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A Mind at Home with Itself

How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around

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Internationally acclaimed bestselling author Byron Katie's most anticipated work since Loving What Is.

In A Mind at Home with Itself, Byron Katie illuminates one of the most profound ancient Buddhist texts, The Diamond Sutra (newly translated by distinguished scholar Stephen Mitchell) to reveal the nature of the mind and to liberate us from painful thoughts, using her revolutionary system of self-inquiry called "The Work." Byron Katie doesn't merely describe the awakened mind; she empowers us to see it and feel it, in action. At once startlingly fresh and powerfully enlightening, A Mind at Home with Itself offers us a transformative new perspective on life and death and is certain to become a classic.

In the midst of a normal American life, Byron Katie became increasingly depressed and over a ten-year period sank further into despair and suicidal thoughts. Then one morning in 1986 she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ended. The freedom of that realization has never left her. Its direct result, The Work, has helped millions of people all over the world to question their stressful thoughts and set themselves free from suffering.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Byron Katie's latest book, like her others, focuses on vanquishing painful thoughts by courageous self-examination of our words and assumptions. Her co-author, Stephen Mitchell, an expert on the ninth-century Buddhist text THE DIAMOND SUTRA, ably narrates the introductory chapters. The rest of the audiobook has the clear-speaking Katie explaining her views or conversing with the other narrators, both appealing readers. The combination of voices supports the communal message in Katie's thinking. She challenges listeners to think of themselves as fluid beings connected to everyone and gently shows how thinking this way can liberate us from feelings of isolation. This excellent production is a perfect vehicle for the author's wisdom--satisfying to hear and provocative in its invitation to re-examine ourselves and the world. T.W. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 10, 2017
      In her newest book, Mitchell (Loving What Is), who goes by Byron Katie, speaks about her method of self-inquiry, “the Work,” through the lens of the Diamond Sutra—a Buddhist text that emphasizes the teachings of nonself, emptiness, and nonattachment—and arrives at some suspect conclusions. Suffering, she posits, is caused by “arguing with what is” through the stories and thoughts that one believes about the world. Mitchell explains how she uses the Work to question the truthfulness of apparent thoughts, turn them around to provide alternative perspectives, and reveal what is really happening in any situation. The Work allows “wordless questioning” to arise, which Mitchell says will show “everything as it really is: as pure grace.” However, Mitchell’s interpretation of the Diamond Sutra leads to more distressing implications. “Suffering is optional,” she writes, because problems are individually, solipsistically created; Mitchell places the blame squarely on the individual’s inability to regulate the mind rather than the presence of any external, objective causes of suffering. The world that Mitchell occupies is a world of self-projections, and she goes so far as to characterize compassion as “pure selfishness” since there are no real others and all suffering is imagined. The result is an (unintended) solipsistic worldview that does not acknowledge the possibility of external sources of suffering. New readers should approach Mitchell’s newest book on the Work with caution.

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