The Dharma of Direct Experience
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See moreExploring the direct perception of non-dual, “non-ordinary” reality, Paul Weiss shows how it reveals guidance for navigating ordinary reality in an open, compassionate, and ever-maturing way.
A deep exploration of the direct experience of non-dual reality and its lessons for spiritual growth and development
Examines the direct perception of non-dual reality and shows its implications for navigating ordinary reality in an open, compassionate, and ever-maturing way.
Shares the author’s most significant awakening experiences and explores their psycho-emotional and psychospiritual foundations.
Offers practical teachings for spiritual understanding, emotional development, and the cultivation of compassion.
Exploring the direct perception of non-dual, “non-ordinary” reality, Paul Weiss shares guidance for navigating ordinary reality in an open, compassionate, and ever-maturing way. He affirms our shared human potential for the direct experience of reality—unmediated by our more relativistic mental faculties—and reveals this experience as an essential dimension of our conscious capacity for growth. He shares his most significant awakening experiences and the circumstances leading up to them, exploring the personal and transpersonal dimensions of the experiences and their psycho-emotional and psycho-spiritual foundations. He points to such experiences as part of our ongoing integration as human beings and the essential path of practice that supports our availability to them.
Interweaving perspectives from psychology and neuroscience with important lessons from spiritual traditions around the world, Weiss explores how to live a life of integrity, reciprocity, and openness to reality, offering practical teachings for spiritual understanding, emotional development, and the cultivation of compassion, viewed by ancient Buddhist sages as the true meaning of existence. He addresses such human qualities as vulnerability, empathy, reciprocity, openness, and intimacy and shows how they express and participate in deeper conscious truths. The author also examines practical wisdom teachings within both Buddhist and Christian paths to realisation.
Combining engaged mysticism with transcendent humanism, along with thought-provoking poetry, Weiss offers a living vision of a non-dual way of experiencing the world, a path that supports our functional, emotional, and spiritual maturity.
Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?
In The Dharma of Direct Experience, Paul Weiss offers profound insights from his life as a teacher, poet, and therapist. Readers appreciate the book for its wisdom and the guidance it provides in embarking on their own journeys of self-discovery, highlighting Weiss's unique ability to inspire personal exploration.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781644115336
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 January 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 467g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Paul Weiss began serious practice in Zen as well as tai chi in 1966 and spent years in several training and monastic settings, including in schools and clinics in China. In 1981 he founded the Whole Health Center in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he teaches, counsels, and offers meditation retreats and his True Heart, True Mind Intensive. A lifelong poet, he is the author of two collections of poems and essays, You Hold This and Moonlight Leaning Against an Old Rail Fence: Approaching the Dharma as Poetry.
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