Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body - Softcover

Ray, Reginald A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1622033531 ISBN 13: 9781622033539

Publisher: Sounds True Adult, 2014

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 six 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 his many years practicing and teaching, Reggie Ray invites you to explore what it means "to be at one with who we are, in every respect, including our physical being, our emotions, and the totality of our karmic situation."

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Review

"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
Reginald A. Ray, PhD, is the cofounder and spiritual director of Dharma Ocean Foundation, dedicated to the evolution and flowering of the somatic teachings of Tibetan Tantra. He is a lineage holder in the tradition of Chögyam TrungpaRinpoche. Reggie is the author of several books includingTouching Enlightenment andThe Awakening Body. He makes his residence in Crestone and Boulder, Colorado. For more, visit dharmaocean.org.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sounds True Adult
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1622033531
• ISBN 13: 9781622033539
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 416