Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body

Ray, Reginald A.

ISBN 10: 1591796180 / ISBN 13: 9781591796183

Published by Sounds True, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body
• Publisher: Sounds True
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1591796180
• ISBN 13: 9781591796183
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

What does it mean to "meditate with the body"? Until you answer this question, explains Reggie Ray, meditation may be no more than a mental gymnastic —something you can practice for years without fruitful results.

In Touching Enlightenment, the esteemed author of five books about Buddhist history and practice guides you back to the original practice of the Buddha: a systematic process that results in a profound awareness in your body rather than in your head.

Combining the scholarship that has earned him international renown with original insights from nearly four decades practicing and teaching meditation, Reggie Ray invites you to explore:

• How to enter fully into communion with your embodied nature
• The insights of Tibetan yoga, from guidance on breathing and working with discomfort to its challenge to modern practitioners on the path to realization
• Why "rejected" experience becomes imprinted in the body —and how to receive it anew to reconstitute your human way of being
• Karma of cause and karma of result —taking full responsibility for your life
• Your three bodies—the physical, the interpersonal, and the cosmic

About the Author

Reginald A. Ray, Ph.D., brings us four decades of study and intensive meditation practice within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition as well as a special gift for applying ancient wisdom to the unique problems, inspirations, and spiritual imperatives of modern people. He is the co-founder and Spiritual Director of Dharma Ocean Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the practice, study and preservation of the teachings of Reggie s teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and the practice lineage he embodied.