Kokoro
Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived
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By Beth Kempton
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One year. Two devastating losses. Three sacred Japanese mountains. A major life transition, a heart full of grief and a revelation that changes everything.
Join author Beth Kempton on a life-changing pilgrimage through rural Japan in search of answers to some of life's biggest questions: How do we find calm in the chaos and beauty in the darkness? How do we let go of the past and stop worrying about the future? What can an awareness of impermanence teach us about living well?
Together you will journey to the deep north of Japan, hike ancient forests, watch the moon rise over mountains of myth and encounter a host of wise teachers along the way – Noh actors, chefs, taxi drivers, coffee shop owners, poets, philosophers and the spirits that inhabit the land. You will contemplate the true nature of time at one of the world's strictest Zen temples and nothing will be quite the same again.
This book is an invitation to cultivate stillness and contentment in an ever-changing, uncertain world. It all begins with the kokoro, a profound Japanese term which represents the intelligent heart, the feeling mind and the embodied spirit of every human being. When you learn to live guided by the light in your kokoro, everything changes, and anything is possible.
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“A masterpiece.”Joey Hulin, author of Your Spiritual Almanac and Your Manifesting Year
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“A remarkable book. I think about it all the time. It’s a stunning piece of writing and an extraordinary achievement.”Dr. Ali Foxon, author of The Green Sketching Handbook
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“Stunning”Anna Mathur, Sunday Times bestselling author of Mind over Mother and Know Your Worth
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“Perfect”Michael Perry, author of Hortus Curious
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“Reading Kokoro has helped put me in such a contemplative, open-hearted place. Just wow.“Hannah Nunn, author of Illuminate
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"Powerful and moving"Zoe Tucker, author of Greta and the Giants
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"A beautiful and poignant call-to-action to make our own pilgrimage into the mountainous heartlands of life after loss, showing us what it means to live a full and joyful life in the face of impermanence. I feel enlarged by reading this. I read Kokoro at the perfect moment when I needed it the most; at a time when I am navigating my own midlife questions and grief. What a gift to the world this book is! Packed full of wisdom and insight from a culture that knows how to wrestle with the nature of impermanence, Kokoro connected me back with my own heartmind as I read it, whispering in the most comforting way that if this is it then I better stay in touch with what matters most. Beth is always such a compassionate and generous guide to what it means to live a fearless and creative life, and this book is no different. By walking us up sacred mountains, introducing us to the people she meets along the way, and by letting us into her own questions, we are about to see our own better, for which I am so grateful and inspired."Ruth Allen, author of Grounded and Weathering
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"Beth’s book seeps into your brain and magically changes it. You will find that some beautiful life changes emerge from reading it. You’ll be moved by Beth’s bravery and inspired by her rare travel adventures. I adore this book."Lilla Rogers, author of I Just Like to Make Things
- On Sale
- Oct 1, 2024
- Page Count
- 256 pages
- Publisher
- Storey
- ISBN-13
- 9781635869286
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