Drawing on interviews with hundreds of meditation teachers, monks, nuns, and practitioners from across traditions, Kornfield examines what happens after the moments of awakening, bliss, or peak experience — namely, the return to ordinary life, ordinary problems, and the ongoing work of integration. The book is a profound and deeply honest account of how spiritual wisdom becomes embodied not in peak experiences but in the quality of one's daily relationships, emotional life, and presence to suffering. For men who have had powerful experiences in men's groups, on retreats, or in therapy but struggle to maintain the insight in everyday life, this book provides both company and guidance. Kornfield writes with remarkable transparency about his own failures and those of teachers he admires.
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