How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tackles one of the great mysteries of our time - how to survive in this modern age.
Selected from the book Teach us to Sit Still by Tim Parks
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Also in the Vintage Minis series:
Swimming by Roger Deakin
Motherhood by Helen Simpson
Work by Joseph Heller
Liberty by Virginia Woolf
ISBN: | 9781784872595 |
Publication date: | 8th June 2017 |
Author: | Tim Parks |
Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 112 pages |
Series: | Vintage Minis |
Genres: |
Autobiography: general Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions Mind, body, spirit: meditation and visualization Memoirs |