The Dharma of Direct Experience: Non-Dual Principles of Living
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Dharma of Direct Experience: Non-Dual Principles of Living
By (Author) Paul Weiss
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
1st February 2023
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Mysticism, magic and occult interests
East Asian and Indian philosophy
Zen Buddhism
Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice
204
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 20mm
467g
Description
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 authors 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 realization.
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.
Reviews
In The Dharma of Direct Experience, teacher, poet, and therapist Paul Weiss shares with us the profound wisdom he has discovered. The real gift of this book is not just his wisdom but that he shows us how to search for our own. * WES SCOOP NISKER, dharma teacher, award-winning broadcast journalist, and author of Be *
Author Bio
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.
