Editorial Reviews 
The author, Robert Rosenbaum RobertR90@aol.com , October 17, 1998 
How to integrate Buddhism, family, work, and psychotherapy  
This book arose out of my effort to reconcile the conflicting demands of my daily Zen practice, my work as a psychotherapist, and my devotion to my family. While psychotherapy addresses our sense of fragmentation to help us be uniquely ourselves, Zen practice helps us find our true Self on every moment of our lives by speaking to the basic connectedness of all things. People who have enjoyed Mark Epstein's "Thoughts Without a Thinker" or Sylvia Boorstein's work will hopefully enjoy this book. (Both Mark and Sylvia have recommended the book). Each chapter of the book takes a short Buddhist piece -- the Heart sutra, Dogen's instructions for zazen, and others -- then tries to develop what these old words speak to us in our daily work and in our relations with our loved ones. Through using examples from the many clients I have seen in psychotherapy, and through examples from my own life, I hope the book helps each person "actualize the fundamental point...." How wonderful there are things one cannot grasp despite a self that, striving to let go, grasps the firmer. Folding the laundry, carefully, Making such straight lines I double back upon myself a wave watching waves create a beach of footsteps, salt and stars. Breakers never reach the shore; sloughing their crests in sprays of light with the world moving, with the waves standing still an old rock welcomes lichens, mosses, moons. Each strand of seaweed can only be itself. One word in conversations between tides and land where wind becomes the ocean disappearing into sand.