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Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

Lessons from a Zen Garden

Author: Karen Maezen Miller  

Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden
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"Reflections on finding peace, beauty, and fulfillment in everyday life, illustrated by the author's experiences with tending her new home's venerable but neglected Japanese garden"--

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"Reflections on finding peace, beauty, and fulfillment in everyday life, illustrated by the author's experiences with tending her new home's venerable but neglected Japanese garden"--

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Come See the Garden That Is Your Life When Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world. Through her eyes, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stillness, flowers give love, and leaves express the effortless ease of letting go. The book welcomes readers into the garden for Zen lessons in fearlessness, forgiveness, presence, acceptance, and contentment. Miller gathers inspiration from the ground beneath her feet to remind us that paradise is always here and now.

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“Wise, insightful, and honest." - Sharon Salzberg , author of Real Happiness This is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. Karen Maezen Miller has cleared a path for all of us - from pain and confusion to joy and gratitude. She taught me that the secret garden I've been searching for has existed all along. I just needed to find the right guide." - Priscilla Warner , author of Learning to Breathe and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Faith Club Paradise in Plain Sight stopped me in my tracks and invited me to look into the backyard of my own life in a different way: with deep attention and radical gratitude. To read this extraordinary book - so brief in length, yet so magnificently deep and so transparently clear ”

"[Karen Maezen Miller] skillfully weaves vivid details of nature with personal history and such gritty tasks as curbing running bamboo and raking endless sycamore leaves....Miller's graceful writing, hard-learned wisdom, and heartfelt commitment to help her readers find their own bit of paradise here and now make this an inspiring guide." -- Publishers Weekly "Wise, insightful, and honest." -- Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness

"This is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. Karen Maezen Miller has cleared a path for all of us -- from pain and confusion to joy and gratitude. She taught me that the secret garden I've been searching for has existed all along. I just needed to find the right guide." -- Priscilla Warner, author of Learning to Breathe and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Faith Club

"Paradise in Plain Sight stopped me in my tracks and invited me to look into the backyard of my own life in a different way: with deep attention and radical gratitude. To read this extraordinary book -- so brief in length, yet so magnificently deep and so transparently clear -- is to remember that home is where I am and that what I need I have." -- Katrina Kenison, author of Magical Journey

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About the Author

Karen Maezen Miller is a mother, wife, writer, and a Zen teacher (dharma holder) in the lineage of the legendary Zen master Taizan Maezumi Roshi. A journalist by training, the author had a twenty-year career as the owner of a marketing and public relations agency. Today she freelances as a business communications consultant, speechwriter, speech trainer, web copywriter, and ghostwriter.

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Product Details

Publisher
New World Library
Published
16th May 2014
Pages
192
ISBN
9781608682522

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