The Vow-Powered Life by Jan Chozen Bays

The Vow-Powered Life by Jan Chozen Bays

Winner of the 2016 IPPY Gold Medal Award for Self Help

How making a vow-consciously setting an intention-can be a powerful tool for achieving all sort of goals, from the author of the best-selling Mindful Eating.

Making a vow is a powerful mindfulness practice-and all you have to do to tap into that power is set your intention consciously. A vow can be as "small" as the aspiration to smile at someone at least once every day, or as "big" as marriage; as personal as deciding to be mindful when picking up the phone or as universal as vowing to save all sentient beings. It can be deeply spiritual, utterly ordinary, or both. Zen teacher Jan Chozen Bays looks to traditional Buddhist teachings to show the power of vows-and then applies that teaching broadly to the many vows we make. She shows that if we work with vows consciously, they set us in the direction of achieving our goals, both temporal and spiritual.

Bays presents secular and spiritual wisdom from both East and West, highlighting figures such as Martha Graham, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Buckminster Fuller. She helps us examine the vows we have already made for ourselves and the vows we've unconsciously inherited. She supports us in repairing broken vows, crafting new intentions, and exploring what's truly on our bucket lists.

Jan Chozen Bays, MD, is a Zen teacher from the late master Taizan Maezumi Roshi's White Plum lineage. She works at the Jizo Mountain-Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon, as a priest and instructor. She's also a pediatrician who specializes in child abuse and neglect evaluations.

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ISBN 13	9781611801002
ISBN 10	1611801001
Title	The Vow-Powered Life
Author	Jan Chozen Bays
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Shambhala Publications Inc
Year published	2016-01-19
Number of pages	192
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