The Way of Awakened Presence
Exploring Foundations of Spiritual Practice
Books One and Two
Book One
One – Introduction
Styles of Approach
Developing and Unfolding a Spiritual Practice
An Integral Path
Areas of Practice
Practices
Two – Concentration
Two Forms of Concentration
The Challenge of Concentration
Exercises
Three – Why Meditate?
Inner vs. Outer Practices
The Mechanism of Awakening
The Power of Meditation
Further Thoughts About Meditation
Some Suggestions for Practice
Four – The Three Bodies; Harmony and Vitality Exercise
Levels of Self and an Integral Path
Working with Form and Energy
Harmony and Vitality
Five – The Various Yogas and Karma Yoga, Part I:
Spirituality in Daily Life
The Yogas
Karma Yoga
The Precepts
Presence: The Quality of Life
Practice
Six – Karma Yoga, Part II: The Quality of Presence
Two Styles of Karma Yoga
Presence
The Qualities of Presence
The Heart of Awakening
Levels of Presence
Practice and Karma Yoga: Awareness and Equanimity
Seven – Awareness Meditation and the Integral Path, Part I
The Integral Vision
Awareness
Awareness Meditation
Posture
Awareness and Concentration
Eight – Awareness Meditation, Part II
Grasping the Essence of Awareness Practice
Dimensions of Awareness
Beginning with the Body
Some Suggested Readings
Nine – Contentment and Equanimity
The Four Immeasurables
Equanimity
Contentment
Practice
Ten – Awakening Love, Part I: An Overview and Metta or
Lovingkindness Practice
Some Thoughts on the Nature and Cultivation of Love (an outline of key perspectives
on love, and a broad sampling of methods for developing the various aspects of love)
Metta – The Practice of Lovingkindness
Eleven – Awakening Love, Part II: Elementals and Cultivating Love
Elementals and the Subconscious
Elementals and the Three Fires
Elementals and the Senses
Enhanced Lovingkindness Meditation: Using Three Senses
Twelve – Awakening Love, Part III:
Bodhicitta and the Bodhisattva
The Paths of Personal Liberation and Bodhisattvahood
Absolute and Relative Bodhicitta
Bodhicitta and Love
Cultivating Bodhicitta
Book Two
Thirteen – Feeling and Love, Part I
The Tantric Approach
Transforming Feeling
Dimensions of Experience and Chakras
The Solar Plexus
Presence and Integration
Transforming the Solar Plexus
Fourteen – Feeling and Love, Part II
Presence and Feeling
More on Chakras
Practice: Attunement to Emotion
Fifteen – Gazing Meditation
The Path of Vision
Significance of Vision in Spiritual Development
Levels of Vision
Opening the ‘Flesh Eye’
Forms of Vision Meditation
Inner Vision Meditation
Outer Vision Meditation
Sixteen – Thoughts on Meditation Practice, Part I:
Perspectives on Discipline
The Question of Time
A Nondual Perspective of Spiritual Effort
A Tantric Perspective of Spiritual Effort
Daily Meditation
Seventeen – Thoughts on Meditation Practice, Part II:
How Much to Meditate
How Much to Meditate
The Number of Daily Meditation Sessions
Extending Our Sittings
Meditation Retreats
Eighteen – Sound, Breath and Concentration
Meditation with Sound
Music and Chanting
Mantra and Nada
Mantra Meditation – The Inner Sound of Breath
Concentration
Nineteen – The Way of Devotion, Part I
Desire as Devotion
The Way of Devotion
Visions of Deity
Approaches to Devotion
Elders
Invoking Transmission
Planned Future Lessons
20 – The Way of Devotion, Part II
21 – Nada Yoga: Meditation on Inner Sound
22 – Dharma Yoga: The Path of Inspired Action
23 – Awakened Presence Meditation
24 – Cultivating a Path
Mark Sullivan 