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    About Peace: 108 Ways to Be at Peace When Things Are Out of Control
    About Peace: 108 Ways to Be at Peace When Things Are Out of Control
    About Peace: 108 Ways to Be at Peace When Things Are Out of Control
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    About Peace: 108 Ways to Be at Peace When Things Are Out of Control

    By Scott Shaw

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    These Zen meditations for modern times can help you find calm amid chaos.
     
    Conflict is a part of life. Zen Buddhism was even founded in conflict. No one can give anyone else peace: It comes to those who seek it—in the moment and for the moment only.
     
    But even as the pace accelerates and problems escalate, it’s possible to gain inner peace. The past is gone and the future is unknown—so there’s no time like the present to use these 108 meditations. They offer a very contemporary respite from internal and external conflict, well suited to the breakneck pace of life today. Their number and their form, however, is steeped in tradition. One hundred and eight is a sacred number in Buddhism, in which there is also the tradition of meditating with malas, strung beads which come in multiples of nine—27, 56, or 108. Their form follows Buddhist tradition as well: They are modern koans, or riddles to ponder, and dharma stories.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateSep 15, 2001
    ISBN9781609252168
    About Peace: 108 Ways to Be at Peace When Things Are Out of Control
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    Scott Shaw

    Scott Shaw is a regular contributor to all of the major national martial arts magazines and has a Ph.D. in Asian studies. He is the only non-Korean ever to be promoted to the rank of 7th Degree Black Belt in the Korean martial art of Hapkido by the Korea Hapkido Federation. He is the editor of the Tuttle Dictionary of the Martial Arts of Korea, China, and Japan and is the author of Hapkido: The Korean Art of Self Defense, andThe Ki Process: Korean Secrets for Perfect Health.

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      About Peace - Scott Shaw

      First published in 2001 by

      Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

      P. O. Box 612

      York Beach, ME 03901–0612

      Copyright © 2001 Scott Shaw

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form of by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Shaw, Scott

          About peace/Scott Shaw.

              p. cm.

          ISBN 1–59003–003–6 (pbk. : alk. paper)

          1. Peace of mind—Religious aspects—Meditations. I. Title.

      BL627.55.S53 2001

      291.4′32—dc21       2001019542

      Printed in the United States of America

      TCP

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      The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Z39.48–1992 (R1997).

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      108 Ways to Be at Peace When Things Are Out of Control

      108 Ways to Be at Peace When Things Are Out of Control

      Life is complex. Sometimes it seems a never ending series of disagreements, differing opinions, dissenting philosophies, emotional manipulations, and even physical confrontations. Conflict is a part of life. If you allow your peace to be taken away from you by external occurrences or internal disharmony—the person who cuts you off in traffic or the internal I'll never get everything done, I'm stupid, bad, and guilty voice that won't shut up—you will never know contentment. When we can't seem to get along with the people in our lives, including ourselves . . . When we let others, who seem to thrive on conflict, pull us into it . . . we can choose peace.

      Why don't we? Why don't we stop interacting with people who are willing to do whatever it takes to gain whatever gratification they desire at that moment? Why don't we check out of a society that says motivated, driven, hungry, and goal seeker are

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