This book reveals the origin of self-hate, how self-hate works, how to identify it, and how to go beyond it. It provides examples of some of the forms self-hate takes, including taking blame but not credit, holding grudges, and trying to be perfect, and explores the many facets of self-hate, including its role in addiction, the battering cycle, ...
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.
According to Cheri Huber, "compassionate self-discipline is simply allowing the innate intelligence and generosity that is your authentic nature to guide you in every moment". Her basic logic is that we've been conditioned since childhood to believe life should be better than it is. We think if we were only a little better in some way, we would be ...
The teachings of Zen are presented to westerners in this book, which is comprised of many short sections accompanied by illustrations on subjects ranging from compassion and meditation to death. The concepts of 'subpersonalities' (the many aspects of the personality) and 'projection' (the notion that the entire world is a mirror of who we are) are ...
The 11th book from the American Zen teacher centers around three basic aspects of Zen practice: pay attention, believe nothing, and don't take anything personally. Huber gently guides the reader along this path in this book produced with a handwritten font and pen and ink drawings.
This Zen guide to utilizing depression as an opportunity for spiritual growth and personal acceptance includes personal accounts, written excercies, and meditation instructions.
This guide to self-discovery through intimate relationships offers a spiritual perspective on healing childhood wounds and destructive patterns that later cause relationship dysfunction in adulthood.
Based on surveys and interviews with hundreds of teenagers about what does and does not work in their lives, how they perceive the adult world they are about to enter, and what they want adults to know about them, "There Is Nothing Wrong With You for Teens" provides communication techniques to empower teenagers to take the lead in the conversation ...
Employing a method of discipline used for children, this Zen guide encourages parents to look inwardly and reflect on their motivations in order to respond to their child's needs from a clearer, kinder perspective.
Rather than explaining typical strategies for overcoming fear, this book focuses on examining how fear is 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.
An inspirational Zen guide to get you where you really want to go - Describes a life affirming process based on Zen awareness training - Explains how to examine issues causing difficulty, how to discover the source of problems, and how to free ourselves from the suffering created - A step by step path to freedom illustrated with examples from life ...
Answering questions such as "What is meditation?" "I can't clear my mind. What should I do?" "What do I focus on?" and "How can I meditate when I have no time?" this guide answers more than 50 of the most commonly asked questions about meditation practices.
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 ...
This self-discovery workbook contains 16 short essays interspersed with writing and drawing excercises on numerous topics, including money, body image, relationships, and career.
Friendly and supportive, this book suggests that hating and resisting depression actually maintains it, and that compassionate acceptance of our feelings and ourselves leads us to freedom. Through simple exercises and meditations, readers can learn how to open themselves up to their emotions, good and bad.
WARNING: THIS COURSE will teach you nothing you don't already know, it asks for all the enthusiasm and attention you can muster, and it's 100 percent guaranteed NOT to improve you at all! So, why have thousands of participants at Cheri Huber's acclaimed retreats returned to their lives with such gratitude and joy? At the heart of so many of our ...
This funny, engaging guide to the basics of Buddhist meditation presents the idea that people are not human beings trying to be spiritual, but spiritual beings trying to be human. That is, instead of striving toward an ideal image of ourselves, people might aim simply to see more clearly what being human is all about, including what impels ...
'Good Life' presents the Buddhist precepts as signposts on the path to discovering human beings' inherent goodness. It offers concrete ways of transforming real-life difficulties into freedom.
Offering the unusual perspective on the softness and sweetness to be discovered in the Zen path, which has long been associated with formality and even harshness, this book includes the traditional rigor of Zen practice, but is balanced and eased with ever-growing compassion for the self and for the suffering caused by the delusion that we are ...
Chosen for impact, clarity, and humour, these one-per-day quotations come from a wide variety of sources: Zen masters; Christian and Sufi mystics; Eastern and Western philosophers; poets ancient and modern; and living artists, writers, and comedians. Each entry also contains a question to prompt self-examination, making the calendar a year-long ...
The never-ending process of self-discovery requires the full participation of the seeker, yet many books on the topic are directed at their audience instead of directing them inward. This workbook encourages users to not only think and visualize but write, draw, color, paint, cut, and paste their way through exercises on money, body image, ...
This look at "the blues" shows us that the worst thing we can do is try to fight them. The author suggests that resisting depression - or anything else you don't want - actually sustains it and that compassionate acceptance of your feelings and yourself leads to freedom. Through simple exercises and meditations readers learn to open up to emotions ...
This cookbook includes low-fat vegetarian recipes for main dishes, soups, breads, and desserts as well as compositions from American Zen monks - those who were head cooks and those who assisted. These inspiring stories are funny and touching, and all reflect the difficulty, challenge, joy, and freedom inherent in living as a Zen monk.
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