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Don’t Worry

From the million-copy bestselling author of Zen

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Brought to you by Penguin.

The beautiful follow-up to Shunmyo Masuno's million-copy bestseller Zen:The Art of Simple Living. Feel your every day stresses melt away with 48 accessible, achievable lessons in his new book, Don't Worry.

Learn to let go of stress,
Change how you worry,
And improve your life for good.

Shunmyo Masuno, Zen Buddhist Monk and million copy bestselling author of Zen: The Art of Simple Living, shows you how in 48 vital, easy-to-achieve lessons that will empower and equip you to relieve the anxieties of everyday life.

Use this book as your tool to focus on the 'now', to improve your most important relationships, to let go of rose-tinted views that hold you back, and to learn ways to accept yourself as you are so that you enjoy a calmer, more relaxed, positive version of yourself.

© Shunmyo Masuno 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

 Buddhism Personal Development Personal Success Spirituality Stress Management Meditation
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The pithy content was delivered succinctly and clearly in an accessible tone. Many nuggets to feast on !

Lovely tone and clear narrative

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If you've bought the first book The Art of Simple Living, you won't find a ton of new information in this one in my opinion. There's a lot of repetition and it's focused a lot on the Japanese office work environment I suppose.
I'd recommend getting the first book.

Decent

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As someone who has read his first book several times, I was disappointed by this one. It contains a lot of the same stuff as the first one, and otherwise a lot on Japanese office life and complaints about how life has changed in Japan recently to the detriment of tradition.

Fine, a lot of repetition from the previous book

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I have recently been on a journey of discovery learning about zen and zen practices with various titles by Thich Nhat Hanh and a few others. They really opened my mind and made me think about many aspects of my life in a different way.
Hoping that this title would carry on the trend of personal enlightenment, I was a bit let down. Yes it has plenty of valid points and sound advice, but it leaves you with the feeling you're listening to an instruction manual. A lot of 'do this' and 'don't do that'. Three quarters of the way through I started to resent the book as it felt bossy. Following all this guidance isn't going to make me worry less, I think I'd just worry more about how I might be getting a lot of things wrong. This is probably just a personal thing but I'm definitely more into the theory and concepts of zen that I can learn and adapt to my life in my own way rather than being handed a to do list.

Less thought provoking than I hoped

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