The Vow-Powered Life: A Simple Method for Living with Purpose
A vow is like a GPS system for your life. When taken on mindfully it can be a source of surprising wisdom and powerful energy, enabling you to accomplish things you never dreamed possible. It can have profound effects even beyond the original intention—and it can even live on after you’re gone. A vow can be as small as the aspiration to smile at someone at least once every day, or it can be as big as marriage; it can be as personal as deciding to be mindful whenever you pick up the phone, or it can be as universal as a commitment to save all sentient beings. But whatever its inspiration, when it’s done with conscious intention a vow becomes a conduit for the energy of your life.

In this guide to the vow-directed life, Jan Chozen Bays provides a wealth of practical exercises to use for formulating and implementing vows of your own and for using them to navigate your life with honesty and compassion.
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The Vow-Powered Life: A Simple Method for Living with Purpose
A vow is like a GPS system for your life. When taken on mindfully it can be a source of surprising wisdom and powerful energy, enabling you to accomplish things you never dreamed possible. It can have profound effects even beyond the original intention—and it can even live on after you’re gone. A vow can be as small as the aspiration to smile at someone at least once every day, or it can be as big as marriage; it can be as personal as deciding to be mindful whenever you pick up the phone, or it can be as universal as a commitment to save all sentient beings. But whatever its inspiration, when it’s done with conscious intention a vow becomes a conduit for the energy of your life.

In this guide to the vow-directed life, Jan Chozen Bays provides a wealth of practical exercises to use for formulating and implementing vows of your own and for using them to navigate your life with honesty and compassion.
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The Vow-Powered Life: A Simple Method for Living with Purpose

The Vow-Powered Life: A Simple Method for Living with Purpose

by Jan Chozen Bays
The Vow-Powered Life: A Simple Method for Living with Purpose

The Vow-Powered Life: A Simple Method for Living with Purpose

by Jan Chozen Bays

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A vow is like a GPS system for your life. When taken on mindfully it can be a source of surprising wisdom and powerful energy, enabling you to accomplish things you never dreamed possible. It can have profound effects even beyond the original intention—and it can even live on after you’re gone. A vow can be as small as the aspiration to smile at someone at least once every day, or it can be as big as marriage; it can be as personal as deciding to be mindful whenever you pick up the phone, or it can be as universal as a commitment to save all sentient beings. But whatever its inspiration, when it’s done with conscious intention a vow becomes a conduit for the energy of your life.

In this guide to the vow-directed life, Jan Chozen Bays provides a wealth of practical exercises to use for formulating and implementing vows of your own and for using them to navigate your life with honesty and compassion.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780834803114
Publisher: Shambhala
Publication date: 01/19/2016
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 957 KB

About the Author

JAN CHOZEN BAYS, MD, is a Zen master in the White Plum lineage of the late master Taizan Maezumi Roshi. She serves as a priest and teacher at the Jizo Mountain-Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon. She is also a pediatrician who specializes in the evaluation of children for abuse and neglect.

Table of Contents

In Gratitude ix

Introduction: The Power and Joy of Vows xi

1 About Vow 1

HowVows Work

TheVows You've Already Made 6

TheTrajectory of a Vow 9

Don't Confuse the Means with the Vow 14

2 Different Kinds of Vows 19

LifeIs the Original Vow 19

InheritedVows 25

InspiredVows 30

Reactiveand Overreactive Vows 35

3 Help in Forming Vows 45

TheTombstone Test 45

ABucket List 49

MissionStatements 54

ThePsychology of Vows 57

4 Maintaining Vows 63

RemindingYourself of Your Vows 63

Don't Add Fuel to the Inner Critic 66

Askingfor Help 69

Ceremoniesand Vows 76

Joininga Larger Vow 80

5 The Challenges Vows Present 87

VowsAre Alive, Vows Change 87

Vowsafter Retirement 91

WhenOur Vows Are Challenged 94

UnfinishedVows 99

VowsThat Continue for Lifetimes 102

WhenVows Are Broken 107

Atonement 111

6 The Vows of Relationships 113

Marriageand Divorce 113

Celibacy 120

7 Picked Up and Carried Along By Vows 125

OneVow Can Give Birth to Another 125

Litfrom within by Vows 137

ImpossibleVows 137

TheBodhisattva Vow 142

Appendix 1 Sample Vows 150

Appendix 2 A Personal Ceremony of Vows 157

Notes 159

Glossary 167

Index 168

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