A Gradual Awakening
Published on 17. November 2010
192 pages
978-0-307-77367-8 (ISBN)
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In this intelligent, accessible work, acclaimed poet and meditation teacher Stephen Levine introduces readers to meditation. Filled with practical guidance and advice-as well as extensive personal recollections-A Gradual Awakening explains the value of meditation as a means of attaining awareness, and provides readers with extensive advice on how establish a practice. Drawing on his own personal experiences with and insights into vipassana meditation, Levine has crafted an inspiring book for anyone interested in deep personal growth.
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Stephen Levine was an American poet, author, and teacher best known for his work on death and dying. For over thirty years, Stephen-along with his wife Ondrea-provided emotional and spiritual support for those who were life-threatened, and for caregivers. He is one of a generation of pioneering teachers who, along with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Ram Dass, and Sharon Salzberg, have made the teachings of Theravada Buddhism more widely available to students in the West. He is the author of A Gradual Awakening, Healing into Life and Death, Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings, and Who Dies?. Stephen Levine passed away in 2016 at the age of 78.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Preface by Ram Dass
- Introduction
- Author's Note (1989)
- Chapter 1 - Awareness
- Chapter 2 - The Power of Wisdom
- Chapter 3 - Wanting Mind
- Chapter 4 - Uncovering Mind
- Chapter 5 - A Guided Meditation on Mindfulness (Vipassana)
- Chapter 6 - Self Image and the Imagined Self
- Chapter 7 - Judging Mind
- Chapter 8 - The Sense of Unworthiness
- Chapter 9 - Self-accepting Mindfulness
- Chapter 10 - The Hindrances
- Chapter 11 - Giving
- Chapter 12 - Watching from the Heart
- Chapter 13 - A Gradual Awakening
- Chapter 14 - Snaring Enlightenment
- Chapter 15 - Mindstuff
- Chapter 16 - A Guided Meditation on Loving-kindness
- Chapter 17 - Loving-kindness (Metta)
- Chapter 18 - Letting Go of Hell
- Chapter 19 - Pleasure/Pain and Happiness
- Chapter 20 - Karma
- Chapter 21 - A Sense of the Absurd
- Chapter 22 - A Guided Meditation on Energy in the Body
- Chapter 23 - Opening the Body
- Chapter 24 - Daily Practice
- Chapter 25 - The Flower
- Chapter 26 - A Guided Meditation on Dying
- Chapter 27 - Death of the Body, Death of the Self
- Chapter 28 - Spirit in the World
- Chapter 29 - Practice at Work
- Chapter 30 - The Circle
- Suggested Reading
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
- Books by Stephen Levine
