Inspired by Buddhist teachings and psychoanalytic thought, this book explores gentleness as a way of being and a developmental achievement. It offers reflections on the unique position of 'gentle people', as well as certain gentle layers of the psyche in general, as they meet the world.
Inspired by Buddhist teachings and psychoanalytic thought, this book explores gentleness as a way of being and a developmental achievement. It offers reflections on the unique position of 'gentle people', as well as certain gentle layers of the psyche in general, as they meet the world.
Michal Barnea-Astrog, PhD, is a researcher of psychoanalysis and Buddhism, a senior Hakomi trainer, and a therapist in private practice. She teaches at the East Asian Studies Department at Tel Aviv University and is the founder and head of the Three-Year Hakomi Training in Israel. She is the author of Carved by Experience: Vipassana, Psychoanalysis, and the Mind Investigating Itself.
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Chapter One: On Gentleness 1. To Be in the World Unheld 2. The Gap 3. Sensitivity and Gentleness 4. Gentleness, Violence and the Drive toward the Good Chapter Two: The Path of Gentleness * Behavior, Meditation, and Wisdom * The Necessary Equipment * Gentleness and Destructiveness * Nina: An Unconscious Struggle between the Gentleness of Mind and Internalized Social Norms * Beyond Mindfulness * Some Reflections on the Attitude to Truth Chapter Three: Between Pain and Pleasure 5. Khäasutta: The Opportunity 6. The Mind's Substrate * The Good Object * A Good Environment * Nourishment 7. Holding a Gentle Baby 8. Louise: A Choreography of Nuances 9. Necessary Goodness and Instinctual Gratification 10. The Adult Mind 11. From Prince to Ascetic 12. Sensation and Thirst 13. The Mind that Sees Itself 14. The Objects of Desire 15. Subtle Pleasantness Chapter Four: A Home in the Universe 16. Becoming, Separation, and Fear * The Big Bang 17. Truth and Faith: Following the Signs of Existence * Some Words about Memory, Desire, and Knowledge * Faith as a Scientific State of Mind * Saddh¿: Sober Faith 18. Holding and Surrender 19. Non-Clinging 20. Dwelling in the Unsettled Space of Not-Knowing Chapter Five: Attention as an Environment * Conditioned Arising: Self-Environment Relations * Associating: Examining the Elements in the Environment * A Sense of Environmental Toxicity * Discord and Harmony * Two Species of Accuracy * Inner Attentional Environment: The Mental Space * The Interpersonal Attentional Environment: Quiet Love and Openness to Truth * Marina: To Lend an Ear to the Feeble, To See the Hidden Through a Veil * Holding and Letting Go * Non-Clinging and Movement * Instrumental vs Non-Instrumental Thinking * Rigidity, Flexibility and Dissolution * Giving up on a Sense of Expertise * Out of Chaos, Form Arises * Conditioned Arising: An Environment within the Self within the Environment Epilogue: Reflections on Time and Space
Chapter One: On Gentleness 1. To Be in the World Unheld 2. The Gap 3. Sensitivity and Gentleness 4. Gentleness, Violence and the Drive toward the Good Chapter Two: The Path of Gentleness * Behavior, Meditation, and Wisdom * The Necessary Equipment * Gentleness and Destructiveness * Nina: An Unconscious Struggle between the Gentleness of Mind and Internalized Social Norms * Beyond Mindfulness * Some Reflections on the Attitude to Truth Chapter Three: Between Pain and Pleasure 5. Khäasutta: The Opportunity 6. The Mind's Substrate * The Good Object * A Good Environment * Nourishment 7. Holding a Gentle Baby 8. Louise: A Choreography of Nuances 9. Necessary Goodness and Instinctual Gratification 10. The Adult Mind 11. From Prince to Ascetic 12. Sensation and Thirst 13. The Mind that Sees Itself 14. The Objects of Desire 15. Subtle Pleasantness Chapter Four: A Home in the Universe 16. Becoming, Separation, and Fear * The Big Bang 17. Truth and Faith: Following the Signs of Existence * Some Words about Memory, Desire, and Knowledge * Faith as a Scientific State of Mind * Saddh¿: Sober Faith 18. Holding and Surrender 19. Non-Clinging 20. Dwelling in the Unsettled Space of Not-Knowing Chapter Five: Attention as an Environment * Conditioned Arising: Self-Environment Relations * Associating: Examining the Elements in the Environment * A Sense of Environmental Toxicity * Discord and Harmony * Two Species of Accuracy * Inner Attentional Environment: The Mental Space * The Interpersonal Attentional Environment: Quiet Love and Openness to Truth * Marina: To Lend an Ear to the Feeble, To See the Hidden Through a Veil * Holding and Letting Go * Non-Clinging and Movement * Instrumental vs Non-Instrumental Thinking * Rigidity, Flexibility and Dissolution * Giving up on a Sense of Expertise * Out of Chaos, Form Arises * Conditioned Arising: An Environment within the Self within the Environment Epilogue: Reflections on Time and Space
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