Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus) | Charlotte J. Beck

Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus) | Charlotte J. Beck | A Modern look at Zen, Wonderful!!

books:

Everyday Zen: Love...

	Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus) Charlotte J. Beck HarperOne, 2007 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

highly recommended

Charlotte Joko Beck offers a warm, engaging, uniquely American approach to using Zen to deal with the problems of daily living?love, relationships, work, fear, ambition, and suffering. Everyday Zen shows us how to live each moment to the fullest. This Plus edition includes an interview with the author.

Fives stars plus...

I picked up this book only by chance as a supplementary material for one of my classes. I did not expect much as i have never been to interested in Zen before, maybe just because of my ignorance on the subject. After reading a first couple of chapter i felt myself change. This book opened my eyes. It is written in a simple language, when i read it i felt like the author was talking to me and all i had to do was kick back and listen. It is really a great book if you want to know more about Zen and not feel like you have to struggle through every page to understand what the author is saying.

It is pleasant, beautiful and inspiring, so i give it 5 stars and i could i'd give it more!

for more information click here

A Modern look at Zen, Wonderful!!

This very well written & appropriate for today's world is easy to read & very meaningful!! I bought a half dozen more for Christmas/Chanukah presents. It's been around a while, now I know why, can't wait to read it again & see what else can be gleaned now, & now, & now, etc. ;-)
It also has meaning to Martial Artists who exist in the moment!
Dr Dave

Great book

Very practical and accessible. I've read a lot of zen books and I like the simplicity and yet substantive approach to the subject. It's a really good read.

Everyday Is Just About Right

Charlotte Joko Beck's teaching here is unmitigated wisdom. I do not sit regularly, but I do practice reflection on a daily basis (using a journal), and with regular writing forays. Perhaps the most useful lesson here is Beck's discussion of the "witness" experience, becoming an observer of moment-by-moment thoughts, emotions and bodily reactions. It is the closest thing to Zen in my experience, from what I can gather... so I am quite thankful for that... and for this book!

for more information click here

Beginners Mind

Anyone who has spent time reading and thinking about this stuff will know the term beginners mind. For those of you who do not and for those of you who do.... it is the idea that when you believe yourself to be an expert or to "know" you may be in deeper trouble then when you started. You have through gaining certain experiences closed your mind to the experience of the open mind of a beginner.

I am writing this because I take this book as someone would take a pill to get rid of a headache. I go back to it over and over again to start again or to get encouragement, or to settle down or to start over again and again or to dispel my experts mind.

To discourage anyone of whatever level of experience from possibly finding this book helpful in the relief of suffering, in response to the mundane trials of everyday life or the "existential crisis"..... would I think not be in the spirit of this life some have chosen to pursue.

The hardest thing sometimes for the expert to do is to let the beginner discover for themselves.

for more information click here