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Index
Cover
Praise for THE ART OF SIMPLE LIVING
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Part One: 30 Ways to Energize Your “Present Self”
1. Make Time for Emptiness.
2. Wake Up Fifteen Minutes Earlier.
3. Savor the Morning Air.
4. Line Up Your Shoes When You Take Them Off.
5. Discard What You Don’t Need.
6. Organize Your Desktop.
7. Make a Delicious Cup of Coffee.
8. Put Pen to Paper with Care.
9. Try Using a Loud Voice.
10. Do Not Neglect Your Meals.
11. When Eating, Pause After Every Bite.
12. Discover the Benefits of a Vegetable-Centric Diet.
13. Seek Out Your Favorite Words.
14. Pare Down Your Belongings.
15. Arrange Your Room Simply.
16. Try Going Barefoot.
17. Exhale Deeply.
18. Sit Zazen.
19. Try a Standing Practice.
20. Don’t Waste Time Worrying About Things You Cannot Control.
21. Become Adept at Switching Modes.
22. Breathe Slowly.
23. Join Your Hands Together.
24. Make Time to Be Alone.
25. Get in Touch with Nature.
26. Create a Small Garden on Your Balcony.
27. Seek Out the Sunset.
28. Don’t Put Off What You Can Do Today.
29. Don’t Think of Unpleasant Things Right Before Bed.
30. Try Your Best to Do What You Can Now.
Part Two: 30 Ways to Inspire Confidence and Courage for Living
31. Discover Another You.
32. Don’t Be Troubled by Things That Have Not Yet Happened.
33. Take Pleasure in Your Work.
34. Simply Immerse Yourself.
35. Do Not Feel Put Out by the Tasks Before You.
36. Don’t Blame Others.
37. Don’t Compare Yourself to Others.
38. Seek Not What You Lack.
39. Every So Often, Try to Stop Thinking.
40. Make Distinctions.
41. Try Attending a Zazen Sitting.
42. Plant a Single Flower.
43. Make a Proper Start.
44. Cherish Your Own Self.
45. Think Simple.
46. Do Not Fear Change.
47. Notice Changes.
48. Feel Instead of Think.
49. Don’t Let Things Go to Waste.
50. Don’t Be Bound by a Single Perspective.
51. Think with Your Own Head.
52. Believe in Yourself.
53. Instead of Worrying, Get Moving.
54. Maintain a Supple Mind.
55. Get Active.
56. Wait for the Right Opportunity.
57. Appreciate Your Connection with Things.
58. Try Just Sitting Quietly in Nature.
59. Try Clearing Your Head.
60. Enjoy a Zen Garden.
Part Three: 20 Ways to Alleviate Confusion and Worry
61. Serve People.
62. Cast Away the “Three Poisons.”
63. Cultivate Your Sense of Gratitude.
64. Demonstrate, Rather Than Assert, How You Feel.
65. Express Your Mind, but Not in Words.
66. Focus on Others’ Merits.
67. Deepen Your Connection with Someone.
68. Fine-Tune Your Timing.
69. Give Up the Need to Be Liked by Everyone.
70. Don’t Fixate on Right and Wrong.
71. See Things for What They Are.
72. Skillfully Detach.
73. Do Not Think in Terms of Loss and Gain.
74. Do Not Get Caught Up with Mere Words.
75. Do Not Be Swayed by the Opinions of Others.
76. Have Faith.
77. Have a Conversation with a Garden.
78. Make Someone Happy.
79. Find Occasions to Get Together with Family.
80. Appreciate All the People Who Came Before You.
Part Four: 20 Ways to Make Any Day the Best Day
81. Be Here Now.
82. Be Grateful for Every Day, Even the Most Ordinary.
83. Recognize That You Are Protected.
84. Be Positive.
85. Do Not Covet.
86. Do Not Divide Things into Good and Bad.
87. Accept Reality for What It Is.
88. There Is Not Just One Answer.
89. There Is Not Just One Way, Either.
90. Don’t Be a Show-Off.
91. Free Yourself from Money.
92. Believe in Yourself, Especially When You Feel Anxious.
93. Notice the Changes of the Season.
94. Try Taking Care of Something.
95. Listen for the Voice of Your True Self.
96. Cherish Being Alive, Every Single Day.
97. Put Your Everything into the Here and Now.
98. Make Every Preparation.
99. Contemplate How to Die.
100. Make the Most of Life.
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