An Unshakable Mind: How to Overcome Life’s Difficulties
About This Book
A practical guide to developing the quality of inner stability that Okawa identifies as essential for navigating the inevitable difficulties of human life — the "unshakable mind" of the title. He covers the specific inner practices and perspectives that allow the spiritual practitioner to remain centered and clear in the face of failure, loss, conflict, illness, and the other challenges that constitute the curriculum of human existence.
What You'll Learn
The unshakable mind is not achieved through the elimination of difficulty but through the development of a relationship to difficulty that is neither avoidance nor overwhelm — the capacity to face whatever arises with clarity, composure, and the confidence that comes from genuine spiritual development. Most human unhappiness is not caused by difficulties themselves but by the stories the mind constructs about difficulties — changing the story changes the experience, and the deepest change comes from replacing a story of victimhood with one of purposeful growth. The spiritual practitioner who maintains inner equilibrium in the face of difficulty is not suppressing their response to it but transforming it — using the energy of challenge as fuel for spiritual development rather than as an occasion for suffering.
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