Living Everyday Zen

Beck, Charlotte Joko

ISBN 10: 1591798051 ISBN 13: 9781591798057

Publisher: Sounds True, 2008

Synopsis

In her first and only audio teaching program, one of America's best-known Zen teachers brings practice into everyday living.

About this title

About the Author:

Charlotte Joko Beck

Charlotte Joko Beck (1917–2011) taught Zen to students around the world. A truly influential and widely admired teacher, she was the founder of the Zen Center in San Diego, which she ran for more than two decades, the Zen Center of Prescott, and the Ordinary Mind Zen School. In the 1960s she studied with Soen Nakagawa Roshi, who she considered her teacher. Her two books, Everyday Zen: Love and Work and Nothing Special: Living Zen, have been translated into more than half a dozen languages. Her influence today continues on through her teachings and through those for whom she was a direct teacher.

From AudioFile:

This audio course with Beck includes the voices of some of her students, but mostly you'll hear Beck herself, imperfect and unadorned, offering thoughts on everyday Zen. Beck's insights are voiced in down-to-earth, practical phrases that explain how a Zen approach is useful in daily life--particularly in those irritating encounters we're all bound to endure, from traffic to difficult people. Beck says she'll discuss a "hodgepodge" of things that may not always hold together, but the collective effect of her thoughts is refreshingly clear. Practice IS hard, she says, and we don't always succeed. But being aware of our distractions and failures moves us closer to living gracefully in the moment, free of the past and future, here and now, satisfied, and fully alive. J.C.G. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Sounds True
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1591798051
• ISBN 13: 9781591798057
• Binding: Audio CD