The Way of the Mindful Warrior

Embrace Authentic Mindfulness for Wellbeing, Wisdom, and Awareness

William Van Gordon, Edo Shonin

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781538146729
• Topic: Persönliche Entwicklung
• Subtopic: Psychische Verfassung & Wohlbefinden

The Way of the Mindful Warrior provides a fresh, authentic, and structured path to using mindfulness to embrace living in awareness and reconnecting with our innermost nature of peace, wisdom, and compassion.

Mindfulness is a 2,500-year-old Buddhist meditation practice that involves focusing awareness on the present moment, the only place where an individual can truly embrace and experience life. In recent decades, mindfulness has gained popularity amongst scientists, healthcare practitioners, and the public more generally.

An abundance of popular books has subsequently emerged providing different interpretations of how to practice mindfulness and apply it in daily-living contexts. However, most current approaches to mindfulness have removed it from its traditional spiritual context or overlook important scientific insights from research into this ancient contemplative technique. The Way of Mindful Warrior addresses this oversight and integrates the traditional Buddhist teachings on mindfulness with emerging insights from the scientific study of mindfulness, wellbeing and the human mind. This book is timely and presents a fresh, easily digestible, and structured path to using mindfulness not only as a tool for coping with the stresses and strains of contemporary living, but also as a means to cultivating unconditional wellbeing and for flourishing as a human being.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Allowing the Mind to Breathe
• Mindlessness and the Inverted Hallucination
• The Mindful Warrior’s Code
• Carry Your Meditation Cushion with You
• A Spiritual Affair
• A Sticky Mind
• The Compassionate Heart
• Letting Go
• Mindfulness of Birth, Mindfulness of Death
• The Empty Self
• The Mindful Warrior’s Lineage
• Do You Know Who I Am?
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors