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Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide

Author Barry Magid

Format Paperback

Publisher Wisdom Publications

Category Buddhism

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This new book from Zen teacher, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and critical favorite Barry Magid inspires us -- in wryly gentle prose -- to outgrow the impossible pursuit of happiness, and instead make peace with the perfection of the way things are. Including ourselves! Magid invites readers to consider the notion that our certainty that we are broken may be turning our "pursuit of happiness" into a source of yet more suffering. He takes an unusual look at our "secret practices" (what we're REALLY doing, when we say "practicing") and "curative fantasies,"

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Release Date: 2008-03-17
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780861715534

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