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Index 547

A

Achievement, 296–297. See also Accomplishments Act:

being your, 151–156, 464–465 having more than one, 157 Action, 127, 419–421, 473–497, 513

Action-in-the-world, as correlated with the occurring world, 478 Agreement, 37, 54

Aletheia, 116, 174, 296–297, 372–373, 378–384 Aletheia 1, 379, 380, 382

Aletheia 2, 379, 380, 383–384 Aletheia 3, 379, 380, 382–384

Already always (listening), 18, 75–76 attunements as, 188 communicating, 96 getting off , 80 of human beings, 225–234 in language, 197 likability as, 113

and looking good, 90–92 meaning making with, 332–333 occurring, 394

possibility beyond, 71–72 and “right” way of being, 10

and shouldn’t be, 393–402, 409–410 and source of fears, 104

“there is something wrong here” as, 302 and thrownness, 160

and way of being, 75–77

Ambiguity, in talking about being, 9 Anaximander fragment, 474 Anderson, John, 128 Anger, 94–100, 103–109 Animals and language, 124–125 Answer(s), 260

being addicted to getting, 304–305 finding, 244–245 Anticipation, 246 Anti-Semitism, 539–540 Anxiety, 203–207, 533 Appeal, 122 Appearing, 411, 476–477 Appropriation, 54, 191, 218, 228, 309, 531 Aristotle, 209, 472

Art, language and, 362 Assertions, 298–299, 507, 508 At-stakeness, 61, 68 Attachment: to meaning, 230–231, 236, 311 to problems, 399 with resistance, 98–99, 295 to way things ought to be, 326 Attractiveness, 110–113, 387–388 Attunements: awakening, 185–192 and moods, 200–207 Augenblick, 136, 285, 378 Authenticity, 54

about being inauthentic, 42–56, 71, 77, 91–92, 108, 114, 139, 156, 271–272 and being your feelings, 518–520

and publicness, 157 sharing with, 468 and unconcealment, 381

Index

Page numbers in bold are from the transcript of The Forum sessions

talking about, 8–11 and thinking, 123, 239–243 unconcealing of, 372 uniqueness of, 239

as unspoken context of everything, 14–15 way to, 293

withdrawal of, 45, 122–123, 449, 477, 512 without beings, 102–103

Being a Leader and Exercising Leadership Eff ectively Course, 117–118, 414, 418–424

Being and Time (Heidegger), 24, 54, 78, 93, 217, 286, 294, 412, 532, 540

Being-away, 189–190

Being hustled waiting to happen, 12–14 Being-in-the-world, 20–22

and anxiety, 204–206 being-with, 92–96 and concern, 73 moods arising from, 160 and nature of being, 423 “world,” 312–316 Being-there, 58 Being-with, 124, 177

and avoidance, 257 and being-in, 22

and being responsible for, 175 fear of living, 205–207 getting beyond and, 139 and solicitude, 132–133 and the “they-self,” 109 using force vs., 317–318

Being your feelings (sincerity), 518–522 Being your word, 61, 521–522

Beliefs, 21–22, 53–55, 93–94, 520–521 Belonging, 162–163

Bestimmung, 200

Beyond the Winning Formula, 472–473

Black Notebooks (Heidegger), 539, 540

Blossoming, 264–267, 372, 448 Authority, 207, 364–365, 452–453

Avoidance, 11–12, 18 and being with, 257

of domination, 142–143, 157, 177, 270–271, 417, 471 of in-order-to, 100–103 and racket, 138–139, 142–143 Awakening, 37

B

and making decisions, 290–294

of “there’s something wrong,” 292–300, 313–315 thinking and, 188, 189, 192

and your racket, 141–143, 150

Befindlichkeit, 160, 200 Be Here Now (Ram Dass), 533w

Being, 36

already always listening that you are and, 75–77 capitalization of, 10–11

expanding possibility of, 69–72

and fundamental point of view, 201–202 giving, 445–446

Greek conception of, 209 happiness in, 516–517

inquiry into, as uncomfortable, 3 just, 269

knowing vs., 4

and language, 103–106, 226 nature and way of, 418–424 nature of, 422–424

as solution to problem, 80 as substance, 473–477

Index 549 Circumspection, 314–316

Circumstances, products of, 11–12, 22, 111 Clearing, 397–400 in The Forum, 534 and nihilation, 359 in pre-Socratic times, 539 self as, 422–424 Coaching, 2, 198, 281–284 Commitment, 194 Common sense, 68, 103 Communicability, of philosophy, 36 Communication, 83–84 Compassion, 207

Completing, with your parents, 158–164, 198–201, 256–258, 461–462, 510

Completion, of ontological dialogue, 16–18 Concealment, 230–231

Concern, 12, 41, 73, 73–77 and in-order-to, 173 for opinions of others, 108 and solicitude, 132

Concern-for-being approach, 38 Confrontation, in est Training, 3t

Confusion, not knowing vs., 16–17, 193–194 Conscience, 332–334, 342–344

Context, way things are and, 111 Correlation:

of action and the occurring, 477–497 of actions and way of being, 420–421

Costs, of racket, 129–130, 133, 143–144, 155, 192 Court, being on the, 138, 139, 171

Covering-up, 95, 166, 202 Covert, being, 365 Creativity, 91 Cummings, e e, 341 Curriculum for Living, 89 Boredom, 202 Boss, Medard, 129 Breakthroughs, 277–280 Bruns, Gerald L., 196 Bruzina, Ronald, 128 Buddhism, 536 Bultmann, Rudolf, 536

Buts, problems created by, 412–415, 420–421

C

Calculative thinking, 174, 539

California School of Professional Psychology, 537 Caputo, John D., 196, 360–362

Caring, as racket, 146–153, 155 Cartesian model, of being, 4

and being-in-the-world, 312 Dasein in, 399 enframing vs., 513 and standing-reserve, 503 Cartesian paradigm, 86–87 Causality, 296–297, 477

Challenging and techne, 499–500 Change:

and being the way you are, 213–214 persistence and, 80 significance of, 351–357 Character, 235–236 Children: coachability of, 198 as reflection on parents, 185–186 Choice, 35, 217–218, 249, 379, 385, 518

as being with what is happening, 445–447 distinguishing decisions from, 425–447 freedom with, 452–453

pressure and, 22–30

Descartes, Rene, 71, 86 Description:

definition and explanation vs., 74, 75 distinction vs., 120, 121

and representation, 80–81

and speaking from up in the stands, 172 Dialogue, 37, 70–71

“A Dialogue on Language” (Heidegger), 32, 78 Diff erence, distinction and, 128

Distinction(s), 73 categories of, 411–412 conceptualization vs., 359 definition vs., 434 development of, 410–411 distinguishing, 15, 33, 120–128, 378 dwelling in, 46

getting and losing, 45 occurrences and, 122–124 ontological, 32–33 as ontological clearings, 44 as operation in language, 124–125 of possibilities of meanings, 265 in racket, 128–134 realms of, 120–122, 127 and reflexive language, 308 rubrics for, 32

as tools for inquiry, 34–37

Distinguishing distinctions, 15, 33, 378 Divorce, 130–134, 151–154

Doing, without knowing how, 102–103 Domination, 172–173, 177

avoidance of, 142–143, 157, 177, 270–271, 417, 471 and empowerment, 516

“Don’t know that you don’t know” domain, 68–69, 72–73, 91 Dreyfus, Hubert, 3, 58, 108, 156–157, 160, 161, 208, 486, 503, 504, 511, 512, 537 Drift , 409–414, 476 Dwelling, 44–46

D

in Cartesian model, of being, 399 choices of, 217–218

and conscience, 333–334 and death, 320–321

and hermeneutic phenomenology, 116–117 inside and outside perceived by, 312–313 and mineness, 58

resoluteness of, 54 and solicitude, 132 and they-self, 108 and thrownness, 159

unconcealment of being by, 294–295 and world-understanding, 316 Death:

as end of life, 218–221 getting out of, 300

and meaning of life, 227, 230 relation to, 320–322

stories about, 36

worrying about, 360–361 Decisions:

becoming and making, 290–294 distinguishing choice from, 425–447 Declaration(s):

about problems, 404 breakthrough as, 279–280 and possibility, 507, 508, 512, 515 Defiance, 339–340

Deficient modes of concern, 73 Definition:

description and explanation vs., 74, 75 distinction vs., 120, 121, 124, 127–128, 434

Index 551 on listening, 75–76

on management of ontological dialogue, 16, 17 on moods, 25 morality of, 540 on the nothing, 308, 534–535 pedagogy of, 127–129 and philosophy, 185 on repetition, 411 on stories, 382–383 and technology, 485

technology of transformation of, 520 on thrownness, 159

on truth, 373

on violence in unconcealing, 295–296 work in India by, 522

Est Trainers, t 7

Est Training:t

emergence of, 1

evolution of, over time, 2–3 the Same as The Forum, 242 sharing in, 535–536, 540–541 and spirituality, 536–537 Zimmerman’s experience of, 534 Etymologies, of Heidegger, 196–197, 210 Event ontology, 479–481 Everyday living, 180 Evocation, rhetorical, 35–37 Existence, 37–38 distinction and, 128 as presence vs. representation, 81–84 and story vs. what happened, 38–41 Expectations, 10–11, 305–306 Explanation, 74, 75, 488 Expressives, 507–508 Extreme solicitude, 133

Eyes-closed exercise (Danger Exercise), 204–207

E

Early Greek Thinking (Heidegger), 136, 239–240

Echeverria, Jeri, 414 Eckhart, Meister, 360

Eclipse of the Self (Zimmerman), 399, 533f

“Eff ective Action and Accomplishment,” 413 Embarrassment, 183–184

Emergence, 479–481 Emotions. See also Feelings

experiencing depth of, 380–381 as product of racket, 271 Empowerment, 178, 506–509, 516 Enframing and techne, 499–504 Enlightenment:

comparing experiences of, 237–239 sharing, 178

Entrapment, 309 Equipment, 173, 314–315 Erhard, Werner:

on the absence of being, 208 on acceptance of self, 124 on attunements, 188 on defining “thoughts,” 94

and development of The Forum, 537–538 on drift , 413–414

on dwelling in distinctions, 46 and emergence of est Training, 1t

on enlightenment, 237 as Forum leader, 7

on getting it and losing it, 136 on giving, 105

influence of Martin Heidegger on, 3, 532, 534–535, 537–538 on in-order-to, 173–175

on language, 78 languaging by, 209 on the leap, 284–285

development of, 537–538 emergence of, 1–2 history of, 12 invitations to, 30

language of Heidegger used in, 3 location of occurrence of, 193 ontological discourse of, 136 as ontological rhetoric, 3–4, 530 pessimism about promises of, 8–10 philosophy in, 237, 243–244 promise of, 508–509

resistance from others about, 527–528 the Same as est Training, 242t

sharing in, 535–536, 540–541 and spirituality, 536–537 staff as creators of, 522 study of participants in, 62–66 unconcealment in, 381

Forum Evening Sessions, 526–527 Forum leaders, 7, 11, 132–133 Freedom, 199, 259–260, 272 with choice, 452–453 finding, 274 with possibility, 512, 514 power and, 75 in training, 483–484 truth as, 372–373 values and, 46–47

Friendships, buying one another’s reasons in, 388–389 Fulfillment:

from accomplishments, 97, 100–101, 108–109, 295, 296

and relatedness, 150

The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics (Heidegger), 186

Future: past and, 40, 166, 288–289 possibility as, 506 shaping of, 501

F

beneath fundamental point of view toward life, 202–204 of getting off it, 327–331

of intimacy, 221–224 of living, 204–207 living life in, 180

as part of racket, 386–387 of speaking, 8, 186–193

of what you might be, 95–97, 156 Feelings. See also Emotions

access to, 500 being your, 518–522 Feynman, Richard, 72 “Flattening,” of concepts, 16 Flores, Fernando, 537

Foot nailed to the floor, 15, 26, 53, 175, 216, 297, 348, 368, 393, 399, 421, 456, 480 Force, being with vs. using, 317–318

Forgetting of being: etymologies, 196–197 getting and losing, 136 inception, 448–449 logos, 372–374 physis, 264–267 pre-Socratics, 208–210 questioning, 168–169 saying nothing, 308–309 The Forum: anxiety in, 206, 207 being vs. leading, 461

Index 553 Heidegger, Martin: on appearing, 411 on attunements, 189–192 on Augenblick, 378 on authenticity, 54 on being of language, 103–106 on clearing, 399–400 on concern, 73 on conscience, 342–343 on Dasein, 58 on dwelling, 45 on enframing, 503–504, 513–514 on equipment, 173 etymologies of, 196–197, 210

excerpts of work read in The Forum, 39–41, 70–71 on facing death, 321–322

on fear vs. anxiety, 204 on forgottenness of self, 332 on getting it, 136

on the great inception, 448–449 on Greek thinking, 474–475 on hinting, 32

influence of, on Erhard, 3 on inquiry into Being, 3 and language, 472

on language, 78, 226, 228, 474 language developed by, 8 on leaps, 285–286 on logos, 372–374, 473 on logos vs. legein, 242 on mood, 24–25, 156–157, 201 on nature of dialogue, 17–18 on nihilism, 358–363 on the nothing, 202, 238, 308 pedagogy of, 127–130 on phenomenological knowing, 314–316 on phenomenology, 116

G

Generating, as operation in language, 124–125 Generative distinction, 410–411

Generosity, 287, 511 George, Stefan, 103 Getting it:

and forgetting of being, 136 as a joke, 212–218

as purpose of The Forum, 44–47 significance of, 347–348 Getting off it, 80

fear of, 327–331

and relationship with parents, 158, 199, 200 and self-expression, 156

and sharing, 175 Giving:

nature of, 105

paying back and, 319–320 and reflexion, 102–103 in technological age, 511–512 God, 219–221, 255–260, 259, 536 Graduate Records Form, 89 Granger, Kari, 414

Gray, J. Glenn, 168–169 Green Gulch Farm, 533

Guignon, Charles, 266–267, 473, 474, 481 Guilt, 36–37

H

Happiness:

in being, 516–517

and being your act, 151–156 pursuit of, 258

Harris, Sam, 419–420

Huhnerfeld, Paul, 360

Human potential movement, 511 Hunger Project, 540

Hyde, Bruce, 319

I

Idea-forming, 123–124 Ideas, 448

Identifying, with feelings, 520 Identity: construction of, 189 destruction of, 530 possibility and, 194 source of, 95–96, 106–108, 174 Inauthenticity:

being authentic about, 42–56, 54, 71, 77, 91–92, 108, 114, 139, 156, 271–272 and racket, 150–151 Inception, 448–449 Inclusiveness, of dialogue, 18 Inheritance, of thrownness, 161 Inner transcendence, 71–73 In-ness, 22 In-order-to, 14–16, 18–19, 172–175 avoiding and being attached to, 101–103 destruction of, 530

and entanglement, 173 getting rid of, 359 knowing, 217–218

and meaning making about life, 273 practicing, 229 resistance from, 97–103 and sharing/participation, 175, 180, 301, 320–322 in story, 241–243 techne as, 493 Inquiry: and attunement, 187 The Forum as, 168 and philosophy, 185–186 on physis, 264–267 politics of, 538–541 on pre-Socratics, 208–210 on questioning, 168–169 reading from, 511–512 on relatedness, 93–95 on the Same, 245

on sameness and uniqueness, 239 on self, 86 on solicitude, 132–133 on speaking out, 230–231 on standing-reserve, 500 on struggle, 476 on technology, 4, 484–487, 492–493, 520 on they-self, 108–110

on thinking and being, 239–240 on thrownness, 159

on the uncanny, 320–322 on unconcealing, 503

on unthought thinking, 121–124

on violence in unconcealing being, 294–296 on way-making, 292 on worldlessness, 21 Heraclitus, 122, 209, 227, 449 Hermeneutic phenomenology, 116–118 Hero, 509 Hiding, as racket, 190–193 Hinting, 32–33

about other ways to exist, 333 in development of distinction, 410 and the Same, 243

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 169 Honesty, 46–47, 108, 217

Hooks, in ontological dialogue, 17 Hopelessness, 273, 360–361 Heidegger, Martin (continued)

Index 555 becoming jargon, 78

and being, 103–106, 226 of being, 448

careful use of, 472–473 at dawn of world, 266

distinction as operation in, 124–125 good and bad as phenomenon in, 361–363 of Heidegger, used in The Forum, 3 as “house of being,” 476

inventing new, 117

occurrence of The Forum in, 193 as pathway of transformation, 46 reclaiming old, 196

subjunctive tense, 48, 50

as “the house of being,” 32, 208–209 used in est Training and The Forum, 1, 2t

use of, 8, 8–9

“Language is the House of Being” (Heidegger), 103 Languaging, 209

for confronting problems, 400

occurrence of problems in, 390–393, 403, 409–411 possibility in, 500–502

Leadership, 455

The Leap, 284–286, 362–363 Leaping ahead of the Other, 133 Leaping in for the Other, 133 Learning, in The Forum, 29 Lecture format, 128

Legein, 230–231, 242, 373

“Letter on Humanism” (Heidegger), 105, 309 Letters sharing The Forum, 193–194 Life:

fairness of, 335, 365, 515–516

fundamental point of view toward, 201–207

is empty and meaningless, 227–232, 228, 244, 252–253, 272–274, 305–307, 318–319, 322, 343–360, 366–368

meaning making about, 224–230, 252–253, 273, 318 ontic, 10 ontological, 10 power of, 118 Inside, 312–313 Integrity, 94, 373, 521 Intentionality, 14–17, 18–19, 44–53, 284–285, 419–420 Intimacy, fear of, 221–224

An Introduction to Metaphysics (Heidegger), 136, 358

“In your head,” 75

Is world, 475–485

J

Japan, participants from, 7 Jargon, 78

Jensen, Michael, 414

Johnstone, Henry W., Jr., 35–37 Joke, getting it as, 212–218 Justification, 42, 334, 367–368

K

L

Landmark Advanced Course, 89 Landmark Forum, 2, 11, 60

The Landmark Self-Expression and Leadership Program, 89 Language, 35

Lying, 217

about stuckness related to problems, 414–415, 420–421 being authentic about, 55–56

and looking good, 114 to yourself, 203

M

Macquarrie, John, 132

Magnanimity, 337–340, 516, 517 “Making it,” 214–218

Making Sense of Heidegger (Sheehan), 379, 382r

Manipulation, as racket, 198

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, 172

Marin, Peter, 511 Marriage:

choice in, 456–460

rackets related to, 146–147, 150, 153–154 sharing about, 175–179

as solution to a problem, 407–408 Masochism, 506

Mastery, 123, 446–447, 504 Meaning(s):

emerging from meaninglessness, 449 as human characteristic, 21–22 and mineness, 58

and not-yet-meanings, 265 Meaning making, 220–253

about life, 224–230, 252–253, 273, 318 with already always, 332–333

and possibility in emptiness and meaninglessness of life, 341–351 value and, 356–357 Meditation, 533–534 Metaphysics, 208, 448–449 Mineness, 58 Mood, 24–25, 160, 200–207, 422 Morality, 366 ownership of, 173–175 practice, living a, 233–234 problems in, 400, 403, 410 relationship to, 201–202 Lighting, 399–400 Likability, 77, 113–114, 140–141, 188–191 Liking yourself, 351–357 Limitations, on possibility, 514

Listening. See also Already always (listening) barriers to, 483

to conscience, 334 in questioning, 168 ways of, 75–76

from your own concerns, 18 Logic, 149

Logos, 227–228, 242–243, 372–374, 473–474

London Zen Center, 533 Looking good, 71, 83–84, 90–92

and being right, 134

and being with possible outcomes, 124 and conscience, 343

as owning one’s life, 109–114 for parents, 185–186

and participation, 92–93 as survival requirement, 108 thinking as means to, 173 Losing, a distinction, 45 Losing it, 136

Love:

and being your feelings, 518–521

and completing with family members, 200 fear of, 203–204

living with concept of, 39, 41 love in-order-to vs., 179 Lovitt, William, 400 Life (continued)

Index 557 consistency of action and, 513

distinctions and, 122–124 and event ontology, 479–481 gaining access to, 491–492, 497–500 our view of, 421–422

and possibility, 501–502

of situations, and our actions, 420–421

On the Way to Language (Heidegger), 17–18, 70–71,

511–512 Ontic inquiry, 10

On Time and Being (Heidegger), 128

Ontological: clearings, 44 design, 118 dialogue, 16–18, 284–285 distinctions, 32–33, 410–411 events, 360, 497–498 inquiry, 10 rhetoric, 3–4, 35–37, 530 Ontology, 37–38, 208 Openness, 16–17, 400

Opinions, importance of, 318–319 Opportunities, 301, 512 Options, 500, 505–506 Originary naming, 209, 372, 398 Originative Saying, 265 Outside, 312–313 Ownership, of life, 173–175

P

avoiding responsibility in relationship with, 157–158

completing with, 158–164, 198–201, 256–258, 461–462, 510 looking good for, 185–186

Parmenides, 123, 209, 239, 240 Motivation, 238

Multiplicity, in thoughts, 9 Muscle memory, 487–488

Mutuality, in ontological dialogue, 17

N

National Socialism (Germany), 538–540 Nature of being, 418–424

Nazism, 538–540 Nervousness, 14–21 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 123 Nihilism, 358–363

Nobody, fear of being a, 470–473 Non-being, 308, 475

Non-conceptual thinking, 264 Not-being, 449

Not-being-there, 189 Note-taking, ban on, 19

The nothing, 202, 206–207, 238, 531 beyond nihilism, 358–363 and conscience, 343 and nihilism, 360–362 possibility and edge of, 473 Saying, 308–309

Not knowing:

being confused vs., 16–17, 193–194 being present to, 183

Not-that, being, 72 Not-yet-meanings, 265 Nullity, 228, 238 Number, as a realm, 120–122

O

Possibility, 260 and action, 494–495 of authentic disclosure, 202 being, 517–518 beyond in-order-to, 175 and clearing, 400 creating, 514–515 and declaration, 512, 515 domain of, 505–509 and edge of nothing, 473

in emptiness and meaninglessness of life, 341–351 in language/languaging, 124–125, 128, 500–502 of meanings, 265

as medium for access to the occurring, 499–500 and nihilation, 360

and ownership of life, 174–175 of thinking, 121

of understanding being, 136 using up, 509

of ways to exist, 333 Power, 75, 156, 214

Practice life, living a, 233–234 Prescription, truth and, 358–359 Presence, 451

being present in your own life, 182–183 coming to, 477

concepts vs., 41 to fear, 204

and fundamental point of view toward life, 201 and representation of now, 81–84

Present, living in, 217

Pre-Socratics, 208–210, 264, 373 Pressure, choice and, 22–30 Primal gathering principle, 373–374 Primordial metaphor, 343–344

clearing, 397–400 descriptive titles as, 410 Participation, 92–95, 469–470

as distinction, 127 in-order-to and, 320–322 problems as stops to, 421–422

reasons for not participating, 381–388, 389–390 sharing vs., 199

study of benefits to, 62–66 Past:

and future, 40, 166, 288–289 rewriting of, 506

Paying back, 319–320

Payoff , for racket, 128–130, 132, 133, 142, 143, 146, 154, 155, 191, 192 Pedagogy, of Heidegger, 127–130 Perception, 9–10 Perfection, 238–241, 247–248 Persona, 189–190 Personality, 95 Pessimism, 8–10, 24 Phenomenology: hermeneutic, 116–118 and knowing, 314–316 Philosophy:

denial of Erhard’s work as, 185 Heidegger on, 185–187 as rhetorical evocation, 35–37 Physis, 122, 230, 264–267, 372, 448, 473 Plato, 448 “Play,” 361 “Play of being,” 448, 492, 512 Plutonium, 501 Poetry: as projective saying, 33 and thinking of being, 197

Point of view, fundamental, toward life, 201–207 Polt, Richard, 196, 210

Positive solicitude, 132–133 Positive thinking, 61, 303–304, 501

Index 559 choice relate to, 384–385

distinguishing, 128–134, 166–167

and fundamental point of view toward life, 202 inquiry about, 114

not liking yourself as, 355–356 and ownership of your life, 173–174 payoff s of, 110–111

problems associated with, 399–400, 410, 415–421 results of success as part of, 311–312

self-expression as cost for, 144, 155–156, 190–191 sharing about, 138–156, 183–184

sharing of, 535 story about, 157 surrendering to, 274 taking responsibility for, 175

Rainstorm, 14–20, 35, 71, 172, 321, 345 Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), 533

Reaction, 200, 488–489 Realms of distinction, 120–122, 127 Reasonableness, 334–342 destroying, 376, 389–390 distinguishing, 379–381 Reasons, 194

for attending The Forum, 61

as basis for decision making, 427–447 in friendships, 388–389

for not participating, 381–388, 389–390 and presence, 83 results and, 334–335 as story, 29–30, 42 Recognition, 80 Referentiality, 174 Reflexion, 86–87, 103 Reflexive languaging, 309 Reflexivity, 286, 531 Related, being, 139, 157, 163 Relatedness, 73–77, 92–96, 150 Probably, 288–289 Problems:

association of racket and, 399–400, 410 attempting to solve, 405–411, 425 distinguishing, 460–461

occurrence of, in languaging, 390–393, 403, 411 “shouldn’t be” as function of, 393–402

solving, 232–233 Projective saying, 33 Promise(s):

and authenticity about inauthenticity, 41–56 of The Forum, 9, 508–509

and language as generative act, 124, 126 structure and, 376–377

trying vs. making, 60–61

Promise of the Forum, 34, 60–61, 187, 312, 508–509 Protest, associated with racket, 128–130

Public moods, 156 Publicness, 156 Punishment, 152

Q

“The Questions Concerning Technology” (Heidegger), 4 Quitting, 34–35

R

Racism, 540 Racket(s), 18, 91–92

being abandoned as, 255–259 being confused as, 193–194 being sad as, 269–273

being stupid as, 76, 140–145, 147, 150, 151 being ugly and worthless as, 502–503

Right, being:

and conscience, 343 and looking good, 134 in marriages, 177

as payoff for racket, 143, 145, 167 as survival requirement, 108 “Right” way of being, 10 Ring of truth, 412–413 Rinzai Zen, 168 Risk: with choosing, 441–442 with possibility, 174 Robinson, Edward, 132 Rorty, Richard, 196, 398 Rubrics, 78 Running away, 199 Ruthless compassion, 3 Ruts of metaphysics, 208

S

San Francisco Zen Center, 533 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 309 Satisfaction, 100, 101, 294–299 Savior complex, 326–327 Saying, 265, 308–309 Schedule, 8, 89–90 Schoenbaum, Susan, 480 Scott, Charles E., 264 Self:

concerns and, 73–74 of Dasein, 217 decentering of, 4 experience of, 1 Relating well, eff ect of, 97–101

Relationship(s): avoiding, as racket, 138–139 creating, 174 to life, 201–202 with parents, 157–158, 199, 200 as solution to a problem, 408 Releasement, 228, 295, 309 Repetition, 416–418, 483–484 Reporting, 124, 183 Representation (concept): and description, 80–81 distinction vs., 124 presence vs., 81–84 and source of action, 475 Resistance:

to coaching, 281–284 from in-order-to, 97–103 to inquiry, 360

in ontological dialogue, 17

from others about The Forum, 527–528 and your racket, 128, 129, 194

Resoluteness, 54, 228, 540 Respect, 113 Responsibility, 96, 133, 142 avoiding, as rack, 157–158 with choice, 444, 456–459, 471 and declaration, 507, 508 for racket, 175 self-expression and, 166 Results, reasons and, 334–335 Rhetoric, 343–344

appropriate styles of, 36–37 philosophy as, 36

Rhetorical dialogue, 127

Index 561 Solicitude, 132–133 Source: of action, 473–497 of concerns, 74–75 of fears, 104 of identity, 95–96, 106–108, 174 So what, 216–220, 222–223 Speaking:

and being your word, 61 fear of, 8

Forum working in, 198 of one’s thinking, 40–41 up in the stands, 139, 171–172 Speaking out, 230–231 Speech Acts, 507 Spiritual exercise, 318–319 Spirituality, 536–537 Stambaugh, Joan, 286 Standing for, 510–511

Standing-reserve and techne, 500–503 State of mind: mood as, 24–25 reality as, 303–306 Stepfamilies, 159–164 Stewart, John, 196 Still, 82–83 Stinginess, 278, 311, 338, 510 Story: about racket, 157 and Aletheia 3, 380, 382–384 culture as frame for, 250–251 domain of, 503–505, 507 in-order-to in, 241–243 living in a, 24–30, 93–94 presence vs., 81 “true,” 35, 47 what happened vs., 30, 34–42, 104–106, 111–112 listening for, 180 production of, 86 Self-beliefs, 21–22 Self-expression, 110, 113, 510

as cost for racket, 144, 155–156, 190–192 and responsibility, 166

Self-generated challenge, The Forum as, 61 Self-justification, 132

Self-knowledge, 95 Seminar program, 166–167

Sesshin, 533–534 Sharing:

about experience of Danger Process, 206–207 about experience of Forum, 171–175

about racket, 138–156, 183–184 changing definitions of, 2

in est Training and The Forum, 535–536, 540–541t

and in-order-to, 180

in-order-to associated with, 301 in life, 464 paired, 114, 204 participation vs., 199 results of, 450–451 Sheehan, Thomas, 379, 382 Shift of focus, 201–202

Shouldn’t be, problems as function of, 393–402, 409–410 Signals, language vs., 125

Significance, 466–467 of getting it, 347–348 of making change, 351–357 Sincerity, 56, 126, 146–147, 521 Sister, completing with, 200 Six-Day Course, 89

Skinner’s glass box, 301–302 Sluga, Hans, 539

Social moods, 156–158 Socrates, 123

being entangled in, 172–173 unthought, 121–124 This-is-all-there-is, 246–247 Thoughtfulness, 24 Thoughts: defining, 9 identifying with, 183–184 multiplicity in, 9

Threat, life as, 201–202 Thrownness, 159–161 and attunement, 200–201 and in-order-to, 174 Tipton, Billy, 335 Transcendence, inner, 71–73 Transformation: as evolution of evolution, 469–470 of inauthenticity, 54

irregular pathway to, 46 and lecture format, 128

in ontological inquiry on being, 10 others needed for, 95–96

progress in, 251–254 required to understand, 532–533 as technology, 519–520 technology of, 530–531 unconcealing and, 201 value and, 46 Transparency, 490–491 The Trap, 246, 259, 273–274, 301–304, 322, 322–326, 360, 520 “True” stories, 35, 47 Trust, 181–182, 284–286 Truth, 56, 261 aletheia as, 378–379

as already always rhetoric, 36 being uncomfortable with, 367 existential moment of, 274 Stuck, getting, as condition of being human, 224–226

Stupid, being, 140–145, 147, 150, 151 Substance, beings as, 473–477 Substance ontology, 472–473 Sway, 264, 265

Sympathy, 458

T

Tabachnick, David, 500–502

Tassajara Zen Mountain Retreat Center, 533

Techne, 492–493 challenging, 499–500 enframing, 499–504 as in-order-to, 493 standing-reserve, 500–503 Technology, 3–4, 484–487 and in-order-to, 172–173 language related to, 492–493 and oblivion, 510–514 of transformation, 530–531 transformation as, 519–520 “Technology of language,” 8 Teenagers, 179, 183 Ten-Day Teen Training, 89 Terror, 36

Theology, 536 They-self, 107–111

and the anybody, 173, 332–333 and facing death, 321

and the nobody, 217, 332–333 and public moods, 157

transformation threatened by, 294 Thinking:

about thinking, 38–41, 71 and action, 489

and becoming, 188, 189, 192 and being, 123, 239–243

Index 563 Violence: in blossoming emergence, 265–266 of meaning, 226–228 in unconcealing being, 294–297

W

doing what you want to do, 276–277 as story, 232, 270

in structure of being human, 423

Way, 292–297

Way of being, 418–424 dwelling in, 45–46 and technology, 487, 502 Way we wound up being, 158–160 Weakness, admitting to, 454 Werner Erhard and Associates, 7

history of, 12 staff of, 522 What happened: Aletheia 2 as, 380 context for, 111–112 creating vs., 154 domain of, 503–504, 507–508 and identity, 95

stories attached to, 47

story vs., 30, 34–42, 104–106, 111–112

What is Called Thinking? (Heidegger),? 39–41 What we don’t know that we don’t know:

about thrownness, 200 attunements in, 188 as category of distinction, 411–412 Windmills, 499–500 Withdrawal: of being, 45, 122–123, 449, 477, 512 and emergence, 479–481 as freedom, 372–373 of integrity, 373 levels of, 377–378

prescription associated with, 358–359 unconcealment of, 412–413 worthlessness of, 345–346 Trying to be, 254–255, 273–274, 472 Two, 121–122, 125

U

Unthought, thinking and, 41, 121–124

V

Validation, 377–378

Valley of the Shadow of Death, 95, 360 Value(s):

creating, 275–276 freedom and, 46–47

and meaning making, 356–357 preaching about, 53–55 as subjective, 296 Verene, Donald Phillip, 398

Vicious circle, 81–84, 245–246, 503–504 Vico, Giambattista, 397–398

Vico’s Science of Imagination (Vico), 398

Victim, being a, 145–146, 153–155 Vietnam War, 37, 38

Y

Yalom, Irvin D., 537 Yankelovich, Daniel, 62–66

Yes, saying, to life, 455–456

Youth at Risk program, 180–181

Z

Zaff ron, Steve, 414 Zen, 168, 286, 537 Zero, being at, 253–254

Zimmerman, Michael E., 3, 10, 87, 106, 399, 500 “World”:

as clearing, 397–398

Heidegger’s view of, 312–316 as resource, 503

Worldlessness, 21–22 Worthlessness:

as racket, 192, 501–502 of truth, 345–346

Wrongness, becoming “there’s something wrong,” 292–300, 313–315