Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the body - Softcover

Ray, Reginald A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144296331X ISBN 13: 9781442963313

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

Synopsis

What does it mean to ''meditate with the body''? Until you answer this question, explains Reggie Ray, meditation may be no more than ''a mental gymnastic'' - something you can practice for years without fruitful results. In Touching Enlightenment, the esteemed author of five books on Buddhist history and practice guides you back to the original practice of the Buddha: a systematic process that results in a profound awareness ''in your body rather than in your head.'' Combining the scholarship that has earned him international renown with original insights from nearly four decades practicing and teaching meditation, Reggie Ray invites you to explore: How to enter fully into communion with your embodied nature? The insights of Tibetan yoga, from guidance on breathing and working with discomfort to its challenge to modern practitioners on the path to realization....Why ''rejected'' experience becomes imprinted in the body-and how to receive it anew to ''reconstitute your human way of being''? Karma of cause and karma of result-taking full responsibility for your life....Your three bodies-the physical, the interpersonal, and the cosmic

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Through his own deep experience, Reggie Ray skillfully guides us into an awakened bodily life. He offers necessary, wise, and liberating practices of realization within our mysterious human form.
Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of A Path with Heart

Touching Enlightenment provides readers with a fresh look at the steps required to turn our understanding of enlightenment into full embodiment a vital process that determines the way in which we actually conduct our lives. An indispensible book for the serious practitioner.
John Daido Loori, abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery and author of True Dharma Eye: Master Dogen s Three Hundred Koans

Reggie Ray s approach to the dharma is wonderfully fresh while also radically rooted in the foundation of the Buddha s meditation instruction mindfulness of body. He has a richly textured understanding of the lived body as the vessel of wisdom mind, as well as the carrier of all the karmic patterns that obscure this pristine awareness. Highly recommended.
John Welwood, author of Toward a Psychology of Awakening"

"Through his own deep experience, Reggie Ray skillfully guides us into an awakened bodily life. He offers necessary, wise, and liberating practices of realization within our mysterious human form."
--Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of A Path with Heart

"Touching Enlightenment provides readers with a fresh look at the steps required to turn our understanding of enlightenment into full embodiment--a vital process that determines the way in which we actually conduct our lives. An indispensible book for the serious practitioner."
--John Daido Loori, abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery and author of True Dharma Eye: Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans

"Reggie Ray's approach to the dharma is wonderfully fresh while also radically rooted in the foundation of the Buddha's meditation instruction--mindfulness of body. He has a richly textured understanding of the lived body as the vessel of wisdom mind, as well as the carrier of all the karmic patterns that obscure this pristine awareness. Highly recommended."
--John Welwood, author of Toward a Psychology of Awakening

About the Author

REGINALD A. RAY, PH.D., brings us close to forty years of study and intensive meditation practice within the Tibetan tradition as well as a special gift for applying it to the unique problems, inspirations, and spiritual imperatives of modern people. He teaches within the dharma and meditation lineages of the great siddha Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. On the faculty of Naropa University since its inception, he is the author of Indestructible Truth, Secret of the Vafa World, Buddhists Saints in India, In the Presence of Masters, other books, and two popular Sounds True audio programs, Buddhist Tantra and Meditating with the Body.

Edition details

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 144296331X
• ISBN 13: 9781442963313
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 480