Table of Contents
Foreword Norman Fischer xi
Foreword Wendy Johnson xv
Preface Natalie Goldberg xix
Introduction Bill Anelli xxxi
Inside of Time
A Farmer Came to See … 3
The Joy of Not Choosing 6
Being Inside of Time 11
No Pressure to Improve 14
This Very Mind Is Buddha 17
Noticing Our Story Line 19
What We Cannot Know
This Deepest Self 25
To Meet That Which We Cannot Know 27
What Is the Meaning of a Rose? 30
Cultivating the Silent Mind 34
Catch the Body as It Flies 38
Set Ourselves to Zero 43
How the Universe Thinks
What Is the Flavor of Plain? 49
A Guest Called Fire 52
Depth of Mind (A Two-Day Retreat) 56
The Oneness of Two 60
A Monk Asks 63
How the Universe Thinks 64
Loving the World as It Is
It's All in the Details 69
The True Ch'ien 71
Seeing Impermanence Itself 75
Loving the World as It Is 78
No Treats or Discounts 81
Not Moving Is the Way 84
Just This
True Intimacy 91
One Thing Means One Thing 94
Just This Is It 97
Why We Are at War 101
Practicing Wholeness 104
An Ordinary Grounded Life 108
It Is What It Is 111
Acknowledgments 116
Glossary 118
Bibliography 129
About the Author 133
