Introduction 1

The Opening of the Heart

The Emptiness of Busyness 9
Starting All Over Again 12
Bare Bones 15
Unstoppable Friendship 18
Fear 21
Three Terrible Karmas 24
Small Gestures 26
Negativity 29
The Capacity to Love 32
The Sexual Revolution 35
Feelings and Thoughts 38
The Price of Beauty 41
Suffering 44
The Challenge of Change 47
Disillusionment 50
Objects of Pleasure 52
Happiness 54
Living in Freedom 56
Dropping Out 59
Ways of Responding 62

The Depths of Experience

The Shadow of My 67
Glimpses 69
The Reward 71
Deep Time 73
Signs of Change 75
What Is the Cost? 77
Willing to Stop 79
Wise Speech 81
The Vulnerability of Kindness 84
Allowing Ourselves to be Touched 87
Beliefs 90
Habit 92
Impulses 95
Finding Order, Taking Risks 97
Teacher and Student 99
The Pursuit of Popularity 103
Seeing Through Thoughts 106
Individual Psychotherapy 109
Inner Change 112
Projections 114
Miracles 116

The Practice of Understanding

What Matters?  121
Love and Attachment  123
The Substance View  126
The Proliferation of Thoughts  129
What Self?  131
The Ego  134
The Way of Non-attachment  137
Meditative Reading  139
Leaves on a Tree  141
Religious Forms  143
Oneness  145
Dependent Arising  147
Baba's Will?  150
Doing Good  152
Authentic Knowledge  154
How and Why  156
Ideals and the Self  158
Stay Awake!  160

The Discovery of Liberation

The Seeker and the Sought  165
A Wave in the Ocean  167
A Flea in the Mind  169
Subject and Object  171
Freedom from Momentary Conditions  174
Compassion and Liberation  177
Made in Our Image  180
The Dance of Shiva  183
A Profound Opening  185
The Eye of Wisdom  188
The Maya of Time  190
Where Is the Divine?  193
What Is Freedom?  196
The Archer  198
Life Is a Gift  201
Enlightenment: Near or Far?  203
Fit to Receive  205