The Way of Transformation: Daily Life as Spiritual Practice

by Karlfried Graf Dürckheim and Karlfried Graf Durckheim

The guiding theme of psychotherapist Karlfried Durckheim's work is that one can become transparent to transcendence. An early Western authority on Zen, he was one of the first to bring its methods to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596750146
• ISBN13: 9781596750142
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Morning Light Press
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

A Manual for Everyday Living as Spiritual Practice

This is a very deep book that should be read very slowly, because each paragraph contains much wisdom. It is not a book so much for the spiritual beginner but for those who are longstanding spiritual practitioners looking for more understanding of how to manifest their spiritual wisdom in everyday life. I disagree with the other reviewer; the Durkheim does not introduce a lot of arcane or idiosyncratic terminology -- in fact he defines any unusual terms he uses, and there are not that many. Those with backgrounds in Zen and Jungian psychology would be best suited for this book. The author does not take a devotional or bhakti approach to God (Divine Being in his terminology) but more of a jnani attitude, i.e., analyzing what keeps individuals trapped in egoic identifications and estranged from the Ground of Being (another term he uses for God).