Table of Contents
Sanskrit Pronunciation ix
Preface xi
Part 1 Practicing Inward and Outward
1 This Is It 3
2 Reading the Sky for Weather Signs 10
3 The Realization of Intimacy 18
4 The Breath Cycle 26
5 The Object of Meditation 31
Part 2 Body, Mind, and the Natural World
6 The Quality of Flow 39
7 Organizing in the Natural World 42
8 Not Closing Our Eyes 47
9 Ontario Snow Lineage 54
10 Liberation 60
11 The Life of a Tulip 65
12 Diversity 73
13 Waves and Water: Form and Freedom 80
Part 3 Formal Practice
14 Encouragement on Retreat 97
15 End of Retreat 104
16 The Nonduality of Inner and Outer Practice 110
17 Money and the Turnings of Mind 115
Part 4 Grounded in the World
18 Activism with Both Feet on the Ground 125
19 The Lungs of the Earth 137
Part 5 Encouragement and Conclusions
20 Suicide 151
Afterword 167
Acknowledgments 169
Notes 171
Credits 179
Index 181