Paradise in Plain Sight by Karen
Maezen Miller is a book that offers life lessons from a zen garden. It isn’t
necessarily a book about zen or gardening, but it offers a bit of both. It is a
metaphor, and yet it isn’t. It is excellent, thought provoking, and perhaps
teaches the things in life that we all want, yet take for granted each day.
Book Description
“When Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family
land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise
in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world. Through her
eyes, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stillness, flowers give love, and leaves
express the effortless ease of letting go. The book welcomes readers into the
garden for Zen lessons in fearlessness, forgiveness, presence, acceptance, and
contentment. Miller gathers inspiration from the ground beneath her feet to
remind us that paradise is always here and now.” – Paradise
in Plain Sight
My Thoughts
Paradise in
Plain Sight is a beautifully written book. The author does an excellent job
portraying her message of finding paradise in your own life, even though it may
not seem like such a paradise right now. Through her story of bringing her 100
year old Japanese garden back to life, she is able to do this, and much more.
This book is full of helpful, eye-opening
clarities of life, if you only take the time to read them. Moving ahead on the
path that you want is simply a matter of doing it and going straight on the way
you choose.
I completely enjoyed this book and learned a lot
from it. I think that this book would benefit so many people, I highly
recommend it!
* Thank you
to the publisher of Paradise in Plain Sight, New World Library, for providing me
with a copy of this book for review. All opinions expressed are my own.
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