After the Ecstacy, the Laundry
by Jack Kornfield
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Author: Jack KornfieldEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-06-22
ISBN: 0712606580
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Random House
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Book Review: Alexandra's Book Club
Summary: 4 Stars
A wonderful client of mine reminded me in a recent session that I had recommended this book to him twice! Like the books I've previously reviewed for our online book club, this one is so full of wisdom I could re-read it every week and still learn from it. I am always looking for books that offer a practical focus for healing and ways to face day-to-day challenges through the lens of, hopefully, grace.
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, is by Jack Kornfield, author, meditation master, and co-founder of Spirit Rock, a meditation retreat in Marin County, California. This book is about how the modern spiritual journey unfolds. Most, if not all of you, aren't able to spend a few years sorting things out in silence on a mountaintop. The challenges of work and family, emotional pain, and our own imperfections require most of us to stick around and make a spiritual life around "real" life. In the introduction Kornfield asks, "What happens when the Zen master returns home to spouse and children? When the Christian mystic goes shopping?"
This book, through traditional tales and individual stories, shows ways to translate the excitement of discovering your spiritual path with making peace with the necessary "laundry" of our lives. "All spiritual life is preparation for transition, from one state to another, from one circumstance to another. The ability to make wise transitions is the ability to keep a beginner's mind. Change is not the enemy."
Yes, the book has a Buddhist orientation, but it also draws upon Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Sufi traditions. It's about our hearts, and how we can prepare them for a deeper experience of love and awakening. It's about truth, and the power of truth to heal and to make sense out of some of our hardest lessons. It's about acceptance of ourselves as we are. Yes, that!
So, I invite you to take this opportunity to read this funny and wise book and maybe even be willing to air that dirty laundry, openly and without judgment.
Alex
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