| Part 1: The Future Is the Past Is Now |
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Spring Cleaning for Your Life |
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What Zen is, who your authors are, and how this ancient Eastern tradition can help your mind work better today. |
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A Brief History of Zen Buddhism |
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Siddhartha, Bodhidharma, and other influential folks, and some Zen guidelines for living. |
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How Zen came to America, and what happened when it did. |
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| Part 2: Dharma 101 |
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What Is Truth, and How Can I Get Some? |
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Getting an Attitude: A Zen Approach |
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How to cultivate a Zen attitude in everyday life. |
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How to cultivate a Zen attitude in the wake of tragedy. |
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What's the Point ... Nirvana? |
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A Zen approach to enlightenment. |
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| Part 3: 1-2-3 Zazen: Zen Techniques for Zen Living |
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This is your life; start living it right this minute! Here's how. |
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Everything you always wanted to know about meditation. |
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Breath, and Other Paths to Mindfulness |
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Meditation and other mindfulness techniques for daily life. |
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A Koan Is a Koan Is a Koan ... |
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Koans sure sound silly. What good are they? |
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Eating, Moving, Breathing: Maintaining a Zen Lifestyle |
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Integrate your Zen attitude into every aspect of your life, from what you eat to how you keep your house. |
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| Part 4: Personal Zen |
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The One Who Stares Back at You |
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Your Zen mirror, revealing the real you, and how to keep the mirror polished. |
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Zen and Your Relationships |
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Zen and love, Zen and dating, Zen and commitment. |
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Zen for parents, kids, and adult children. |
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Desire, Fear, Worry: Tackling Your Personal Dukkha |
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What consumes you? Manage your desires, fears, and chronic worrying with Zen. |
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| Part 5: Zen in the Workplace |
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How to make the most of your job with Zen techniques. |
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Surviving on-the-job relationships with the help of Zen. |
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Managing Stress on the Job |
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Life in the working world is stressful. Zen can help you minimize the stress. |
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Manage Your Career by Not Managing Your Career |
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Your career path: Are you on it, or does it matter? |
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| Part 6: Bringing It All Back Home |
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Living in a Zen home, and how to make your home more Zen-like. |
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The Zen of creativity, drawing, writing, poetry, music, and art. |
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The ancient tradition of Zen and sports is still going strong. |
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This is it. Make it happen. Make the most of it. Wake up today and start living! |
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| Appendixes |
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| Index |
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