Contents -- Preface -- Notes -- Cultivating the Ground -- Integrating the Personality -- Attentive Sincerity -- Setting the Process in Motion -- Posture and Breath -- Grounding the Practice -- Notes -- The Witnessing Practice -- The Knower and the Known -- The Chattering Mind -- The Witnessing Practice -- Notes -- The Therapeutic Model -- The Buddhist Therapeutic Model -- The Taoist Therapeutic Model -- The Vedantic Therapeutic Model -- The Common Core -- Notes -- The Vertical Ascent -- Expanding the Meditative Horizon -- The Vertical Ascent and the Depth Harmony -- Notes -- Two Practices and a Little Philosophy -- The Meditation on Bliss -- Emptiness: The Experience -- Emptiness: The Supreme Deconstruction Practice -- Notes -- Developmental Virtues -- Humility and Simplicity -- Mindfulness -- Discrimination -- Notes -- Nonattachment: Clarity and Balance -- The Pragmatic Commonsense Argument -- The Psychology of Nonattachment -- Reflections on the Structural Depths of Nonattachment -- Notes -- Nonaction and the Fluid Flow of Life -- The Metaphysics of Karma -- The Idea of Nonaction -- Nonaction and the "Doer" -- Taoist Nonaction -- Motivation, Attachment and Nonaction -- Notes -- Deepening Metaphors -- The Sky and the Clouds -- The Variegated Gem -- The Space in the Vase -- The Dream Metaphor -- Notes -- Dancing on the Edge of Oblivion -- The Brahmin and the Pit -- The Roar of Awakening -- Dancing on the Edge of Oblivion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.