Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body - Hardcover

Ray, Reginald A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1591796180 ISBN 13: 9781591796183

Publisher: Sounds True Inc, 2008

Synopsis

Touching Enlightenment How is it that a person can meditate for five, ten, twenty years or more - and hardly change? Because they've reduced it to "a mental gymnastic," explains Reggie Ray. In Touching Enlightenment, the esteemed author of five books on Buddhist history and practice guides readers back to the original approach of the Buddha: a systematic process that results in a profound awareness "in our bodies rather... Full description

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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 four decades of study and intensive meditation practice within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition as well as a special gift for applying ancient wisdom to the unique problems, inspirations, and spiritual imperatives of modern people. He is the co-founder and Spiritual Director of Dharma Ocean Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the practice, study and preservation of the teachings of Reggie’s teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and the practice lineage he embodied.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sounds True Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1591796180
• ISBN 13: 9781591796183
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 395