This guide to self-discovery through intimate relationships offers a spiritual perspective on healing childhood wounds and destructive patterns that are learned early on and later cause relationship dysfunction in adulthood.
This guide to self-discovery through intimate relationships offers a spiritual perspective on healing childhood wounds and destructive patterns that a...
These insights from many years of Zen meditation practice appeal to a wide range of spiritual traditions and explore topics such as the difference between process and content, notions of right and wrong, ending self-punishment, and taking responsibility for one's experiences. Perfect for beginning Zen students and for those interested in Buddhism in general or eastern religion, it features deep spiritual insights and playful illustrations that add warmth and approachability to the topic.
These insights from many years of Zen meditation practice appeal to a wide range of spiritual traditions and explore topics such as the difference bet...
Suffering Is Optional: Three Keys to Freedom and Joy centers around three basic aspects of Zen practice: pay attention, believe nothing, and don t take anything personally. As ending suffering requires that one sees how suffering happens, the book urges readers to be willing to be quiet and pay attention to the process of suffering in effort to see each moment as an opportunity to step beyond illusion into freedom. It also argues that examining beliefs, abandoning them, and returning attention to the present is essential to ending suffering, as is living in the awareness that nothing...
Suffering Is Optional: Three Keys to Freedom and Joy centers around three basic aspects of Zen practice: pay attention, believe nothing, and do...
This book combines the psychological concept of acceptance with ancient Buddhist teachings about the chain of interdependent origination, which provides immediately usable tools for looking at how suffering happens and how to let that go. Stressing the theme of accepting what life brings, it reveals what acceptance is and what stands in the way of being able to accept life's ups and downs. Four steps for combating resistance are also provided.
This book combines the psychological concept of acceptance with ancient Buddhist teachings about the chain of interdependent origination, which provid...
A follow-up to the perennial bestseller "There Is Nothing Wrong with You," this book gives readers the opportunity to pinpoint the practices in their lives that hinder their happiness and success and replace them with practices that will enhance their well-being. Examples of everyday issuesand the accompanying, unconscious practicesthat can weigh a person down, such as weight gain, sleeplessness, trouble at work, and family life, are addressed with clarity and humor. Employing the tools and techniques of Zen awareness, this guide helps readers make their lives better by freeing themselves...
A follow-up to the perennial bestseller "There Is Nothing Wrong with You," this book gives readers the opportunity to pinpoint the practices in their ...
Employing the tenets of Zen Buddhist awareness practice, the book provides numerous exercises and self-help tools for working through problems with resistance, revealing how resistance operates in everyday life and guiding readers to consider how they can be free of it. The teachings in this book show how to recognize resistance in its many forms, not take it personally, and be free of its control. The platform is that the voice of resistance thoughts such as I'll do it later is not personal; everyone has it. Instead, it is the voice of a survival system that can take people from...
Employing the tenets of Zen Buddhist awareness practice, the book provides numerous exercises and self-help tools for working through problems with re...
Rather than explaining typical strategies for overcoming fear, this book examines how fear is an experience, how to recognize that experience as nothing more than conditioned reaction to circumstance, and how to mentor oneself into letting go of beliefs about "appropriate" responses to fear. The notion is debunked that fear is anything other than a label we have learned to put on a set of physical and emotional responses, which is a Buddhist view of emotion in general. The revised edition expands on many points and includes a series of exercises and new illustrations for recognizing fear for...
Rather than explaining typical strategies for overcoming fear, this book examines how fear is an experience, how to recognize that experience as nothi...