The Zen of Helping: Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice

This book is a call to the heart that ultimately addresses questions that are common in the real world of practice: how do practitioners deal with their own fight or flight reactions when they arise? To what degree does structuring helping interactions damage or enhance the ability to be spontaneous and responsive? How does the practitioner face the client's trauma and pain?

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Title of ebook: The Zen of Helping: Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice
ISBN: 9780470386057
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Internet download file size: 1174 kb
Pages: 224
Released online for download: 07-31-2008
Author of eBook: Bein, Andrew

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The Zen of Helping

Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice

Chapter One

A SPIRITUAL HELPING FRAMEWORK FOR OUR CLIENTS AND OURSELVES

Beyond Spiritual Neutrality

Zen mind is not Zen mind. That is, if you are attached to Zen mind, then you have a problem, and your way is very narrow. Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind. Only keep the question, "What is the best way of helping other people?"

-Seung Sahn

Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted counts.

-Albert Einstein

Zen is about being intimate with what is. As we enter helping relationships with real people, what could be more important? We offer them our authentic presence, our hearts, and our willingness to muck around in their pain and fear as well as in their successes and failures. As helping practitioners, we project the reality that we are on a sacred journey with our ... read full excerpt from The Zen of Helping: Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice ebook

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