Buddhism for Mothers with Lingering Questions: Taking Stock of what Really MattersFor all mothers who loved the simplicity, clarity and warmth of the bestselling Buddhism for Mothers, comes the book which answers the next lot of questions. Now the mother of a toddler and a primary school-aged child, Sarah Napthali writes of the next stage of the parenting journey. |
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We avoid treating our children in knee-jerk, reactive ways, just as we avoid falling into ruts of crabbiness, snappiness and impatience. We know that every child is different from the next, and that each individual is different from ...
We avoid treating our children in knee-jerk, reactive ways, just as we avoid falling into ruts of crabbiness, snappiness and impatience. We know that every child is different from the next, and that each individual is different from ...
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Parenting teaches us all those spiritual truths that we resist with all our being, but finally cannot avoid—that life can never be perfect, that nothing lasts, that the only time is now and that I am not who I think I am.
Parenting teaches us all those spiritual truths that we resist with all our being, but finally cannot avoid—that life can never be perfect, that nothing lasts, that the only time is now and that I am not who I think I am.
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If I avoid being present, I might find myself becoming obsessed with my productivity. Life becomes grim-faced as I surrender to being perpetually busy, to always achieving. This is the culture of our time and can become an addictive ...
If I avoid being present, I might find myself becoming obsessed with my productivity. Life becomes grim-faced as I surrender to being perpetually busy, to always achieving. This is the culture of our time and can become an addictive ...
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Being with close friends in the other class might have made him playful and distracted, and it was probably better that he avoid comparing his academic progress with these friends, some of whom were well ...
Being with close friends in the other class might have made him playful and distracted, and it was probably better that he avoid comparing his academic progress with these friends, some of whom were well ...
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Practise non-judgemental awareness where you avoid becoming emotionally caught up in your ratings of pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. • Ask yourself what you practise if you do not practise awareness of the present and where might a ...
Practise non-judgemental awareness where you avoid becoming emotionally caught up in your ratings of pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. • Ask yourself what you practise if you do not practise awareness of the present and where might a ...
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Table des matières
| 27 | |
3 Who am I? | 45 |
4 Who are my children? | 69 |
5 Is this all? | 93 |
6 What does this moment require? | 119 |
7 What can I do about all the housework? | 143 |
8 Can I change my ways? | 165 |
9 How do I handle my negativity? | 189 |
Conclusion | 237 |
the teaching on emptiness | 240 |
stopovers on the way to peace | 244 |
Acknowledgements | 248 |
Bibliography | 250 |
Index | 253 |
Back cover | 257 |
10 How can I be my best? | 213 |
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Page 76 - You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Page 94 - The Problem That Has No Name Betty Friedan The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night,...
Page 105 - We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
Page 76 - You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Page 3 - Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today.
Page 151 - If while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, then we are not "washing the dishes to wash the dishes." What's more, we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes. In fact we are completely incapable of realizing the miracle of life while standing at the sink. If we can't wash the dishes, the chances are we won't be able to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea, we will...
Page 65 - Even as a mother protects with her life, her child, her only child, So with a boundless heart, should one cherish all living beings...
Page 9 - It is overfull. No more will go in!" "Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?
Page 9 - Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Buddhism for Mothers with Lingering Questions: Taking Stock of what Really Matters |
| Auteur | Sarah Napthali |
| Éditeur | Allen & Unwin, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1741159822, 9781741159820 |
| Longueur | 256 pages |
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