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Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood [Paperback]

Claude Whitmyer (Editor), Ernest Callenbach (Foreword)
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September 9, 1994
Mindfulness and Meaningful Work is a classic, providing a wealth of resources for investigating the challenge of integrating work with spiritual practice. It contains thirty-seven contributions by some of the leading thinkers and activists of our time, helping us to find work that is meaningful, life-affirming, and non-exploitive.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 290 pages
  • Publisher: Parallax Press; First Edition edition (September 9, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0938077546
  • ISBN-13: 978-0938077541
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #306,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Claude Whitmyer was born in 1947 and spent the first two dozen years of his life growing up in Las Vegas. He attended graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle and moved to San Francisco in 1973. His first book, "Running a One-Person Business," (with Salli Rasberry) was a Book of the Month Club choice in 1990. He also edited and contributed to two anthologies, "Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood" and "In the Company of Others: Making Community in the Modern World" (with Gail Terry Grimes). He is known for his unique, values-based approach to coaching which includes "Good Work Guidance" for those seeking meaningful work and "Good Business Advice" for entrepreneurs seeking to do what they love and still pay the bills. Between 1998 and 2008 he and his wife Gail Terry Grimes developed over 100 hours of instruction and wrote half a dozen books about meeting and learning on the Internet. They are bicoastal with homes in Northern California and Southern Maine. [See http://www.futureu.com and http://www.meaningfulwork.com for more information.]

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Makes a great gift for Christmas, birthdays or friendship, December 5, 1999
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This review is from: Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood (Paperback)
This book inspired me! It presents a wide range of views on the subject of right livelihood, from traditional Buddhist thinking to essays from well-known non-Buddhist writers. I was especialy impressed by the inclusion of essays on Amish economics, Islamic banking, and the scientific study of mindfulness founded by psychologist Ellen Langer at Harvard. In addition, the author's closing essay did a great job of describing the practical steps you need to take to find "right livelihood." And, the book happens to have a beautiful cover, which makes it a pleasure to give as a gift.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Right livelhood can be a practical reality. Here's how:, December 11, 1998
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"claudew37" (San Francisco, California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood (Paperback)
I'm the author/editor and Ernest Callenbach wrote the Foreword.

In creating this anthology, I set out to explore the integration of mindfulness and ethics in the workplace. In my own opening essay I show how Buddhism and the New Age movement have impacted American culture and stimulated an increasing interest in the meaningfulness of work.

I use the Buddhist 8-fold path, which includes Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Mindfulness, and Right Contemplation to organize essays by some of the leading thinkers and doers of our time, including Thich Nhat Hanh, Joanna Macy, Sam Keen, E.E Schumacher, Gary Snyder, Shakti Gawain, Shunryu Suzuki, Robert Aitken, Tarthang Tulku, Marsha Sinetar, Rick Fields, Ellen Langer, and many others. They share their insights on the practice and value of working and of finding work that is meaningful, life-affirming, and non-exploitative.

In my closing essay, I describe in some detail a practical method for using mindfulness to find meaningful work.

My overall goal was to deepen your understanding of the concept of "right livelihood;" show how to go about overcoming the obstacles in your path so that you can find and maintain meaningful, satisfying work; and provide encouragment to live in a way that increases your inner peace, self-worth, and purpose.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars May help you decide on your life's work, March 21, 2002
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Shawn Regan (marietta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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Interesting book in the Buddhist document of Right Livelyhood. Not as much a book about Mindfulness as a book about Meaningful Work. Most of the authors say much of the same thing. One author, Sam Keen, I liked a lot. This book might help you decide your priorities when it comes to career. And the advice contained within might help you alter your livelyhood in a way that you are more in tune with ecological concerns
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