Suffering Is Optional: Three Keys to Freedom and Joy

cheri huber june shiver

Suffering Is Three Keys to Freedom and Joy centers around three basic aspects of Zen pay attention, believe nothing, and don’t take anything personally. As ending suffering requires that one sees how suffering happens, the book urges readers to be willing to be quiet and pay attention to the process of suffering in effort to see each moment as an opportunity to step beyond illusion into freedom. It also argues that examining beliefs, abandoning them, and returning attention to the present is essential to ending suffering, as is living in the awareness that nothing in the universe is personal.

Genres buddhismself helpphilosophynonfictionpsychologyspiritualityhealthpersonal developmentreligionmental health

240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1,2002

This edition

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: March 1, 2002 by Keep It Simple Books
ISBN: 9780963625588
ASIN: 0963625586
Language: English

About the author

cheri huber

Cheri Huber, author of 20 books, has been a student and teacher of Zen for over 35 years. In 1983, Cheri founded the Mountain View Zen Center, and in 1987 she founded the Zen Monastery Peace Center near Murphys, California. 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. Living Compassion's primary work is the Africa Vulnerable Children Project, based in Zambia, where for over a decade they have been working with the people of Kantolomba, beginning the process of turning a slum of 11,000 people into a self-sustaining community.

Cheri also has a weekly Internet based radio show.