Confidence: Holding Your Seat through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds
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How do we stand firm amid the ups and downs of existence?
In today’s culture of polarization and constant change, how do we find the confidence to navigate challenges? Is now really the time for meditation, for looking inward? What do we do with mindfulness? Meditation teacher Ethan Nichtern tackles these questions, taking contemporary considerations of power, identity, ethics, and confidence to new heights in this essential guide to self-discovery.
Ethan examines the Buddhist concept of the Eight Worldly Winds, the four paired opposites of praise and blame, pleasure and pain, fame and insignificance, and success and failure. Delving into these dichotomies reveals invaluable insights into our relationships with others (including teachers, friends, leaders, the disgraced, and the adored) and ourselves. With transformative meditation exercises, Confidence empowers us to cultivate and access our innate wisdom.
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Editor's Take
Readers on Goodreads describe this book as clear, accessible, and practical, with several saying Ethan Nichtern offers helpful metaphors and stories for working with the eight worldly winds. A number of reviewers praise its warmth, clarity, and usefulness as a guide for handling praise and blame, pleasure and pain, fame and insignificance, and success and failure.
One Goodreads reviewer calls it a kind and direct manual for navigating change, while another says it offers transformative meditation exercises and fresh insight into confidence. A blog review at The Tattooed Buddha highlights the book’s thoughtful treatment of mental traps and its focus on courage and stability in everyday life.
Another independent review says the book is clear-eyed, heartfelt, and free of unnecessary Buddhist jargon, and recommends it highly. Overall, the available customer and reader feedback is strongly positive, especially for readers interested in mindfulness, Buddhism, and practical self-understanding.
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| Topic | Confidence |
Product Details
| Publisher | New World Library |
| Publication date | May 21, 2024 |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 240 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1608688542 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1608688548 |
| Item Weight | 8.8 ounces |
| Dimensions | 1.18 x 5.25 x 8 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #853,711 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,561 in Buddhism (Books) #2,855 in Meditation (Books) #4,096 in Happiness Self-Help |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (118) |
