- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Element; First UK edition edition (7 July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007131534
- ISBN-13: 978-0007131532
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 357,235 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Learn the seven ways to tap into a state of pure joy, at any time, with up-and-coming spiritual teacher Catherine Ingram.
• Passionate Presence takes the reader on a journey of the heart that is an immediate experience of seven awakened qualities: silence, tenderness, embodiment, genuineness, discernment, delight and, finally, wonder.
• These qualities are based on the author’s observations over years of working with thousands of people in silent retreats and public interactive events (Dharma Dialogues).
• In developing our capacity to deeply relax and simply ‘be’, a natural intelligence emerges, regardless of genes, IQ or age: an intelligence of the heart, completely free from dogma, ideology or religion.
• Catherine Ingram demonstrates that we can all have access to this powerful, pure state of being – this passionate presence – without formal meditation practice or a spiritual teacher.
About the Author
Catherine Ingram is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher with communities serving several thousand students in a dozen cities in the US and Europe. She has studied with Buddhist teachers and mystics of various traditions since 1974. She is president of Living Dharma, an educatIonal non-profit organisation, based in Portland, Oregon and co-founder of Insight Meditation centre, in Barre, Massachusetts. She is author of In the Footsteps of Gandhi: Conversations with Spiritual/Social Activists and has published numerous acticles on issues of consciousness and activism.
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Food for the soul
1 Jan 2005
Format:Hardcover
This lovely book shares the wisdom of a teacher of silent meditation and Dharma Dialogues on awakened awareness. It is truly food for the soul.
Catherine Ingram describes her personal experiences in seeking and finding peace in the Now. While mindfulness meditation was a major path, a spiritual teacher catalyzed major shifts in her consciousness. Ingram now teaches mindfulness, through silence, through shared lessons, and (even through the pages of this book) through her personal centeredness.
Seven topics are highlighted: Silence, Tenderness, Embodiment, Genuineness, Discernment, Delight and Wonder. Each is illustrated with lovely stories of Ingram and other seekers on the Path.
Particularly helpful for healing are suggestions for acknowledging the presence of an inner observer who is detached even in the midst of crisis and suffering; for treasuring each present moment rather than living in the past or future; and for accepting that we need not torture ourselves with guilt and remorse because each of us has a lifetime of lessons to learn - and each experience offers us opportunities to develop deeper compassion for others who have their own lessons and make mistakes that may impact negatively on us. We can fester in negative reactions to life that is past or in our anxieties about our future life - or we might just let go of the negativity and move on to the ever-present Now.
I was surprised to discover this book was immediately helpful in finding a stronger connection with my own center of quiet awareness.
There is also a pleasant current of practical advice.
I warmly recommend this book for a good read and re-read.
Catherine Ingram describes her personal experiences in seeking and finding peace in the Now. While mindfulness meditation was a major path, a spiritual teacher catalyzed major shifts in her consciousness. Ingram now teaches mindfulness, through silence, through shared lessons, and (even through the pages of this book) through her personal centeredness.
Seven topics are highlighted: Silence, Tenderness, Embodiment, Genuineness, Discernment, Delight and Wonder. Each is illustrated with lovely stories of Ingram and other seekers on the Path.
Particularly helpful for healing are suggestions for acknowledging the presence of an inner observer who is detached even in the midst of crisis and suffering; for treasuring each present moment rather than living in the past or future; and for accepting that we need not torture ourselves with guilt and remorse because each of us has a lifetime of lessons to learn - and each experience offers us opportunities to develop deeper compassion for others who have their own lessons and make mistakes that may impact negatively on us. We can fester in negative reactions to life that is past or in our anxieties about our future life - or we might just let go of the negativity and move on to the ever-present Now.
I was surprised to discover this book was immediately helpful in finding a stronger connection with my own center of quiet awareness.
There is also a pleasant current of practical advice.
I warmly recommend this book for a good read and re-read.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Priceless
14 April 2003
Format:Hardcover
Many spiritual books have given me great food for thought; this one has actually brought major shifts in my perception. It has taken me a large step forward in my presence and in the way I deal with people, which was immediately noticed by my coworkers. I don't want to get too specific and spoil the effect of a fresh reading, but do get this book. It's one of my top three spiritual books, along with *The Power of Now* by Eckhart Tolle, and *Loving What Is* by Byron Katie.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Ending the Tyranny of the Mind
19 Jun 2003
Format:Hardcover
PASSIONATE PRESENCE is about ending the tyranny of the mind. Living in the mind instead of in the moment causes one to miss the freshness and wonder of life. We may spend hours each day chewing over our past failures, or, conversely, projecting a rosy future for ourselves. The problem with this scenario is that past and future are concepts. They exist only in the mind. PASSIONATE PRESENCE is about getting out of the mind and into the moment, into the preciousness and completeness of the moment, which, after all, is all we have. The qualities that exude from these pages--gentleness, genuineness and delight--are contagious. Catherine Ingram speaks to us from direct experience, and her experience, we realize, if we are truly attentive, is our experience.
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