Mindfulness in Action: Making Friends with Yourself through Meditation and Everyday Awareness PDF
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"Mindfulness is the direct path to insight—and no one has ever illumi nated that wonderful path more skillfully than Chogyam Trungpa." —PEMA CHODRON Mindfulness in Action Making Friends with Yourself through Meditation and Everyday Awareness Chogyam Trungpa Edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian Mindfulness Action in ALSO BY CHOGYAM TRUNGPA The Essential Chogyam Trungpa Meditation in Action Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness Mindfulness Action in Making Friends withYourself through Meditation and Everyday Awareness Chögyam Trungpa Compiled, arranged, and edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian SHAMBHALA Boston & London 2015 Shambhala Publications, Inc. Horticultural Hall 300 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115 www.shambhala.com ©2015 by Diana J. Mukpo Afterword ©2015 by Carolyn Rose Chilian All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Edition Printed in the United States of America ©This edition is printed on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standards Institute Z39.48 Standard. OThis book is printed on 30% postconsumer recycled paper. For more information please visit www.shambhala.com. Distributed in the United States by Penguin Random House LLC and in Canada by Random House of Canada Ltd Designed by James D. Shatges Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Trungpa, Chogyam, 1939-1987, author. Mindfulness in action: making friends with yourself through meditation and everyday awareness/Chogyam Trungpa; edited by Carolyn Rose Chilian.— First edition, pages cm ISBN 978-1-61180-020-3 (hardcover) 1. Meditation—Buddhism. I. Gimian, Carolyn Rose. II.Title. BQ5612.T77 2015 294.3*4435—dc23 2014023013 To the vast family of all those who practice and live mindfully Contents Editor’s Preface ix Part One MAKING FRIENDS W ITH YOURSELF 1. Meditation: An Intimate Relationship with Ourselves 3 2. Discovering Our Capacity to Love 9 3. How to Meditate 14 4. The Teddy Bear of Breath 27 5. Cool Boredom 32 6. Gentleness 36 7. Rhinoceros and Parrot 40 8. The Present Moment 45 9. The Bridge of Compassion 52 viii Contents Part Two FOUNDATIONS OF M INDFULNESS 10. First Thought 61 11. Appreciation 70 12. Life Force 76 13. Spontaneous Discipline 83 14. Touching the Surface of Mind 91 15. Recollection 97 Part Three M INDFULNESS IN ACTION 16. Touch and Go 105 17. Meditation and the Fourth Moment 114 18. The Sword in Your Heart 122 19. Galaxies of Stars, Grains of Sand 129 20. The Fringe of Our Emotions 138 21. The Heart of Emotion 146 22. A Mindful Society 153 Editor’s Afterword 162 Acknowledgments and Gratitudes 176 Sources 179 A Short Biography of Chogyam Trungpa 183 Index 186
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