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The Art of Mindfulness Beyond Stress Relief
Spiritual practice for a secular age
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Wang Fang: Gathering Yourself Again in a Fragmented Age Mindfulness: Spiritual Practice for a Secular Age 1. Focused Attention and Whole Awareness: Understanding Mindfulness Through Two Modes of Cognition Practice 1: Instructions Practice 1 | Begin with the Whole 2. Steady, Clear, and Open: Three Qualities of Attention Practice 2: Instructions Practice 2 | Steady, Clear, and Open 3. Returning to the Body: The Art of Finding Ground Practice 3: Instructions Practice 3 | Body Awareness 4. Challenges and Opportunities in Mindfulness Practice Practice 4: Instructions Practice 4 | Mindful Walking 5. A Map of Mindfulness: What Happens at Different Stages? Practice 5: Instructions Practice 5 | Breathing with the Whole Body 6. How Do We Perceive the World? Consciousness and Mind at Work Practice 6 | Cultivating Intuition (Unguided) 7. Life Is Practice: Cultivating the Mind Amid the Current Practices 7–8: Instructions | From Coloring In to Creating Practice 7 | The Mind’s Garden in the Kitchen: Sensing Ecological Time Practice 8 | Roots and Networks in the Meeting Room: Find an Anchor and Open Perception 1. Must You ‘Fix Yourself’ Before You Can Love and Be Loved? | Connection and Care Practice 9: Instructions Practice 9 | Shifting Perspective During Disagreement 2. When You No Longer Fear: Relationships, Care, and Compassion in Practice Practice 10: Instructions Practice 10 | Kindle the Flame of Compassion 3. Be an Ordinary Person: Leave the Trap of Self and Enter Permeable Care Practice 11: Instructions Practice 11 | Self-Compassion 4.1 Does the Voice Blaming You Really Come from You? | Structural Echoes of Self-Criticism Practice | Let Yourself Be ‘Useless’ for a While 4.2 When You Blame Yourself Again: Four Steps to Untangle Self-Criticism Practice 12 | Untangle Self-Criticism with CARE Is Mindfulness a Calming Cure—or a More Difficult Path of Inquiry? | Bonus Conversation Yang Guang & Jifei: Together Almost 24 Hours a Day—Yet Freer and More Relaxed? Jifei & Yang Guang: Intimacy Is Not Required, but It Can Be a Field of Practice 5. From the ‘Selfish Gene’ to Compassionate Intelligence: The Boundaries of Care and Self Practice 13: Instructions Practice 13 | Breathing Compassion It’s Fine Not to Practice ‘Well’ | First Community Mindfulness Call 6. Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity: Open the Heart Again Make the Practice Fit Your Body | Second Community Mindfulness Call Mindfulness Trains Our Whole Way of Being | Third Community Mindfulness Call 1. Does That Solid ‘Self’ Really Exist? Understanding No-Self Through the Five Aggregates 2. A Butterfly’s Memory: When the Body Dissolves, the Self Takes a New Shape Practice 14 | Concentration and Flow (Unguided) 3. If Everything Is in Flux, What Can I Change? Freedom and Responsibility in Dependent Origination Practice 15 | Mindful Reflection (Unguided) Carrying the Question Matters More Than Getting the Answer | Fourth Community Call 4. Am I Inside While the World Is Outside? How Awareness Loosens the Boundary Practice 16 | Notice ‘Disappearance’ (Unguided)