![]() ![]() * Passion: Being right isn’t important being happy together is. Advice: Much like a mirror reflects what is before it without judgement or identification with the image, simply reflect the negative emotion (eg anger) and watch it dispassionately. ![]() * Mindfulness: being mindful is to befriend your emotion. ![]() ![]() After a while the food loosens on its own.” This shows how the world is experienced according to the state of one’s mind. * Rest: “To get food unstuck from a frying pan, just pour water in the pan and wait. The book contains simple yet powerful truth which we all know deep down inside but which are so easy to lose when we are too wound up in our busy life. The eight chapters (on Rest, Mindfulness, Passion, Relationships, Love, Life, The Future and Spirituality) are illustrated by Youngcheol Lee which provide lovely, colourful and calming interludes to the essays and series of prompts for meditation and words of advice and wisdom: This book, translated by the author with Chi-Young Kim and published in 2012, precedes Love for Imperfect Things and shows the patterns of thought in mindfulness practice, the value of slowing down in our busy modern lives and the art of maintaining good relationships and cultivating self-compassion. The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim (nicknamed “healing mentor” in Korea and whose name means “spontaneous wisdom”) is a renowned Buddhist mediation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States. ![]()
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