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"A Zen-inspired "physical education" program for martial arts practitioners and anyone interested in mind-body transformation
Using simple, clear language to demystify the Zen mindset, Ralston draws on more than three decades of experience teaching students and apprentices worldwide who have applied his body-being approach.
More of a transformative guide than a specific list of exercises devoted to any particular physical approach, Zen Body-Being explains how to create a state of mental control, enhanced feeling-awareness, correct structural alignment, increased spatial acuity, and even a greater interactive presence.
Exercises are simple, often involving feeling-imagery and meditative awareness, which have a profound and sometimes instant effect. Areas of exploration include:
• Beginner's Body-Being
• Three aspects of body awareness
• Five principles for an effortlessly effective body
• Opening a door--five steps to transformation
• Fourteen points on structural alignment
Where similar guides teach readers what to do, this book teaches readers how to be."
""With a subtle eye, we can see that this physical world is an undulating ocean of consciousness, of light masquerading as matter.
The Sacred Hub is an inspiring guide that will help you purify your subtle vision so that you can venture beneath the conditioned mind to awareness itself-into the sacred hub within your own heart. It is in this billowing awareness where you will find your own truth, your own authentic expression, and the freedom and enduring happiness of your own innermost being.
Finally, this book is an extraordinary reminder that the power that holds the numberless stars in the vast heavens is within us. Within each of us is a spark of the divine power that created the cosmos. When you know the shimmering light of your true Self, you will know everything because that Self is the creative, intelligent force behind this whole universe.""
"Many of the questions we might struggle with in life-identity in relation to others, authenticity in the face of belief systems, the draw we have to pursue ineffective self-serving urges, and our tendency to conceptualize rather than experience things-are described here in simple, conversational language.
Attempting to grasp what authentic knowledge is, Peter Ralston's queries become a quest for how humans can develop a deeper sense of themselves as participants in the world. Personal, reflective, and gently investigative, these essays have a raw, fresh quality which predates the more formal theory and practice of Peter Ralston's three popular books, The Book of Not Knowing, Pursuing Consciousness, and The Genius of Being. "
"Peter Ralston’s exceptionally lucid trilogy on the nature of human consciousness culminates here in The Genius of Being, a book of deep contemplations on the unseen elements that create our world. The first volume, The Book of Not Knowing, garnered much praise as a comprehensive exploration of the depths of self and consciousness. The second volume, Pursuing Consciousness, clarifies the difference between enlightenment and self-transformation, and then pairs these two goals in a strikingly effective way. This third book is both shorter and more complex, taking us straight to the heart of the origins of our experience.
In a progression of illuminating assertions, Ralston shows us how human consciousness carves out distinctions from whatever is absolutely true. This dynamic not only generates both self and reality from nothing, it imbues them with the quality of objective truth. From the time we first distinguish between self and not-self as infants, we begin making a sequence of existential assumptions that result in the illusion that a self is some ethereal “object” within. This universally accepted assumption persists despite the failure of exhaustive investigations to locate this inner self.
This book is not for the faint of heart or the casual seeker, but contemplating the assertions here empowers you to personally and experientially grasp what is rarely even glimpsed: a profound consciousness of the genesis of human experience."
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