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This was Oren Jay Sofer's newest book discussed in the episode, which lays out 26 qualities/tools inspired by Buddhism for navigating a chaotic world. The author mentioned having to retroactively edit the book after his father passed away, integrating insights about forgiveness.
He's got a new book called Your Heart Was Made for This which lays out 26 qualities, many of them inspired by Buddhism for both navigating and positively impacting a chaotic world...
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Episode: How To Be Less Anxious and More Useful in a Chaoti...
This was Oren Jay Sofer's newest book discussed in the episode, which lays out 26 qualities/tools inspired by Buddhism for navigating a chaotic world. The author mentioned having to retroactively edit the book after his father passed away, integrating insights about forgiveness.
He's got a new book called Your Heart Was Made for This which lays out 26 qualities, many of them inspired by Buddhism for both navigating and positively impacting a chaotic world...
The book grew out of that and out of my own investigation into, how do we respond? How is our practice relevant?
I wouldn't even call them Buddhist tools. You know while I talk about some of the Buddhist roots of the book, I really see them as universal tools and and humanistic tools is is courage Buddhist is curiosity Buddhist know these are core facets of our humanity...
So the title your heart was made for this it's a little bit of a play on words in some ways one of the things that I feel and hear from a lot of other people is when the world appears in this very dark way of what is the future going to be it feels overwhelming.
The book is called Your Heart was made for this contemplative practices to meet a world in crisis with courage integrity and love...