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Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She writes about spirituality in everyday life. Her books include: Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life , and Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood.
About Karen Maezen Miller Karen Maezen Miller is a Zen Buddhist priest and teacher at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She is the author of Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life and Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood. She leads retreats around the country and is mother to daughter Georgia and as a writer, she aims to resolve the enigmatic truth of Maezumi's teaching. Episode highlights Karen discusses how your life is your spiritual practice The background to writing to Momma Zen The curious expression of 'expecting' when we are pregnant - expecting what? How you don't need any formal spiritual training to experience motherhood as a spiritual journey. How we are all one and seeing this in our interactions with our children. Knowing who we are in the journey of motherhood The beauty of allowing our kids to be themselves How children allow us to forgive Relevant links Karen Maezen Miller’s book Momma Zen (http://karenmaezenmiller.com/bookstore/) Website and Blog (http://karenmaezenmiller.com/) How to subscribe and review If you liked this episode of the Mothering the Mother Podcast, tell your friends, please! And please go to iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mothering-the-mother-podcast/id1446253273) and SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/user-598342093) to rate/review/subscribe to the show. it really helps to get the Podcast out there and before more people and it also makes my heart sing when I read reviews - I do read every single review and am so grateful - thank you. #motheringthemother Please do share the Podcast on social media if you enjoyed the episode – I am so grateful for sharing with your community and followers. You can you use the hashtag #motheringthemother which makes it easier for me to find you. Yoga Nidra Retreat in London on 14 March 2020 Join Alison for her first Whole Mama Yoga Nidra Retreat in London You can read more about the retreat here (https://www.alisonbarker.com/whole-mama-day-retreat-1) Early Bird Tickets are only on sale for only one days @ £95 Standard Tickets on sale afterwards will be £120 As a little thank you for taking the time to leave a review, I am offering a free coaching call to one lucky reviewer each month. GET YOUR FREE REST GUIDE This guide has received some wonderful feedback: "I just downloaded your 'Rest Guide'. It absolutely spoke to my soul, I feel like you wrote it just for me and i can't thank you enough for sharing it. I can't wait to step in and change my crazy life" https://alisonbarker.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=db261f1657&u=b745f828c26496c32eaef3a9b Mothering the Mother Facebook group and Instagram Join my community on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/alison_barker_/), join over 200 other mamas on the Facebook group the Mothering the Mother (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1885649551488600/) Disclaimer The information and reference guides in this podcast are intended solely for the general information for the reader/listener. The contents of this podcast are not intended to offer personal medical advice, diagnose health problems or for treatment purposes. It is not a substitute for medical care provided by a licensed and qualified health professional. Please consult your health care provider for any advice on medications. The materials contained on this podcast are provided for general information purposes only and do not constitute legal or other professional advice on any subject matter. Alison Barker does not accept any responsibility for any loss, which may arise from reliance on information contained on this site.
About the book: Combining humor, honesty, and plainspoken advice, Momma Zen distills the doubts and frustrations of parenting into vignettes of Zen wisdom. Drawing on her experience as a first-time mother, and on her years of Zen meditation and study, Miller explores how the daily challenges of parenthood can become the most profound spiritual journey of our lives. This compelling and wise memoir follows the timeline of early motherhood from pregnancy through toddlerhood. Momma Zen takes readers on a transformative journey, charting a mother’s growth beyond naive expectations and disorientation to finding fulfillment in ordinary tasks, developing greater self-awareness and acceptance—to the gradual discovery of “maternal bliss,” a state of abiding happiness and ease that is available to us all. In her gentle and reassuring voice, Karen Miller convinces us that ancient and authentic spiritual lessons can be as familiar as a lullaby, as ordinary as pureed peas, and as frequent as a sleepless night. She offers encouragement for the hard days, consolation for the long haul, and the lightheartedness every new mom needs to face the crooked path of motherhood straight on. About the author: Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She and her family live in Sierra Madre, California, with a century-old Japanese garden in their backyard. She writes about spirituality in everyday life. She is the author of Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, and her writing is included in numerous anthologies.
About the book: When Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world. Through her eyes, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stillness, flowers give love, and leaves express the effortless ease of letting go. The book welcomes readers into the garden for Zen lessons in fearlessness, forgiveness, presence, acceptance, and contentment. Miller gathers inspiration from the ground beneath her feet to remind us that paradise is always here and now. About the author: Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She and her family live in Sierra Madre, California, with a century-old Japanese garden in their backyard. She writes about spirituality in everyday life. She is the author of Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, and her writing is included in numerous anthologies.
My special guest for the last show of the year is the author who influenced me the most in 2014, Karen Maezen Miller author of Paradise in Plain Sight, Hand Wash Cold, and Momma Zen About the book: When Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world. Through her eyes, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stillness, flowers give love, and leaves express the effortless ease of letting go. The book welcomes readers into the garden for Zen lessons in fearlessness, forgiveness, presence, acceptance, and contentment. Miller gathers inspiration from the ground beneath her feet to remind us that paradise is always here and now. About the author: Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She and her family live in Sierra Madre, California, with a century-old Japanese garden in their backyard. She writes about spirituality in everyday life. She is the author of Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, and her writing is included in numerous anthologies.
It’s easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are “out there,” somewhere outside of our daily routine. But in this playful yet profound reflection on awareness, the compelling voice of a contemporary woman reveals the happiness at the bottom of the laundry basket, the love in the kitchen sink, and the peace possible in one’s own backyard. Follow Karen Maezen Miller through youthful ambition and self-absorption, beyond a broken marriage, and into the steady calm of a so-called ordinary life. In her hands, household chores and caregiving tasks become opportunities for self-examination, lessons in relationship, and liberating moments of selflessness. With attention, it’s the little things — even the unexpected, unpleasant, and unwanted things — that count. About the author: Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She and her family live in Sierra Madre, California, with a century-old Japanese garden in their backyard. She writes about spirituality in everyday life. She is the author of Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, and her writing is included in numerous anthologies. www.karenmaezenmiller.com
About the book: When Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world. Through her eyes, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stillness, flowers give love, and leaves express the effortless ease of letting go. The book welcomes readers into the garden for Zen lessons in fearlessness, forgiveness, presence, acceptance, and contentment. Miller gathers inspiration from the ground beneath her feet to remind us that paradise is always here and now. About the author: Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She and her family live in Sierra Madre, California, with a century-old Japanese garden in their backyard. She writes about spirituality in everyday life. She is the author of Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, and her writing is included in numerous anthologies.
Karen Maezen Miller, author of Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood and Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, blogger and Zen Buddhist priest and teacher, shares insight on ways to let go, accept, and simply be during the hectic holiday season. She will help us to see the spirituality in everyday chaos, encourage us to trust our innate wisdom and assist us to slow down and enjoy each moment. Learn how to survive and thrive during the holidays with her Zen tips.Support the show (https://yogainmyschool.com/?p=13405)
Karen Maezen Miller, author of Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood and Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, blogger and Zen Buddhist priest and teacher, shares insight on ways to let go, accept, and simply be during the hectic holiday season. She will help us to see the spirituality in everyday chaos, encourage us to trust our innate wisdom and assist us to slow down and enjoy each moment. Learn how to survive and thrive during the holidays with her Zen tips.Support the show (https://yogainmyschool.com/?p=13405)
Karen Maezen Miller is the author of Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life and Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood. She is an errant wife, delinquent mother, reluctant dog walker, and expert laundress, as well as a Zen Buddhist priest and meditation teacher at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles, California. It's easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are "out there," somewhere outside of our daily routine. But, in Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Karen Maezen Miller reveals the ancient wisdom that we too easily overlook — the care instructions that come tucked inside our ordinary lives. Like the laundry tag sewn inside a precious garment, she'll encourage us to pay attention to ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us.
Karen Maezen Miller is the author of Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life and Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood. She is an errant wife, delinquent mother, reluctant dog walker, and expert laundress, as well as a Zen Buddhist priest and meditation teacher at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles, California. It's easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are "out there," somewhere outside of our daily routine. But, in Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Karen Maezen Miller reveals the ancient wisdom that we too easily overlook — the care instructions that come tucked inside our ordinary lives. Like the laundry tag sewn inside a precious garment, she'll encourage us to pay attention to ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us.
Wife, mother, reluctant dog walker, expert laundress, and Zen Buddhist priest and teacher Karen Maezen Miller talks about her latest book, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life.
This week Amy Tiemann welcomes Karen Maezen Miller back to The Mojo Mom Podcast. Karen has described herself as an "errant mother, delinquent wife, reluctant dog walker, expert laundress, and stationmaster of the full catastrophe." She's a Buddhist priest--but she could also be the Mom next to you in the school carpool line. You may already know Karen as the author of "Momma Zen" and now she has a brand new book "Hand Wash Cold--Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life." Her writing will help you enjoy the life you already have, which is such a wonderfully sane and comforting concept--just what we need in today's overscheduled, distracted world.