Zen Driving Be a Buddha Behind the Wheel of Your Automobile [Paperback]

Zen Drivingcan make each driving experience enjoyable, whether it’s a daily hour-long drive to work, or a ten-minute run to the local Safeway.
 
You may well ask, whatisZen driving? The Japanese wordzenliterally means meditation, and meditation means being fully aware, fully in touch with your surroundings. When you are in a meditative state, you are in your natural self, your Buddha self—and you can do it while driving.
 
ButwhyZen driving? The purpose ofZen Driving,the book, is to introduce you to your natural self, which is what remains when you still your mind and ignore your chattering ego. When you do this, you gain confidence in your ability, and finally youarethat ability.
 
The frustrations of other drivers cutting you off or causing you to sit through two red lights because they’re too timid to make a left turn on yellow will no longer make your blood pressure explode.Zen Drivingwill teach you to look, simply observe without qualification, andthenmake your move.
 
Zen driving is effortless, spontaneous, nondeliberate. It is being one with the road. And in turn, driving becomes a pathway to consciousness, an activity that clears the mind and soothes the soul, something to take with you all those other times when you’re not behind the wheel.K.T. Berger is brothers Kevin and Todd Berger. Kevin is an editor and freelance journalist in San Francisco; Todd a practicing psychotherapist.INTRODUCTION
 
“So happy to see you,
I have nothing to say!”
 
—Zen Master Hakuin (1685–1768)
 
 
 
Two ingredients go into creating a good driver: experience and awareness. This little book will give you neither. You cannot drive this book, therefore your experience will not increase; nor, without being behind the wheel, can you expect to expand your awareness. In fls-