tranquility du jour #321: paradise in plain sight
Tranquility du Jour
Kimberly Wilson
4.6 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2014
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Welcome to the 321st edition of Tranquility du Jour. Today's show features Karen Maezen Miller on Paradise in Plain Sight. You'll learn how mindfulness is devoting yourself to what is in front of you, how someday never arrives, and four rules for a mindful garden.
Featured Guest: Karen Maezen Miller is the author of Hand Wash Cold, Momma Zen, and most recently Paradise in Plain Sight. She’s also a Zen Buddhist priest, meditation teacher, wife, and mother. Visit her online at karenmaezenmiller.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Tranquility DeJure, August 25th, 2014. |
| 0:10.0 | Bonjour and welcome to the 321st edition of Tranquility DeJure. |
| 0:16.7 | Today's show features Karen Mazin-Miller on Paradise and Plain Sight, her latest book. |
| 0:23.5 | You'll learn how mindfulness is devoting yourself to what is right in front of you at this moment, |
| 0:29.9 | how someday never arrives, and her four rules for a mindful garden. |
| 0:37.9 | So our featured guest, Karen Mazin Miller, is a returning guest. |
| 0:42.7 | We had her on for her very first or her second book, excuse me, which was amazing, hand-washed cold. |
| 0:49.8 | And she's the author of Hand-Wash Cold, Mama Zen, and then most recently, Paradise in Plain Sight. |
| 0:56.1 | She's also a Zen Buddhist priest, a meditation teacher, wife, and mother. |
| 1:02.9 | You can find her at Karen Mazenmiller.com. |
| 1:07.9 | You can also find her on Facebook and Twitter, and there are links in the show notes. |
| 1:15.3 | The show notes can be found at tranquility-de-jure.com. |
| 1:23.9 | Welcome back to Tranquility DeJure, Karen. |
| 1:27.3 | Oh, thank you, Kimberly, for having me. |
| 1:29.5 | I was so excited to see you had another book coming out, and I kept checking in with our publisher going, I need a copy. |
| 1:35.7 | I need a copy. |
| 1:36.7 | Wins it out. |
| 1:38.2 | And so Paradise in Plain Sight, Lessons from a Zen Garden. |
| 1:42.7 | And I just want to read the back real quick for our listeners |
| 1:45.5 | because I think it so beautifully gives insight into what this gym is about. When Zen teacher, |
| 1:53.6 | Karen Mazen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, |
| 1:58.5 | she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living |
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