Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo
Valley Spirit Hatha Yoga
January 5, 2006
This webpage is now maintained
and expanded at:
http://www.egreenway.com/qigong/advice1.htm
Seven Perennial Spiritual Practices:
1. Transform your motivation: reduce craving
and find your soul's desire.
2. Cultivate emotional wisdom: heal your heart and learn to love.
3. Live ethically: feel good by doing good.
4. Concentrate and calm your mind.
5. Awaken your spiritual vision: see clearly and recognize the sacred in all
things.
6. Cultivate spiritual intelligence: develop wisdom and understand life.
7. Express spirit in action: embrace generosity and the joy of service.
Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central
Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind.
By Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1999.
Index, bibliography, source notes, 306 pages. ISBN: 0471392162.
Thirteen Gateways to Personal Growth
1. Preparation: Stairway to the Soul
2. Discover Your Worth: Opening to Life
3. Reclaim You Will: The Power to Change
4. Energize Your Body: A Foundation for Life
5. Manage Your Money: Sufficiency and Spiritual Practice
6. Tame Your Mind: Inner Peace and Simple Reality
7. Trust Your Intuition: Accessing Inner Guidance
8. Accept Your Emotions: The Center of the Cyclone
9. Face Your Fears: Living as Peaceful Warriors
10. Illuminate Your Shadow: Cultivating Compassion and Authenticity
11. Embrace Your Sexuality: Celebrating Life
12. Awaken Your Heart: The Healing Power of Love
13. Serve Your World: Completing the Circle of Life
Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways
to Personal Growth.
By Dan Millman.
New York, Time Warner, 1999. 350 pages. ISBN: 0446674974.
The Six Principles of Enlightened Living
The Six Perfections (Paramitas):
1. Generosity, charity, kind-hearted giving, altruism, unattached
generosity, boundless
openness, unconditional love (Dana Paramita).
2. Virtue, ethics, morality, self-discipline, not harming, impeccability (Sila
Paramita).
3. Patience, tolerance, forbearance, acceptance, endurance (Shanti
Paramita).
4. Energy, diligence, courage, enthusiasm, joyfulness, effort (Virya
Paramita).
5. Meditation, absorption, concentration, presence of mind, contemplation
(Dhyana Paramita).
6. Wisdom, transcendental wisdom, mystical insight, enlightenment (Prajna
Paramita).
Dzogchen
Buddhism, Dharma Talk: The Six Principles of Enlightened Living
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