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Zen wisdom for identifying the causes of mental and emotional anxiety epidemic in today's world and for finding the path to a peaceful heart in the midst of them--a path that leads directly though the center of the anxiety we're trying to escape.Wrestling with fear doesn't have to be a negative experience. This book offers an approach to life that unlocks a new way of thinking and being in the world, one that leads directly through the center of the anxieties we seek to avoid.Written in the style of an owner's manual, a guide to being human, Burkett focuses on areas of pain and anxiety as they tend to manifest for modern people: feelings of unworthiness, and issues surrounding sex, money, failure, and even death. Providing wisdom from Zen (channeled through his many experiences as a psychotherapist) and using language and metaphors from popular culture, he takes anxiety and teaches us to turn those fears into the building blocks of a fulfilling life.
About the Author
Tim began Zen practice in 1964 with his first teacher, Suzuki Roshi. He was ordained as a Zen priest in 1978 by Katagiri Roshi, who was Suzuki's assistant prior to Suzuki's death. Tim has been guiding teacher at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, founded by Katagiri Roshi, for the last 15 years. He is also a psychologist and retired CEO of People Incorporated, a large non-profit agency that supports people in need of mental health support.
In his first book, Nothing Holy About It, Tim intersperses stories about his teachers with his own guidance about living a life unburdened by limiting ideas and concepts.
In his second book, Zen in the Age of Anxiety: Wisdom for our Modern Lives, he helps the reader do two things: 1) identify the causes of mental and emotional anxiety epidemic in today's world; 2) walk the path of a peaceful heart, a path that leads though the center of the anxiety we're desperate to escape.
