Taking Jesus Seriously,9780814627587

Taking Jesus Seriously

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ISBN13: 9780814627587
ISBN10: 0814627587
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Liturgical Pr
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Summary

The words of Jesus as authenticated by modern Scripture scholarship become clearer when matched to the practices and insights of Buddhist meditation. Taking Jesus Seriously offers a Christian way to implement the words of Jesus, using insight meditation or "vipassana" to look inside what stands between us and seeing the Kingdom of God spread before us. The book is meant to be read over twelve weeks while practicing daily meditation for twenty to thirty minutes. Book jacket.

Author Biography

The Reverend John W. Cowan is an Episcopal priest serving the parish community of St. Anne's, Sunfish Lake, Minnesota

Table of Contents

Prelude v
The Reign of God, Escaping Delusion
1(13)
The Practice: Observing Delusion and Reality
14(12)
Replacing Delusions with Material Reality
26(14)
Escaping the Delusion that We Are Our Feelings and Thoughts
40(15)
First Interlude: What Am I Doing Here?
55(68)
The Delusion that Happiness Results from Fulfilling Desires
58(17)
Distinguishing the Reality of Pain from the Delusion of Suffering
75(14)
The Delusion of Permanence
89(16)
The Delusion of Person
105(18)
Second Interlude: The Delusion of Two
123(36)
Empty of Delusion
127(18)
``Now'' as Reality, ``Past'' and ``Future'' as Delusion
145(14)
Third Interlude: Intention
159(18)
Evolution and the Reign of God
164(13)
Postlude on the Christian Life 177(8)
My Bookshelf 185(4)
Index 189

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