Hard Zen, Soft Heart: The Adventures of Roshi Chaos

by Christopher S. Hyatt, Diana Rose Hartmann, Nicholas Tharcher (Editor)

Most of us live our whole lives either in the past or in the world of future expectations. We become the puppets of automatic reactions created by past experience, and while we continue to hope and dream of a better future, somehow we end up in the same old muddle.

Yet life becomes an endless meditation when we make a conscious decision to live in the present. Every act becomes a reality.

"Hard Zen, Soft Heart" teaches you how to acknowledge and change styles of reactive behavior which are no longer useful so you can live in the endless meditation of the present.

This Is The Afterlife. So What Are You Waiting For?

186 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Christopher Hyatt was an American occultist, author, and founder of the Extreme Individual Institute (EII).Using his birth name, Alan Ronald Miller, he has served as president of New Falcon Publications.

Reviews

[Denise · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice book to read in and of itself, but if you have Hyatt's 'Undoing yourself..' book, all the techniques are in there (and is referenced at the end when I thought some actual exercises were going to be dispensed). Nice short essays for a bit of motivation, but like I said, if you want any real techniques, 'Undoing yourself with Energized Meditation' is the way to go.

[Thibault · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has nothing to do with Zen. It is good nonetheless. I think it shows that the final edits were done after Hyatt's death! Undoing yourself is a better book in that genre