The Tao of Now: Daily Wisdom from Mystics, Sages, Poets, and Saints - Softcover

Baran, Josh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157174584X ISBN 13: 9781571745842

Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

A collection of daily passages revealing spiritual wisdom, peace, and grace from ancient and contemporary religious sources

About this title

About the Author:

Josh Baran is a former Zen monk and recognized teacher in the Soto Zen tradition and a contributor to Tricycle: the Buddhist Review. After leaving the monastery, Baran became a political activist, and is now an experienced marketing and public relations professional in New York. His clients include the Dalai Lama, Michael Crichton and Bill Gates, as well as Universal Pictures, Sony and AOL/Time Warner.

Review:

Nirvana is immediate. Not hidden. Not distant. Not in the future but right in front of your face. Right now.

The Tao of Now helps readers experience the power of enlightenment moment by moment. In this book of daily meditations, Josh Baran shows readers that nirvana is staring them in the face—regardless of whether things get better, or whether true love happens, or whether the stock market goes back up, or whether they lose ten pounds. Nirvana happens when ordinary, everyday experience is freed from perpetual seeking or wishing for conditions to improve.

The Tao of Now contains some of the greatest ancient and modern teachings on the immediate experience of enlightenment from such notables as:
· Eckhart Tolle
· Rumi
· Stephen Batchelor
· Ram Dass
· the Buddha
· Jack Kornfield
· Byron Katie
· Pema Chödrön

Baran adds his own inspirational commentary on experiencing immediate nirvana to that of these teachers.

The Tao of Now is a wonderful companion for any tired seeker who wants only to know the power and peace of true, immediate enlightenment.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 157174584X
• ISBN 13: 9781571745842
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432