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Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body
How is it that a person can meditate for five, ten, twenty years or more - and hardly change? Because they've reduced it to "a mental gymnastic," explains Reggie Ray. In Touching Enlightenment, the esteemed author of five books on Buddhist history and practice guides readers back to the original approach of the Buddha: a systematic process that results in a profo...more
Hardcover, 395 pages
Published
January 1st 2008
by Sounds True
(first published December 31st 2007)
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"People have increasingly succeeded in creating an alternate reality: we spend our time in buildings--homes and workplaces--that shield and separate us from contact with the elements; we reside in cities, often at great remove from the natural world, that embody our collective human ideas and projectsl we often have little direct relation to our food sources; and mesmerized by the prospect of complete control over our lives, we regard even our bodies, as mentioned, as an object to be manage...more
I loved this book. Sometimes our culture treats meditation as an exercise in transcendence, which is really just a spiritual form of 'ignoring' and leads to further disembodiment and un-groundedness. This attitude gets nipped pretty quickly in this book which teaches us the benefits of deeply re-discovering 'being' our bodies instead of just 'having' them.
Fascinating subject, my favourite topic, so I wanted very much to like it but too much theory and not enough practice. It might have been better if the practices chapter had been at the beginning, so you could try it out as you went through the rest.
I was very impressed by this book. The author speaks with a unique voice of body-based meditation using thoroughly modern and vocabulary based on apparent first-hand experience, while still having strong roots in tradition.
Excellent book; my full review is here: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2008/09/b...
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As a Buddhist and a reiki practitioner, I find this book and its focus on Tibetan yoga and somatic issues associated with meditation, fascinating.
A bit gabby but some interesting nuggets ...
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My favorite new resource by Reginald Ray. I already listen to his CD's to improve my understanding of Tibetan Tantra/Buddhism. I had the chance to see him at East West Books in AUgust. I am going on an embodiment retreat with him in Portland as part of my surgery recovery plan in Nov. I highly recommend him.
I really enjoyed this book. It is unusual in the sense that it takes the Buddhist mind game straight to the body and changes how we see our ego...a much more realistic view and experience. Enjoy!
reading this for our newly forming "book club" w/ my husband. hopefully we can connect over some great books while the kids are otherwise occupied.
Everything going on with me lately seems to pivot around what Reggie Ray is saying in this book.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008, at 7:30pm at the Boulder Book Store.
signing at the store 9-4-08
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