Buddha's Office
The Ancient Art of Waking Up While Working Well
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Can enlightenment be found at the office? From the co-author of Buddha's Diet comes another book that shows how the wisdom of Buddha can apply to our modern lives -- this time exploring how Buddha's guidance can help us navigate the perils of work life.
Without setting foot in an office, Buddha knew that helping people work right was essential to helping them find their path to awakening. Now more than ever, we need Buddha's guidance. Too many of us are working long hours, dealing with difficult bosses, high-maintenance coworkers, and non-stop stress. We need someone to help remind us that there is a better way. With Buddha's wisdom at the core of every chapter, Buddha's Office will help you learn how to stop taking shortcuts and pay more attention, care for yourself and others, deal with distractions, and incorporate Buddha's ageless instructions into our modern working life.
It's time to wake up and start working in a more enlightened way. One that is right for you, right for our health, right for your sanity, and right for the world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Data scientist and Zen priest Zigmond (Buddha's Diet) turns to Buddhist wisdom in this insightful guide to addressing the stresses of the modern workplace. Though the Buddha "never worked a day in his life," Zigmond writes, his teachings offer guidelines for "right livelihood," one of the steps of the Eightfold Path to enlightenment. Zigmond suggests that work, being such a critical part of modern life, is "an integral part of truly waking up." He asks readers to take a step back, pay attention, and be more conscious in creating and sustaining healthy relationships with oneself and workplace colleagues. Along the way, Zigmond covers the fundamentals of Buddhist thought and encourages mindfulness meditation as the basis for everyday navigation of work situations, among them office disagreements, career advancement, workplace friendships and romances, work-life balance, and multitasking. Working Buddhists and those interested in Buddhist mindfulness will find this to be an accessible, down-to-earth handbook for finding a "middle path" while at the office.
