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Kokoro
- Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived
- Length: 6 hrs
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Publisher's Summary
kokoro [n.] intelligent heart, feeling mind
One year. Two devastating losses. Three sacred Japanese mountains. A major life transition, a heart full of grief and a revelation that changes everything.
Join author Beth Kempton on a life-changing pilgrimage through rural Japan in search of answers to some of life's biggest questions: How do we find calm in the chaos and beauty in the darkness? How do we let go of the past and stop worrying about the future? What can an awareness of impermanence teach us about living well?
Together you will journey to the deep north of Japan, hike ancient forests, watch the moon rise over mountains of myth and encounter a host of wise teachers along the way—Noh actors, chefs, taxi drivers, coffee shop owners, poets, philosophers and the spirits that inhabit the land. You will contemplate the true nature of time at one of the world's strictest Zen temples and nothing will be quite the same again.
This book is an invitation to cultivate stillness and contentment in an ever-changing, uncertain world. It all begins with the kokoro, a profound Japanese term which represents the intelligent heart, the feeling mind and the embodied spirit of every human being. When you learn to live guided by the light in your kokoro, everything changes, and anything is possible.
What the critics say
“A remarkable book. I think about it all the time. It’s a stunning piece of writing and an extraordinary achievement.”—Dr. Ali Foxon, author of The Green Sketching Handbook
“Reading Kokoro has helped put me in such a contemplative, open-hearted place. Just wow.“—Hannah Nunn, author of Illuminate