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Relax, You're Already Home: Everyday Taoist Habits for a Richer Life Paperback - 2004

by Raymond Barnett

The author shows how focusing on basic daily Taoist habits through activities like going to the park, gardening, or enjoying a cup of tea helps enrich lives in modern America. Complete with exercises and probing questions, this resource is a perfect primer for Taoism.

Summary

Simple ways to a fuller and more vibrant existence, drawn from the Taoist tradition and shaped to fit our modern lives.

Relax, You’re Already Home explores how we can enrich our lives in modern America by incorporating simple habits discovered in the Taoist tradition. We don't have to dramatically reshape our lives or perform time-consuming rituals like meditation, kung fu, or breathing practices. Dr. Raymond Barnett instead shows how we can focus on basic daily Taoist habits through activities like going to the park, gardening, or enjoying a cup of tea. He even helps us create our own rituals around holidays, saints, historical figures or events, or anything else that resonates with us.

This warm and accessible book is ideal for anyone whose life seems too fast and complicated, as well as for those who are interested in Eastern religions but don’t have the time or inclination to take up esoteric practices. Complete with “interactives” that suggest exercises and probing questions, Relax, You're Already Home is a perfect primer for Taoism and a philosophy in its own right.

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The Taoist tradition has given rise to countless everyday habits of the ordinary people of China, habits which contribute to a rich, coherent experience of life.

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  • Title Relax, You're Already Home: Everyday Taoist Habits for a Richer Life
  • Author Raymond Barnett
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tarcherperigee, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
  • Date December 16, 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781585423668 / 1585423661
  • Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.18 x 5.88 x 0.57 in (18.24 x 14.94 x 1.45 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Taoism
  • Library of Congress subjects Conduct of life, Taoism - Miscellanea
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004055373
  • Dewey Decimal Code 299.514

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Citations

  • Ingram Advance, 01/01/2005, Page 111
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/29/2004, Page 38

About the author

Raymond Barnett's lifelong passion for Taoism began when he was a Chinese history undergraduate at Yale, and has resulted in many trips in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea over the past three decades. Barnett, who taught at California State University in Chico for twenty-eight years until his recent retirement, lives in a California cohousing community, where he and his wife have developed ways to incorporate Taoist habits into their lives.

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