Zen Driving

Zen Driving
Author: K.T. Berger
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2011-07-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0307801691

Zen Driving can make each driving experience enjoyable, whether it’s a daily hour-long drive to work, or a ten-minute run to the local Safeway. You may well ask, what is Zen driving? The Japanese word zen literally means meditation, and meditation means being fully aware, fully in touch with your surroundings. When you are in a meditative state, you are in your natural self, your Buddha self—and you can do it while driving. But why Zen driving? The purpose of Zen Driving, the book, is to introduce you to your natural self, which is what remains when you still your mind and ignore your chattering ego. When you do this, you gain confidence in your ability, and finally you are that ability. The frustrations of other drivers cutting you off or causing you to sit through two red lights because they’re too timid to make a left turn on yellow will no longer make your blood pressure explode. Zen Driving will teach you to look, simply observe without qualification, and then make your move. Zen driving is effortless, spontaneous, nondeliberate. It is being one with the road. And in turn, driving becomes a pathway to consciousness, an activity that clears the mind and soothes the soul, something to take with you all those other times when you’re not behind the wheel.

Zen Meditation Magic

Zen Meditation Magic
Author: Jennifer Brooks
Publisher: Empowerment Nation
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2012-12-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1632300214

Did you always want the benefits of meditation without the required 20 to 30 minutes of sitting “doing nothing?” Perhaps you would love to meditate but find it difficult to relax your body long enough? Or maybe it’s your mind that careens out of control, refusing to think of “nothing?” What if someone told you that you could get all the rewards of meditation – the health benefits, sharpened focus, a boost in memory – without the need to sit chanting some mantra for up to a half hour a day? Zen Meditation Magic: Secrets to Finding the Time for Peace of Mind, Every Day provides you with practical, proven, and powerful meditative remedies to your stressful lifestyle. While it shows you how to meditate in the common 20-minute sessions, it also provides you with methods to grab minutes of Zen contemplation. Making Zen meditation a part of your daily life is easy. This groundbreaking book shows you how to take a Zen mindfulness break you can access when you’re driving, drinking your morning coffee, even carrying out a conversation. Not only that, it also takes you step by step through the longer, more conventional way of meditating. You are in control of your meditative practices. You can choose to wade in slowly, tiptoeing through the shorter, productive exercises before you commit yourself to the longer sessions. You may want to start with the short sessions, sprinkling the longer ones into your life as you feel you’re ready. Zen Meditation Magic: Secrets to Finding the Time for Peace of Mind, Every Day is your complete guide to Zen meditation. Whether you have 90 seconds (the time of a red light at a busy intersection) or 20 minutes, you can find a Zen meditative practice you can use to improve your overall health and give you the ultimate feeling of peace of mind. Pick up this book today and obtain the benefits of a Zen lifestyle!

How Emotions Work

How Emotions Work
Author: Jack Katz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1999
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780226426006

"The portrait that emerges is one in which people are much more sensually, intimately, and aesthetically bound up in the landscapes of their lives than previous scientific studies would suggest. In fact, Katz argues that emotions are most directly understood as transformations of the ongoing aesthetic foundations of the self."--BOOK JACKET.

Beyond the Fairway

Beyond the Fairway
Author: Jeff Wallach
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2009-10-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 030757198X

Beyond The Fairway is a guide for getting to the heart of golf and self by measuring a not by the score, but by the overall experience. Going against conventional approaches to golf, disproving that a straight fairway drive is golf's ultimate thrill, golfer and author Jeff Wallach steers his cart into the rough and even dangerous terrain where golf becomes an adventure into the unknown, into the greater mysteries of life, love, friendship, endurance, being a son, and being a man. Each chapter presents the unique physical and spiritual challenges of exotic and exclusive courses around the world from Scotland, Africa, and Thailand to Oregon, Alaska, and Nepal. The book gives an insider's often humorous, sometimes irreverent perspective on the sacred sites and rites of golf, and pros from around the world provide practical tips and insights into the game.

Traveling with Philosophes

Traveling with Philosophes
Author: Ken Ewell
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2006-08
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0595410073

Join a fellow traveler on a walkabout through Paris and London, and then travel with him across England, Scotland and Wales. After those walkabouts, accompany him as he journeys across America and follows the equator to Australia. Finally, wander with him along the corridors of modern and postmodern philosophy, and as he travels with old and new Philosophes, who all voiced an opinion as regards this travel book. It is a book that people won't buy, won't read and won't praise. Mark Twain After reading only a few pages, I gave up the study of philosophy forever. Voltaire I cannot look upon the book without shedding tears. Bertrand Russell If I could only make a travel book like that, I would be perfectly willing to die-even anxious. John Dewey I have seen a great many travel books in my time, but none that this one reminds me of. Will Durant This travel book is one-third fabrication, one-third prevarication and one-third barefaced lies. However, the rest of the book is the unadulterated truth. Dr. Morris A. Nussbaum

The Alchemy of Illness

The Alchemy of Illness
Author: Kat Duff
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1993
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780679420538

In this elegantly written inquiry into the function and purpose of illness, Duff reflects upon her own experience with Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) and offers a fresh perspective on recovery and healing. While we are conditioned to think of health as the norm, the author reveals that illness has its own geography, laws and commandments.

Road Rage and Aggressive Driving

Road Rage and Aggressive Driving
Author: Leon James
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2009-12-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1615922881

This authoritative book presents conclusions of recent studies on road rage, summarizes legislative and police initiatives, and redefines driver education for all drivers.

American Buddhism as a Way of Life

American Buddhism as a Way of Life
Author: Gary Storhoff
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438430957

Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context.

Image Transformations of the Brain-Mind

Image Transformations of the Brain-Mind
Author: Glen A. Just
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1663233578

Image Transformations of the Brain-Mind is his latest book that addresses basic questions about SELF and CONSCIOUSNESS. Dr. Just has two major concerns—how the mind emerges from its fetal beginning and matures through adulthood to enable free will (the Supervening SELF) and how sensory image transformations of the brain-mind lead to subjective experience. This book shares numerous insights into: • Virtually transformed sensory images that feel like a little person (homunculus) in our brains. • How the Physical-SELF is transformed into the Virtual-SELF. • How the SELF in dreams feels just as real as it does in waking. • The author’s dream classifications according to type of sensory experience. • Transformative brain-mind images that underlie altered mental states and various religious experiences. • How dream memories and the 24-hour mind become waking déjà vu experiences. • Psychological and philosophical questions of autonomy and determinism.