Getting to where you are/ S. Harrison

Part One
IS IT TIME TO WAKE UP?
How Did We Get Here?
Born Naf^ed, Cold, and Hungry—Then It Gets Worse
Jolted Awak^e in the Middle of a Life
Life Clutter—I'll Simplify When I Get a Minute
Who Are All These People in My Life?
Selfishness vs. Selflessness
Getting Through with Getting Through
Getting Through the Day, Getting Through the Bills,
Getting Through a Call with Mom
Less Is More, More or Less
Stepping out of Our Screenplay . . . and Finding Ourselves
in a New Screenplay
No More Story Lines—The Final Curtain
Is This All There Is?
A Fundamental Question
Who Am I?
Loo){ing for Clues
Meditation—The Beginning of Understanding?
Part Two
MEDITATIONS ON MEDITATION
Meditation—What It Is, What It Isn't,
AND How It Got That Way
News, Weather, and Meditation—Brought to You
by Diet Cot^e
Meditation as Metaphor
Today's Sna/^e Oil
The Knowing Loo\ of the Senior Meditation Student
The Crashing Silence of Giving Up
Techniques for Exploring the Mind
Who Thought All of This Up?
The Cultural Wrappings of Spiritual Teachings
The Limitation of Meditation Systems
Exploring the Mind
Concentration Meditation—The Scarecrow
Goes to the Wizard for a Brain
The Seer and the Yogi
Fear and Loathing on the Spiritual Path
Manic Concentration and Samadhi
Simple Exercises in Concentration Meditation
Side Effects of Concentration Meditation—Don't Try
This at Home
Beyond Torpor and into the Good Stuff
What Is This Stuff, Anyu>ay?
Awareness Meditation—Pay Attention,
This Is Important
The Good Thing about Concentration
Atvareness Is Hip
Consciousness loi—Exercises in Atvareness
Are We Atvare Yet?
Hotv to Be in the Moment
Hotv to Be in the Moment after That—What Is
Atvareness, Anytvay?
Atvareness, That Annoying Time Bettveen Naps
Devotional Meditation — If I Loved You
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Det/otion—The Opiate of Religion
Loving-Kindness Meditation
If I Loved You
Authority and the Search for Security
How Can We Authenticate a Spiritual Teacher?
All Generalizations Are False
What Enlightened People Do with Their Free Time
If You Meet the Spiritual Teacher on the Road . . .
The Addiction of Spiritual Authority
Father Knows Best
Mother, Do You Really Love Me?
What Faust Learned the Hard Way
What Are We Afraid Of?
The Responsibility of the Individual
Actuality Meditation
We Are All Meditation Masters
What Is Actuality, Actually?
Time—It Keeps Every thing from Happening All at Once
Psychological Time
Other Extremely Heavy Considerations on the Nature
of Mind and Reality
Enlighten Up—Beyond Meditation into . . . Life. Yi^esl
The Nonpractice of Actuality Meditation
Breath and Body in Actuality
The Naked Singularity and Almost Infinite Space
What Is Our Body, Anyway?
The Body as a Toxic Waste Dump
The Body as a Belief System
The Chal{ras—Are They There or Not?
The Body as Actuality
Learning Hotv to Breathe—Aren't We Breathing Already?
The Exploration of Breath and States of Mind
Actuality Meditation Without
Really Trying
Doing Nothing Is Hard to Do
Loo/{ing for a Solution Is the Problem
The End of the Spiritual Seel^er
Six Experiments in Meditation
Spreading the Silence—The Dialogue Experiment
Exploring the Silence—Group Actuality Meditation
Part Three
WALKING-AROUND MEDITATION
AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Our Thoughts Seem to Have a Mind
OF Their Own
Frustrated tuith Our Anger
Are We Afraid of a Life Without Fear?
Anxiety and Stress—Worry, Be Unhappy
Changing Our Mind on Drugs
Hurt, Failure, and Disappointment
Finding Space—The Inner Frontier
Ever Stop to Thin\ and Forget to Start Again?
Part Four
GETTING HERE FROM THERE
In the End It's the Beginning
Faith without Belief
The End of Effort
Standing Alone in Integrity
Crisis and Change—We Are the Whirled
Impermanence, Pain, Emptiness, and Compassion
Expressing the Universal in What Is
You Can't Get There from Here or Anywhere
Else, Either
Don't Believe Anything
Acttitility—We Are Already Here
Getting to Where You Are and Staying There