mind Only, Beyond Thought by Rev. Ben Connelly
Part II: Beyond ThinkingChapter 10: Going Beyond Thinking: Thinking, Attachment, and Interdependent Origination by Rev. Shohaku Okumura
Chapter 11: Introduction to J. Krishnamurti by David Bohm
Chapter 12: Banaras 5th Public Talk (Sunday, 6 February 1955) by Jiddu Krishnamurti Banaras
Chapter 13: Beyond Thinking by Jac O'Keeffe
Chapter 14: Dialogues in Delphi, November 6, 1990, from
Open to the Unknown by Jean Klein
Chapter 15: John Doe, the Actor, from
Eternity Now by Francis Lucille
Chapter 16: Putting an End to Discriminating Mind and To Study the Way is to Study the Self, from
The Essence of Zen by Sekkei Harada
Chapter 17: An Interview from The Fire of Freedom by H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji)
Chapter 18: On Dying to Self, from
September Life as Teacher by Vimala Thakar
Chapter 19: No Trace, from
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Rev. Shunryu Suzuki
Appendix: Shohaku Okumura's Translation of Dog's Buddha-Nature Part of Busho
Index
About the Contributors
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About the EditorCharles Eigen is a psychotherapist, teacher, and long-time meditation practitioner in Milwaukee, Wi. He was a founding member of the Mindfulness Community of Milwaukee, Past President of the C. G. Jung Center of Milwaukee, and Past President of the Milwaukee Zen Center. He has been a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in both the departments of English and Human Kinetics. Chuck Eigen has been a practitioner of Craniosacral therapy, Rolfing Structural Integration, and Rolfing Movement, as well as Internal Family Systems Therapy, The Focusing Method, and The Progoff Intensive Journal. His previous book is
Inner Dialogue in Daily Life (Jessica Kingsley).
ContributorsLucy Biven, David Bohm, Rev. Ben Connelly, Charles Eigen, Gangaji (Merle Antoinette Roberson), Eugene T. Gendlin, Temple Grandin, Frederick R. Gustafson, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sekkei Harada, Jean Klein, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Francis Lucille, Pierre Morin, Jac O' Keeffe, Rev. Shohaku Okumura, Sri Harilal W. Poonja (Papaji), Shunyru Suzuki, Raymond Tallis, Vimala Thakar
