Foreword by Rosa Parks xi
Preface xiii

PART I
The Approach
1. What's Most Important?   1
2. The Five Dimensions of Heartmind   10
3. The Seeds of Awakening Heartmind: Nurturing the Field of Inherent Capacities   18
4. Comprehensive Zen Practice: Applied Awareness in the Five Dimensions of Heartmind   27

PART II
The Physical Dimension of Heartmind
5. The Body: Identity, or Instrument of Awakening?   39
6. Still, Silent Sitting: A Meditation   52
7. Mindfulness in Activity   57

PART III
The Open Awareness Dimension of Heartmind
8. Being-Awareness   65

PART IV
The Mental Dimension of Heartmind
9. Untrain Your Parrot   75
10. Fingers Pointing at the Moon: Mindful Activity Labeling   85

PART V
Identity: A Subset of the Mental Dimension of Heartmind
11. The Many Me's of Identity: From Ego to Instrument of Awakening   95
12. The Default Setting: Concocting the Same Old "Self"   108

PART VI
Loving-Kindness: Awakening the Seeds of Heartmind
13. Loving-Kindness: A Meditation   115

PART VII
The Emotional Dimension of Heartmind
14. The Emotional Dimension Meets Meditation   121
15. Anger and Fear   132
16. Disheartenment: Gray Days and Dark Nights   142
17. Core Pain   151

PART VIII
The Full-Empty Dimension of Heartmind
18. Reconciliation, Atonement, Forgiveness: The Temple Guardians at the Gates of the Full-Empty Dimension   165
19. Living As One   177
20. Service Practice: Unifying Self and Others   185
21. Delusion Is Enlightenment   195

Acknowledgments   201
Index of Exercises and Checklists   205