num_pages: 288
description: Do you feel at home right now? Or do you sense a hovering anxiety or uncertainty an underlying unease that makes you feel just a bit uncomfortable a bit distracted and disconnected from those around you? In The Road Home Ethan Nichtern a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition investigates the journey each of us takes to find where we belong. Drawing from contemporary research on meditation and mindfulness and his experience as a Buddhist teacher and practitioner Nichtern describes in fresh and deeply resonant terms the basic existential experience that gives rise to spiritual seekingand also to its potentially dangerous counterpart spiritual materialism. He reveals how our individual quests for self-awareness ripple forward into relationships communities and society at large. And he explains exactly how by turning our awareness to what's happening around us and inside us we become able to enhance our sense of connection with others and at the same time change for the better our individual and collective patterns of greed apathy and inattention.In this wise and witty invitation to Buddhist meditation Nichtern shows how in order to create a truly compassionate and enlightened society we must start with ourselves. And this means beginning by working with our own mindsin whatever state we find them in.
language: English
title: The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path
publisher: North Point Press