These insights from many years of Zen meditation practice appeal to a wide range of spiritual traditions and explore topics such as the difference between process and content, notions of right and wrong, ending self-punishment, and taking responsibility for one's experiences. Perfect for beginning Zen students and for those interested in Buddhism in general or eastern religion, it features deep spiritual insights and playful illustrations that add warmth and approachability to the topic.

The Key and the Name of the Key Is Willingness

Cheri Huber

Keep It Simple Books

The never-ending process of self-discovery requires the full participation of the seeker, yet many books on the topic are directed at their audience instead of directing them inward. This workbook encourages users to not only think and visualize but write, draw, color, paint, cut, and paste their way through exercises on money, body image, relationships, work and play, past and future, and more. Many are suitable for children as well as adults.

How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything: A Workbook

Self-Help

Creativity

An innovative workbook that brings out the best in kids by bringing out the best in parents.

Time-Out for Parents: A Compassionate Approach to Parenting

Parenting & Relationships

Huber, Cheri

Guyol, Melinda

Parenting

The teachings of Zen are presented to Westerners in this book, which is comprised of many short sections accompanied by illustrations on subjects ranging from compassion and meditation to death. The concepts of "subpersonalities" (the many aspects of the personality) and "projection" (the notion that the entire world is a mirror of who we are) are introduced. Readers are encouraged to consider that they see the world the way they do not because the world is inherently that way, but because of who's looking. Seeing ourselves as having many different parts helps us make sense the the whirling mass of contradictions we sometimes experience within ourselves.

That Which You Are Seeking Is Causing You to Seek

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

This cookbook includes low-fat vegetarian recipes for main dishes, soups, breads, and desserts as well as compositions from American Zen monks—those who were head cooks and those who assisted. These inspiring stories are funny and touching, and all reflect the difficulty, challenge, joy, and freedom inherent in living as a Zen monk.

The Zen Monastery Cookbook: Stories and Recipes from a Zen Kitchen

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Vegetarian & Vegan

Employing the tenets of Zen Buddhist awareness practice, the book provides numerous exercises and self-help tools for working through problems with resistance, revealing how resistance operates in everyday life and guiding readers to consider how they can be free of it. The teachings in this book show how to recognize resistance in its many forms, not take it personally, and be free of its control. The platform is that the voice of resistance—thoughts such as I'll do it later—is not personal; everyone has it. Instead, it is the voice of a survival system that can take people from commitment to inaction in a matter of seconds. Then, self-hating voices level internal accusations for not having followed through, including thoughts of failure, shame, and lack of self-discipline.

I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How Resistance Controls Your Life and What to Do About It

Narayanan, Ashwini

Success

This funny, engaging guide to the basics of Buddhist meditation presents the idea that people are not human beings trying to be spiritual, but spiritual beings trying to be human. That is, instead of striving toward an ideal image of ourselves, people might aim simply to see more clearly what being human is all about, including what impels striving.

Trying to Be Human: Zen Talks

Good Life presents the Buddhist precepts as signposts on the path to discovering human beings' inherent goodness. It offers concrete ways of transforming real-life difficulties into freedom.

Good Life: A Zen Precepts Retreat with Cheri Huber

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Buddha Facing the Wall presents firsthand accounts of life in an American Zen monastery. Interviews with fifteen monks offer vivid personal glimpses of how everything about the monastery—from the daily schedule through meetings with the teacher to the silence itself—is designed to support the deep inner work that leads to spiritual transformation.

Buddha Facing the Wall: Interviews with American Zen Monks

Rather than explaining typical strategies for overcoming fear, this book focuses on examining how fear is experience, how to recognize that experience as nothing more than conditioned reaction to circumstance, and how to mentor oneself into letting go of beliefs about "appropriate" responses to fear. The notion is debunked that fear is anything other than a label we have learned to put on a set of physical and emotional responses, which is a Buddhist view of emotion in general.

The Fear Book: Facing Fear Once and for All

Mental Health

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