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Kokoro : Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived - Beth Kempton

Kokoro

Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived

By: Beth Kempton

eBook | 4 April 2024

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Kokoro: Lessons in living well from rural Japan is an original and timely guide to slowing down and reconnecting with ourselves, inspired by Japanese culture, wisdom and traditions.

Kokoro is one of those beautiful, hard-to-translate Japanese words with many shades of meaning. It translates as 'heart' while capturing so much more than that. The word kokoro elicits a sense of the heart being the place where our essence resides, whilst also representing that essence itself. It is what we find when everything else is stripped away.

In Wabi Sabi readers learnt the Zen-inspired principle that nothing is permanent and everything is changing. In Kokoro they will discover that actually that principle applies to everything but our kokoro, which remains the same throughout our lives. Much of modern life distracts us from this truth, but when we slow down and tune in, we can find an unchanging stillness, and a quiet place of knowing deep inside.

Readers will journey with Beth through rural Japan, away from the tourist trail, meeting a host of real people with thought-provoking life lessons to share. These lessons will be interpreted in a Western context, through insights into the author's own pursuit of a slower, richer life in England, one where she is connected to and living by her own kokoro.

Practical advice and exercises will help readers dive deep into who they really are, while exploring their own version of 'slow living', and making significant shifts towards calm and contentment.

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