The Power and the Pain
Transforming Spiritual Hardship into Joy
Published on 16. March 2010
296 pages
978-1-55939-791-9 (ISBN)
Description
We all encounter obstacles on a daily basis—from small inconveniences and nuisances to the really big hardships wreaking havoc with our lives. Sometimes just the small things are enough to set us reeling. Andrew Holecek offers us a progressive path beginning with common, easily understood hardships and moving on to more subtle and challenging ones that commonly arise on our spiritual journeys.
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Andrew Holecek is an in-demand teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. As founder of the Forum of Living and Dying, he teaches seminars throughout the country on spiritual hardship and the Tibetan views of life, death, and beyond. He is also the co-founder of the Himalayan Dental Relief Project, which serves impoverished children in five Asian countries. Dr. Holecek is affiliated with Shambhala centers worldwide and was adjunct faculty at Naropa University and the Ngedon School of Buddhist Studies. Additionally, he has contributed to a number of Buddhist magazines and has an ongoing column in Bodhi Magazine published by the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche.
Content
- Intro
- Foreword by the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I THE FIRST TURNING
- 1 The Power
- 2 The Pain
- 3 Necessary and Unnecessary Hardship
- 4 Progress or Regress?
- 5 Suffering or Pain?
- 6 Always Practicing
- 7 Repetition
- 8 Put It in Perspective
- Part II THE SECOND TURNING
- 9 The Pain of Letting Go
- 10 Fear Is the Fare
- 11 Spiritual Detox
- 12 Ground Addiction II
- 13 Emptiness
- 14 The Mistake of the Ego
- 15 Frustration by Design
- 16 Working with the Skandhas
- Part III THE THIRD TURNING
- 17 The Art of Working with Emotions
- 18 Applying the Four ARTS
- 19 The Blessing and Curse of Deep Meditation
- 20 The Origin of Confusion
- 21 Hardship as Loss of the Feminine
- Bibliography
- Notes
