Peter Ralston

Ending Unnecessary Suffering

How to Create a Powerful, Complete, and Peaceful Life

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Produktbeschreibung

A guide to freeing yourself from self-induced suffering

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9798888501184
• Artikelnr.: 71889718

Autorenporträt

Peter Ralston is a founder of the consciousness movement in the San Francisco Bay area and the creator of the Art of Effortless Power, an internal martial art based on effortlessly effective interaction. Born in San Francisco but raised primarily in Asia, he began studying martial arts at the age of 9 in Singapore. By the age of 28 he had black belts or expertise in almost every martial art there is and was developing his own Art of Effortless Power. In 1978 he became the first non-Asian ever to win the World Championship full-contact martial arts tournament held in the Republic of China. The founder of the Cheng Hsin Center and the author of several books, including The Book of Not Knowing, he currently lives outside of San Antonio, Texas.

Inhaltsangabe

PREAMBLE Stop Putting Your Hand in Boiling Water
PART I
Foundations of Our Experience
CHAPTER ONE Concept versus Experience
What Is a Concept?
Exercise for Identifying Concepts
What Is an Experience?
Incorporating an Assertion
How Does Concept Dominate Your Experience?
Suggestions for Contemplation:
Recognizing Your Beliefs
Interpretation and Meaning
Concepts Held As If They Are Objective Reality
Suggestions for Contemplation:
Objectification of Concepts
Overlooked Conceptual Influences on Experience
Image Exercise
Suggestions for Contemplation:
Overlooked Conceptual Influence
Being Incomplete
CHAPTER TWO Awakening Overlooked Consciousness
You versus Your Self-Experience
Ignorance
Inventions versus Direct Encounter
The Inner-Self Is an Invention
The Nature of Mind
Distinctions within the Self
PART I I
Getting Free from Unnecessary Suffering
CHAPTER THREE Conceptualizing versus Being
CHAPTER FOUR Mental Activities behind Most
Forms of Suffering
Dissatisfaction
Depression
Stress
Worthlessness
Loneliness
Disappointment
Flawed
Vulnerable
Alienation
Inner Turmoil
Shame
Grief
Bringing It Home
Mind Exercise
CHAPTER FIVE Transforming the Mind to
End Suffering
Conceptual-Action versus Conceptual-Activity
Aligning What Isn’t with What Is
Choosing a Path Forward
Our Fear of the Mundane
The Search for Meaning
Being Complete
No Perspective Is True
Suffering and Consciousness
PART I I I
Investigating Our Experience
CHAPTER SIX About Mind
Thinking
Existential Thinking
Emotion
Rethinking Emotion
Mastering Emotions Exercise
CHAPTER SEVEN Beneath the Surface
Clarifying Existential Assumptions
and Bottom Lines
Transcending Your Self-Agenda
Suffering Causation “Religion”
Suggestions for Contemplation:
Cause of Suffering
More on Impulses and Drives
PART I V
New Perspectives and Powerful Distinctions
That Change Experience
CHAPTER EIGHT Creating New Experiential Abilities
Investigating Existentially
Completion
Turning-Into
Communication
Purpose
Creating a Purpose Exercise
Staying on Point
Increasing Awareness
Creativity and Change
CHAPTER NINE Powerful Life-Enhancing Principles
Practice, Principle, Being
Excellence and Mastery
Responsibility
Intention and Commitment
Honesty, Honor, Integrity
Correction
Empowerment
PART V
Practice
CHAPTER TEN Doing the Work
Life Practices
Center Breathing
Mastery and the “Effortless” Component
Unusual Interactive Perspectives
Necessary Suffering?
ADDENDUM A Principle That Could Change
Humanity
Index
About the Author