Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Suffering may well be the most difficult part of life, as Episcopal priest and therapist Dr. Peerman knows first-hand. Based on his conviction that Buddhist teachers have a lot to teach about dealing with suffering, what helps and what doesn't, Peerman takes readers on a lively, even light-hearted, journey through eight Buddhist practices that can bring blessed relief to a wide range of human suffering: Fear / Big Mind; Anxiety / Spacious Awareness; Anger / Kind Awareness; Stress / Beginning Anew; Judging / Dropping the Story; Hurt / Compassion Meditation; Grief / Bowing to the Wound. Peerman's experience of coming to Buddhist practice, by way of Thomas Merton and the Trappists, has been evolving over a 25-year time span, but rather than abandon his Christian tradition, Peerman brings the riches he has discovered to his birth community. Peerman's writing is warm and down-to-earth, his stories moving and interesting, and his suggested exercises wonderfully useful.
Synopsis
A thoughtful, down-to-earth look at helpful ways to lessen human suffering.
This book takes you on a lively, sometimes light-hearted, journey through nine Buddhist practices that can bring "blessed relief" to a wide range of human suffering--and teaches you skills to reduce suffering in the long term for yourself and others.
The practices help you:
- Loosen the grip of suffering
- Engage and question limiting views, thoughts and opinions
- Deconstruct ten common assumptions
- Be present in each moment
- Survive emotional storms
- Develop peaceful communication skills
- Deepen communication with your partner
- Appreciate mortality and the preciousness of life
- Cultivate compassion
As you read the chapters and engage in each practice, you will work with your own stories of suffering--stories in which you have felt abandoned, deprived, subjugated, defective, excluded or vulnerable--and you will learn how to release yourself from suffering by investigating it with curiosity and kindness.
Synopsis
Takes you on a lively, sometimes light-hearted, journey through nine Buddhist practices that can bring "blessed relief" to a wide range of human suffering-and teaches you skills to reduce suffering in the long term for yourself and others.
Synopsis
Based on his conviction that Buddhist teachers have a lot to offer about how to deal with suffering, Episcopal priest Peerman takes readers on a lively, even lighthearted, journey through eight Buddhist practices that can bring "blessed relief" to a wide range of human suffering.