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Zen in the age of anxiety: wisdom for navigating our modern lives
Short Title: Zen in the age of anxiety
Format: Book
Publication Date: Nov 30, 2017
Publisher: Shambhala
Place of Publication: Boulder
Pages: 170
Sources ID: 64851
Notes: Includes indexWounding and splintering -- Being human -- The trance of unworthiness -- Sex -- Money -- Failure is just an experience -- Suturing and healing -- The wisdom of humility -- Suturing what was rent asunder -- Brain plasticity, mirror mind, and enlightenment -- Transforming knowledge into wisdom through everyday life -- Living and dying in a state of readiness -- Healing our world, together
Visibility: Public (group default)
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Wrestling with fear doesn’t have to be a negative experience. This book offers an approach to life that unlocks a new way of thinking and being in the world, one that leads directly through the center of the anxieties we seek to avoid.Written in the style of an owner’s manual, a guide to being human, Burkett focuses on areas of pain and anxiety as they tend to manifest for modern people: feelings of unworthiness and issues surrounding sex, money, failure, and even death. Providing wisdom from Zen (channeled through his many experiences as a psychotherapist) and using language and metaphors from popular culture, he takes anxiety and teaches us to turn those fears into the building blocks of a fulfilling life.