
Kokoro
Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived
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Narrated by:
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Beth Kempton
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Beth Kempton
About this listen
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 Japanologist Beth Kempton on a 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.
To explore the kokoro is to explore the very essence of what it means to be human in this tough yet devastatingly beautiful world. When you learn to live guided by the light in your kokoro, everything changes, and anything is possible.©2024 Beth Kempton (P)2024 Hachette Audio UK
Profound wisdom
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Blissful, with some resonating parallels.
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A gift
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Wholeheartedly, heartfelt, new way of being
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I truly adored listening to this book, and will live my life fully, by listening to my heart voice, everyday that follows.
Listen to your heart voice
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Utterly compelling
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An emotional and thought provoking read
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A calm and thoughtful look at grief and life. Soul searching that will resonate with many.
One to have in your library
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Thank you
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Hence, when she told us her new book was on the horizon I pre-ordered and excitedly waited for publication day.
What I could never have anticipated was what a stunning and moving book this would be.
I knew a little of the grief that she had recently experienced and expected that she would have handled it with love, empathy and personal strength. But I am utterly bowled over.
I have never heard such an open hearted, honest and moving description of the emotions we experience following deep loss. Nor, an understanding of how often such a loss can cause us to dig deep, examine the life we are living and make fundamental changes.
Beth brought me to tears, many times in this profound book and having listened to it twice already, I recognise that maybe the lessons of bereavement never end.
I loved the focus of Kokoro and have spent the last two days considering this aspect of my own life. So much to think about.
Thank you Beth, for sharing your last 16 months, for the deeply honest descriptions of the emotional turmoil you experienced during that time, for letting us glimpse the loving way in which you supported your Mother during the final weeks of her life and how you are now living through the transition that follows.
Stunning !!
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