How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be [Paperback]

Cheri Huber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2000

An inspirational Zen guide to get you where you really want to go - Describes a life affirming process based on Zen awareness training - Explains how to examine issues causing difficulty, how to discover the source of problems, and how to free ourselves from the suffering created - A step by step path to freedom illustrated with examples from life and spiritual pracitce In the straightforward, engaging style for which she is known, Zen teacher Cheri Huber presents a process for getting where you want to go in life. This process, which is based on Zen awarenss training, is explained here in ordinary language. It is demonstrably effective for all who are willing to look honestly at themselves.

Editorial Reviews

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"Cheri Huber's teachings are straightforward, down-to-earth and easy to understand...reach this book with a magic-marker; every page contains a dew-drop of wisdom. Don Morreale, editor of the Guide to Buddhist America." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Cheri Huber is a Soto Zen teacher and student of over 25 years experience. She conducts workshops and retreats, and is the author of 10 books including The key and the Name of the Key, Be the Person You Want to Find, and others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Hay House (October 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561707155
• ISBN-13: 978-1561707157
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #487,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Cheri Huber is the author of 19 books, including There Is Nothing Wrong with You, When You're Falling, Dive,and Sweet Zen. She founded the Mountain View Zen Center in Mountain View, California, and the Zen Monastery Practice Center in Murphys, California, and teaches in both communities. She travels widely and often, leading workshops and retreats around the United States and abroad, most recently in Costa Rica and Italy. She founded Living Compassion in 2003, a nonprofit group comprised of There Is Nothing Wrong With You Retreats (based on the book); Global Community for Peace: The Assisi Peace Project; The Africa Vulnerable Children Project; and Open Air Talk Radio, her weekly call-in radio show originating from Stanford University. She lives in Murphys, California.

Customer Reviews

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65 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat disappointing., November 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (Paperback)

Having previously read five of Cheri's books, I expected yet another paradigm shift. This one didn't quite rock my world in the same way. Unfortunately "How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be" reads more like a self-help book than any of the others. I much prefer the 'hand-written', easy style of her other books -- as she says, they are to be "read slowly with the heart instead of quickly with the head". This one tends to speak more to the head than the heart.

If you are wanting to get away from self-help and psycho-babble -- wanting to get past ego and personality -- and you are willing to try a more spiritual approach to understanding and accepting your Self (and by extension, others), I would recommend starting with 'There is Nothing Wrong With You' and 'Be The Person You Want to Find'. After reading those about five times each and devouring the concepts, I moved on to 'The Key and the Name of the Key is Willingness', 'That Which You Are Seeking is Causing You to Seek' and 'The Fear Book'. (During the same period I was also reading Marianne Williamson's "A Return to Love". Excellent!) Before I knew it, I was knee deep in Zen Buddhism and finding my way back to my Self. I wasn't aware of how far away from myself I had gone... Ever swim in the ocean and turn around to look back at the beach and think "Yikes! How did I get so far away?!" I think life without conscious awareness has an undercurrent of its own that tends to do that to us as well. It takes us away from our essence. As traditional self-help and personal growth books focus on ego and personality, they may hinder us in rediscovering our essence -- keeping us going in circles rather than hitting the target. Cheri Huber's books have reminded me that the target is "in here" rather than "out there".

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life changing - no more "shoulds", April 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (Paperback)

I went through a very difficult time a couple of years ago and stumbled across this book. It was nothing short of life changing for me. It taught me to really listen to myself, to better trust my intuition, to accept what *IS* and shed so many of the "how life *should* be" attitudes.

For example: "Gee, I'm a horrible parent because I want to work outside the home." Well, no, I'm not a horrible parent because I want to work outside the home. I'm simply a parent who wants to work outside the home. Some people in society have labeled it "horrible", but do *I* deem it "horrible"? No, I don't. So I don't let it bother me any more.

Use your own standards to judge yourself, not "society's", because different societies have different standards. The Zen approach in the book is interesting, but fundamentally for me, the book is about how to love and accept yourself as you are and to stop putting societial labels on every thing you do.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly, highly recommended, May 10, 2000

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This review is from: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (Paperback)

I participated in one of the online courses on which Cheri drew for this book, and it was a wonderful learning experience. This book distills the essence of the course. So many of us spend time going around in circles trying to solve problems that, in fact, do not exist - except in our conditioned views of life! Cheri skilfully directs us to probe these conditioned beliefs carefully. If you are willing to apply this information to your own life using specific examples from your experience, you can only walk away from the experience stronger, wiser, and more in touch with yourself.