Trying to Be Human: Zen Talks

by Cheri Huber

Overview

This funny, engaging guide to the basics of Buddhist meditation presents the idea that people are not human beings trying to be spiritual, but spiritual beings trying to be human. That is, instead of striving toward an ideal image of ourselves, people might aim simply to see more clearly what being human is all about, including what impels striving.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780963078414
Publisher:	Keep It Simple Books
Publication date:	09/01/1995
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Cheri Huber is the author of 19 books, including There Is Nothing Wrong with You, When You're Falling, Dive,and Time-Out for Parents. She founded the Mountain View Zen Center in Mountain View, California, and the Zen Monastery Practice Center in Murphys, California, and teaches in both communities. She travels widely and often, leading workshops and retreats around the United States and abroad, most recently in Costa Rica and Italy. She founded Living Compassion in 2003, a nonprofit group comprised of There Is Nothing Wrong With You Retreats (based on the book); Global Community for Peace: The Assisi Peace Project; The Africa Vulnerable Children Project; and Open Air Talk Radio, her weekly call-in radio show originating from Stanford University. She lives in Murphys, California.

Editorial Reviews

"Cheri Huber tells it like it is. I count her among the Zen teachers whose writing I recommend."  —Dai-En Bennage, Resident Senior Priest, Mt. Equity Zendo and Translator, Abbess Aoyama Roshi’s Zen Seeds

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