Page 6 - Logical and Spiritual Reflections

II. Spiritual Reflections .................................................................................................. 212
Book 4. MORE MEDITATIONS ............................................................................... 214
1. Go directly and keep going ............................................................................... 215
2. Breath and thought awareness ........................................................................... 217
3. Self awareness ................................................................................................... 219
4. Meditation on the self ........................................................................................ 221
5. Various remarks on meditation ......................................................................... 223
6. Mental health ..................................................................................................... 228
7. Behold the mind ................................................................................................ 231
8. The four foundations and the core practice ....................................................... 235
9. Transcending suffering and karma .................................................................... 238
10. Behold the soul .................................................................................................. 240
11. The Buddhist no-soul theory ............................................................................. 243
12. Buddhist historicity ........................................................................................... 248
13. About Buddhist idolatry .................................................................................... 250
14. Buddhist messianism ......................................................................................... 253
15. Assimilating Buddhism ..................................................................................... 255
16. Addenda (2009) ................................................................................................. 257
Book 5. ZEN JUDAISM .............................................................................................. 262
1. God and Creation ............................................................................................... 263
2. Torah and faith .................................................................................................. 266
3. Biblical text and commentary ............................................................................ 270
4. Tradition vs. innovation .................................................................................... 277
5. The rabbinical estate .......................................................................................... 280
6. Judaic illogic ...................................................................................................... 282
7. Jewish meditation .............................................................................................. 288
8. Enlightenment without idolatry ......................................................................... 293
9. Good people ...................................................................................................... 296
10. A world of mercy .............................................................................................. 299
11. Understanding injustice ..................................................................................... 301
12. Forgiveness ........................................................................................................ 305
13. Actions and reactions. ....................................................................................... 308
14. (Appendix 1) Round numbers in Torah statistics .............................................. 311
15. (Appendix 2) Prayer in uncertainty ................................................................... 325
16. Addenda (2009) ................................................................................................. 332
17. Logic in defense of Zionism (2009) .................................................................. 338
18. The Chanukah lights miracle: ............................................................................ 344
Book 6. NO TO SODOM ............................................................................................ 350
1. Picking up the gauntlet ...................................................................................... 351
2. Homosexuals defined ........................................................................................ 353
3. Homosexual tendencies ..................................................................................... 356
4. The biological role of sex .................................................................................. 358
5. Non-reproductive sex ........................................................................................ 360
6. Deviance and suffering ...................................................................................... 362
7. Some probable causes ....................................................................................... 364
8. Changing rationalizations .................................................................................. 367
9. It is freely chosen .............................................................................................. 369
10. Sensuality and perversion .................................................................................. 371
11. Spiritual impurity .............................................................................................. 374
12. The essence of sodomy ...................................................................................... 376