Full Description
Heart of Wonder invites the reader into the transformative experience of wonder as a direct gateway to profound spiritual insight. Drawing on personal practice, lived experience, and scholarly engagement with the wisdom traditions of the East, this book offers a path for discovering these truths within one's own life.
Rooted deeply in a philosophy of nonduality, the teachings presented here have been shaped through years of guiding university students toward a more integrated understanding of self and world. The approach is simple, direct, and grounded in the everyday. Through personal anecdotes woven with philosophical reflection, the book reveals how spirituality is not separate from ordinary life but quietly present within it.
At its heart, this work outlines a progressive education of the whole person — an invitation to cultivate self-understanding, meditative awareness, and an openness to the subtle beauty of what simply is. Wonder becomes both the doorway and the destination: a quality of Being that awakens peace, love, joy, and beauty, and leads not only to the beginning of wisdom but to its living realization.
Contents
Introduction: Wisdom Seeking Wisdom
Part I. All is One: The Principles of Nonduality and the Existential Facts
Chapter 1. The Existential Facts
Chapter 2. The Principles of Nonduality
Chapter 3. The Veil: Who You Think You Are
Part II. The Thinking, Reactive Mind: An Experiential, Heuristic Model of the Mind
Chapter 4. The Five Aspects of the Reactive Mind
Chapter 5. Dualistic Thinking and the Relative Self
Chapter 6. Minding What Happens
Chapter 7. Ordinary Mind as Pacmind
Part III. Cultural Paradigms and Human Cognition
Chapter 8. Ancient Greek and Chinese Paradigms
Chapter 9. A Call to Balance: The Good is Above the True
Chapter 10. Two Minds in One: The Polarity of Human Cognition
Part IV. All is Love
Chapter 11. Doing Being: Wondrous Activity
Chapter 12. Being Doing: The Heart of Devotion
Chapter 13. The Wonder of Creation
