This book is about Yau Yan Wong's experiences as a teacher-researcher in practicing, teaching, and researching mindfulness practice in Thailand over the past 13 years. After learning from several Buddhist masters from different wisdom traditions, she introduced mindfulness practice to the students and teachers in an international school to nurture a healthier and more compassionate culture within the community. This book includes Wong's years of research findings on the benefits of mindfulness on child development, such as better focus, higher emotional intelligence, psychological resilience, and more. It also includes many short mindfulness practices and heuristics for teachers and parents to promote their emotional well-being and that of others in their daily lives.
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Yau Yan Wong, Ph.D. (2022), Kasetsart University, is Head of the Well-being Development Program at an international school in Thailand. For over a decade, Wong has researched and published journals on mindfulness and emotional intelligence development in schools.
Preface: Finding an Alternative Way of Living
?Yau Yan Wong
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
1 Why Mindfulness?
?1 Reuniting with an Old Friend
?2 What Is Mindfulness?
?3 Why Mindfulness?
?4 First Awakening Experience
?5 An Overview of This Book
2 What Is Mindfulness?
?1 Waking Up from Thoughts
?2 Thai Plum Village Monastery
?3 Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
?4 Understanding Mindfulness
?5 A Different Kind of Faith
?6 A Day of Mindfulness
?7 Waking Up
?8 Mindfulness in Daily Life
?9 Teaching Mindfulness to Children
?10 Mindfulness Practice and Emotional Intelligence
3 A Simpler Form of Happiness
?1 Question about Renunciation
?2 First Vipassana Retreat at Chom Tong Temple
?3 Many Teachers, Many Learners
?4 Concentration vs. Mindfulness
?5 Meeting Luang Phu Tong
?6 Lessons Learned from the First Retreat
?7 The Importance of Early Intervention
4 Becoming an Observer
?1 Solving Problems with Mindfulness
?2 Meeting Venerable Suksan
?3 Roadblock to Meditation - Trying Too Hard
?4 Letting Go
?5 The Problem with Bullying
?6 Cultivating Wisdom
?7 Cultivating Compassion
?8 Transforming Anger
?9 Mindful Parenting
?10 Transformations in the Classroom
?11 Mindful Listening
?12 Mindfulness and the Five Faculties
?13 Ten Perfections
?14 Knowledge and Practice
?15 Problem with Laziness
5 Another Level of Consciousness
?1 Exploring the Meaning of Success
?2 The Second Retreat
?3 Help Yourself First before Helping Others
?4 Dealing with Pain
?5 Balancing Five Strengths
?6 The Observer Is a Non-Self
?7 Separating Body and Mind
?8 Paradox of Jedi
?9 How to Deal with Physical Pain
?10 About Afterlife
?11 Special Phenomenon
?12 Suffering from Impermanence
?13 Attachment to Happiness
?14 Levels of Merit-Giving
?15 Meeting My Deceased Relatives
?16 Beginning of the Exam
?17 The Hardest Three Hours
?18 Defining Self
?19 Three Prerequisites of Practice
?20 Strategies to Survive
?21 The Power of Concentration
?22 Albert Einstein Was Right
?23 Four Kinds of Wealth
?24 The Final Assignment
?25 The Best Gifts
?26 Forgiveness
?27 The Final Challenge
?28 After the Retreat
?29 Combining Zen Buddhism and Theravada Buddhism
6 Practicing Mindfulness in Parenting
?1 Embracing Imperfection
?2 Becoming a Parent
?3 Practicing Mindfulness in Delivery
?4 Mindfulness Practice for Busy Moms
?5 Transforming My Teaching Practice Again
?6 Teachers' Discussions about Students' Well-Being
?7 Does Learning Have to Be Painful?
?8 Mindfulness for Families
?9 A Few Shots of Mindful Parenting
7 Nurturing a Mindful School Community
?1 The Secular Approach to Mindfulness
?2 Mindfulness Curriculum for Children
?3 Mindfulness Sessions for Teachers
?4 Mindfulness Professional Learning Community
?5 Mindful Living
?6 Hurrying Energy
?7 Working Meditation
?8 Nowhere to Go, Nothing to Do
?9 Not So Lazy Monday
?10 Walk with Me
?11 Hugging Meditation
?12 Combining Buddhist and Secular Mindfulness Practices
?13 Scaffolding Mindfulness Education
8 Just Know So
?1 Sustained Attention vs. Mindfulness
?2 Meeting Luangpu Pramote
?3 A Boundless Mind
?4 International Vipassana Retreat
?5 First Dhamma Talk
?6 It Is Okay to Feel Not Okay
?7 Be a Turtle, Not a Hare
?8 About Enlightenment
?9 Desire and the Five Precepts
?10 The Beginning of Wisdom Development
?11 Automatic Knower
?12 Mindfulness for Insight
?13 Free the Mind
9 Understand Mindfulness through Science
?1 Developing a Stable Mind
?2 Mindfulness and Sustainable Development
?3 Mindfulness Defined by Psychologists
?4 Authentic Inquiry
?5 The Brain and the Mind
?6 The Purpose of Mindfulness Practice
?7 Understanding Non-Self
?8 Reorientation of Research
10 Transcending Happiness and Suffering
?1 The Puppy Mind
?2 Dhamma Discussion with Monk Koffman
?3 The Nature of the Mind
?4 The Nature of Thoughts
?5 The Observation of Craving
?6 Finding a Temporary Home Base for the Mind
?7 Vipassana and Samatha Practices
?8 Application of Mindfulness
?9 Suffering Is Our Teacher
11 How to Cultivate a Stable Mind
?1 Find a Home for the Mind
?2 Venerable Nimmalo's Story
?3 Beginning His Monastic Life
?4 Use Samatha to Lead Mindfulness
?5 Right Samadhi
?6 One Pointedness and a Stable Mind
?7 Mindfulness and Well-Being
?8 Mindfulness in Education
?9 The Story of Sariputta
?10 Can the Mind Be Measured?
?11 Separating the Five Aggregates
?12 Observing the Impermanence of a Phenomenon
?13 Imagine an Alternative Way of Teaching and Learning
12 How to Cultivate an Equanimous Mind
?1 No Mud, No Lotus
?2 Ajahn Malee's Story
?3 Joining Silent Retreats
?4 Using Her Home as the Temple
?5 First Awakening Moment
?6 Seeing the Dhamma
?7 Becoming a Dhamma Teacher
?8 Practitioners vs. Non-Practitioners
?9 Facing Crises with Mindfulness
?10 Observe Ourselves with Equanimity
?11 Experience of Vipassana Moment
13 Mindfulness in Daily Life Heuristics
?1 The Separation between the Body and the Mind
?2 The Basic Principles
?3 An Overview of Case Studies
?4 Reflection on the MiDL Program
14 Facing Crises with Equanimity Forum
?1 Begin with the Idea of Sharing
?2 Online Informal Science Education for the Global Community
?3 Sharing in a Circle
?4 Managing Stress
?5 Ameliorating Intense Emotions
?6 Practicing Mindfulness in the Middle Way
?7 Anger Management
?8 The Path of Surrender
?9 Surrendering vs. Blind Faith
15 Now, Present and Future
?1 Learning to Let Go
?2 Ongoing Projects
?3 Less Is More
16 Developing a Mindful Lifestyle
?1 Mindfulness Is for Everyone
?2 Upholding the Five Precepts
?3 Find a Temporary Home
?4 Daily Meditation
?5 Metta Meditation
?6 Cultivating Wisdom in Daily Life
?7 Useful Links
Glossary
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