Ebook: Realizing Awakened Consciousness: Interviews with Buddhist Teachers and a New Perspective on the Mind

Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Interview with Shinzen Young; 2. Interview with John Tarrant; 3. Interview with Ken McLeod; 4. Interview with Ajahn Amaro; 5. Interview with Martine Batchelor; 6. Interview with Shaila Catherine; 7. Interview with Gil Fronsdal; 8. Interview with Stephen Batchelor; 9. Interview with Pat Enkyo O'Hara; 10. Interview with Bernie Glassman; 11. Interview with Joseph Goldstein; 12. Developing Capacities Necessary for Awakening; 13. Properties of Awakening Experiences; 14. Evolution of Ordinary and Awakened Consciousness.;Richard Boyle was an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, until 1972, when he left to pursue his studies in Buddhism in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Some years later, he moved to Albuquerque and worked as a senior research scientist at the University of New Mexico's Institute for Social Research. He is recently retired.