The Storms Can't Hurt the Sky: The Buddhist Path through Divorce

by Gabriel Cohen

Overview

Buddhism has been applied to everything from parenting to golf, but until now no one has offered Buddhist principles as a healing path through divorce. In Storms Can't Hurt the Sky, Gabriel Cohen bravely delves into his personal experience-along with insights from Buddhist masters, parables, humor, social science studies, and interviews with other divorces-to provide a practical and very helpful guide to surviving the pain of any break-up. Focusing on the emotions most common in the dissolution of a relationship-anger, resentment, loss, and grief — Storms Can't Hurt the Sky shows how thinking about these feelings in surprisingly different ways can lead to a radically better experience. This compulsively readable book offers sound advice and much-needed empathy for anyone dealing with a break-up.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781600940507
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	02/05/2008
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	8.04(w) x 5.48(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Gabriel Cohen has written for the New York Times and Time Out New York and has taught writing at NYU. The author of three novels, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction     xi
A wake-up call
Punching Holes     3
An Empty Cup     13
Does This Book Exist?     20
If Anger Wins     26
One for the Seesaw     30
If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me     36
What Is Buddhism?     43
Forgiveness     47
A Thin Line     55
You Aren't My Sunshine     61
Come on, get happy!
Saturday Night Fever     69
Happy Hour     75
Attachment at First Sight     79
Bollywood Under the Bridge     85
Nowhere to Run     91
Who's Number One?     97
Danger, Will Robinson!     105
Of Chambermaids and Kings     113
The Couch and the Cushion     118
Gold in the Dirt     123
Where Have All the Good Friends Gone?     131
If You Meet the Buddha     136
Raccoons     146
The Heart of the Matter     155
Beginner's Mind     163
Lighting the Loop     167
All Things Go     174
Arrows into flowers
Chops     183
Sitting     189
Transform Your Brain     196
Planets     204
Where There's a Will     214
Anatomy of an E-Mail     218
Other Voices     228
Still My Best Friend     241
A Plan of Action     245
A Buddhist Approach to Divorce, in Action     252
Buddhist Resources     259
Acknowledgments     265