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Good Life: A Zen Precepts Retreat with Cheri Huber

Good Life: A Zen Precepts Retreat with Cheri Huber
By Sara Jenkins

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Good Life presents the Buddhist precepts as signposts on the path to discovering human beings' inherent goodness. It offers concrete ways of transforming real-life difficulties into freedom.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1029577 in Books
  • Published on: 1997-09-28
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: .42 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 136 pages

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From the Back Cover
Spiritual/Psychology/Zen Buddhism

If you are looking for the answers to life's problems, you will not find them in this (or any) book. Yet every "answer" is right here, as close as your heart, your breathing, your touch, your sense of who you are.

Instead of a map showing how to avoid life's difficulties so you can head straight for life's treasures, this book offers a process that can serve as a compass to let you know when you are on (or off) course. Here is a Zen perspective on the Buddhist precepts, the heart of a 2,500-year-old spiritual practice. This path has no answers and no end. The path itself is a way of being in the world, in which the only requirement is a questioning mind, and the only result is the very treasure that all of us, everywhere and always, have longed for.

"What the Buddha was getting at with the precepts...is that we are unlikely to allow ourselves to be happy if we ignore these aspects of life." From the Introduction by Zen teacher Cheri Huber

About the Author

Sara Jenkins worked as an art historian, director of an oral history project, and managing editor of a medical research journal before plunging simultaneously into freelance life and Zen Buddhism fourteen years ago. Since then she has occupied many points along the editorial spectrum, including copy editor, illustrations editor, nonfiction author's editor, book producer, and writer. She lives in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. Cheri Huber is the author of 19 books, including There Is Nothing Wrong with You, When You're Falling, Dive,and Time-Out for Parents. She founded the Mountain View Zen Center in Mountain View, California, and the Zen Monastery Practice Center in Murphys, California, and teaches in both communities. She travels widely and often, leading workshops and retreats around the United States and abroad, most recently in Costa Rica and Italy. She founded Living Compassion in 2003, a nonprofit group comprised of There Is Nothing Wrong With You Retreats (based on the book); Global Community for Peace: The Assisi Peace Project; The Africa Vulnerable Children Project; and Open Air Talk Radio, her weekly call-in radio show originating from Stanford University. She lives in Murphys, California.