Wake Up Now (26 page)
Authors: Stephan Bodian
Spirituality, radical,
64
–65,
69
–70
Spontaneous self-inquiry,
102
–3
Stories, living without,
171
–73
“Suchness,”
127
Suffering, awakening and,
35
Sweets for the ego,
61
–64
Teachers, choosing,
54
–55
Thoreau, Henry David,
20
Thrangu Rinpoche,
110
Tilopa,
92
Tonglen,
201
Transcendentalists,
19
–20
Transmission, silent,
113
–14
Trauma vortex,
201
Truth(s),
18
.
See also
“Fire of truth”
absolute,
29
–30
doorways to,
51
–52
ego and,
146
–53
importance of telling,
175
–76
kindling fire of,
153
relative,
30
revealing fire of,
161
–63
seeking,
37
–40
Tung-shan, Zen Master,
111
Turning words,
110
–13
“Unfindability” approach, to self-inquiry,
108
–10
Via negativa
,
64
–65
Voice dialogue,
201
Wake-Up Calls,
17
–18,
35
–36,
55
–56,
77
,
97
–98,
117
–18,
139
–40,
157
–58,
178
–79,
205
–6,
214
“Who am I?” question,
103
–10,
115
–17
“Wintertime” of awakening
153
Yun-men, Zen Master,
111
Zazen (Zen meditation),
20
–21,
191
.
See also
Meditation
Stephan Bodian, founder and director of the School for Awakening, has been teaching the direct approach to spiritual awakening for more than thirty years. Currently his life is devoted to igniting and fostering the flame of truth in others through his counseling, mentoring, teaching, and writing. Ordained a Zen monk in 1974, Stephan studied with some of the great spiritual masters of our age. After a series of deepening awakenings, he received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti.
The former editor-in-chief of
Yoga Journal
, Stephan is the author of the bestselling guidebook
Meditation for Dummies
and coauthor of
Buddhism for Dummies
. A psychotherapist as well as a spiritual teacher, he has been a pioneer in the integration of the timeless spiritual wisdom of the East and the insights of Western psychology. For more information about the eight-month School for Awakening or about intensives, retreats, or spiritual counseling by phone, visit his website at
stephanbodian.org
.
