Charlotte Joko Beck’s Followers (190)
Charlotte Joko Beck
Born
in New Jersey, The United States
March 27, 1917
Died
June 15, 2011
Genre
Influences
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Everyday Zen: Love & Work
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1989
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41 editions
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Nothing Special
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1993
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30 editions
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Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice
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2021
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4 editions
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Living Everyday Zen
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2008
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3 editions
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Now Zen (Little Books of Wisdom)
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1995
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6 editions
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Alledaagse wonderen
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Zen im Alltag
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Zen und das alltägliche Wunder: Wie wir lernen, das Leben anzunehmen, wie es ist
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זן בחיי יום יום
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Einfach Zen
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“Life always gives us
exactly the teacher we need
at every moment.
This includes every mosquito,
every misfortune,
every red light,
every traffic jam,
every obnoxious supervisor (or employee),
every illness, every loss,
every moment of joy or depression,
every addiction,
every piece of garbage,
every breath.
Every moment is the guru.”
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exactly the teacher we need
at every moment.
This includes every mosquito,
every misfortune,
every red light,
every traffic jam,
every obnoxious supervisor (or employee),
every illness, every loss,
every moment of joy or depression,
every addiction,
every piece of garbage,
every breath.
Every moment is the guru.”
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“When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not willing to do that, at least we should notice that we are not willing. The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that we receive many times a day if we're alert. This gift is always present in anyone's life, that moment when 'It's not the way I want it!”
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“Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.”
― Nothing Special
― Nothing Special
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