Zen Miracles: Finding Peace in an Insane World

✍ Scribed by Brenda Shoshanna

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

''This wonderful book brings East and West--and ancient and modern worlds--together and provides profound wisdom and guidance for anyone struggling with stress, anxiety, anger, fear, or loneliness. Beautifully written, funny, warm, and filled with unusual, wonderful exercises. A real miracle.''--Rabbi Gary Moskowitz, Director of the Institute for Violence Prevention ''A healing journey into the inner conflicts and contradictions that separate spirit from self.'' --Armand DiMele, the DiMele Center for Psychotherapy ''Dr. Brenda Shoshanna is a versatile, creative, warm, and truly excellent teacher.'' --Rabbi Joseph Gelberman, founder of the Interfaith Seminary and Director of the All Faith Seminary ''Zen Miracles is an inviting and inspiring message for those looking for a more simple and powerful way to enhance their lives and for those who want to integrate a practical way of peace in today's distorted and increasingly violent world.''--Bob Goff, NY Naturally ''Zen Miracles is a book that is invaluable for anyone seeking to bring a profound, yet genuinely joyous, experience to life. Brenda Shoshanna explores the spiritual and therapeutic aspects of Zen practice in a way that is acceptable to anyone, no matter what their faith, philosophy, or religious beliefs. With her warm and compassionate style, she exhibits the unique ability to explain even the most difficult ideas in understandable terms. Her approach is readily accessible and applicable to even the most mundane of activities. This book is a must for anyone seeking the secrets for attaining a balanced life and true peace of mind.''--Lewis Harrison, Director of the Academy of Natural Healing

✦ Table of Contents

ZEN MIRACLES......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Special Thanks......Page 16
Introduction......Page 20
PART ONE GETTING STARTED......Page 26
1. What Is Zen?......Page 28
2. How to Do It......Page 36
3. Welcome to the World of Koans......Page 48
4. Peeling Onions Day by Day......Page 56
5. Doing Nothing......Page 66
PART TWO CRAVINGS AND COMPULSIONS......Page 74
6. Quieting the Monkey Mind......Page 76
7. Loneliness and Separation......Page 94
8. Feeding the Hungry Heart......Page 104
9. Ambition: Taming the Violent Mind......Page 116
PART THREE LETTING GO......Page 134
10. Grasping and Holding On......Page 136
11. Empty Hands......Page 150
12. Pilgrimage......Page 160
PART FOUR DISSOLVING THE FALSE SELF......Page 168
13. Putting Toys Away......Page 170
14. When Medicine Turns to Poison......Page 180
15. The True Man of No Rank......Page 190
16. The Zen Fisherman......Page 206
PART FIVE ZEN, GOD, AND ENLIGHTENMENT......Page 216
17. Walking Through the Gateless Gate......Page 218
18. Zen and God......Page 236
Zen Cautions......Page 240
Zen Miracle Commandments......Page 242
Bibliography......Page 244
Index......Page 246