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Everyday Zen: Love and Work »
Authors: Charlotte J. Beck, Steve Smith (Editor), Steve Smith
ISBN-13: 9780061285899, ISBN-10: 0061285897
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: September 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Charlotte J. Beck
Charlotte Joko Beck is the founder and former head teacher at the Zen Center in San Diego. She now lives in Arizona.
Book Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
| Preface | v | |
| Acknowledgments | ix | |
| I | Beginnings | 1 |
| Beginning Zen Practice | 3 | |
| Practicing This Very Moment | 8 | |
| Authority | 15 | |
| The Bottleneck of Fear | 17 | |
| II | Practice | 21 |
| What Practice Is Not | 23 | |
| What Practice Is | 25 | |
| The Fire of Attention | 31 | |
| Pushing for Enlightenment Experiences | 35 | |
| The Price of Practice | 39 | |
| The Reward of Practice | 42 | |
| III | Feelings | 47 |
| A Bigger Container | 49 | |
| Opening Pandora's Box | 53 | |
| "Do Not Be Angry" | 56 | |
| False Fear | 64 | |
| No Hope | 66 | |
| Love | 71 | |
| IV | Relationships | 75 |
| The Search | 77 | |
| Practicing with Relationships | 82 | |
| Experiencing and Behavior | 90 | |
| Relationships Don't Work | 93 | |
| Relationship Is Not to Each Other | 97 | |
| V | Suffering | 103 |
| True Suffering and False Suffering | 105 | |
| Renunciation | 110 | |
| It's OK | 114 | |
| Tragedy | 119 | |
| The Observing Self | 122 | |
| VI | Ideals | 129 |
| Running in Place | 131 | |
| Aspiration and Expectation | 133 | |
| Seeing Through the Superstructure | 136 | |
| Prisoners of Fear | 144 | |
| Great Expectations | 148 | |
| VII | Boundaries | 153 |
| The Razor's Edge | 155 | |
| New Jersey Does Not Exist | 163 | |
| Religion | 168 | |
| Enlightenment | 173 | |
| VIII | Choices | 177 |
| From Problems to Decisions | 179 | |
| Turning Point | 186 | |
| Shut the Door | 189 | |
| Commitment | 193 | |
| IX | Service | 199 |
| Thy Will Be Done | 201 | |
| No Exchange | 203 | |
| The Parable of Mushin | 207 | |
| Notes | 213 |
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