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A path with heart : a guide through the perils and promises of spiritual life

A guide to reconciling Buddhist spirituality with the American way of life addresses the challenges of spiritual living in the modern world and offers guidance for bringing a sense of the sacred to everyday experience
Print Book, English, 1993
Bantam Books, New York, N.Y., 1993
xii, 366 pages ; 23 cm
9780553372113, 0553372114
27067104
Did I love well?
Stopping the war
Take the one seat
Necessary healing
Training the puppy : mindfulness of breathing
Turning straw into gold
Naming the demons
Difficult problems and insistent visitors
The spiritual roller coaster : Kundalini and other side effects
Expanding and dissolving the self : dark night and rebirth
Searching for the Buddha : a lamp unto ourselves
Accepting the cycles of spiritual life
No boundaries to the sacred
No self or true self?
Generosity, codependence, and fearless compassion
You can't do it alone : finding and working with a teacher
Psychotherapy and meditation
The emperor's new clothes : problems with teachers
Karma : the heart is our garden
Expanding our circle : an undivided heart
Spiritual maturity
The great song
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things