- Your Life IS Meditation
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Meditation 101
- Understanding the Path of Awakening
- Zen and the Art of Potato Chip Delivery
- Learning to Open
- Raking the Leaves of Our Lives
- Calming Muddy Water
- How I Ended Up in the Back of a Police Car on a Silent Retreat
- Autism and Meditation
- The Romantic Phase of Meditation
- The Cleansing Phase of Meditation
- Positive Affirmations
- You’re Always Free
- Collecting Mustard Seeds
- Bowing to Difficulties
- Every Moment Is a New Moment
- Post-Retreat Reflection
- The Present Moment
- Goals and Meditation
- Planting a Tree
- Learning to Be
- You’re in the Jungle, Baby!
- Becoming Hopeless
- When You Wash Dishes, Just Wash Dishes
- What Leg Pain?
- The Cracked Buddha Statue
- A Trip to Nicaragua
- Breathing: The Anchor for Your Mind
- Five-Day Western Zen Retreat
- Don’t Resist the Cold
- Quieting the Mind
- Don’t Worry, It Cannot Last
- The Bathroom Door of the Mind
- Asking Life What It Cannot Give Us
- Everything That Arises Passes Away
- Understanding Buddhist Meditation
- Why Me?
- Fertilizer
- Motivation from Difficulties
- The Spider or the Fly
- Internal Weather
- Living Beyond Cultural Conditioning
- Movies with Wisdom
- Contradictions in Instruction
- The Wisdom of Atlantic City
- Turning Inward for True Happiness
- The Wonderful Experience of a Kidney Stone
- Health Insurance and Mindfulness
- Putting Down the Boulder
- Meditation and Steadiness
- The Cave of Demons
- The Disappointment of Expectations
- The Passing Seasons
- Visiting Lake Pocasset
- We’re Getting Closer to the End
- Using Mindfulness to Lean into Discomfort
- Moving from Subjective to Objective
- The Viruses of the Mind
- Beginner’s Mind
- Facing the Walls of Ignorance
- Meditation Is NOT Selfish
- Watch Out for the Tigers!
- One Body
- Simplify, Slow Down, and See Clearly
- Profound Peace at the Grocery Store?
- The Limitations of Personality
- The Battle of the Two Wolves
- Transforming Aversion
- Coming Home to Yourself
- The Broken Jukebox in Your Mind
- The Pool of Freedom
- The Waving Crossing Guard
- If It Arises, It Belongs
- A Singer’s Last Gig
- Two Metaphors
- Birth Contractions
- Mindfulness and Renunciation
- Practice Being Kind
- The Power of Labeling Thoughts
- Things Are Seldom as They Seem
- No Self, No Problem
- The Control Center
- Practicing with Addictions
- There Is No Way to Peace
- In Summary
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- What to Read next from Wisdom Publications
- Copyright
- Understanding the Path of Awakening
- Zen and the Art of Potato Chip Delivery
- Learning to Open
- Raking the Leaves of Our Lives
- Calming Muddy Water
- How I Ended Up in the Back of a Police Car on a Silent Retreat
- Autism and Meditation
- The Romantic Phase of Meditation
- The Cleansing Phase of Meditation
- Positive Affirmations
- You’re Always Free
- Collecting Mustard Seeds
- Bowing to Difficulties
- Every Moment Is a New Moment
- Post-Retreat Reflection
- The Present Moment
- Goals and Meditation
- Planting a Tree
- Learning to Be
- You’re in the Jungle, Baby!
- Becoming Hopeless
- When You Wash Dishes, Just Wash Dishes
- What Leg Pain?
- The Cracked Buddha Statue
- A Trip to Nicaragua
- Breathing: The Anchor for Your Mind
- Five-Day Western Zen Retreat
- Don’t Resist the Cold
- Quieting the Mind
- Don’t Worry, It Cannot Last
- The Bathroom Door of the Mind
- Asking Life What It Cannot Give Us
- Everything That Arises Passes Away
- Understanding Buddhist Meditation
- Why Me?
- Fertilizer
- Motivation from Difficulties
- The Spider or the Fly
- Internal Weather
- Living Beyond Cultural Conditioning
- Movies with Wisdom
- Contradictions in Instruction
- The Wisdom of Atlantic City
- Turning Inward for True Happiness
- The Wonderful Experience of a Kidney Stone
- Health Insurance and Mindfulness
- Putting Down the Boulder
- Meditation and Steadiness
- The Cave of Demons
- The Disappointment of Expectations
- The Passing Seasons
- Visiting Lake Pocasset
- We’re Getting Closer to the End
- Using Mindfulness to Lean into Discomfort
- Moving from Subjective to Objective
- The Viruses of the Mind
- Beginner’s Mind
- Facing the Walls of Ignorance
- Meditation Is NOT Selfish
- Watch Out for the Tigers!
- One Body
- Simplify, Slow Down, and See Clearly
- Profound Peace at the Grocery Store?
- The Limitations of Personality
- The Battle of the Two Wolves
- Transforming Aversion
- Coming Home to Yourself
- The Broken Jukebox in Your Mind
- The Pool of Freedom
- The Waving Crossing Guard
- If It Arises, It Belongs
- A Singer’s Last Gig
- Two Metaphors
- Birth Contractions
- Mindfulness and Renunciation
- Practice Being Kind
- The Power of Labeling Thoughts
- Things Are Seldom as They Seem
- No Self, No Problem
- The Control Center
- Practicing with Addictions
- There Is No Way to Peace
- In Summary
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- What to Read next from Wisdom Publications
- Copyright
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