The Buddhist Path To Simplicity: Spiritual Practice In Everyday Life

Description

Moments of peace and stillness give us a glimpse of how extraordinary our lives could be. Yet this sense of meaning and wonder is so easy to lose sight of in the hectic pace of modern living. In The Buddhist Path to Simplicity, Christina Feldman, an internationally renowned Buddhist teacher, shows you how to find harmony and balance by applying ancient Buddhist Wisdom to the here and now. The path of conscious simplicity she suggests allows us to fully recover ourselves, by rediscovering our sense of meaning and wonder. As a mother, a layperson and an internationally renowned teacher, Feldman knows the stresses and strains of modern life. In this book she shows how to harmonize and achieve balance and how to apply Buddhist wisdom to the here and now. She addresses subjects of compassion, speech, effort, intention, mindfulness and awakening. The path to peace, she suggests, is not necessarily complex or arduous. If we simply turn our attention to this moment, it will speak to us of wonder, mystery, harmony and peace. She demonstrates that there is no better moment in which to awaken and discover everything our heart longs for than this very moment.

Author description

Christina Feldman is Co-founder and Guiding Teacher of Gaia House, and has been leading Insight Meditation retreats since 1976. She is also Guiding Teacher of the Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts. Christina is a member of the International Board of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship and is the author of Principles of Meditation, Way of Meditation and co-author of Soul Food.