Lion's Roar Foundation – Auction for a Mindful Society
Auction Ends: May 31, 2010 11:59 PM EDT

Signed editions

Jan Chozen Bays' signed "Mindful Eating"

Item Number
169
Estimated Value
90 USD
Sold
50 USD to tdbailey
Number of Bids
5  -  Bid History

Item Description

Shambhala Publications says of mindfulness and Mindful Eating that it "can transform our struggles with food - and renew our sense of pleasure, appreciation, and satisfaction with eating. Drawing on recent research and integrating her experiences as a physician and meditation teacher, Dr. Jan Bays offers a wonderfully clear presentation of what mindfulness is and how it can help." The successful bidder will have receive their own signed copy.

Since 1985 Jan Chozen Bays has been the teacher for the Zen Community of Oregon. In 2002 she helped to found Great Vow Zen Monastery and currently is the co-abbot. Chozen is also a pediatrician, mother and wife. As a physician she is very interested in how meditation and science interface. She is particularly involved teaching how to use meditation to work with eating disorders and grief.

Mindful Eating also includes a 75-minute audio CD containing guided exercises led by the author.

Shambhala Publications has long been one of the premier publishers of dharma and spiritual books in the West. From simple beginnings in Berkeley at the height of the sixties counterculture, Shambhala Publications went on to become one of the most respected publishers of the most important books in the spiritual landscape. Their landmark titles include Meditation in Action by Chogyam Trungpa, The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi, Edward Espe Brown's Tassajara Bread Book, Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics, best selling translations of the Art of War, Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones, Pema Chödrön's When Things Fall Apart, and Suzuki Roshi's classic, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

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