Passionate Presence: Seven Qualities of Awakened Awareness - Softcover

Learn the seven ways to tap into a state of pure joy, at any time, with up-and-coming spiritual teacher Catherine Ingram.

· Passionate Presence takes the reader on a journey of the heart that is an immediate experience of seven awakened qualities: silence, tenderness, embodiment, genuineness, discernment, delight and, finally, wonder.

· These qualities are based on the author’s observations over years of working with thousands of people in silent retreats and public interactive events (Dharma Dialogues).

· In developing our capacity to deeply relax and simply ‘be’, a natural intelligence emerges, regardless of genes, IQ or age: an intelligence of the heart, completely free from dogma, ideology or religion.

· Catherine Ingram demonstrates that we can all have access to this powerful, pure state of being – this passionate presence – without formal meditation practice or a spiritual teacher.

Catherine Ingram is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher with communities serving several thousand students in a dozen cities in the US and Europe. She has studied with Buddhist teachers and mystics of various traditions since 1974. She is president of Living Dharma, an educatIonal non-profit organisation, based in Portland, Oregon and co-founder of Insight Meditation centre, in Barre, Massachusetts. She is author of In the Footsteps of Gandhi: Conversations with Spiritual/Social Activists and has published numerous acticles on issues of consciousness and activism.