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At Home in the Muddy Water: A Guide to Finding Peace Within Everyday Chaos
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| Customer Rating: | 5.0 / 5.0 |
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May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is. This verse is an important reminder, says Ezra Bayda, of what the spiritual life is truly about: the willingness to open ourselves to whatever life presents—no matter how messy or complicated. And through that willingness to be open, we can discover wisdom, compassion, and the genuine life we all want. In At Home in the Muddy Water , Bayda applies this simple Zen teaching to a range of everyday concerns—including relationships, trust, sexuality, and money—showing that everything we need to practice is right here before us, and that peace and fulfillment is available to everyone, right here, right now, no matter what their circumstances.
| Inducing IInner Peace | 2009-12-17 | 5 / 5 |
| This and the author's other book have as a goal the individual's achieving of inner peace. This is difficult to do in the hub-bub of most of our lives. Certainly in the way the way the author goes about it. For most another task is another stressor. Though pushing through to his definition of simplicity works for him and helps his family understand it does not seem practical.
I wrote (and collected) and photographed (and collected) simple phrases and natural pictures to allow a reader to find as little as a single stimulus to get to a similar state. for the sanity of my patients and others. Matt Cohen MD Zen of Watering Your Garden |
| a necessary book | 2007-11-29 | 5 / 5 |
| | I come back to this book time and time again because each time I realize something new. It is down to earth, practical,compassionate. I have bought several extra copies and have given them away and the recipients of this book are equally taken with it. It has taught me to ask myself questions whose answers reveal what is really going on with me. A great tool in learning one's own mind. It is one of those books that can change your life for the better if you do the work. |
| Practical Advice | 2005-09-16 | 4 / 5 |
| | Easy to read, understand, and put into practice. Common sense, practical advice. Similar content as his "Being Zen" book. |
| Not too abstract, Not too nuanced - Just Right! | 2005-04-04 | 5 / 5 |
| | I was truly inspired and edified by reading this book. Mr. Bayda's insights into the principles of Buddhism are gentle, accessible and practical. These books are informative and I am glad they were recommended to me by a friend. I would also say that while many Buddhism books are either too abstract or too nuanced, this book comfortably falls in the middle providing real insight. I highly recommend it. |
| Ezra the Great | 2004-11-10 | 5 / 5 |
| Reviewing a book such as this is no easy feat. Quasi-spiritual, semi-self help books are a dime a dozen, and many of them are terrible. They attempt to reduce common sense to a formula that, once applied to one's individual life circumstances, permanently alters the course of one's life.
Do you know anyone whose life has radically changed as a result of reading a self help book?
I bought this book (along with Being Zen, Ezra Bayda's previous title) because I am interested in Zen Buddhism. I bought them rather randomly, having never heard of Mr. Bayda before (these books did not, however, serve as an introduction to Buddhism for me; I have been interested in the practice for many years). I am extremely impressed, however, by Mr. Bayda's simplicity and practicality; I don't think I've read a more accessible book on Buddhist practice. I would argue, in fact, that he does it better than Pema Chodron (whom he credits as a source of inspiration). Mr. Bayda's books are the result of some fantastic writing and editing.
Mr. Bayda says that these two books are really Parts 1 and 2 of the same work, and I would agree: You should read both of them, so that the important concepts are really hammered home. After all, these books are not intended to be feel-good, airy-fairy words to make one "feel better"; this, in fact, is what I believe to be the "strength" of Buddhism---the fact that its primary goal is not to make one feel better, but rather to point us toward residing in the ordinariness and pain of every day life. Mr. Bayda's effort is directed at pointing us in the direction of an "authentic life," as opposed to the "substitute life" which so many of us are accustomed to living. Mr. Bayda offers sound, succint, and challenging advice on how we can apply the principles of Buddhism to our lives in a practical and compelling way, without ever using exclusively Buddhist terminology. A person of any faith would find this book both accessible and informative.
In the end, I cannot recommend either of his two books highly enough. While reading these two books (or any other books for that matter) have not and will not change my life, taking to heart the teachings really could. |
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