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Overview
Change Yourself, Change The World
Find answers. It’s easy to get outraged by world events, frustrated by our own personal battles, and disenfranchised from government and leadership. Born of moral indignation, informed by decades of study, and seasoned by a life of devoted self-cultivation, Monk Yun Rou’s Mad Monk Manifesto has answers, personal prescriptions, and calls to social and political action in one powerful book.
Change the world by changing ourselves. Based on ancient Chinese wisdom such as Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, Mad Monk Manifesto is part tour guide to consciousness, part recipe for personal development, part prescription for environmental salvation, and part handbook for social change.
Wise advice for the awakened life. As ripples move away from a stone dropped into a pond, Mad Monk Manifesto begins with our personal lives, discussing diet, exercise, meditation, and mind/body practice. Then it expands to our public environment, describing what we can do to improve our community, government, and the world. Full of everything from advice for a healthy, conscious lifestyle to actions we can take to enhance the lives of friends, family, coworkers, and community members; Mad Monk Manifesto highlights spirituality and service. In addition, Monk Yun Rou encourages everyone to engage in the nature that surrounds them, showing how environmentalism can take place in daily life.
Mad Monk Manifesto is precisely what the world needs at a time of unprecedented environmental disasters, international instability, and divisive and unreliable leadership. After reading this book, you will learn:
- How to relax, rectify, and rebalance life
- How to bolster the community and deepen culture
- How to effect positive change in commerce, government, power, and the environment
Mad Monk Manifesto is for readers of Alan Watts, Eckhart Tolle, and Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781633538641 |
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| Publisher: | TURNER PUB CO |
| Publication date: | 10/31/2018 |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Yun Rou’s work has appeared in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Parade, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, WebMD, Fox Business News, and numerous other websites and newspapers. In 1989, he received the National Head Injury Recover Center’s Journalism Award, and a Pharmaceutical Advertising Manny Award for the Best Consumer Campaign.
15 of Yun Rou’s books have been published to critical acclaim, some achieving bestseller status and garnering Hollywood options. Among other distinctions—including the Eric Hoffer Award, USA Book News Best Books Award, Foreward Magazine Mystery Award, Living Now Book Award—he was a finalist for the prestigious Books for a Better Life award for his bestseller, The Truth About Chronic Pain. His 2015 novel of Chinese history and philosophy, Yin —A Love Story, was published simultaneously in English in the USA and Mandarin Chinese in China, his most recent work is Mad Monk Manifesto (Mango 2018), and other completed books are in the publishing pipeline.
Monk Yun Rou began his formal martial arts training in 1980 and has studied with some of China’s top Chen-style tai chi grandmasters. In 2011 he was named Tai Chi Master of The Year at the World Congress on Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine. In July 2014, Yun Rou was the opening and closing keynote speaker at the International Tai Chi Symposium in Louisville, Kentucky. He teaches in South Florida and around the world.
Table of Contents
Introduction 10
Notes on the Presentation 27
Chapter 1 Relaxing and Rectifying 30
Chapter 2 Rebalancing Daily Life 88
Chapter 3 Fostering Community, Deepening Culture 117
Chapter 4 Culture, Commerce, Government, and Power 147
Chapter 5 Sensitivity and Environment 195
Chapter 6 Awakening to Spirit and Service 235
Afterword 267
Acknowledgments 271
Monk Yun Rou 272
What People are Saying About This
"Monk Yun Rou’s new book, Mad Monk Manifesto – A Prescription for Evolution, Revolution, and Global Awakening, is a Taoist call to action to anyone wishing to save themselves and the planet.”
-Danielle, Bolelli, PhD, author, professor, and host of: History on Fire, and Drunken Taoist podcasts
"In this wide ranging, amusing and thoughtful book Mad Monk Manifest – A Prescription for Evolution, Revolution, and Global Awakening, Taoist Monk Yun Rou offers us a vision that can give hope to millions. It is a vision which is rooted in compassion, simplicity and selflessness, and offers a pathway to a sustainable world - not just spiritually - but practically too. It is a book for snacking but devouring too."
• Graeme Maxton, Secretary General of the Club of Rome and author of best-selling books: The End of Progress and Reinventing Prosperity.
"With Mad Monk Manifesto – A Prescription for Evolution, Revolution, and Global Awakening, Monk Yun Rou presents a utopian treatise that reminds us of what we can aspire to. He has much wisdom to share."
• Dr. Carl Pilcher, PhD, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, NASA (retired)
"Uplifting, inquisitive and elegant in its delivery, Monk Yun Rou’s newest work Mad Monk Manifesto – A Prescription for Evolution, Revolution, and Global Awakening shines a light on the importance of curiosity, kindness and transformation in a world beset by overconsumption, the glorification of violence and the relentless inundation and demands of the Information Age. A wonderful read for anyone looking to gain perspective or insight on the power of simplification and wonder!"
• Sarah Fimm, American singer-songwriter residing in Woodstock, NY