Life's Worries Away

✿ The Real Spiritual Self-Help is to Guard This Heart ✿ Responding to Modern People's Spiritual Predicament with Buddhist Wisdom, Regaining Inner Peace ✿ A Course That Has Cured Tens of Thousands of People, Now a Book, with Audio Guidance for Zen Meditation Beginners ✿ Highly Recommended by Li Dan, Yi Lijing, Liang Wendao, and Meng Yan ----------------------------------------- 【Editor's Recommendation】 1. The Real Spiritual Self-Help is to Guard This Heart: Directly Addressing Modern People's Spiritual Predicament, Regaining the Power of Inner Peace Amidst "involution," "lying flat," "escaping the city," and the slogan "life is a wilderness," where can one find a path to inner peace? On one hand, modern people have many spiritual doubts, wanting to see clearly but feeling powerless. On the other hand, various mind-body-spirit and healing activities have emerged in the market, often appearing mystical. Can a trip truly heal the soul? How should we correctly respond to the soul's questions? This book starts from the daily circumstances and experiences of modern people, exploring how Buddhist wisdom, passed down for over two thousand years, responds to contemporary spiritual inquiries. 2. A Buddhist wisdom book specifically written for modern people, shedding complex and mystical concepts, focusing only on questions and answers close to life. Driven by the current mind-body-spirit craze, young people are also flocking to temples. There is an endless stream of Buddhist courses and activities on the market, but the misinterpretation and simplification of Buddhist thought in these often lead many into wrong thinking patterns, going further astray on the path of spiritual cultivation. This book addresses this issue, and at the same time provides an interpretation of ancient Buddhist wisdom that is most relevant to modern people's real lives and spiritual conditions. Using accessible language, it systematically re-examines the spiritual concerns and internal logic of Buddhism, placing common Buddhist concepts such as "suffering," "emptiness," "impermanence," and "dependent origination" within contemporary life, enabling everyone to experience and apply Buddhist wisdom in their daily lives to find inner peace. 3. A course that has accompanied, touched, and healed tens of thousands of people, now compiled into a book, with Zen aesthetic integrated into the binding, a healing journey on paper. This book is revised and compiled from the popular "Looking Ideal" audio program of the same name, "Life's Worries Solved: 40 Lectures on Introduction to Buddhism." Since its launch in 2021, it has received countless listeners' praise, tears, and joy and peace after resolving their own knots. What is special is that the book's binding is inspired by Zen aesthetics. The cover features an ink trace from Suzuki Daisetz's private collection, and a Zen verse is hidden behind the belly band. The first page is not the main text; a line of ink, "Originally a free person," reproduces the texture of Zen ink on cloud Xuan paper, which can be cut out and framed separately. We hope readers do not enter Buddhism with too much burden. We are inherently complete; in fact, everyone's soul is naturally pure. 4. In a busy era, spend more time with yourself, with detailed introductory guidance for Zen meditation and synchronized audio. Zen meditation offers many benefits for both body and mind. Today, "mindfulness meditation" is also very popular among young people, even becoming a new business model, but there are also many misunderstandings. How to correctly practice Zen meditation at home? This book provides detailed introductory guidance for Zen meditation, and by scanning the QR code, you can listen to synchronized audio instructions to help readers practice correctly at home step by step. In busy or anxious times, more dialogue and time spent with yourself will lead to answers. 5. Special inclusion of three spiritual interviews, answering real and specific observations and confusions from those around us. For example, what is the underlying psychology when young people go to temples to burn incense? Why is "finding inner peace" increasingly gaining attention? Does letting go of attachment mean "lying flat"? How can we find our own place of peace? ... This book specially includes a chapter called "Mantra," selecting and compiling three spiritual interviews, discussing real and specific observations and confusions from ourselves or those around us in a relaxed dialogue. 6. Includes an "Anxiety Relief Mailbox" entrance: A book with a mailbox, providing moments for safe confiding and questioning. Each book will include a card with the entrance to the "Anxiety Relief Mailbox." After reading this book, if you still have unresolved doubts or want to share your moments of anxiety relief, you can write to the book's exclusive email address. The author will carefully read and reply. Each book is a unique encounter, and we hope you can also gain a sense of anxiety relief. --------------------------------- 【Content Introduction】 Amidst widespread spiritual crises, where can one find a path to inner peace? This book is an introductory guide to Buddhist wisdom suitable for modern people. Starting from the daily lives and experiences of modern people, it breaks down seemingly mysterious Buddhist concepts in accessible language, and uses the true spiritual concerns of Buddhism to respond to contemporary spiritual inquiries, helping everyone who feels the suffering of life, and is confused about their environment, life, and self, to regain inner freedom and the power of peace. This book begins with Siddhartha's experiences, exploring what he truly enlightened under the Bodhi tree, and how he dealt with life's initial doubts. The second chapter, "Observing the Self," answers questions about the relationship between people and themselves, how to face an uncertain world, and what it means to reconcile with oneself. Concepts such as "Four Noble Truths," "Five Aggregates," and "Anatta (non-self)" directly address these doubts. The third chapter, "Observing Sentient Beings," answers questions about the relationship between people and others: Why do we often feel lonely? Are good and evil absolute? Do Bodhisattvas truly exist? This chapter responds to these doubts by explaining classics such as the Heart Sutra and the Diamond Sutra. The fourth chapter, "Observing Life and Death," addresses humanity's ultimate doubts: Why are we afraid of death? Where do I go after I die? Is there really reincarnation and rebirth? This chapter will interpret what the Buddhist view of life and death is, and how we should prepare for death. Birth, old age, sickness, and death are processes that everyone must experience. The relationship between environment and inner self, and between self and others, are also lessons that everyone must cultivate. This book answers these questions that are close to life, difficult to contemplate, yet unavoidable.

2024-11-01

上海三联书店

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9787542687036