The Big Bamboozle ─ How You Get Conned Out of the Life You Want and What To Do About It

Zen techniques, from a renowned Zen teacher, to derive greater satisfaction from life

Are you making choices that are supposed to give you what you want but leave you feeling unfulfilled and disappointed? This new book is based on the Buddha’s teachings and the practice of Zen, and breaks down the structures of this karmic process. Written in a humorous and lighthearted style, it illustrates through essays, stories, and examples what keeps us from choosing well-being, love, happiness, and joy as our life experience. In addition, the book contains a calendar of practical exercises and nuggets of wisdom from those who have practiced with these teachings.

Cheri Huber is the founder of the Zen Center in Palo Alto, California, and the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Murphys, California. She is the author ofThere Is Nothing Wrong with You; Transform Your Life; What You Practice Is What You Have; andWhen You’re Falling, Dive. She lives in Murphys, California. Ashwini Narayanan is a student of Cheri Huber, has cofacilitated and created workshops with her, and currently runs the operations of the two nonprofits that Cheri founded. She lives in Cupertino, California. They are the coauthors of I Don’t Want To, I Don’t Feel Like It: How Resistance Controls Your Life and What to Do About It.