Zen in the Age of Anxiety Wisdom for Navigating Our Modern Lives

Zen in the Age of Anxiety offers Zen wisdom for identifying the causes of the mental and emotional anxiety epidemic in today's world and for finding the path to a peaceful heart in the midst of them. The book proposes that the path to inner peace leads directly through the center of the anxiety we seek to escape, rather than outside of it. Written in the style of an owner's manual, a guide to being human, author Tim Burkett, a psychologist and Zen priest, focuses on areas of pain and anxiety as they manifest for modern people, including feelings of unworthiness, and issues surrounding sex, money, failure, and death. Providing wisdom from Zen, channeled through his experience as a psychotherapist and using language and metaphors from popular culture, the book teaches readers to turn their fears into the building blocks of a fulfilling life. Each of the ten chapters concludes with a section called 'Doing the Work,' which includes questions and meditative exercises to apply the concepts to the reader's own life.

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