The Wooden Bowl: Simple Meditation for Everyday Life

"In poetic simplicity, Clark Strand makes meditation as effortless as breathing, as intimate as a heart-beat, as joyous as a child." -Hugh Prather, author of Spiritual Notes to Myself

The perfect guide for anyone who has ever wanted to meditate but who is intimidated by mantras, gurus, or retreats to far-off monasteries, The Wooden Bowl suggests "a way for people to slow down and experience their lives in the present moment" that is never too time-consuming, too rigid, or too difficult.

After years of study and a career as a Zen Buddhist monk, Clark Strand discovered that the path of meditation is not a journey outward, away from ourselves, but back—to who and what and where we really are. Strand shows you how to make meditation part of your daily life and avoid the troubling preoccupations that afflict many beginners: "Am I doing this right?" "Am I doing it enough?" "When am I going to get it?"

For the first time, meditation is presented as something within our reach, something as simple, beautiful, and familiar as a wooden bowl.

The author, Clark Strand is a former Zen Buddhist monk and the author of Seeds From a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey. In 1996 he left his job as senior editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review in order to write and teach full time. He now lives in the Catskill Mountains with his wife and two children.

Book is in good pre-loved condition.