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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 294.3444 EAN: 9780861715534 ISBN: 0861715535 Label: Wisdom Publications Manufacturer: Wisdom Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 175 Publication Date: March 17, 2008 Publisher: Wisdom Publications Studio: Wisdom Publications Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This new book from Zen teacher, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and critical favorite Barry Magid inspires us — in wryly gentle prose — to outgrow the impossible pursuit of happiness, and instead make peace with the perfection of the way things are. Including ourselves! Magid invites readers to consider the notion that our certainty that we are broken may be turning our “pursuit of happiness” into a source of yet more suffering. He takes an unusual look at our “secret practices” (what we’re REALLY doing, when we say “practicing”) and “curative fantasies,” wherein we have ideals of what spiritual practices will “do” for us, “cure” us. In doing so, he helps us look squarely at such pitfalls of spiritual practice so that we can avoid them. Along the way, Magid lays out a rich roadmap of a new “psychological-minded Zen,” which may be among the most important spiritual developments of the present-day. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Well written and modernI read this after having read "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" and "Everyday Zen". Those two books are collections of Dharma talks given at a zendo while this book is a consistent book in it's entirety. I found it very well written and reasoned. It doesn't fall back on "new age" type analogies that so much as some Zen books. It brings Zen into the modern western world while still recounting some of the tales and koans of early Buddhism. It also references Socrate's and more recent western ... Read More Rating: - Great Personal InsightsVery good personal descriptions of his experience and the essence of Zen, not the sitting, but the meaning. Rondavous with Advita thinking in the end. Rating:  - Arrival TranquilityMagid writes clearly and helps the seeker acknowledge his own hidden agenda. Must read for serious seekers. Rating: - Clear message to look at the shadows in your headThis is an exceptional practice-related book. Barry Magid clearly articulates his thoughts that our emotions and their underpinnings are not separate, or to be discarded, in our practice. He makes very clear the point that pursuits to be other than we are, even when these pursuits fit an ideal Zen or personal image, lead us away from the reality of who/how we are now. However, he is able to incorporate the purpose of action in a useful way. Certainly, other books revolve around the topic of `be ... Read More Rating: - ordinary and impressiveIn the 15 or so years that I've been interested in Buddhism, I couldn't begin to tell you how many books I've read on the subject. I've come to believe that they all basically say the same thing, but that doesn't mean that some aren't better than others. Truth be told: there are plenty of books by Buddhist teachers that are a complete mess--not to mention a waste of time. Fortunately, this isn't one of them. There's something about Charlotte Joko Beck, who is Magid's teacher, that is quite ... Read More 
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