Unbinding
The Grace Beyond Self
1st Edition
Published on 3. October 2017
288 pages
978-1-61429-461-0 (ISBN)
Description
An invitation to everyday mystics: unbind yourself from the causes of suffering and step into grace.
"We all want the freedom of sanity and peace, the undefended inclusiveness of love. We all want refuge in grace."
-Kathleen Dowling Singh, from her introduction to Unbinding
Unbinding is a spacious and sophisticated unfolding of one of Buddhism's subtlest foundational teachings-the truth of dependent origination-offered in an utterly intimate voice. Kathleen Dowling Singh offers lyrical reflections on timeless truths and contemplative exercises accessible to anyone, opening the door of insight to all. Drawing on the language and teachings of Buddhism, Unbinding invites everyday mystics from all traditions-or none-to encounter the sacred and experience grace firsthand. Singh shows how illusions of ego obscure our true, unbounded nature and trap us in suffering-as she helps the reader move ever more deeply into living from gratitude, wisdom, and love.
"We all want the freedom of sanity and peace, the undefended inclusiveness of love. We all want refuge in grace."
-Kathleen Dowling Singh, from her introduction to Unbinding
Unbinding is a spacious and sophisticated unfolding of one of Buddhism's subtlest foundational teachings-the truth of dependent origination-offered in an utterly intimate voice. Kathleen Dowling Singh offers lyrical reflections on timeless truths and contemplative exercises accessible to anyone, opening the door of insight to all. Drawing on the language and teachings of Buddhism, Unbinding invites everyday mystics from all traditions-or none-to encounter the sacred and experience grace firsthand. Singh shows how illusions of ego obscure our true, unbounded nature and trap us in suffering-as she helps the reader move ever more deeply into living from gratitude, wisdom, and love.
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Person
Kathleen Dowling Singh is trained academically in transpersonal psychology and works as a mentor for deep psychospiritual growth work. She lectures widely throughout the United States on spirituality at the end of life, spiritual transformation in the midst of life, and meditative and contemplative practices.
Kathleen is the author of The Grace in Dying: How We Are Transformed Spiritually As We Die, a book named one of Amazon's Top Ten Books in Spirituality the year it was published and recognized as a landmark in the field. The Grace in Aging: Awaken As You Grow Older has struck a chord with sincere practitioners who wish to use their aging years for spiritual maturation and ripening. It was named one of the best of 2014 by Spirituality and Practice Magazine. Her most recent book is The Grace in Living: Recognize It, Trust It, Abide in It, which offers instruction in the practice of spiritual biography as well as the awakening stories of revered teachers and longtime practitioners.
Kathleen lives in Sarasota, Florida, close to many of her four children and seven grandchildren.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Part One: Wise View
- 1. Unbinding
- 2. Eddies in the Stream
- 3. A Liberating View
- 4. The View from Wisdom
- Part Two: The Conditions of Self
- 5. The Tight and Binding Grip of Self
- 6. It's Hard to Be a Person
- 7. The Four Noble Truths
- 8. The Conditions of Self
- 9. What's Going on Here?
- 10. Keys to the Kingdom
- Part Three: Setting the Stage
- 11. Ignorance
- 12. Karmic Formations
- 13. Consciousness
- 14. Name-and-Form
- 15. The Six Senses
- 16. Contact
- 17. The Confluence of Conditions
- Part Four: Fools Rush In
- 18. Feeling
- 19. Craving
- 20. Grasping
- 21. Becoming
- 22. Birth
- 23. Aging-and-Death (Suffering)
- Part Five: Surrender
- 24. Seeing
- 25. The Sacrament of Surrender
- 26. Resting at the Heart
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
