From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: The First Encounter
1. The Method of No-Method: What Silent Illumination Is
2. A Different Way of Being: Allowing All to Be Illuminated
3. Chan Is Living a Fully Engaged Life: What the Buddha Taught
4. A Way of Seeing: The Four Noble Truths
5. The Eightfold Path and Our Modes of Operation
6. Craving Mode: Greedy for Experience
7. Aversion Mode: Making Thoughts Our Enemies
8. Trance Mode: Hiding from Our Selves, Hiding from Our Lives
9. Problem-Solving Mode: Trying to Fix the Present Moment
10. Intellectualizing Mode: Thinking Our Way to Enlightenment
11. Quietism Mode: In a Dark Cave
12. Mode of Forgetting Emptiness: Resisting the True Nature of Reality
13. Allowing What Is and Being Fully Here
