When Thinking Is a Problem

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Edited by Charles Eigen

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When Thinking is a Problem examines the activity of thinking and how it is a primary factor in suffering at the individual as well as at the collective level, while at the same time, a necessary function that is often taken for granted and misused.

When Thinking is a Problem is unique in helping the reader to see the activity of thinking from a variety of different perspectives provided by writers representing diverse backgrounds. It contains essays, contemplations, and dialogues by eighteen teachers, all of them leaders in their fields. In these chapters, the mechanics and dynamics of thinking are discussed by well-known teachers from the Buddhist and Advaita traditions, as well as from noted neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, academics, and prominent writers. In its focus on thinking as it relates to suffering, whether by its presence or absence, the writers discuss the need to honor both thinking as well as the dimension or reality beyond conscious thought.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Charles Eigen

Part I: About Thinking

Chapter 1: Every Kind of Seed, from Understanding our Mind by Rev. Thich Nhat Hanh

Chapter 2: Thinking Problems by Frederick R. Gustafson

Chapter 3: How My Mind Works and Visualizes the World by Temple Grandin

Chapter 4: SEEKING Thinking: Greed and Need in Affective Neuroscience by Lucy Biven

Chapter 5: Thinking About Thinking by Raymond Tallis

Chapter 6: Introduction to Thinking at the Edge by Eugene T. Gendlin

Chapter 7: Mental Health and Normality: Toward a New Process oriented Perspective by Pierre Morin

Chapter 8: In Thought We Trust: A Podcast Conversation by Gangaji with Hillary Larson

Chapter 9: Mind Only, Beyond Thought by Rev. Ben Connelly

Part II: Beyond Thinking

Chapter 10: Going Beyond Thinking: Thinking, Attachment, and Interdependent Origination by Rev. Shohaku Okumura

Chapter 11: Introduction to J. Krishnamurti by David Bohm

Chapter 12: Banaras 5th Public Talk (Sunday, 6 February 1955) by Jiddu Krishnamurti Banaras

Chapter 13: Beyond Thinking by Jac O'Keeffe

Chapter 14: Dialogues in Delphi, November 6, 1990, from Open to the Unknown by Jean Klein

Chapter 15: John Doe, the Actor, from Eternity Now by Francis Lucille

Chapter 16: Putting an End to Discriminating Mind and To Study the Way is to Study the Self, from The Essence of Zen by Sekkei Harada

Chapter 17: An Interview from The Fire of Freedom by H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji)

Chapter 18: On Dying to Self, from September Life as Teacher by Vimala Thakar

Chapter 19: No Trace, from Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Rev. Shunryu Suzuki

Appendix: Shohaku Okumura's Translation of Dog's Buddha-Nature Part of Busho

Index

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