Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion

This accessible guide for walking Buddhism’s eightfold path is the perfect way to combat loneliness, disconnection, and depression–true happiness is not as unattainable as it may seem.

Loneliness is on the rise, with detrimental effects on our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. How do we look past the surface, to discover a life filled with meaningful connection and genuine relationships? Untangled is a welcoming guidebook to finding expansive ease and true joy through the eightfold path–one of Buddhism’s foundational teachings. 

Psychotherapist and Zen teacher Koshin Paley Ellison compassionately walks readers down these eight roads, leading them to discover true joy. Combining teachings from both Eastern and Western traditions, Paley Ellison equips readers with the tools needed to make profound change, inside and out. Infused with Paley Ellison’s own anecdotes of his own life, this guide will help you transform your relationships and offers a path for social healing.

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Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion

This accessible guide for walking Buddhism’s eightfold path is the perfect way to combat loneliness, disconnection, and depression–true happiness is not as unattainable as it may seem.

Loneliness is on the rise, with detrimental effects on our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. How do we look past the surface, to discover a life filled with meaningful connection and genuine relationships? Untangled is a welcoming guidebook to finding expansive ease and true joy through the eightfold path–one of Buddhism’s foundational teachings. 

Psychotherapist and Zen teacher Koshin Paley Ellison compassionately walks readers down these eight roads, leading them to discover true joy. Combining teachings from both Eastern and Western traditions, Paley Ellison equips readers with the tools needed to make profound change, inside and out. Infused with Paley Ellison’s own anecdotes of his own life, this guide will help you transform your relationships and offers a path for social healing.

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Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion

Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion

by Koshin Paley Ellison
Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion

Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion

by Koshin Paley Ellison

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This accessible guide for walking Buddhism’s eightfold path is the perfect way to combat loneliness, disconnection, and depression–true happiness is not as unattainable as it may seem.

Loneliness is on the rise, with detrimental effects on our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. How do we look past the surface, to discover a life filled with meaningful connection and genuine relationships? Untangled is a welcoming guidebook to finding expansive ease and true joy through the eightfold path–one of Buddhism’s foundational teachings. 

Psychotherapist and Zen teacher Koshin Paley Ellison compassionately walks readers down these eight roads, leading them to discover true joy. Combining teachings from both Eastern and Western traditions, Paley Ellison equips readers with the tools needed to make profound change, inside and out. Infused with Paley Ellison’s own anecdotes of his own life, this guide will help you transform your relationships and offers a path for social healing.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538708323
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 11/08/2022
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 763 KB

About the Author

Dr. Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, has devoted his life to the study and application of psychotherapy and Buddhism in service of addressing cultural ills. An author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and certified chaplaincy educator, he and his husband Robert Chodo Campbell founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care.

Table of Contents

Part I Before Your Journey (Is There a Before?)

1 True Pleasure Is a Place of Practice 3

2 The Tangle 16

Part II Beginning to Go Beyond

3 You Are Not Just Your Body 27

4 You Are More Than Your Feelings 39

5 You Are Not Just Your Thoughts 58

6 Confronting the Giants and Their Wheels of Suffering 72

7 The Pivot: Finding Our Place of Practice 93

Part III The Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion

8 The Path Is a Place of Practice 105

9 Perspective Is a Place of Practice 120

10 Speech Is a Place of Practice 136

11 Action Is a Place of Practice 150

12 Work Is a Place of Practice 170

13 Effort Is a Place of Practice 181

14 Attention Is a Place of Practice 191

15 Seated Meditation Is a Place of Practice 207

16 Mystery Is a Place of Practice 226

Appendix 1 Resources 233

Appendix 2 Further Reflection for Untangling with the Four Noble Truths 235

Acknowledgments 239

About the Author 243

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