Awake at Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the Midst of Work's Chaos

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Overview

Work can often be frustrating. On the job we frequently face conflicts, difficult personalities, disappointing results—a variety of challenges and obstacles. In this unique book Michael Carroll, a Buddhist meditation teacher and a corporate executive, shares Buddhist wisdom on how to transform the common hassles and anxieties of life in the workplace into valuable opportunities for personal growth, heightened wisdom, and enhanced effectiveness. Carroll shows us how life on the job—no matter what kind of work we do—can become one of the most engaging and fulfilling areas of our lives.

At its heart, Awake at Work offers thirty-five principles for developing a new way of relating to work that is characterized by honesty, openness, courage, maturity, and endless learning. By contemplating these principles on a regular basis in the context of our daily work lives, we can begin to explore and overturn the misconceptions and mental habits that keep many of us in a state of constant frustration and dissatisfaction on the job.

Carroll invites readers to contemplate these slogans and to use them on-the-spot, in the midst of work's chaos, to develop clarity, wisdom, and inspiration. Along the way, Carroll presents a variety of techniques and insights to help us "acknowledge work, with all its complications, as a valuable invitation to fully live our lives." In an engaging, accessible, and often humorous style, Awake at Work offers readers a path to rediscovering a natural sense of intelligence, confidence, and delight on the job.

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Carroll, a businessman and graduate of a Buddhist seminary, brings the sitting cushion into the boardroom with this collection of teachings designed to illuminate the power that mindfulness-"being somewhere completely"-can have at work. By surrendering to the moment, one becomes "alert, open, and unusually skillful," and in this way, Carroll asserts, "our work actually becomes our spiritual path." In brief, accessible chapters, Carroll expounds some 35 slogans designed to be both fodder for meditation and mnemonic devices for when that particular message can help the most, during an opportune moment at work. Many of the slogans are catchy, and their teachings are pointed and easy to recall: "Welcome the tyrant" helps one to disarm a cranky boss; "Avoid idiot compassion" reminds one to eschew giving merely superficial help. But other slogans are more obscure and their teachings more convoluted: "Study the six confusions" and "Extend the four composures." Carroll relates the spiritual principles to practical business settings-such as cherishing the "small boredom" of an elevator ride-and casual readers will gain some helpful tips for handling their professional lives. Yet for the uninitiated, Carroll's simple mindfulness slogans may appear merely simplistic, leaving the slogans' greatest impact for those who already have some experience with-and faith in-the practice of mindfulness training. (Sept.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781590302729
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
  • Publication date: 2/14/2006
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 233,636
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 0.68 (d)

Meet the Author

For over two decades Michael Carroll worked on Wall Street and in the publishing industry, holding executive positions at Shearson Lehman Brothers, Paine Webber, Simon & Schuster, and the Walt Disney Company. Founding director of AAW Associates, Carroll consults with major corporations on bringing mindfulness into the workplace. He is a longtime student of Buddhist meditation and an authorized teacher in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa. Carroll has taught mindfulness meditation at the Wharton School of Business, Columbia University, Kripalu, and the Cape Cod Institute. For more information, visit www.awakeatwork.net.

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  • Posted September 23, 2011

    Changed my attitude toward my job!

    Love this book! It has helped me change my attitude toward my work. I love the concept of "Idiot Compassion". Now, more often than not, I am able to reflect on one of the many "slogans" in the book which helps me reframe my attitude and my actions. I have the Nook version for home and keep the paperback version in my office.

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  • Posted August 26, 2010

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    Awake at Work Brings Peace

    I read and re-read Awake at Work often. Yesterday, I re-read a chapter about the silence of fear. Carroll posits that fear is powerful because we experience it in silence. After making an embarrassing mistake at work, I remembered what I had read and decided to address the mistake openly. Before remembering what I read and making the decision to be open I was seriously considered attempting to cover up my mistake. Because of the book I found acting with integrity a little easier.

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