Waking Up to What You Do A Zen Practice for

Life is rising up to meet us at every moment. The question is: Are we there to meet it or not? Diane Rizzetto presents a simple but supremely effective practice for meeting every moment of our lives with mindfulness, using the Zen precepts as tools to develop a keen awareness of the motivations behind every aspect of our behaviorto "wake up to what we do"from moment to moment. As we train in mindfulness of our actions, every situation of our lives becomes our teacher, offering priceless insight into what it really means to be happy. It's a simple practice with transformative potential, enabling us to break through our habitual reactions and to see clearly how our own happiness and well-being are intimately, inevitably connected to the happiness and well-being of everyone around us.

Diane Rizzetto is the Abbess and Guiding Teacher of the Bay Zen Center in Oakland, California. A dharma heir of Charlotte Joko Beck, she teaches extensively in Europe, as well as in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the United States.

Foreword

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xv

Introduction: A Sink Full of Teaching

1

(12)

PART ONE

What Are the Precepts?

13

(12)

The Dream of Self

25

(5)

The Dead Spot

30

(9)

The Process

39

(12)

PART TWO

The Precepts

I Take Up the Way of Speaking Truthfully

51

(13)

I Take Up the Way of Speaking of Others with Openness and Possibility

64

(16)

I Take Up the Way of Meeting Others on Equal Ground

80

(12)

I Take Up the Way of Cultivating a Clear Mind

92

(16)

I Take Up the Way of Taking Only What Is Freely Given and Giving Freely of All That I Can

108

(19)

I Take Up the Way of Engaging in Sexual Intimacy Respectfully and with an Open Heart

127

(15)

I Take Up the Way of Letting Go of Anger

142

(20)

I Take Up the Way of Supporting Life

162

(19)

Conclusion: A Process of Transformation

181

(6)

Appendix: A Primer in Awareness Practice

187

(8)

Notes

195

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Waking Up to What You Do A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion

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