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1. Profoundly Simple simplicity, gratitude to teachers, determination, effort to remember, valuing insight, gentleness 2. We are all Translators communal task of translating, discerning essence, respect for tradition, creative involvement, source and goal oriented practice 3. More than our Feelings cultivating mindfulness, middle way, right detachment, learning from everything, spontaneity and confidence 4. Getting to Know our Emotional Household uncovering denied life, encountering ourselves, raw emotions, feeling empty, letting go of gilt, fearlessness 5. When We Fall in Love capacity to be loving, absence of fear, undivided attention, pain of separateness, transformative power, intimacy 6. No Blame capacity to hold anger, motivation, arising of good and bad, accommodating pain, right preparation 7. Meeting our Anger restraining initial reactions, investigating assumptions, five degrees of distraction, conscious endurance, forgiveness 8. Who says its Wrong to Feel Afraid questioning wrong-making, listening deeply, feeding on praise and blame, false energy, realising a new identity in awareness 9. The Power of Paradox judgment-free awareness, multidimensional mind, compulsive judging, polluted awareness, not taking sides, relative forms 10. Truly Comfortable finding comfort, friendship, sanctuary, ritual, storehouse of goodness, restraining sexual desire, frustration of preferences 11. What is Renunciation reclaiming our energy, nothing extra, just do it, not over-doing it, not morality, letting go of ego 12. Prayer and Devotion what is prayer?, caught not taught, giving direction to life, fearless prayer, insight practice, accumulating potential 13 A Question of Identity investigation of self, natural and unnatural identity, daily-life investigation, abiding as awareness, at-oneness, anatta 14 Alone Together monastic and lay lifestyle, encountering loneliness, learning from pain, living in relationship, healthy uncertainty 15 And I Know I Should Let Go allowing, not doing, we have the authority, self-doubt, loss of identity, fear of insanity, unexpected release 16 Contemplating Happiness real happiness, cultivating good companionship, wise frugality, discovering contentment as we approach death, real refuge © 2005 Aruna Publications |