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1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Intro; Contents; Editor's Preface; CHAPTER ONE: THE TRELLIS; General guidelines for an inner journey; Contemplation can be practiced anyplace; Spiritual motivation changes in the course of practice; To help human goodness grow; CHAPTER TWO: FREEDOM AND FORGIVENESS; Structure, boundary, and freedom; Freedom of not knowing; Freedom in clear awareness; Freedom in an undefended place; The knife needs some place to land; Freedom from guilt; Freedom in the mind's mirror; Freedom and skillful means; The quality of our permeability; Freedom from comparison; Freedom from fear |
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What does it mean that I have this car?Urgency and impermanence; Nonattachment; Generosity; Benefit of all; Look at each other and ask for forgiveness; Not easy to enter, not easy to leave; Doubt as a fresh frontier; Vows that can't be kept completely but can be constantly repaired; Transforming spiritual crisis into awakening; Love and emptiness; CHAPTER THREE: DISCIPLINE AND SPONTANEITY; Something a little more steady and normal in our lives; Discipline requires teacher, practice, community; Discipline overcomes impulse; Discipline becomes natural; Restraint and spontaneity; Why be good? |
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Impermanence and many livesThe psalms and the million recitations; Discipline beyond what one ""can do; Shopping for yogurt; The proper amount of food and drink; Kitchen work a form of spiritual cultivation; Eating supports spiritual practice; It all depends on motivation; CHAPTER FOUR: TRADITION AND ADAPTATION; Commitments in constantly changing circumstances; Crucible for transformation; Mandala of community; Usual criteria for leadership don't apply; Embodying the spirit of the tradition; Walking a tightrope across a chasm; There is no way not to adapt; How I came to the Dharma |
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The resistance I facedA never-ending learning and adapting; The Buddha's flexibility; Monastic similarities; Monastic differences; Teachers cannot teach everything; The paradox of will; God and the Dharma; Humility and adaptability; The monastery wall always permeable; Adjusting asceticism; Encountering differences; Succession and accessibility; CHAPTER FIVE: LEADERSHIP AND HUMILITY; An experimental place; Benedict's warmheartedness; A path of self-transcendence; Developing joy and freedom; Contemplation and action; Gentleness and urgency; Getting unstuck |
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Descend with the view, ascend with the practiceFinding our inheritance; We tend to be too hard on ourselves; The building blocks of compassion; What happens at the summit; Resistance and renunciation; After all, one never knows; Spiritual leadership; Obedience as a skillful means for awakening; No one is up to the task; Nothing beneath attention; Taking care of one's own happiness; Deeds more than words; Just doing a monastic's business; Authority and empowerment; The oddness and usefulness of humility; Not eliminated, but turned; Depth and accuracy; Ladders and bridges |
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AFTERWORD: CONCLUSIONS ABOUT A BEGINNING |
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Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Regula.
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SUBJECT |
Regula (Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino) fast |
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Christianity and other religions -- Buddhism.
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Buddhism -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Spiritual life -- Buddhism.
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Buddhism
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Christianity
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Interfaith relations
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Spiritual life -- Buddhism
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Electronic book
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Author |
Henry, Patrick
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ISBN |
9781441105004 |
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144110500X |
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