Ending the Pursuit of Happiness by Barry Magid

Ending the Pursuit of Happiness by Barry Magid

We all have a right to the pursuit of happiness - but could we actually be happier if we gave that whole thing up?

This surprising new book from Zen teacher, psychoanalyst, and critical favorite Barry Magid inspires us - in gentle and winking prose - to move on and make peace with the perfection of the way things actually are, including ourselves.

Magid invites us to consider that our pursuit of happiness may actually be a source of our suffering. He takes an unusual look at our secret practices - what we're really doing when we say we're meditating-like trying to feel calmer, or more compassionate, or even enlightened (whatever we imagine that means ). He also uncovers our curative fantasies about spiritual practice - those ideas that we can somehow fix all the messy human things about ourselves that we imagine are bad or wrong or unacceptable. In doing so, he helps us look squarely at-and avoid-such pitfalls. Along the way, Magid lays out a rich roadmap of the new psychological-minded Zen - a Zen that includes our entire life, our entire personality - as pioneered by his teacher, bestselling author Charlotte Joko Beck.

Barry Magid is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City, as well as the founder of the Ordinary Mind Zendo in the same city. Ordinary Mind and Stopping the Search of Happiness are two of his Wisdom titles.

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ISBN 13	9780861715534
ISBN 10	0861715535
Title	Ending the Pursuit of Happiness
Author	Barry Magid
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wisdom Publications,U.S.
Year published	2008-03-01
Number of pages	175
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