Suffering Is Optional: Three Keys to Freedom and Joy
by Cheri Huber
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Suffering Is Optional: Three Keys to Freedom and Joy centers around three basic aspects of Zen practice: pay attention, believe nothing, and don't take anything personally. As ending suffering requires that one sees how suffering happens, the book urges readers to be willing to be quiet and pay attention to the process of suffering in effort to see each moment as an opportunity to step beyond illusion into freedom. It also argues that examining beliefs, abandoning them, and returning show more attention to the present is essential to ending suffering, as is living in the awareness that nothing in the universe is personal. show lessTags
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Simple way to a happier life. No shit. Pay attention to everything; believe nothing; don't take anything personally. Or was that, don't drink; ask for help, and; go to meetings?
Very practical, clear, easy to understand. Have to do the exercises to "get it" (but the exercises are simple, easy, and short).
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Cheri Huber has been a student and teacher in the Soto Zen tradition for over 35 years and is the author of 23 books based in Zen Awareness Practice. Gentleness, clarity, and humor shine through in her teaching. She founded the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Murphys, California, and Living Compassion, a nonprofit dedicated to peace and service. show more Cheri conducts workshops and retreats at the Zen Monastery Peace Center and venues around the country. She has a weekly internet based call-in radio show, Open Air. Learn more at livingcompassion.org. show less
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