Book:The Five Wisdom Energies

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The Five Wisdom Energies by Irini Rockwell was published in 2002 by Shambhala Publications.

Editions:

• (2002) ISBN 1570624518

Index

• air, 15
• all-accomplishing action, 61, 137
• all-pervading space, 69, 138
• ambient energy, 16
• American Indian dances, 71
• Amish culture, 71
• anger and aggression, 26, 27, 39-40, 41-42, 57, 139, 178-79
• animal realm, 27, 28, 29, 73
• appreciative inquiry, 101- 02
• attentiveness, 123-25, 126-30, 137
• auspicious coincidence, 188, 190
• autumn, 45
• aware (sad beauty), 52
• awareness, 7, 23, 123, 125-30, 137, 150-53, 190
  • See also innate intelligence; natural intelligence
• Bach, Johann Sebastian, 37, 135
• Bali, 64, 154
• Barter, Bela, 64
• Beethoven, 13, 46
• body-centered therapies, 18
• boundaries, 29--30, 39, 52, 95,171-74
• Brahms, Johannes, 46
• bravery, 136, 165
• breath, 14, 31, 122
• breath therapy, 72
• brilliant sanity, 9, 143-44, 145, 164, 182, 187
  • See also intrinsic sanity; sanity
• brush painting, 71
• buddha wisdom energy
  • activities (exercises), 75
  • creative expression of, 71
  • as dominant energy, 84
  • as enhancement energy, 84, 110
  • general qualities of, 6, 22, 69, 199-200
  • landscapes/environments, 69-70, 164-66
  • neurotic aspects of, 72-74
  • with qualities of other families, 7071, 73-74
  • realms of, 27, 73, 74
  • in relationships, 73, 92-93, 173-74
  • sense perceptions, 147, 149
  • transforming neurosis into sanity, 74-75, 138
  • wisdom aspects of, 69-72
  • working with sanity and neurosis, 185
• Buddha families, 3-4, 17, 90
  • See also five wisdom energies Buddhist sitting meditation. See sitting meditation
• bugaku, 71
• Carter, Elliot, 64
• child development, 107
• Chopin, Frederic Francois, 54
• clarity, 41-42, 93, 164, 166, 183
• colors of the five wisdom energies, 5-6, 33, 44, 51, 61, 69
• communication, 34, 46, 52, 54, 58-59, 63, 66, 70, 93, 101, 167
• compassion, 10, 140, 168, 172-73, 182
• complementary energies, 82, 88-89, 92-93
• conceptualization, 15-16, 150
• confusion, 114-16, 131, 133, 137-38
  • See also inseparability of confusion
• and sanity; neurosis
• conscious relationship, 99-101
• contact improvisation, 127
• "contemplative constipation," 129
• contemplative psychotherapy, 72
• creative expression, 15, 17, 141-42, 154-59
  • See also under individual wisdom energy
• creative process.
  • See creative expression
• cultural expressions of the five wisdom energies, 36-37, 45, 53-54, 57-58, 63, 71
• Cunningham, Merce, 37
• Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, 3, 188
• dance therapy, 4
• de Kooning, Willem, 63
• Debussy, Claude Achille, 54
• Dechen Choling, 205
• Degas, Edgar, 54
• depression, 56-57
• desire realm, 26
  • See also human realm
• destroying, 189, 190
• Diana, Princess of Wales, 53
• Dickens, Charles, 46
• direct experience, 10, 157
• discriminating awareness wisdom, 51, 137
• dominant emotional tone, 83
• dominant energies, 82-89, 96-99, 174-76, 178-79
  • See also under individual wisdom energy
• Dorje Denma Ling, 206
• Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich, 46
• dualism, 21, 81
• earth, 14-15, 44
• ego, 24-25, 129
  • See also sense of self
• egoless action, 189
• elemental energy, 14, 17
• emotional stance, 27
• emotions, 10-11, 18, 83, 132-33
  • in the five wisdom energies, 36, 39-42, 46-48, 52-53, 55-57, 61-63, 64-66, 70-74
  • liberating, 41, 141-43, 146, 187-88
  • reactivity, 122, 129
  • repressing, 42
  • staying with, 138, 177
• energetic matrix, sphere.
  • See mandala energetic reality, 11, 15
• energetic styles, 5-6, 11, 81-82, 110- 11, 174-76
• energy, 10-12, 13-19, 131
  • cultural expressions of, 16-17, 85, 109
  • (See also cultural expressions of the five wisdom energies)
  • cycles, 107-08
  • display, 21, 150
  • evoking, 15
  • freezing of, 24-26, 30
  • identification with, 79-82, 128-29
  • intensification of, 108, 122
  • language of, 18
  • play of, 82, 109, 146, 150
  • in relationships, 91-101, 106, 108
  • riding, 11, 126-28, 158, 178, 188-90
  • solidifying, 24-25, 96-97, 108-09
  • See also five wisdom energies; trans-
  • forming neurosis into wisdom; transmutation; individual wisdom energy
• energy channels, 17-18, 202
• energy map, 117-18
• enhancement energies, 82, 84-86, 87-88, 98-99, 176
  • See also under individual wisdom energy
• Eno, Brian, 71
• enriching, 167,189
• equanimity, 44,137
• Escher, M. C., 37,63,148
• exchange, 97,171-74,178-82
• exercises
  • appreciative inquiry, 101-02
  • attentiveness and awareness, 129-30
  • awareness, 12
  • buddha activities, 75
  • creative expression and play, 158-59
  • embodying energies and creating your world, 170
  • exchange, 176
  • karma activities, 67-68
  • maitri and transmutation, 144-45
  • mandala at work or home, 116-18
  • padma activities, 59-60
  • personal mandala, 89-90
  • psychophysical barometer, 30-31
  • ratna activities, 49-50
  • recognizing style, 176
  • riding the energy of the moment, 190
  • sense perceptions, 152
  • six realms, 31
  • vajra activities, 42-43
  • working with sanity and neurosis, 185-86
• exit energy, 84-88,96,142
• family systems theory, 112-13
• fear, 142-43
• feeling, 18
  • See also emotions
• fire, 15
• five energy families. See Buddha families; five wisdom energies
• five wisdom energies
  • creating environments, 164-70
  • as creative resource, 154-59
  • definitions of, 5-6,21-22,80-81
  • embodying, 163-164
  • interconnectedness of, 107-08,157
  • in Vajrayana Buddhism, 17
  • working with, 5-8,81-82,92-101,107,109-13,127
  • See also Buddha families; complementary energies; dominant energies; enhancement energies; mandala principle; mask energies; individual wisdom energy
• Five Wisdoms Institute, 206-07
• four powers, 188-90
• friendship, genuine, 168-69
• geisha culture, 53,57
• generosity, 44
• gentleness, 9
• genuine heart of tenderness, 132
• Gestalt therapy, 54
• Glass, Philip, 71
• god realm, 27,28,29,73,74
• greed, 47,48
• Green, Al, 111
• group process, 112
• habitual patterns, 30,81,113,121-23, 124,127,136
• haiku, 37,71
• hara-kiri, 40
• healing, 17-18,155,165,168
• hearing, sense of, 52,147,149
• hell realm, 26,27,28-29,40,172
• human realm, 27,28,29,59
  • See also desire realm
• hungry ghost realm, 27,28
• identity. See sense of self iki (refined sexuality), 53
• illusory nature, 18-19
• "In Wildness," 4
• innate intelligence, 89,177
  • See also awareness, natural intelligence
• inquisitiveness, 166
• inseparability of confusion and sanity, 11, 41, 131, 187
  • See also neurosis; wisdom; individual wisdom energy: working with sanity and neurosis
• insight, 126
  • See also awareness
• intensification of energy, 108, 122
• intrinsic sanity, 128-29, 143
  • See also brilliant sanity; sanity intuition, 52, 149
• invitation, 164, 168-69
• Jagger, Mick, 53
• jealous god realm, 26, 27, 28, 29, 65
• jealousy, 30, 65, 138-39
• karma, 14
• karma wisdom energy
  • activities (exercises), 67-68
  • compared with vajra, 66
  • creative expression of, 63-64
  • as dominant energy, 83-84
  • as enhancement energy, 85, 93, 98
  • general qualities of, 6, 22, 61-62, 197-99
  • landscapes/environments, 62, 169-70
  • as mask energy, 86-87
  • neurotic aspects of, 64-66
  • realm of, 27, 65
  • in relationships, 63, 66, 94-95, 98-99, 100-01, 173-74
  • sense perceptions, 147
  • transforming neurosis into sanity, 66-67, 137
  • wisdom aspects of, 61-64
  • working with sanity and neurosis, 184-85
• Karmê Choling, 205
• Ketjak monkey chant, 64
• Klee, Paul, 37
• letting go, 128-29
• loving-kindness. See maitri
• magic, 151-152, 188-90
• magic dance of no self, 189
• magnetizing, 52, 168, 189, 190
• maitri (loving-kindness), 7-10, 11, 101,142,143-45,165
  • in the creative process, 157-58
  • in exchange, 172-73, 178, 182
  • in transmutation, 11, 131, 133,134-36, 137-39
• Maitri Council International (MCI), 201, 206
• Maitri Space Awareness" practice, 6-8, 201-04
• mandala
  • of the body, 105
  • of a day, 107
  • of the family, 105-06, 112-13
  • inner, 79-90, 104, 123, 126, 170, 188-90
  • of the natural world, 104-05
  • outer, 104, 123, 126, 146-47, 150-51, 164-70, 188-90
  • in Tibetan Buddhism, 90, 103-04
• mandala principle, 11, 103-16, 187-88, 190
  • in organizations, 110 12, 114-16
  • in therapeutic work, 112-13
• Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, 46
• masculine energy, 15
• mask energies, 82, 86-88, 96, 174-75
  • See also under individual wisdom energy
• meridians. See energy channels mindfulness. See attentiveness
• Ming Dynasty, 45
• Mipham Rinpoche, Sakyong, 201
• mirrorlike wisdom, 33, 40, 137
• Mondrian, Piet, 37
• Monet, Claude, 54
• Monroe, Marilyn, 53
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 37
• My Fair Lady, 58
• Nadel, Julian, 8, 111, 142, 143
• Naropa, University, 3, 4, 158, 188, 201, 207
• National Institute for School Improvement, 181
• natural intelligence, 108-09,126
  • See also awareness; innate intelligence nature. See elemental energy
• neurosis, 21-23,86
  • See also confusion; individual wisdom energy
• nouvelle cuisine, 38
• nowness, 151-52
• O'Hara, Scarlet, 53
• openness, 20,30,114,151-52,156, 187-88
• Ottoman Empire, 45,57-58,151
• pacifying activity, 34-35,74-75,189
• padma wisdom energy
  • activities (exercises), 59-60
  • compared with ratna, 55-56
  • creative expression of, 54-55,155
  • as dominant energy, 83-84
  • as enhancement energy, 84,85-86
  • general qualities of, 6,22,51, 195-97
  • landscapes/environments, 53-54, 168-69
  • as mask energy, 86-87
  • neurotic aspects of, 55-58
  • realm of, 27,59
  • in relationships, 52,55-56,58-59,92 93,94-95,96-97,98
  • sense perceptions, 52,53,147,149
  • transforming neurosis into sanity, 58-59,137
  • wisdom aspects of, 51-55
  • working with sanity and neurosis, 184
• paranoia, 62,65,66,67
• passion, 26,52,55,58-59,184
• Penderecki, Krzysztof, 64
• personality types. See energetic styles personification of five energies, 17
• phenomenal world, 146,150-51,171
  • See also mandala: outer physical world, 15-16
• Pollock, Jackson, 63
• power, 62,64-65
  • See also four powers pride, 45,48-49
• primal scream, 140
• projection, 25-26,27,94-95,114, 133,171-73
• psychophysical barometer, 20,22-24,30-31,121,177
• psychophysical being, 11
• ratna wisdom energy
  • activities (exercises), 49-50
  • creative expression of, 45-46
  • as dominant energy, 82,93-94,167
  • general qualities of, 5,22,44,193-95
  • landscapes/environments, 45,167-68
  • neurotic aspects of, 46-48,180
  • realm of, 27,47
  • in relationships, 48,93,174,175 76
  • sense perceptions, 44,147,148-49
  • transforming neurosis into sanity,48-49,137
  • wisdom aspects of, 44-46
  • working with sanity and neurosis,183-84
• reactivity, 23
• Reich, Steve, 71
• relationship dynamics, 83-84,91-101,173-76
  • See also under individual wisdom energy
• relaxation, 125,126-27,136,182, 187-88
• Renaissance, European, 45
• Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 54
• resistance, 22-23
• resourcefulness, 167-68,180-81
• richness, 44,164,167-68,174,184
• ritual dance, 45-46
• Rockwell, Chandra, 8, 91, 97, 167
• Rockwell, Irini, (personal history), 3-5
• Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center, 205
• Rodin, Francois Auguste René, 54
• Rogerian therapy, 72
• Rolfing, 64
• Ruben, Peter, 45
• samurai, 66
• sanity, 31, 131
  • aligning with by drawing out, 178-81, 182
  • aligning with by mirroring neurosis,182
  • See also brilliant sanity; inseparability of confusion and sanity; wisdom
• Schubert, Franz, 54
• security, 24
• self-awareness, 122, 123, 128-29
  • See also awareness
• Senge, Peter, 109
• sense of self, 14, 24-26, 79-80, 165-66
  • See also ego
• sense perceptions, 9, 10, 104, 146-52, 173
  • five energies and, 147-49
  • opening to, 150-52, 171-74
  • See also under specific sense
• Shambhala International, 201, 206
• Shambhala Training Europe, 206
• sight, sense of, 33, 37, 147, 148
• sitting meditation, 7, 72, 123, 125, 149
• six realms, 26-30, 31
• smell, sense of, 44, 147, 149
• sonnets, 37
• space, 7, 69
• spaciousness, 164-66
• story lines, 25-26, 27, 94, 104, 126,132-33, 141-43, 171-73
• Stravinsky, Igor, 64
• surface reality, 13
• Suzuki Roshi, Shunryo, 7
• symbolic representations of energy, 17
• synchronization of mind and body, 123, 125
• systems thinking, 109
• Talking Heads, 63
• taste, sense of, 44, 147, 149
• Tchaikovsky, Peter, 46
• tea ceremony, 38, 71
• The Shambhala Sun, 207
• three stages of understanding, 10
• Tolstoy, Lev, 46
• touch, sense of, 147, 148-49
• Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 54
• transactional analysis, 54, 64
• transforming neurosis into wisdom,9-10, 30, 40-42, 179
  • See also exchange; sanity; transmutation
• transmutation, 131, 133, 137-40, 157, 187
  • See also exchange; sanity; transforming neurosis into wisdom
• Trungpa Rinpoche, Chogyam, 3, 6-8, 140, 201, 207
• Turkey, 16
• unconditional friendliness. See maitri
• vajra wisdom energy
  • activities (exercises), 42-43
  • as complementary energy, 88
  • creative expression of, 37
  • as dominant energy, 82, 83, 110,179-80
  • as enhancement energy, 85, 93-94
  • general qualities of, 5, 22, 33,191-93
  • landscapes/environments, 33, 36,166
  • neurotic aspects of, 38-40
  • realm of, 27, 40
  • in relationships, 34, 36, 96-97, 100-01
  • sense perceptions, 33, 37, 147
  • transforming neurosis into sanity, 40-42, 137
  • wisdom aspects of, 33-38
  • working with sanity and neurosis, 183
• Vajrayana Buddhism, 17
• Varese, Edgar, 37
• visualization, 104
• Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard, 46
• water, 15, 33
• whirling dervishes, 71
• wind, 61
• winter, 33
• wisdom, 21-22, 131, 178-81
  • See also brilliant sanity; inseparability of confusion and sanity; sanity; transforming neurosis into wisdom; transmutation; individual wisdom energy
• workability, 136, 164, 169-70