Cheri Huber

Going Beyond Self-Hate

There Is Nothing Wrong with You

Rather than explaining typical strategies for overcoming fear, this book focuses on examining how fear is experience, how to recognize that experience as nothing more than conditioned reaction to circumstance, and how to mentor oneself into letting go of beliefs about "appropriate" responses to fear. The notion is debunked that fear is anything other than a label we have learned to put on a set of physical and emotional responses, which is a Buddhist view of emotion in general.

Facing Fear Once and for All

The Fear Book

This guide to self-discovery through intimate relationships offers a spiritual perspective on healing childhood wounds and destructive patterns that are learned early on and later cause relationship dysfunction in adulthood.

Relationship and Self-Discovery

Be the Person You Want to Find

A zen teacher provides advice on avoiding self-blame and learning to reach individual potential.

There is Nothing Wrong with You

The 11th book from the American Zen teacher centers around three basic aspects of Zen practice: pay attention, believe nothing, and don't take anything personally. Huber gently guides the reader along this path in this book produced with a handwritten font and pen and ink drawings.

Three Keys to Freedom and Joy

Suffering Is Optional

regardless of what you were taught to believe

There is nothing wrong with you

A Guide to Compassionate Parenting

Time-Out for Parents

June Shiver

This Zen guide to utilizing depression as an opportunity for spiritual growth and personal acceptance includes personal accounts, written excercises, and meditation instructions.

Depression as an Opportunity for Spiritual Growth

The Depression Book

This look at the blues shows us that the worst thing we can do is try to fight them. The author suggests that resisting depression - or anything else you don't want - actually sustains it and that compassionate acceptance of your feelings and yourself leads to freedom. Through simple exercises and meditations readers learn to open up to emotions, both good and bad, because, according to the author when you open yourself up to pain you also open yourself up to joy.

The Little Book of Beating the Blues

In her new book, Huber takes on the topic of changing ourselves: how do we break "bad habits" and start good ones, whether it's in the realm of exercise, eating, shopping, or committing ourselves to a spiritual practice such as meditation? Huber points out that we've all been led to believe that if we were only a little better in some way, we'd find happiness. We're always thinking, "Life isn't the way it should be - and it's my fault!" But, Huber explains, no amount of self-punishment will ever make us happy or bring us control over life's problems. The happiness and peace we are looking for is ultimately found only in self-acceptance and kindness. MAKING A CHANGE FOR GOOD encourages us to focus on what is true for us in this moment so that our experience can be authentic, awake, honest, and joyful, with no need to hide out in addictive behaviors or run away from reality by using substances or other habitual escapes. This book includes a guided thirty-day program of daily meditation, contemplation, and journaling.

A Guide to Compassionate Self-discipline

Making a Change for Good

Answering questions such as "What is meditation?" "I can't clear my mind. What should I do?" "What do I focus on?" and "How can I meditate when I have no time?" this guide answers more than 50 of the most commonly asked questions about meditation practices. Beginners will find information on how to sit, what to sit on, when to sit, where to sit, why to sit, and what to expect. They will learn how the body, mind, emotions, and spirit might respond to meditation.

Responses to Questions about Meditation

Nothing Happens Next

This book combines the psychological concept of acceptance with ancient Buddhist teachings about the chain of interdependent origination, which provides immediately usable tools for looking at how suffering happens and how to let that go. Stressing the theme of accepting what life brings, it reveals what acceptance is and what stands in the way of being able to accept life's ups and downs. Four steps for combating resistance are also provided.

Acceptance, Freedom and Possibility

When You're Falling, Dive

Sara Jenkins

This funny, engaging guide to the basics of Buddhist meditation presents the idea that people are not human beings trying to be spiritual, but spiritual beings trying to be human. That is, instead of striving toward an ideal image of ourselves, people might aim simply to see more clearly what being human is all about, including what impels striving.

Zen Talks from Cheri Huber

Trying to be Human

Ashwini Narayanan

Zen techniques, from a renowned Zen teacher, to derive greater satisfaction from life Are you making choices that are supposed to give you what you want but leave you feeling unfulfilled and disappointed? This new book is based on the Buddha's teachings and the practice of Zen, and breaks down the structures of this karmic process. Written in a humorous and lighthearted style, it illustrates through essays, stories, and examples what keeps us from choosing well-being, love, happiness, and joy as our life experience. In addition, the book contains a calendar of practical exercises and nuggets of wisdom from those who have practiced with these teachings.

How We Are Conned Out of the Life We Want

The Big Bamboozle

Provides Zen Buddhist awareness exercises to use when working through problems or facing resistance.

How Resistance Controls Your Life and What to Do about It

I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It

These insights from many years of Zen meditation practice appeal to a wide range of spiritual traditions and explore topics such as the difference between process and content, notions of right and wrong, ending self-punishment, and taking responsibility for one's experiences. Perfect for beginning Zen students and for those interested in Buddhism in general or eastern religion, it features deep spiritual insights and playful illustrations that add warmth and approachability to the topic.

And the Name of the Key Is Willingness

The Key

A follow-up to the perennial bestseller There Is Nothing Wrong with You, this book gives readers the opportunity to pinpoint the practices in their lives that hinder their happiness and success and replace them with practices that will enhance their well-being. Examples of everyday issues—and the accompanying, unconscious practices—that can weigh a person down, such as weight gain, sleeplessness, trouble at work, and family life, are addressed with clarity and humor. Employing the tools and techniques of Zen awareness, this guide helps readers make their lives better by freeing themselves from the barrage of repetitive thoughts that constantly besiege the average person.

A Guide to Having the Life You Want

What You Practice Is What You Have

Chosen for impact, clarity, and humor, these one-per-day quotations come from a wide variety of sources: Zen masters; Christian and Sufi mystics; Eastern and Western philosophers; poets ancient and modern; and living artists, writers, and comedians. Each entry also contains a question to prompt self-examination, making the calendar a year-long course in fending off destructive thoughts and finding inner certainty.

A Year of Awareness Practice

Transform Your Life

There Is Nothing Wrong with You for Teens

The teachings of Zen are presented to Westerners in this book, including subjects ranging from compassion and meditation to death.

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