Foreword xiii Author's Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxi Introduction l The Origin of This Book 1 The Truth That Is Within You 3 CHAPTER ONE: You Are Not Your Mind 9 The Greatest Obstacle to Enlightenment 9 Freeing Yourself from Your Mind 14 Enlightenment: Rising above Thought 18 Emotion: The Body's Reaction to Your Mind 20 CHAPTER TWO: Consciousness: The Way Out of Pain 27 Create No More Pain in the Present 27 Past Pain: Dissolving the Pain-Body 29 Ego Identification with the Pain-Body 34 The Origin of Fear 35 The Ego's Search for Wholeness 37 CHAPTER THREE-. Moving Deeply into the Now 39 Don't Seek Your Self in the Mind 39 End the Delusion of Time 40 Nothing Exists Outside the Now 41 The Key to the Spiritual Dimension 42 Accessing the Power of the Now 44 Letting Go of Psychological Time 46 The Insanity of Psychological Time 48 Negativity and Suffering Have Their Roots in Time 49 Finding the Life Underneath Your Life Situation 51 All Problems Are Illusions of the Mind 53 A Quantum Leap in the Evolution of Consciousness 55 The Joy of Being 56 CHAPTER FOUR: Mind Strategies for Avoiding the Now 59 Loss of Now: The Core Delusion 59 Ordinary Unconsciousness and Deep Unconsciousness 60 What Are They Seeking? 62 Dissolving Ordinary Unconsciousness 63 Freedom from Unhappiness 64 Wherever You Are, Be There Totally 68 The Inner Purpose of Your Life's Journey 73 The Past Cannot Survive in Your Presence 74 CHAPTER FIVE: The State of Presence 77 It's Not What You Think It Is 77 The Esoteric Meaning of Waiting 78 Beauty Arises in the Stillness of Your Presence 79 Realizing Pure Consciousness 81 Christ: The Reality of Your Divine Presence 86 CHAPTER six: The Inner Body 89 Being Is Your Deepest Self 89 Look beyond the Words 90 Finding Your Invisible and Indestructible Reality 91 Connecting with the Inner Body 93 Transformation through the Body 94 Sermon on the Body 96 Have Deep Roots Within 97 Before You Enter the Body, Forgive 99 Your Link with the Unmanifested 100 Slowing Down the Aging Process 102 Strengthening the Immune System 102 Let the Breath Take You into the Body 104 Creative Use of Mind 105 The Art of Listening 105 CHAPTER SEVEN: Portals into the Unmanifested 107 Going Deeply into the Body 107 The Source of Chi 108 Dreamless Sleep 110 Other Portals 110 Silence 112 Space 113 . The True Nature of Space and Time 116 Conscious Death 118 CHAPTER EIGHT: Enlightened Relationships 121 Enter the Now from Wherever You Are 121 Love/Hate Relationships 123 Addiction and the Search for Wholeness 125 From Addictive to Enlightened Relationships 128 Relationships as Spiritual Practice 130 Why Women Are Closer to Enlightenment 136 Dissolving the Collective Female Pain-Body 138 Give Up the Relationship with Yourself 143 CHAPTER NINE: Beyond Happiness and Unhappiness There Is Peace 147 The Higher Good beyond Good and Bad 147 The End of Your Life Drama 150 Impermanence and the Cycles of Life 151 Using and Relinquishing Negativity 156 The Nature of Compassion 161 Toward a Different Order of Reality 164 CHAPTER TEN: The Meaning of Surrender 171 Acceptance of the Now 171 From Mind Energy to Spiritual Energy 175 Surrender in Personal Relationships 177 Transforming Illness into Enlightenment 180 When Disaster Strikes 182 Transforming Suffering into Peace183 The Way of the Cross 186 The Power to Choose 188 Notes 193