Foreword: The Heart of Dialogue / Thomas G. Hand
Preface: The Dialogue in Its Monastic Setting / David Steindl-Rast
Introduction / Bruno Barnhart and Joseph H. Wong
1. Regaining the Lost Kingdom: Purity and Meditation in the Hindu Spiritual Tradition / Pravrajika Vrajaprana
2. Heart Yoga: A Comparison of Two Texts, Pratyabhijna-hridayam (Kashmir, eleventh century) and Kaivalya-darsanam (West Bengal, nineteenth century) / Thomas Matus
3. Space in the Lotus of the Heart: The Anthropological Spirit in the Writings of Bede Griffiths / Cyprian Consiglio
4. Glistening Frost and Cooking Sand: Unalterable Aspects of Purity in Chan Buddhist Meditation / Martin J. Verhoeven
5. Cleansing the Heart: Buddhist Bowing as Contemplation / Heng Sure
6. Historical Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, in Dialogue with the Unknown Author of The Cloud of Unknowing / Nicholas Koss
7. Zen and the Impurity of Purity / Francis H. Cook
8. Zazen: A Path from Judgment to Love / William Skudlarek
9. Sacred Fools and Monastic Rules: Zen Rule-Bending and the Training for Pure Hearts / Taigen Dan Leighton
10. Doubt and Breakthrough in the Desert Fathers / Kevin Hunt
Pt. III. Taoism and Confucianism
11. Taoist Tradition of Meditation: History, Transformation, and Comparison / Liu Xiaogan
12. Chaos: The Thematic Continuity between Early Taoism and the Way of the Golden Elixir / Paul Crowe
13. Through Detachment to Vision: Chuang Tzu and Meister Eckhart / Joseph H. Wong
14. Benedictine Humility and Confucian "Sincerity" / Donald Corcoran
Pt. IV. Christian and Western Perspectives
15. Purity of Heart: Discovering What You Really Want / Laurence Freeman
16. On the Re-creating of Desire and Purity of Heart: An Exploration / Bede Healey
17. Purity of Heart: A Dialogue / Mary Margaret Funk
18. Christian Self-Understanding in the Light of the East: New Birth and Unitive Consciousness / Bruno Barnhart.
