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Overview
This engaging and accessible little book is filled with both humor and profound teaching. It presents 108 metaphors for mindfulness, meditation practice, the nature of the self, change, deep acceptance, and other related concepts that Dr. Kozak has cultivated over twenty-five years of meditating, practicing yoga, and working as a clinical psychologist.
Metaphors are indispensable to understanding mindfulness, and to help deeply internalize it and make it a part of everyday life. These mentally catchy images can motivate us to practice, show us how and where to bring mindfulness to life in our personal experience, and help us employ powerful methods for transformation.
This book was previously published under the title Wild Chicken and Petty Tyrants.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781614293835 |
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| Publisher: | Wisdom Publications MA |
| Publication date: | 06/14/2016 |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Sales rank: | 687,420 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Introduction 1
Reading This Book 4
Metaphors for Mind 5
1 Storytelling Mind 7
2 The Four-Story Building 9
3 Commentarial Mind 13
4 Doggy Mind and Monkey Mind 14
5 Lion Mind 16
6 Friendly Neighborhood Spider Mind 18
7 Carving Nature at the Joints 20
8 "You've Got Mail!" 22
9 The Inner Mute Button 23
10 Fierce Attention 25
11 Different Kinds of Snow 26
12 Waking Up 27
13 "Next Stop: 110th Street" 29
14 "Man Goes Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel" 30
15 Automatic Pilot 32
16 "Over 400 Channels-For Only $89.95 a Month" 33
17 Big Mind 34
18 Form and Emptiness 35
Metaphors for Self 37
19 The Me Movie 40
20 A Flashlight in a Dark Room 41
21 Witness 43
22 "Show Me the Self within the Self" 44
23 Thoughts Like Soap Bubbles 45
24 "Simmer Down" 47
25 Beasts of Burden 48
26 Leader of the Pack 49
27 The Finger Pointing to the Moon Is Not the Moon Itself 51
28 The Same River 52
29 Still Forest Pool 53
30 "Mirror, Mirror on the Wail" 54
31 No Taxation without Representation 55
32 Quorum 57
33 "Put On Your Own Oxygen Mask First" 58
Metaphors for Emotion, Change, and "Ordinary Craziness" 59
34 The Uncertain Fire 60
35 The Man Trap 62
36 Emotional Baggage 63
37 Guardianship of Solitude 64
38 "Perfectomy" 66
39 In a Hole with a Shovel 67
40 Deprivation Mind 68
41 "I've Got Good News and I've Got Bad News" 69
42 The Drama Sutra 71
43 "Don't Believe Everything You Think" 72
44 "Ninety Miles an Hour Is the Speed I Drive" 74
45 "Man Loses Arm in Tragic Industrial Accident" 76
46 Don't Give the Bully Your Lunch Money 77
47 Spaz 79
48 Thirty-One Emotional Flavors 80
49 "Burn, Baby, Burn" 81
50 Cleopatra Syndrome 83
51 "Please Pass the Turns" 84
52 "Shoot First, Ask Questions Later" 87
53 Quack, Quack, Quack 89
54 The Hornet's Nest 91
55 The Investing Dentist 92
56 "Might as Well Face It, You're Addicted to Thoughts" 94
57 "No One Told Me the War Was Over" 95
58 Babysitting 97
59 "Move It or Lose It!" 98
60 Two Arrows 99
61 "As Exciting as Watching Grass Grow" 100
62 The Pause Button 101
63 Don't Fall Asleep at the Wheel 101
Metaphors for Acceptance, Resistance, and Space 105
64 Wild Chickens 106
65 The Buzzing Fly 108
66 Weeds 109
67 "If You Don't Like the Weather…" 110
68 "This Piece of Paper Is My Universe" 111
69 "I Am Ready to Accept Your Terms of Surrender" 112
70 "Revolting!… Give Me Some More." 113
71 To Give Your Sheep or Cow a Large Meadow Is the Way to Control Him 115
72 Lean into the Sharp Points 116
73 The Sole of the Earth 117
74 The Swept Floor Never Stays Clean 117
75 Petty Tyrants 118
76 Falling Down 120
77 Be the Mapmaker 122
78 Letting Go and Letting Be 123
79 "Tea. Earl Gray. Hot." 125
80 "Bring Me a Mustard Seed" 125
81 Pain and Suffering 126
82 "Why Didn't I Kneel More Deeply to Accept You?" 128
83 A Foot in the Door 130
84 Office Hours 131
85 Monkey Trap 132
86 Mental Aikido 134
87 The Cluttered Garage 134
88 "The Best Seats Are in the Balcony" 135
89 Sky Mind 137
90 "Don't Waltz in the Minefield" 137
Metaphors for Practice 139
91 "Please Take Your Seat" 140
92 The Stillness Between Two Waves of the Sea 140
93 Holding a Baby Bird 141
94 Sharpening the Axe 143
95 The Reality on 7th Avenue 144
96 The Sitar of Enlightenment 145
97 Learning to Play a Musical Instrument 145
98 "Just Do It!" 146
99 Divide and Conquer 147
100 Be Prepared 149
101 "Come Back Soon!" 151
102 "Sit… Sit… Sit… Good Puppy!" 153
103 Hold On for Dear Life 154
104 March of the Penguins 155
105 The Clothes Don't Make the Man 156
106 AAA for the Mind 157
107 Squeeze the Sponge 158
108 "You Only Have Moments to Live" 160
Afterword 163
Ackowledgments 165
Appendices: Instructions and Exercises for Mindfulness Meditation 167
Notes 189
Works Cited 203
About the Author 211