Mindfulness and Money
The Buddhist Path of Abundance
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- 3,99 €
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- 3,99 €
Publisher Description
From two leading instructors in business and Buddhism comes a fresh approach to making peace with your finances and creating true abundance.
It may seem contradictory that Buddhist teachers Kulananda and Dominic Houlder have also been highly successful in the business arena, but they have learned that Buddhist teachings do not require a life of poverty, and can indeed go hand-in-hand with wealth and prosperity. Mindfulness and Money brings to light the teachings of Buddha as they apply to the money part of life, and shares the stories of others who have found the Buddhist path to freedom, creativity, and abundance.
Using the Buddhist Wheel of Life as a starting point, the authors explore the mechanism by which desire for money and material things is confining, and how mastery of desire can free us to live peacefully with our finances. Kulananda and Houlder offer five precepts for living on the Path of Abundance, including kindness, generosity, contentment, honesty, and awareness. Through prescriptive meditations, reflections, and exercises, we can begin to earn and spend more purposefully–the key to finding financial peace, whatever one’s income. An enlightening combination of practical wisdom and spirituality, Mindfulness and Money is a valuable asset for all seekers.
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Ignore the consumerist connotation that the "abundance" of the book's subtitle unfortunately carries, and enjoy this basic text on how to live happily and mindfully as a householder Buddhist. This is a book for Buddhists with jobs to keep and bills to pay people who are always mindlessly getting and spending, yet never attaining satisfaction. Kulananda and Houlder, entrepreneurs and teachers of both Buddhism and business, skillfully interpret the traditional Buddhist image of the Wheel of Life to analyze work, consumption and other real-life contemporary economic behaviors. Throughout, they suggest ways to live as mindful, generous, contented financial beings. Both authors live and work in the U.K., which gives them functional distance from the tentacles of American consumerism; members of the Western Buddhist Order, they are also familiar with the economic exigencies faced by their order's Asian Buddhist members. Their ethic elaborates on the traditional five Buddhist precepts used by monastics and householders alike: don't kill, steal, lie, become intoxicated, or engage in sexual misconduct. Kulananda and Houlder persuasively argue that these precepts are liberating when applied to the world of economic choice, and can lead to greater mindfulness and equanimity. They include exercises to help raise awareness and numerous examples to illustrate. A fresh antidote to consumerism and guilt and a sharply realistic tool, this provocative and practical book belongs not just on Buddhist nightstands, but on office desks as an essential reminder to emulate the Buddha in the workplace.