Making Your Way in Life as a Buddhist: A Practical Guide (Practical Buddhist Series) - Softcover

Hirsch, Ronald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988329026 ISBN 13: 9780988329027

Publisher: Thepracticalbuddhist.com, 2012

Synopsis

The author's website, thepracticalbuddhist.com, has been selected as one of the top 50 Buddhist blogs on the web.  (see blog.feedspot.com/buddhist_blog/)

Each day, we are faced with moments when we need to make decisions about how we lead our lives...whether they concern our work, our personal relationships, or other aspects of our lives. How do we as Buddhists make those decisions? Do we listen to our ego, our learned experience, or our true Buddha nature? 

Since most of us are not enlightened or have even reached a stage approaching enlightenment this presents a very real challenge. Making Your Way in Life as a Buddhist is a practical guide to making those decisions consistent with the Buddhist path, rather than constantly falling off it because of the pull of our ego.

We cannot escape the fact that we are part of the contemporary culture. We live in this world and it is the way it is. We are part of it...our work, our shopping, our reading, our family relationships...all of this happens within the context of and is impacted by our culture. But we need to not be captive to it.

If we are walking the Buddhist path and seek peace and contentment, we must find a way to be part of that culture and yet look at our interactions with it from a Buddhist perspective. Making Your Way in Life will show you the way.

Part of the Practical Buddhist Series.  See also The Self in No Self and Scratching the Itch.

About this title

Ronald Hanh Niêm Hirsch has walked the path of Buddhism for more than 20 years now.   Along the way, he has had the good fortune to have had some powerful teachers who opened many gates for him. His Zen practice follows no particular lineage but reflects the teachings of his Vietnamese and Korean Zen mentors. See the author's website, thepracticalbuddhist.com.

Hirsch has had a varied career as a teacher, legal aid lawyer, survey researcher, nonprofit executive, composer, writer, and volunteer. He is the author of We Still Hold These Truths, acclaimed by James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic, as "a systematic and serious effort to make the [presidential] debate as clear and valuable as it can be. Agree or disagree with his specific conclusions, the questions he is asking are the right ones for the public this year."  He grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania and resides in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thepracticalbuddhist.com
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0988329026
• ISBN 13: 9780988329027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142