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The Great Heart Way: How To Heal Your Life and Find Self-Fulfillment

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The Great Heart Way is a wonderful and insightful book that was a joy to read. The exercises were clear and to the point and related directly to the examples presented. As a long time practioner of meditation, I was impressed to find a book that approaches the emotional dimension of meditation, while still remaining relevant to my daily life. The Great Heart Way has created a very useful tool for me to implement when I find myself stuck in old negative patterns. Highly recommended!

So how many books have I read on Buddhism? About a trillion (perhaps a slight exaggeration but...)

What is it about The Great Heart Way: How to Heal Your Life and Find Self - Fulfillment that has captured my attention? Perhaps it's because of the elegant writing, which reveals a deep collaboration between the two authors that is almost impossible to achieve, perhaps it's their linkage with one of the great Buddhist teachers, Taizan Maezumi Roshi of the White Plum Assanga.

What the book reveals to me is the evolution of Zen Buddhism in this peculiar country of ours where the early teachers recognized that there was fertile ground for the teaching of Buddhism in a climate that was particularly suited for Zen and that they shared their insights with a new generation of Zen teachers. Despite the how to aspect of the title, The Great Heart Way rather "points the way" to some of the best aspects of Zen, but as our teachers tell us, "It's nothing special."

Still and all, I heartily recommend The Great Heart Way with five stars and all, and now if you'll excuse me, it's time for meditation.