Description
Track Listing
Session One. Spiritual Authority
Introduction
The role of the guru
Methods for controlling the mind
The impossibility of winning without loosing
The insoluble problem
Your life as a manifestation of the divine
Do you know what you want?
Session Two. Mysticism and Morality
Introduction
The mystical experience
Life as a play
All insides have outsides
Session Two. Mysticism and Morality, continued
The priestly and mystic traditions
The importance of honesty
There are no wrong feelings
Session Three. The Game of Yes and No
Introduction
The I-Ching
The difficulty of seeing both sides
Fear of the negative
Can one side ever win?
Must we play the game
Karma
Session Four. On Zen
Introduction
The historical development of Zen
The sensation of feeling separate
Ignorance
How to study Zen
The difficulty of being genuine
Session Five. The Art of Controlled Accident, Part One
Introduction
Spontaneity
Choicelessness
Session Five. The Art of Controlled Accident, Part One, continued
Chinese ceramics
The balance of order and randomness
Holding to the middle
Session Six. Uncarved Block, Unbleached Silk
Introduction
The natural and the artificial
The vocabulary of Zen art
Remaining human
Elegance and style
Session Seven. An Introduction to Hinduism
Introduction
Vedanta
Nonduality
What is the ultimate reality?
Session Eight. Oriental Philosophy in the West, Part One
Introduction
What if you were God?
Life as a play
The Hindu measurement of time
The different worlds in Hinduism
The gaiety of Hindu sages
The stages of human life
Session Nine. The Art of Controlled Accident, Part Two
Introduction
The differences between Hinduism and Buddhism
Buddhism arrives in China
Total presence of mind
The Zen training method
Session Ten. Oriental Philosophy in the West, Part Two
Introduction
Waking up
The first two Noble Truths
The third Noble Truth
The fourth Noble Truth
The Five Precepts and the Three Refuges
Session Eleven. An Introduction to Buddhism
Introduction
A definition of religion
Two models of the universe
Session Twelve. The Veil of Thoughts
Introduction
Bamboozled by thought
What is physical reality?
Transience as a mark of spirituality
The traditional opposition of the flesh and spirit
The folly of self-improvement
The folly of doing what's "right"
Is civilization a mistake
Trying to do what cannot be done
Session Thirteen. Mind over Mind
Introduction
The difficulties of controlling the mind
How to contact your higher self
The difficulty of understanding anything
What if we can't improve ourselves?
How to get out of your own way
Session Fourteen. What Is Reality?
Introduction
Two models of the universe
The world as pattern
The fully automatic vision of the world
Session Fourteen. What Is Reality?, continued
You as a process
The two kinds of philosophy
How things happen
Session Fifteen. Not What Should Be, Not What Might Be, But What Is!
Introduction
The "I" as a hallucination
The limitations of human intelligence
Our role vs. our identity
There is no method
The limits of self-control
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