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What happens after awakening?,
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This review is from: After the Ecstasy, the Laundry (Paperback)
Zen stories and Buddhist tales all seem to end with someone becoming enlightened. What happens after that? You never find out. You get the impression that they live in bliss and happiness forever after, and yet you know somehow that can’t be true. Jack Kornfield interviewed a lot of people who have awakened, most of them highly accomplished teachers and abbots and lamas, most of them born and raised in the West (but trained in the East), and you get to hear them tell you what life is like after enlightenment. I thought an enlightened person never got angry or afraid or sad. I didn’t even realize I held such perfectionistic misconceptions until I noticed this book shattering them. After the Ecstasy is generously sprinkled with the actual words, sometimes half a page or a page long, of people who have been meditating 15, 30, even 40 years. You’ll find out what brought them to the meditative path to begin with, and what they’ve learned along the way. It’s fascinating. There are lots of good anecdotes in this book; interesting and illuminating anecdotes (most of them are true stories). In many Buddhist and Zen books, you read the same stories again and again in different books, but here you find fresh stories, some ancient, some modern, and all very good. Jack Kornfield is first and foremost a meditation teacher, so woven throughout the book is plenty of good coaching. The meditative path is difficult, and good teaching is vital. I’m the author of the book, Self-Help Stuff That Works, so I’ve specialized in knowing the difference between teachings that help and those that are merely interesting. In After the Ecstasy, you’ll find interesting reading material AND coaching that will truly help you in your practice.
35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
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Humour and Wisdom in the Laundrette,
By beltane@btinternet.com (Kinloss, Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: After the Ecstasy, the Laundry (Paperback)
Did you hear the joke about the keen Zen student?As we all visit the Laundrette of life at some time, some of us will hang around reading the magazines. There is more wisdom in this book than all the Laundrette magazines put together. And there is humour. I was impressed when I read "A Path with Heart" the last book written by Jack Kornfield. It would, I thought be difficult to surpass this achievement. So here is a book that has even more clarity. There are wise stories from Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism. In between teachers give personal accounts of their spiritual journey and when the author describes his own life stories I was fascinated by his experience. He writes about a spirituality grounded in the body, intimately connected with feelings and engaged in the world. This is a book you can read quickly and return to often. It is moving and challenging in places. And there is humour. It will become a classic. So what are you waiting for? Oh I almost forget.... So there was this eager zen student who arrives at the temple and says "I want to join the Community and work to attain enlightenment. How long will it take me?" "Ten years" replies the master. "Well how about if I really work hard and double my efforts?" "Twenty years". "Hey just a moment that's not fair! Why did you double it?" "In your case," says the master "I'm afraid it will be thirty years."
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent and practical,
This review is from: After the Ecstasy, the Laundry (Paperback)
I strongly recommend this book. Although at times the book becomes a 'generic' book about spirituality, for the most part it shows the ways in which life for spiritual leaders and the experienced is *never* 'perfect.' In essence it tells us that we are not failures for continuing to suffer, and for being fools on occasion. It also shows ways of trying to bring spirituality into our everyday life, which is where so many of us seem to fall down.Again, I recommend this book, and good luck to all who are striving for a better life.
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