You don't need to be a Zen Buddhist to experience Zen living; everyone can benefit from a more Zen approach to life, whether it's banishing clutter and excess or learning how to appreciate everyday objects and experiences. These are the gifts of Zen and the way to harmony, simplicity, serenity, and peace. Living with Zen shows you how to create your own refuge-how you can bring simplicity and tranquility to every area of your home, from your garden, to your bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and living and dining room. And the best thing is that you don't need to go out and buy a whole new set of living room furniture. Zen is about principles and contrasts: asymmetry and symmetry, form and emptiness, stillness and fluidity.Discover ideas room-by-room with advice for more mindful living. Find inspiration from Zen texts, traditional and modern. There are also specially designed meditations to help you become more in tune with your environment, as well as fresh ideas for presenting food in ways that enhance its particular characteristics.
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Ou Baholyodhin is a freelance designer based in London. He has had exhibitions and given lectures worldwide, most notably at Axis Gallery in Tokyo, the Design Workshop in Saint-Etienne, and the British Council in Bangkok.
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By TheSongsofDistantEarth "O" (Oceana) - See all my reviews
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Initially, I thought that this book was very appealing. It's expensive and beautiful, with a simple, elegant layout. As I paged through it, however, something began to bother me. Then I figured it out: ALL of the pictures were of beautiful houses, tastefully and very expensively appointed to illustrate the "simple" life of zen. There was not one picture of a truly simple room with real objects, or an ordinary person's house (someone with a modest income). It was all beautiful, high end stuff that is only had by the wealthy. Therefore, I think Ou Balyhodhin missed the point. Real Zen living is not about buying lots of pricey stuff for your trophy house, it's about inner simplicity. I had the feeling this is the kind of book some wealthy person would buy so they could construct a "Zen lifestyle" to show off to others how 'simple' and 'spiritual' they are. .. I think there is a clue in the author's biography when it lists Conrans as one of the places he's consulted for and worked. For a much better take on Japanese/Zen aesthetic, get a little book called "Wabi Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers", by Leonard Koren. It's fantastic.
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All Bark and No Bite,
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After reading such good reviews I was very disappointed with this book. It is a large, pretty, new age-y, coffee table style book, and I guess that's it's main function. The prose is unenlightened (not to say down right boring), the pictures are too few and far between and not very helpful or explanatory. Unless the whole book is supposed to be a koan (unanswerable zen meditation riddle), you might as well skip this one. The publisher was ready, but alas, no one else was apparently.
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Living with Zen is more than home design. Every room is detailed. Living with less and being in harmony with ones surroundings is the general theme of this book.
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Zen is a tradition of Buddhist teachings and practices that originated in China (as ch'an) and later became characteristic of Japan. Read the first page New!
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Zen is a tradition of Buddhist teachings and practices that originated in China (as ch'an) and later became characteristic of Japan. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Vastu Home: Harmonize Your Living Space with the Indian Feng Shui by Juliet Pegrum in Back Matter
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