Cultivating Inner Peace, Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.
Cultivating Inner Peace, Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.
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Cultivating Inner Peace
Exploring the Psychology, Wisdom, and Poetry of Gandhi, Thoreau, the Buddha...

Author: Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Narrator: Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

Unabridged: 12 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Pariyatti

Published: 12/13/2021


Synopsis

Paul R. Fleischman, psychiatrist, author and long-time meditator, writes about the psychology, wisdom and poetry of those who have inspired him in his personal quest for harmony and happiness.
The learnable qualities of peaceful living are brought into focus by examining the lives of diverse exemplars such as Mahatma Gandhi, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, the Buddha, John Muir, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Rabindranath Tagore. His ultimate example is an autobiographical account of his own experience with his practice of Vipassana.
The final chapter of the book is a compelling appeal to all people to walk the path of peace as a way of healing the earth itself. This new paperback edition includes a new introduction and a foreword by Professor William Radice, noted Tagore scholar and poet.
"It’s important to appreciate at the outset that peace is a dynamic product of the way you live, and not a mere parenthesis or vacation from who you really are," writes the author.

Reviews

Paul R. Fleischman has been a Vipassana meditator for over 30 years. His prose is beautiful. He has taken on the work of explaining this kind of mindfullness and how to get there. Not an easy thing to do. Lovely work.......more

Goodreads review by Jule

I read this book while doing service at Dhamma Dvara, a Vipassana Center in Germany. It is such an inspiring read! I enjoyed every page of it. Fleischman introduces the main principles that are the coordinates for a life full of inner peace. And then chapter by chapter, he describes each principle a......more

Goodreads review by Jess

Rereading again in 2013 Reread it in 2012 Finished it the first time late in 2010......more

Goodreads review by James

I hover between giving this two or three stars. I think I have to drop lower rather than higher, here, however, mainly for how unpolished this book felt. I really wanted to like this book. Like Fleischman, I too practise Vipassana meditation, and I also greatly admire some of the people he examines......more

Goodreads review by Ronja

I was serving my 3rd 10-day Vipassana course and saw this as the thickest book on a tiny bookshelf. I don’t want to read that, I felt. But I kept walking past it and felt a strange pull to it. I picked it up, read a random page telling something about Gandhi and thought, well I’ll give it a try. Turn......more