Light Waves: Fine Tuning the Mind

✍ Scribed by David K. Reynolds

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 111
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"No one lives within a continuous stream of peak experiences. Everyday life is both ordinary and marvelous. While sailing your mind in the sky, don't forget to have your car serviced regularly."

Light Waves continues the themes of Morita and Naikan psychotherapy found in David Reynolds' highly popular Constructive Living (UH Press, 1984) and The Quiet Therapies: Japanese Pathways to Personal Growth (UH Press, 1980). A book of reflections--inspired in part by the Denkoroku, a work written by a Soto Zen monk--Light Waves will appeal to readers of any faith. It reiterates the spiritual importance of everyday life and encourages readers to experience whatever reality presents and do whatever needs to be done moment-by-moment. Thought-provoking puzzles, designed to fine tune the mind, appear throughout.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Appearances
2. Whose Mind?
3. What Is Mine?
4. Fixing the Mind
5. Reality Teaches
6. Reality-Presents
7. Doing Reality
8. Reality’s Fools
9. No Boundaries
10. Making Sense of It
11. Ideas in Action
12. Practicalities
13. Dawning Light
14. Passing On
15. Being Lively
16. Stop-and-Go Living
17. Artistic Living
18. Curing Yourself
19. Reality’s Pool
20. Shopping Around
21. Storytelling
22. Reinventing Yourself
23. Reviewing Yourself
24. Meaningful Construction
25. Brand Names
26. Situational Fusion
27. Have It Be the Way It Is
28. In Trust
29. Thoughtfulness
30. Redoing Yourself
31. Driving Yourself
32. Talking Yourself Seriously
33. Telling Tales
34. Accepting Yourself
35. Self-Instruction
36. Discovering Yourself
37. Making Strides
38. Getting to Know You
39. Reality-Esteem
40. Vapors Condensing
41. Trekking
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