Sakyong Mipham shows how to cultivate a strong stable mind and no longer live "at the mercy of our moods." His stories and wisdom from American culture, as well as from the great Buddhist teachers, help demystify this essential discipline and place it in the framework of Western culture. Accessible, practical, and clear, it provides readers with the necessary tools for taming the mind.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Turning the Mind Into an AllyForeward by Pema Ch?dr?n Preface
One: Why Meditate? 1. The Rock and the Flower 2. Bewilderment and Suffering 3. Peaceful Abiding
Two: The Art of Peacefully Abiding 4. Taking Our Seat 5. Mindfulness and Awareness 6. How to Gather a Scattered Mind 7. The Virtues of Boredom 8. Laziness 9. Forgetting the Instructions 10. Not Too Tight, Not Too Loose 11. Nine Stages of Training the Mind
Three: Turning the Mind Into An Alley 12. Turning the Mind 13. The Joy of Being Human 14. The Unchanging Truth of Change 15. First We Got Old 16. And Then We Die 17. Samsara and Karma 18. Jumping into the Heart of the Buddha
Four: Warrior in the World 19. Rousing Motivation 20. Wisdom and Emptiness 21. Warrior in the World
Appendixes A. Preparing to Practice B. The Posture of Meditation C. Instructions for Contempletive Meditation
