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    If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path
    If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path
    If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path
    Audiobook6 hours

    If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path

    Written by Charlotte Kasl, Ph.D.

    Narrated by Renee Raudman

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    About this audiobook

    Charlotte Kasl, bestselling author, spiritual practitioner, and therapist, brings a compassionate understanding to the anxiety and uneasiness of new love, and helps listeners discover their potential for vibrant human connection based on awareness, kindness, and honesty. She approaches the dating process as a means for awakening, reminding us that when we live by spiritual rules, we bring curiosity and a light heart to the romantic journey.

    Filled with quotations from Zen, Sufi, and other wisdom traditions, and informed by the experiences of people from all walks of life, here is a relationship book that will appeal to audiences looking for more than a Venus-meets-Mars solution to the complex affairs of the heart.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 2, 2010
    ISBN9781400185412
    If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path

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    • 5/5
      talks about being on a spiritual path with someone and how to do that.
    • 3/5
      From the back cover:" At once practical, playful, and spiritually sound, this book is about creating a new love story in your life. Drawing from Christian, Buddhist, Sufi and other spiritual traditions. IF the Buddha Dated shows how to find a partner without losing yourself. Kasl, a practicing psychotherapist, workshop leader, and Reiki healer for twenty years, offers practical wisdom on using the path to love as a means of awakening. If the Buddha Dated teaches that when you stay loyal to your spiritual journey, you will bring curiosity, fascination, and a light heart to the dating process."Divided into six parts: 1. Preparation for Love: Walking a Path of Truth & Loving Kindness2. Awaken Your Desire: Who Are You? What do You Want?3. Enter the Sacred Fire: the Journey Towards Intimacy4. Keep Loyal to Your Journey: Stay Awake, Stay Aware5. Going Deeper: Create a Durable Fire6. Living in the Heart of the Beloved: We Are One With Each OtherThe book offers advice for first loving & honoring self & letting go of negative self beliefs and how from there one can attract another on the same/similar journeyBasic teachings of Louise Hay et. al.
    • 4/5
      This is a very good guide if you are looking for a guide that doesn't tell you the "do's" and "dont's" of dating and forming relationships. It is more objective and follows in the spirit of Buddhism that nothing is permanent, suffering is inherent, etc. Be in the moment and if things don't work out breathe it in and move on. For me and where I am spiritually this was a great guide.
    • 3/5
      While I found the advice in this book reasonable but not profound, I am happy it turned me on to Rumi's poetry.