This book is the essence of more than thirty years of research in the field of self-knowledge.
In it were considered the cardinal points needed to orientate oneself in one’s own inner space.
The reader will be taken step by step into exploring his physical, mental, emotional and spiritual existence. It is a book with informative as well as practical directions, because in it are carefully described exercises to enhance self awareness, therefore fostering an experiential approach.
It’s a journey back to oneself, a map illustrating the milestones that mark the path towards self realization. Meeting oneself and discovering the beauty of the inner dimension is a wonderful adventure. The road is sometimes scattered with stones: it depends on the point of view, if to see them as obstacles or as steps to climb higher. The purpose of this book is to help the traveler to use what he has to rise himself to his potential.
Asimo begins the journey of personal growth when, in January 1980, he met Osho, the Indian mystic of whom he became a disciple. In the light of His presence, he learns Meditation and the experiential knowledge that will lead him, years later, to share them. The work that Asimo proposes through the courses of personal exploration, is aimed at creating the situation so that people find by themselves the answers they seek.
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The physical body
- Knowing oneself through the body
- Health
- Breathing
- Hara: grounding the body, rooting the being
- Body and nutrition
- Illness
- Charge and discharge
2. The body and the senses
- Taste
- Smell
- Touch
- Hearing
- Eyesight
- The sense of balance
- The “sixth sense”
- Knowing oneself through the senses
- Perception
3. The body image
- Feeling the body to loose the mind
4. The Soul
- The misunderstanding of separation
- The beginning of the return trip
5. Awareness
- Attention
- Habits
- To be awareness
6. Body, emotions and the natural expression of Being
- Prisoners of a structure
- Somatization
- From emotionality to essential states
7. What is the mind
- Space and mind
- How the mind was born
- Disengagements from the mind
- Mental images
- Masks
- External mental influences
- Mind and presence
- The power of no mind
8. Desires and needs
- Desires and objects
- Needs
9. Ego and individuality
- The roots of the ego
- Cellular memories
- Life after birth
- The dawn of sexuality
- The Superego and its activities
- The inner child
- Integration
- The inner voice
- Individuality
- Amness
10. Intelligence
- The misunderstanding of cunning
- The development of intelligence
- Intelligence of Being
- Intelligence and spirituality
11. Meditation
- The value of techniques
- What is not directed to meditation
- Moving closer to meditation
- On living meditatively
12. Enquiry: sailing into the here and now
- How does it work
- Being and becoming
13. Dis-identification
14. Creativity
- Creativity, apprenticeship and talents
- Creativity and presence
- The creative process
15. Satori and enlightenment
- Limiting ideas
- Spontaneous Satori
- The meaning of life
- Setting accounts with the ego
- Here and now
16. Sexuality and relationship
- Sexual energy
- Social aspects
- Setting sexual energy free
- Opening to sexual experience
- The total union
- Energetic anatomy
17. Aloneness
18. Living in the world
Epilogue
Deepening
Bibliographical notes