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No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are - Hardcover

Kornfield, Jack

 
9781451693690: No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are
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ISBN 10: 1451693699 ISBN 13: 9781451693690
Verlag: Atria Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

In this landmark work, internationally beloved teacher of meditation and mindfulness Jack Kornfield reveals that you can be happy now, this minute, with the keys to inner freedom.

In his first major book in several years, the inspiring author of the classic A Path with Heart, Jack Kornfield, invites us into a new awareness. Through his signature warmhearted, poignant, often funny stories, with their Aha moments and O. Henry-like outcomes, Jack shows how we get stuck and how we can free ourselves, wherever we are and whatever our circumstances. Renowned for his mindfulness practices and meditations, Jack provides these keys for opening gateways to immediate shifts in perspective and clarity of vision, allowing us to see how to change course, take action, or—when we shouldn’t act—just relax and trust.

Each chapter presents a path to a different kind of freedom—freedom from fear, freedom to start over, to love, to be yourself, and to be happy—and guides you into an active process that engages your mind, heart, and spirit, awakens your spirit, and brings real joy, over and over again. Drawing from his own life as a son, brother, father, and partner, and on his forty years of face-to-face teaching of thousands of people across the country, Jack presents a stirring call to be here, in the power of the now, the present, as we work through life’s passages. His keys to life will help us find hope, clarity, relief from past disappointments and guilt, and the courage to go forward.

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Jack Kornfield, PhD, is one of the best known, most respected meditation teachers in the world. A psychologist and founder of two of the largest Buddhist centers and communities in America, he is one of the key teachers to introduce mindfulness to the West. His books, which include A Path with Heart; After the Ecstasy, the Laundry; and The Wise Heart, are classics, selling well over a million copies, and translated into twenty-one languages. Jack has taught at major universities and centers worldwide, including Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, and Berkeley; he teaches regular classes to four hundred at Spirit Rock in Marin County and to large crowds nationwide at retreats, conferences, and events. To learn more, please visit: JackKornfield.com or SpiritRock.org.

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CONTENTS

Invitation to Freedom

Part I – FREEDOM OF SPIRIT

1. Vastness Is Our Home

The Dance of Life • The One Who Knows • Sacred Stillness • Loving Awareness • Running from Hyenas • Rest in Love

Practice: Opening to Spacious Awareness 

                 Mind Like Sky

2. Free to Love
 The Beloved • Love's Many Faces • Grace and Angst • Respond with Love • The Sparkle in Your Eyes • Encounter with the Gods • Embodying Love • Love Baked Fresh • Blessing of Respect.

Practice: Lovingkindness
 

3. Trusting the Living Universe

Tending Our Garden • The Dance of Life • Wise Trust • Beyond Despair • Embraced by a Living Universe • Aging with Trust

Practice: Trust in the Big Picture

Trust Your Inner Knowing

Be Inspired by Trust

4. The Eternal Present

Touching the Eternal Present • Notice Now • Moral Mathematics of the Moment • Beginner’s Mind • How Then Shall We Live? • Finding Sanctuary • Timelessness of the Natural World • Lover of the Moment • Nous Sommes, We Are

Practice: Open to Timelessness

Part II – OBSTACLES TO FREEDOM

5. Fear of Freedom

 Trauma, Fear and Freedom • Self-Hatred • Trying to Please • Fear of Falling • Acting Flawlessly • Lean into the Wind

Practice: Entering Difficulties with an Open Mind and an Open Heart

6. Forgiveness

Forgiving Yourself and Another • Your Spirit Is Not Bound by Your History • Honoring the Past • Heart of Forgiveness • Courage and Clarity • True Release • I’m Going to Kill You • Letting Go: The Chord That Completes the Song

Practice: Forgiveness

7. Freedom from Troubled Emotions

Praying for Our Enemies • Powerful Inner Forces • Befriending the Trouble

 • Resolving Conflicts • Facing Demons • Dawn of Compassion

Practice: Compassion.

Practice with Troubled Emotions

Part III – REALIZING FREEDOM

8.  Elegance of Imperfection

Invitation to Care • Tyranny of Perfection • Wild, Uncharted, Imperfect Glory • Eyes of Love • What You Have Left • Mastery • It’s Already Broken

Practice: I See You Mara  

Practicing Imperfection

9. Gift of an Open Mind

Zen and the Art of Openness • Prejudice and Perspective • Breaking Barriers • Are You Sure? • Actually See Her • The Healing Power of Words • Heartfelt Communication

Practice: Is This True?

10. The Gift of Authenticity

You Were Born to Do This • Staying True • To Whom Are You Faithful? • Start Where You Are • Aware Inside, Calm Outside • Honoring Your Feelings • Desire • Free to Be Human

Practice: Being True

11. Free to Dream

Express Your Heart • “Bird Got My Wings” • They’re Your Dreams • Crafting Your Life • Conscious and True • The Currents of Life • Dream Big and Dance

Practice: You Are An Artist

Part IV – LIVING FREEDOM

12. Deliver Your Gifts

Free to Act • Vision and Action • Bring Your Gift • Selfless Service • The World Needs You • Your Very Flesh Shall Be a Poem

Practice: Deliver Your Gifts

13. Live in Mystery

Not Far Away • The Mystery of Incarnation • The Earth Is Breathing You • Beyond History and Self • Interbeing: You Are Not Alone • Everyone Gains • Outer and Inner Freedom • Emptiness Is Our Home • Vision • “I Told You So”

Practice: Open to Mystery

   Just Like Me

14. The Joy of Being Alive

Happiness for No Cause • Bouncing for Joy • Gateways to Joy • Gratefulness • Pure Heart • You Deserve Happiness • Wonderful! • It’s in Your Hands • Coursing in Gratitude
 
 
Invitation to Freedom
 
Dear friends, after more than forty years teaching mindfulness and compassion to thousands on the spiritual path, the most important message I can offer is this: You don't have to wait to be free. You don't need to postpone being happy.
All too often these beautiful spiritual practices of mindfulness and compassion become entwined with a vision of self-discipline and duty. We see them as taking us through a long road of obstacles that leads eventually to distant benefits. Yes, there is hard work of the heart and there are demanding cycles in our lives. Yet wherever you are on your journey, there is another wonderful truth called “Living the Fruit” or “Starting with the Result.” The fruits of well-being and the experience of joy, freedom, and love are available now, whatever your circumstance!
When Nelson Mandela walked out of Robben Island prison after twenty-seven years of incarceration, he did so with such dignity, magnanimity, and forgiveness that his spirit transformed South Africa and inspired the world. Like Mandela, you can be free and dignified wherever you find yourself. Inner freedom is not reserved for exceptional people. No one can imprison your spirit.
When your boss calls and you feel fear or anxiety, when someone in your family is in conflict or duress, when you feel overwhelmed by the world, you have choices. You can be bound and constricted or you can use this difficulty to open and discover what’s next in your unfolding journey. Sometimes life gives us ease, sometimes it is challenging, and sometimes profoundly painful.  Whatever your circumstances, you can take a breath, soften your gaze, and remember that courage and freedom are within, waiting to awaken. Even under the direst conditions, freedom of spirit is available. Freedom of spirit is mysterious, magnificent, and simple. We are free and able to love in this life—no matter what.
Deep down we know this is true. We know it whenever we feel a part of something greater—listening to music, making love, walking in the mountains or swimming in the sea,  sitting at the mystery of a dying loved one as her spirit leaves her body silently as a falling star, or witnessing the miraculous birth of a child.  At times like these, a joyful openness swells through our body and our heart is surrounded by peace.
Sara, a single mom with two kids, found out that her eight-year-old daughter Alicia had leukemia. Sara was terrified, anxious, grieving the loss of her child’s health, scared that she would lose her. For the first year, Alicia went through long rounds of chemotherapy, hospital stays, and doctors. A fearful sadness filled the house and anxiety colored Sara’s days. Then, one afternoon when they were out on a walk, Alicia said, “Mama, I don’t know how long I’m going to live, but I want them to be happy days.”
Her words were a splash of cold water on her mother’s face. Sara realized that she had to step out of the fearful melodrama to meet her daughter’s freedom of mind with her own, to return to a trusting spirit. Sara grabbed her daughter and did a little waltz, holding her tight. Her fear dissipated. And in time, Alicia healed. She is now twenty-two and just graduated from college.
But even if she hadn’t healed, what kind of days would you have had her choose? You can’t do much with your life if you’re miserable. You might as well be happy.
 
When I was eight-years old, on an especially bitter windy winter...

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Verlag
Atria Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1451693699
ISBN 13 
9781451693690
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Anzahl der Seiten
320
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