Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
- ISBN-10
- 1458783618
- ISBN-13
- 9781458783615
- Category
- Large type books
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-10-08
- Publisher
- ReadHowYouWant.com
- Author
- Barry Magid
Description
We all have a right to the pursuit of happiness - but could we actually be happier if we gave that whole thing up? This surprising new book from Zen teacher, psychoanalyst, and critical favorite Barry Magid inspires us-in gentle and winking prose-to move on and make peace with the perfection of the way things actually are, including ourselves. Magid invites us to consider that our ''pursuit of happiness'' may actually be a source of our suffering. He takes an unusual look at our ''secret practices'' - what we're really doing when we say we're meditating-like trying to feel calmer, or more compassionate, or even ''enlightened'' (whatever we imagine that means!). He also uncovers our ''curative fantasies'' about spiritual practice-those ideas that we can somehow fix all the messy human things about ourselves that we imagine are bad or wrong or unacceptable. In doing so, he helps us look squarely at-and avoid-such pitfalls. Along the way, Magid lays out a rich roadmap of the new ''psychological-minded Zen'' - a Zen that includes our entire life, our entire personality - as pioneered by his teacher, bestselling author Charlotte Joko Beck.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The Lost Angel: A Collection of Short Stories
By Elizabeth GoudgeThis collection contains seven of Goudge''s l oveliest stories, including The Silver Horse and Lost - One Angel. All the stories contain her special blend of fairytal e grace, warmth and spiritual feeling. '
-
Bird Cloud: A Memoir
By Annie ProulxAnnie Proulx invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil.
-
A Dog So Small
By Philippa PearceBen longs for a dog, but he lives in a back street in London, far away from open spaces. Then he finds a woolwork picture of the smallest dog in the world -and thus begins a strange adventure.
-
The Battle of Bubble and Squeak
By Philippa PearceFortælling om 3 børn der får 2 løbemus af en kammerat - men deres mor er ikke begejstret
-
A Walk to Remember
By Nicholas SparksSet in North Carolina in the late 1950s, this novel is a deeply moving story of two people discovering love for the first time and the changes this inevitably has on their lives.
-
The Choice
By Nicholas SparksTravis Parker isn't exactly looking for an emotional entaglement, but that doesn't mean he's blind to an atteractive woman who might happen to cross his path.
-
The Girl in a Swing
By Richard AdamsEn stilfærdig engelsk antikvitetshandler gifter sig hovedkulds med en smuk tysk pige, hvis mystiske fortid efterhånden indhenter hende
-
Be My Girl!
By Lucy Gordon380 SANTA'S SPECIAL DELIVERY Val Daniels Alicia believes that her handsome husband , Daniel , has only married her for their baby's sake , and that he is really in love with another woman . In fact Daniel is in love with Alicia ...
-
Hawk: Sierra Gold - Death and Jack Shade
By William BradyHawk: Sierra Gold - Death and Jack Shade
-
Shower of Gold: A Western Story
By Zane GreyIn the early 1900s, Richard Gale agrees to help George Thorne, an old college friend, get his girlfriend Mercedes, a Spanish aristocrat, to safety, away from the Mexican bandit who murdered her father.