TY - BOOK AU - Harrison, S. TI - Getting to where you are U1 - 294.5435 PY - 2005/// CY - New Delhi PB - NAB KW - Human beings -- Effect of environment on. KW - Nature -- Psychological aspects. KW - Nature N1 - Part One IS IT TIME TO WAKE UP? How Did We Get Here? Born Naf^ed, Cold, and Hungry—Then It Gets Worse Jolted Awak^e in the Middle of a Life Life Clutter—I'll Simplify When I Get a Minute Who Are All These People in My Life? Selfishness vs. Selflessness Getting Through with Getting Through Getting Through the Day, Getting Through the Bills, Getting Through a Call with Mom Less Is More, More or Less Stepping out of Our Screenplay . . . and Finding Ourselves in a New Screenplay No More Story Lines—The Final Curtain Is This All There Is? A Fundamental Question Who Am I? Loo){ing for Clues Meditation—The Beginning of Understanding? Part Two MEDITATIONS ON MEDITATION Meditation—What It Is, What It Isn't, AND How It Got That Way News, Weather, and Meditation—Brought to You by Diet Cot^e Meditation as Metaphor Today's Sna/^e Oil The Knowing Loo\ of the Senior Meditation Student The Crashing Silence of Giving Up Techniques for Exploring the Mind Who Thought All of This Up? The Cultural Wrappings of Spiritual Teachings The Limitation of Meditation Systems Exploring the Mind Concentration Meditation—The Scarecrow Goes to the Wizard for a Brain The Seer and the Yogi Fear and Loathing on the Spiritual Path Manic Concentration and Samadhi Simple Exercises in Concentration Meditation Side Effects of Concentration Meditation—Don't Try This at Home Beyond Torpor and into the Good Stuff What Is This Stuff, Anyu>ay? Awareness Meditation—Pay Attention, This Is Important The Good Thing about Concentration Atvareness Is Hip Consciousness loi—Exercises in Atvareness Are We Atvare Yet? Hotv to Be in the Moment Hotv to Be in the Moment after That—What Is Atvareness, Anytvay? Atvareness, That Annoying Time Bettveen Naps Devotional Meditation — If I Loved You Getting to the Heart of the Matter Det/otion—The Opiate of Religion Loving-Kindness Meditation If I Loved You Authority and the Search for Security How Can We Authenticate a Spiritual Teacher? All Generalizations Are False What Enlightened People Do with Their Free Time If You Meet the Spiritual Teacher on the Road . . . The Addiction of Spiritual Authority Father Knows Best Mother, Do You Really Love Me? What Faust Learned the Hard Way What Are We Afraid Of? The Responsibility of the Individual Actuality Meditation We Are All Meditation Masters What Is Actuality, Actually? Time—It Keeps Every thing from Happening All at Once Psychological Time Other Extremely Heavy Considerations on the Nature of Mind and Reality Enlighten Up—Beyond Meditation into . . . Life. Yi^esl The Nonpractice of Actuality Meditation Breath and Body in Actuality The Naked Singularity and Almost Infinite Space What Is Our Body, Anyway? The Body as a Toxic Waste Dump The Body as a Belief System The Chal{ras—Are They There or Not? The Body as Actuality Learning Hotv to Breathe—Aren't We Breathing Already? The Exploration of Breath and States of Mind Actuality Meditation Without Really Trying Doing Nothing Is Hard to Do Loo/{ing for a Solution Is the Problem The End of the Spiritual Seel^er Six Experiments in Meditation Spreading the Silence—The Dialogue Experiment Exploring the Silence—Group Actuality Meditation Part Three WALKING-AROUND MEDITATION AND EVERYDAY LIFE Our Thoughts Seem to Have a Mind OF Their Own Frustrated tuith Our Anger Are We Afraid of a Life Without Fear? Anxiety and Stress—Worry, Be Unhappy Changing Our Mind on Drugs Hurt, Failure, and Disappointment Finding Space—The Inner Frontier Ever Stop to Thin\ and Forget to Start Again? Part Four GETTING HERE FROM THERE In the End It's the Beginning Faith without Belief The End of Effort Standing Alone in Integrity Crisis and Change—We Are the Whirled Impermanence, Pain, Emptiness, and Compassion Expressing the Universal in What Is You Can't Get There from Here or Anywhere Else, Either Don't Believe Anything Acttitility—We Are Already Here Getting to Where You Are and Staying There ER -