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- Herausgeber: tredition
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
This book provides you with a unique, simple method for getting to know yourself honestly, objectively and without prejudice and thus developing a more peaceful way of dealing with yourself and your environment. Based on three simple yet challenging questions, you will experience yourself and your past from a new perspective. This will enable you to reshape your future.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
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and the Art of Living Peacefully
With a simple
3-question method
to more contentment
Sabine Kaspari
© 2023 Sabine Kaspari
Website: www.naikan-zentrum.de/en/
Cover artwork (tree) by: pixelicious gmbh
All rights reserved. Reprinting, even in part, as well as distribution by image, radio, television and internet, by photomechanical reproduction, audio media and data processing systems of any kind only with the written permission of the author.
The author is responsible for the content.
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tredition GmbH, Heinz-Beusen-Stieg 5, 22926 Ahrensburg, Deutschland
Publication and distribution are carried out on behalf of the author, who can be contacted at:
Sabine Kaspari
Siebenellen 23
94568 St. Oswald
Germany
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Remark about Readability
Preface
Foreword
The Quick Start
What is Naikan?
What you can reach with Naikan
Where does Naikan come from?
Naikan is healthy
Naikan brings clarity into life
Gratitude - the essence for peace and happiness
Enemies of peace and gratitude
Healing through reconciliation
Important hints for practice
About This Book
First Naikan Exercises
Naikan towards the present day
Naikan has a long term effect
Deeper Naikan on a day
Naikan in different periods of time
The most important Naikan rules at a glance
Frequently Asked Questions and Topics
I can hardly find answers - what to do?
How can I avoid the fourth question?
Can I get rid of my weaknesses with Naikan?
How can I get someone to do Naikan?
How quickly can I change things with Naikan?
Peace with the past
Dissolve Patterns with Naikan
Behavioral patterns and beliefs
Expectations and disappointments
Changing the perspective
Recognize yourself in others
What makes us sick
Naikan towards Parents
Bringing your own parts to the front
Reversing misprogramming
Life starts with the mother…
Questions to the father
About how to go on after the father
Avoiding Obstacles and Traps
Coming to peace with one's own roots
Knowing Yourself
Correctly Assigning the Answers
Obstacle: The 4th question
Phrasing answers correctly
To Face One's Dark Sides
The highest requirement of Naikan
The variety of transgressions
From childhood
Confrontation with the Present
Naikan towards Children
Education with Naikan
Before you start
Naikan in relation to children
Naikan in Marriage and Partnership
This is how it starts
Naikan towards the partner
Theme infidelity
Naikan and typical relationship issues
The End
Words of Gratitude
About the Author
Signs in This Book:
Naikan and the Art of Living Peacefully
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Remark about Readability
Signs in This Book:
Naikan and the Art of Living Peacefully
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Back Cover
Remark about readability
In order to simplify readability and the flow of the text, I have in part waived the use of both genders. For all these cases the other gender could also be used. Thank you for your understanding.
The inclined reader will inevitably notice that certain parts in this book are repeated several times. So in all larger chapters you can find descriptions on how to deal with the three questions, the division of time periods and so on. This is primarily due to my expectation, that this book will be used more as a work in progress than as a flowing reading and would like to spare the reader from having to constantly scroll back in order to start an exercise directly.
Those of you who actually manage to read this book "in one", I ask for your understanding about these repetitions.
Preface
"Peace: …(a period of) freedom from war and violence, especially when people live and work together happily without disagreements…" Cambridge Dictionary, 2020
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"Peace is a concept… In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. Throughout history leaders have used peace making and diplomacy to establish a certain type of behavioral restraint that has resulted in the establishment of regional peace or economic growth through various forms of agreements or peace treaties. Such behavioral restraint has often resulted in the reduction of conflicts, greater economic interactivity, and consequently substantial prosperity." Wikipedia, 2023
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This is how »peace« is explained, if you search the internet for this term which is so important for each of us. If one takes out some parts from the above definition, a most interesting task arises for us as individuals: "… a lack of conflict (such as war)… freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups …"
How can this general state between people, in which existing conflicts are settled without violence, be achieved by each of us? This certainly requires a definition of the term "violence," because one could easily fall into the temptation to think here primarily of physical violence and to say to oneself: "I'm not a violent person, I don't hurt anyone." Yet derogatory words, punishing silence and ignoring can sometimes hit harder than a spontaneous, helpless slap in the face.
Please think for a moment about how you deal with conflicts within your family, with friends, work colleagues and so on. What does your culture of conflict look like? Are there not occasionally violent words, gestures, threats or offended silence? How often have you wanted to do violence to your counterpart, shake him or her, destroy something to make him or her understand what you mean?
Most people are capable of violence; it only takes certain circumstances to allow it to erupt. So, we can say: Peace starts within each one of us. Only when we manage to cultivate peace in ourselves, to learn to live peacefully and contentedly, will the world have a chance to be pacified.
In this sense, I wish you many insights about yourself and others while reading this book and perhaps consequently - Contentment.
Yours Sabine Kaspari
Foreword
Today, it is almost impossible to escape the many influences on which we are exposed on a daily basis. Especially in this day and age, a variety of fears develop such as: fear of social isolation, fear of loss, fear of unemployment, fear of poverty, fear of illness, pandemic, and much more. These fears, together with the countless demands that life places on us day after day, give us a feeling of helplessness, of being at the mercy of others, of insecurity, but also of anger.
"What can I do…?" we ask ourselves, convinced there is nothing we can do about our own increasing dissatisfaction. We like to blame circumstances, the economic situation, bosses, colleagues and even our relatives and friends. Few stop to look at their own part in a situation, to rediscover their own potential, to look at the plain facts of life and accept them.
The purpose of this book is to shake us up, to show us a way to take life into our own hands again, to find our way back to the essential: to love ourselves and our fellow human beings and thus to more inner CONTENTMENT. Therefore, I wish Sabine Kaspari with her book about Naikan that many readers discover the power of this method for themselves and follow this gentle path of self-development.
Prof. em. Akira Ishii
Naikan is a method developed by a Japanese Buddhist to deal with oneself in a meditative way.
It is based on three central questions through which we learn to reconcile with the past and feel more peace and gratitude.
The only prerequisite is to regularly set aside some time for the exercises.
