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The Dharma of Direct Experience audiobook

  • By: Paul Weiss
  • Narrator: Michael Ellick
  • Category: Body, Mind & Spirit, Mysticism
  • Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
  • Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
  • Publish date: January 01, 2022
  • Language: English
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The Dharma of Direct Experience Audiobook Summary

* 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 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.

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The Dharma of Direct Experience Full Details

Narrator Michael Ellick
Length 10 hours 28 minutes
Author Paul Weiss
Category
Publisher Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Release date April 25, 2024
ISBN 9781644118771

Subjects

The publisher of the The Dharma of Direct Experience is Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Body, Mind & Spirit, Mysticism

Additional info

The publisher of the The Dharma of Direct Experience is Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. The imprint is Inner Traditions Audio. It is supplied by Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. The ISBN-13 is 9781644118771.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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