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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 294
EAN num: 9781590304617
ISBN number: 1590304616
Label: Trumpeter
Manufacturer: Trumpeter
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: November 13, 2007
Publishing house: Trumpeter
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 28176
Studio: Trumpeter
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Combining humor, honesty, and plainspoken advice, Momma Zen distills the doubts and frustrations of parenting into vignettes of Zen wisdom.
Drawing on her experience as a first-time mother, and on her years of Zen meditation and study, Miller explores how the daily challenges of parenthood can become the most profound spiritual journey of our lives.
This compelling and wise memoir follows the timeline of early motherhood from pregnancy through toddlerhood. Momma Zen takes readers on a transformative journey, charting a mother’s growth beyond naive expectations and disorientation to finding fulfillment in ordinary tasks, developing greater self-awareness and acceptance—to the gradual discovery of “maternal bliss,” a state of abiding happiness and ease that is available to us all.
In her gentle and reassuring voice, Karen Miller convinces us that ancient and authentic spiritual lessons can be as familiar as a lullaby, as ordinary as pureed peas, and as frequent as a sleepless night. She offers encouragement for the hard days, consolation for the long haul, and the lightheartedness every new mom needs to face the crooked path of motherhood straight on.
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As the mother of a colicky newborn, I found myself struggling. Frustrated and exhausted, I felt desperate and disappointed in myself for not being as blissed-out as I believed every new mother should be about her baby. Reading Momma Zen was like relaxing into the arms of a good friend who understood everything I was going through. Karen Maezen Miller is so refreshingly real, and her eloquent account of the everyday challenges of parenthood has been both a comfort and an inspiration to me. I credit her with helping get me through many those very first few months, and revisit my favorite passages whenever I need a reminder to just let go, or reassurance that being frustrated doesn't make me a bad parent. Momma Zen has earned a place of honor on my bookshelf, and it's become my go-to gift for new mamas.
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This is a good book. I was hoping for more advice on how to cope with motherhood in a Buddhist manner and the challenges it brings, but even without it was still refreshing to know other mother's are having the same experiences I am. If you are already practicing the Buddhist Way there is no new information in this book to help you apply Buddhism to Motherhood
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I gave this 5 stars because it is written by a "real" person not claiming to be more enlightened than anybody else. You can sense the genuineness of the author's intent in this book. It's an easy read.
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It is truly rare to find a book so full of Truth. This brilliant little treasure will help struggling mothers to find peace and joy in their own journey through motherhood. I can not stress enough how perfect this book is! The author, Karen Maezen Miller, shares her life experiences, from the simple to the heart wrenching, and then is able to use those experiences to present, more than just Buddhist truth, but what I consider to be universal truths. I finished feeling enlightened and inspired. Miller provides mothers with not just encouragement, but encourages a perspective transformation, which will help restrain the suffering and guide you towards joy. Every mother should have this book.
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One can almost feel they are listening to Karen Maezen Miller chat with them across the coffee table, so intimately does she confide. It is easy to see her in a chenille bathrobe and smudgy mascara as she pulls you closer into her world. I am glad to find a Western Zen practicioner, a priest yet, who is as solid and real and as loving as my mom. Someone who is teaching me but is so much a student too. As an active and doting aunt to 9 children ages 8 months to 35 years, I have gained insight on my sisters' lives, shed guilt about taking their kids to Mickie D's, and can understand the grace of an apology to a child. I was captivated by the honesty and the wonderful writing. I have given this book to several friends, it makes a perfect gift.
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