Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

By: Stephen Cope

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Paperback | 15 September 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation—a path that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision. Now Stephen Cope, a Western-trained psychotherapist who has lived and taught for more than ten years at the largest yoga center in America, offers this marvelously lively and irreverent "pilgrim''s progress" for today''s world. He demystifies the philosophy, psychology, and practice of yoga, and shows how it applies to our most human dilemmas: from loss, disappointment, and addiction, to the eternal conflicts around sex and relationship. And he shows us that in yoga, "liberation" does not require us to leave our everyday lives for some transcendent spiritual plane—life itself is the path. Above all, Cope shows how yoga can heal the suffering of self-estrangement that pervades our society, leading us to a new sense of purpose and to a deeper, more satisfying life in the world.

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"A down-to-earth, wise, spiritually mature and compassionate teaching that integrates the best of yoga and our own Western humanity. Destined to be a classic." JACK KORNFIELD, author of A Path with Heart "Few other accessible books provide as good an overview of the spirituality of yoga.... This will be in demand."

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Introduction	p. xi
A Note to Readers	p. xvii
Prologue: Viveka's Tale	p. xix
The Discovery of the Royal Secret
Waking Up Is Hard to Do	p. 1
To the Mountaintop	p. 16
Brahman: Ecstatic Union with the One	p. 35
Shakti: The Play of the Divine Mother	p. 46
The Self in Exile
You Are Not Who You Appear to Be	p. 61
A House on Fire: The Identity Project	p. 74
The Suffering of the False Self	p. 88
From the Unreal to the Real	p. 99
Encounters with the Mother and the Seer
The Twin Pillars of the Reality Project	p. 119
Equanimity: On Holding and Being Held	p. 140
Awareness: On Seeing and Being Seen	p. 153
Awakening the Witness	p. 170
The Spontaneous Wisdom of the Body
Riding the Wave of Breath	p. 193
Listening to the Voice of the Body	p. 219
Meditation in Motion	p. 247
The Royal Road Home
The Rose in the Fire	p. 273
The Triumph of the Real	p. 290
Yoga Metaphysics with a Light Touch	p. 307
Notes	p. 333
Acknowledgments	p. 343
Permissions	p. 345
Index	p. 347
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