Without a Mask Discovering Your Authentic Self
by Costantino, AvikalFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-11-16
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Summary
Who is behind the mask that we have learnt to wear in order to survive and function in the world? Who are we really, behind familial and social conditioning? If we are free from fear and the preoccupations that in the name of survival justify adaptation? Is it possible to be spontaneous and authentic, or is it just an infantile desire to leave behind us along with our dreams? This book tackles these themes and offers understanding and techniques for recognising our authentic Self, helping us to realise that behind the personality mask there is a mysterious universe, an ocean of potentiality, and that that is our true nature. Then the phrase “know yourself” will no longer just be an indication of philosophers and mystics, but will offer us the concrete possibility to ask the right questions, those that enable us to lift the veil that hides our true face and find peace and fulfilment.
Author Biography
Avikal E. Costantino is a spiritual teacher, poet and martial artist. Curiosity, passion and love for the truth guide his life and teaching. He is director of the Integral Being Institute.
Table of Contents
| Prologue | p. 3 |
| Personality:Prison And Protection | |
| The Great Betrayal | p. 8 |
| When did you stop being yourself? | p. 8 |
| How did we arrive at the great betrayal? | p. 10 |
| Adapting to survive | p. 11 |
| Why do I need a personality? | p. 12 |
| Self-Image and The Image of Our World | p. 18 |
| The sense of Self is not born with us | p. 18 |
| Sense of identity and self-image | p. 19 |
| We identify ourselves with limitations | p. 20 |
| Freeedom And Responsibility | |
| Remember Yourself | p. 26 |
| Recalling is remembrance | p. 27 |
| The glue that holds us together | p. 29 |
| The movement of attachment | p. 30 |
| Dissolving the attachment to personal history | p. 31 |
| Recapitulating our personal history | p. 33 |
| What is meant by conscious visualisation? | p. 33 |
| What is ?letting go?? And why do it? | p. 35 |
| Beyond The Contract of Mediocrity | p. 38 |
| Individualism and individuality | p. 39 |
| External approval and intrinsic value | p. 41 |
| Reaction and response | p. 44 |
| Resistance and Acceptance | p. 46 |
| Scarcity and abundance | p. 49 |
| In praise of rebellion | p. 51 |
| Telling The Truth To Yourself And Others | p. 77 |
| Where am I? | p. 78 |
| The next step: I expose myself | p. 80 |
| Conscious evolution | p. 81 |
| Recognising Relative Truth | p. 53 |
| Always and never | p. 53 |
| The need for certainty | p. 53 |
| Beyond the conflict | p. 55 |
| Towards Your Authentic Self | |
| Radical Compassion is Creative Action | p. 60 |
| Right understanding | p. 60 |
| In search of the lost heart | p. 62 |
| Creating reality with the kindness of love | p. 65 |
| Practicing presence | p. 66 |
| Defending yourself from the judge | p. 67 |
| Hunting for truth | p. 68 |
| Some Techniques That Will Support You On Your Journey | p. 69 |
| The world is a description | p. 69 |
| If I say yes to myself... | p. 70 |
| Turn your back to suffering: Understanding Dukkha | p. 71 |
| Tonglen | p. 74 |
| Putting yourself in another?s shoes | p. 75 |
| In Search Of ?Authenticity?: Intention And Openness | p. 85 |
| Intention | p. 86 |
| Openness | p. 88 |
| The promise that is impossible to keep | p. 89 |
| The Paradox Of Self | p. 93 |
| Ah! Behind the mask, the mystery | p. 94 |
| Choice-less awareness | p. 96 |
| Being is not being, not being is being | p. 96 |
| Stories Of True Self | |
| Behind the fire of jealousy, by Rafia Morgan | p. 106 |
| And every time I laugh about it, by Anna Zanardi | p. 109 |
| From There to Here, by Ganga Cording | p. 111 |
| Self, by Jayananda Maurizio Costantino | p. 119 |
| Relax don?t do it, By Shanasa van Raamsdonk | p. 124 |
| In Service to the Movements of Being, by Attilio Piazza | p. 128 |
| Out of the carousel, By Rani Willems | p. 132 |
| A light onto myself, by Kapil Nino Pileri | p. 134 |
| My experience of getting to my true self, by Mark Gleeson | p. 138 |
| Through the mirror, by Kya Ida Panicelli | p. 143 |
| Appendix | |
| Catharsis, Meditation And Evolutionary Thrust | p. 148 |
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