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Joining us today is Cheri Huber, a Zen student, teacher, and writer. Cheri is the author of more than 20 books – including There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate, When You're Falling, Dive, and Time-Out for Parents. She is also the founder of Mountain View Zen Center in Mountain View, California, and the Zen Monastery Practice Center in Murphys, California. Cheri is on a mission to help people establish practical ways to deal with the many difficulties of being human. She does this with encouraging humor, delight, curiosity, and compassion. Ending suffering is Cheri's primary goal, and she helps others navigate this spiritual journey by teaching them how to pay attention, expand their awareness, and step back from the judgment of themselves and others… In this episode, we go over: How to deconstruct the idea of the ego.  The ways in which the “inner voice" shows up in people's lives.  How to identify guilt, and how to deal with it.  Why most people don't address their problems until they have to. To learn more about Cheri and her work, click here now! Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

Cheri has been a student and teacher of Zen for over 35 years. She is the author of over 20 books on Zen, and founded the Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Peace Center. Cheri also founded a non-profit dedicated to transforming lives and ending suffering, Living Compassion, whose primary work is the Africa Vulnerable Children Project in Zambia.  Ashwini co-facilitates and creates workshops with Cheri. She runs the operations of the two nonprofits that Cheri founded. Her eclectic background includes degrees in physics, business, and computer science to working in advertising, an investment bank, a social enterprise, and several technology startups in the Silicon Valley.  Cheri and Ashwini have co-written multiple books, including their latest Don’t Suffer, Communicate. Today’s episode isn’t just about awareness practice, it’s about a framework for navigating life. A few highlights: Zen isn’t just the practice of keeping things nicely organized, it’s also a spiritual practice largely focused on awareness and where you direct attention.  Self-improvement is an endless diss. The very nature of saying we need improvement implies we’re not enough. Cheri and Ashwini share some useful tools to redirect the attention, such as using a recorder to access the wisdom, love, and compassion that is our true nature. We are not our ego. Over the years we are programmed to think in particular ways and believe how things should be. How do we begin to practice presence and become aware of what is really true? Enjoy! Today's episode is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world’s top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times. 

Please Support The Show with a DonationCheri Huber is the author of 20 books and has been a student of zen for 35 years. She founded the Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Peace Center, both in California, where she and other monks teach workshops and hold retreats. She is also a truth telling, light hearted delight to listen to. In this interview, she talks all about what is going on in our mind and how we can better work with it to produce a better experience in life. Her wisdom is so practical and so powerful. See for yourself in this transformative episode.Visit Bombas www.bombas.com/wolf and enter offer WOLF at checkout for 20% off the most comfortable socks in the worldIn This Interview, Cheri Huber and I Discuss...The Wolf ParableHer book, I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How resistance controls your life and what to do about itHow the process IS the outcomeThat now is the only moment there isHow the quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attentionEverything comes into being, togetherShe doesn't believe that there's anything that ISN'T GodOur dualistic thinkingAll of the ways to refer to the egoThe unique ability that humans have to experience themselves as other than lifeThe ego is a survival systemBelieving we are not connected to lifeEverything is a verb! A gerundThe illusion of being separate from lifeMy ego is the no to life's yesAlways asking what's lacking, what's missing, what's wrong keeps the ego as the center of the universeHow we are deeply conditioned for negativityAwareness being able to watch the conditioned mindI hear it in my head, it sounds like me, it must be me, it's who I amApproach the stuff that's going on inside our heads by imagining that it's somebody next to you saying itRecording and ListeningMake recordings of what's true, what I appreciate, what I loveHearing what's true for you in your own voiceTalking ourselves into a life that's trueHow we direct our attention is the be all and end all in lifeWe have these tendencies to see what's negative so we need to bring ourselves to what is true that isn't negativeWe transcend the conditioned mind, we don't resist itThe key is to turn your attention away from the negative voices not to change what they are sayingThe habit of going with the conversation in your head is so powerfulIf we can wake up out of it, we can decide to go somewhere else in our attentionHear Cheri Huber talk about her book, I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How resistance controls your life and what to do about itCheri Huber teaches that the process IS the outcomeCheri Huber explains what she means by this: your ego is the "no" to life's "yes"Do you believe that we are deeply conditioned for negativity or hardwired for negativity?Here's a tip: Approach the stuff that's going on inside our heads by imagining that it's somebody next to you saying itThe quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attentionPlease Support The Show with a Donation

In this episode, you’ll discover: Her discovery of Zen through D.T. Suzuki in the midst of severe depression Strategies to cope with and reduce onslaughts of anxiety and stress The traits that keep overachievers from reaching their full potential Steps to take if you're interested in Zen Accepting dissatisfaction as a process The fast-track to turning your life around through Recording and Listening Background on Cheri: Having a conversation with Cheri Huber (@cherihuber) is kind of like having a conversation with your best friend. She has this unique skill of making you feel at peace with yourself as you talk to her, so it's no wonder that her life has led to her being an expert on helping others become at peace with themselves. With so many professionals finding themselves looking for different approaches to cope with the stresses of being an overachiever, Cheri has an extremely important message to offer. If you're unfamiliar with her work, Cheri is a meditation instructor and has been student of the spiritual practice Zen for over 35 years. She was brought up in the San Francisco Bay area and studied Zen under the direction of Jay DuPont. After this period, she sought to have an impact on more people's lives and then opened the Mountain View Zen Center in 1983. As an author, she's been extremely busy. With 20 books to her name, including There Is Nothing Wrong With You: Going Beyond Self Hate, The Fear Book: Facing Fear Once and For All, and Be The Person You Want To Find: Relationship and Self-Discovery, Cheri writes on the subjects of Zen, overcoming fear, and living with self-awareness. Cheri also has her own weekly internet radio show, Open Air, where she openly discusses the practice of conscious, compassionate awareness. Her latest book, The Big Bamboozle, reveals why we stay in dissatisfaction and obstacles that keep us from being happy and being joyful. The book is based off of Buddha’s teachings, and gives you answers to everyday questions you think about in your own life and your happiness.

Cheri Huber is the founder of Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Practice Center in California, as well as the author of 19 books including When You're Falling, Dive and What You Practice Is What You Have. She is the founder and director of Living Compassion, a nonprofit organization dedicated to peace and service. With Sounds True, Cheri has released the audio series Unconditional Self-Acceptance. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Cheri discuss how your life is what you give your attention to, and how to work constructively and compassionately with what Cheri calls "negative voices in the head." (55 minutes)

“ It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” – Seneca Having a conversation with Cheri Huber (@cherihuber) is kind of like having a conversation with your best friend. She has this unique skill of making you feel at peace with yourself as you talk to her, so it's no wonder that her life has led to her being an expert on helping others become at peace with themselves. With so many professionals finding themselves looking for different approaches to cope with the stresses of being an overachiever, we thought that Cheri had an extremely important message to offer.  If you're unfamiliar with her work, Cheri is a meditation instructor and has been student of the spiritual practice Zen for over 35 years. She was brought up in the San Francisco Bay area and studied Zen under the direction of Jay DuPont. After this period, she sought to have an impact on more people's lives and then opened the Mountain View Zen Center in 1983. As an author, she's been extremely busy. With 20 books to her name, including There Is Nothing Wrong With You: Going Beyond Self Hate, The Fear Book: Facing Fear Once and For All, and Be The Person You Want To Find: Relationship and Self-Discovery, Cheri writes on the subjects of Zen, overcoming fear, and living with self-awareness. Cheri also has her own weekly internet radio show, Open Air, where she openly discusses the practice of conscious, compassionate awareness. Her latest book, The Big Bamboozle, reveals why we stay in dissatisfaction and obstacles that keep us from being happy and being joyful. The book is based off of Buddha’s teachings, and gives you answers to everyday questions you think about in your own life and your happiness. In this episode, you’ll discover: Her discovery of Zen through D.T. Suzuki in the midst of severe depression Strategies to cope with and reduce onslaughts of anxiety and stress The traits that keep overachievers from reaching their full potential Steps to take if you're interested in Zen Accepting dissatisfaction as a process The fast-track to turning your life around through Recording and Listening   Links from the Show: Connect with Cheri via Twitter Check out Cheri's Practice Blog Open Air with Cheri Huber Listen to The Podcast The Big Bamboozle By Cheri Huber What You Practice is What You Have By Cheri Huber Living Compassion Foundation Africa Vulnerable Children's Project Zen Monastery Peace Center There's Nothing Wrong With You Retreat What is Zen? By D.T. Suzuki Recording and Listening Those Mentioned: D.T. Suzuki

Cheri Huber has been a student and teacher of Zen for over 30 years. She is the author of 20 books, the newest being What You Practice Is What You Have, the sequel to her widely-read There Is Nothing Wrong with You. Other titles include The Depression Book, The Fear Book, and When You're Falling, Dive. In 1983, Cheri founded the Mountain View Zen Center, and in 1987 she founded the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Calaveras County. She and the monks at the Monastery conduct workshops and retreats at these centers, other places around the U.S., and internationally. In 1997, Cheri founded Living Compassion, a nonprofit organization dedicated to peace and service. 

Cheri Huber has been a student and teacher of Zen for over 30 years. She is the author of 20 books, the newest being What You Practice Is What You Have, the sequel to her widely-read There Is Nothing Wrong with You. Other titles include The Depression Book, The Fear Book, and When You're Falling, Dive. In 1983, Cheri founded the Mountain View Zen Center, and in 1987 she founded the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Calaveras County. She and the monks at the Monastery conduct workshops and retreats at these centers, other places around the U.S., and internationally. In 1997, Cheri founded Living Compassion, a nonprofit organization dedicated to peace and service.

Tami Simon speaks with Cheri Huber, the founder of Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Practice Center, both in California, and the author of 19 books, including, When You're Falling, Dive and the new book, What You Practice Is What You Have. She is the founder and director of Living Compassion, a nonprofit organization dedicated to peace and service. With Sounds True, Cheri has released the audio series, Unconditional Self-Acceptance. Cheri discusses how your life is what you give your attention to, and how to work constructively and compassionately with what Cheri calls “negative voices in the head.” (53 minutes)