Waking up to What You Do A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion

Name: Waking up to What You Do A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion
Price: 6.9 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781590303429

ISBN-10: 1590303423

ISBN-13: 9781590303429

Edition: Annotated

Authors: Diane Eshin Rizzetto, Charlotte Joko Beck

List price: $18.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $15.91

Marketplace

5 new & used from $6.90

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Life is rising up to meet us at every moment. The question is: Are we there to meet it or not? Diane Rizzetto presents a simple but supremely effective practice for meeting every moment of our lives with mindfulness, using the Zen precepts as tools to develop a keen awareness of the motivations behind every aspect of our behavior--to "wake up to what we do"--from moment to moment. As we train in mindfulness of our actions, every situation of our lives becomes our teacher, offering priceless insight into what it really means to be happy. It's a simple practice with transformative potential, enabling us to break through our habitual reactions and to see clearly how our own happiness and…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: A Sink Full of Teaching






What Are the Precepts?



The Dream of Self



The Dead Spot



The Process



The Precepts



I Take Up the Way of Speaking Truthfully



I Take Up the Way of Speaking of Others with Openness and Possibility



I Take Up the Way of Meeting Others on Equal Ground



I Take Up the Way of Cultivating a Clear Mind



I Take Up the Way of Taking Only What Is Freely Given and Giving Freely of All That I Can



I Take Up the Way of Engaging in Sexual Intimacy Respectfully and with an Open Heart



I Take Up the Way of Letting Go of Anger



I Take Up the Way of Supporting Life


Conclusion: A Process of Transformation



A Primer in Awareness Practice


Notes