Mother Zen
9 Keys to Happy Mother’s Awakening
Home is the best ashram; taking care of children is the best meditation!
With a firstborn at 46 and triplets at 51, Yangjin Lamu gleaned from her child-rearing experiences the way to happy motherhood, also known as “Mother Zen”. By practicing the methods, you are going to find peace of mind, a mind that’s free from worries and filled with joy.
When Yangjin Lamu was young, she was determined to stay single and longed for a monastic life. But her master rejected the idea and said that she would become a great practitioner at home.
Later in life, fate brought Yangjin and her Buddhist partner together. While she let go of her career and got married, she devoted herself to seeking dharma, retreats, and creating spiritual music. Having babies was never high at her list of priorities. Nine years later, however, she was told by great masters that it was the most important thing she should do. So, with fate as a guide, Yangjin embarked on the journey of motherhood.
With all the trials and tribulations as a new mom in modern society, Yangjin vowed to use her own experience to free pregnant women and moms from the grip of fear and anxiety, regain calm and joy, and even obtain enlightenment right from home.
Hence the advent of Mother Zen, an inspiring and powerful recount of her stories gently told. The book details out practicing methods, known as 9 Keys to Happy Mother’s Awakening, for pregnancy preparation, pregnancy, prenatal education, and parenting. It is Yangjin’s hope that the insights and methods she gained from her real-life experience can help modern women live in the moment and and awaken in family life.
Recommended by Rigzin Chenpo Rinpoche, HE Ridgzin Lama, Tang Rinpoche, Tsin Tao, Chen Li-an, Tiffany Zhang Defen, Mark Yuting Chen.
Age Of Feminine Energy
The awakening of mankind of our time begins with women.
The feminine energy is associated with calm, sensitivity, warmth, support, giving and compassion. The fundamental way to solve the crises, conflicts, injustices, environmental damage and other issues facing the world today is to lift the feminine energy in society and within everyone.
The Six Ways to a Happy Women’s Awakening: be mindful and regain one’s inner strength when washing dishes, mopping the floor, and taking a shower.
The Six Ways to a Happy Women’s Awakening include “finding the nature of mind”, “improving the nature of mind”, “recognizing the nature of mind”, “returning to the nature of mind”, “realizing one’s wishes”, and “setting the nature of mind free”. These methods are summarized by Yangjin based on masters’ teachings and her own experience. They can help modern people, especially women, to awaken in daily life.
Zen of Yangjinma
Zen of Yangjinma is a special way to awaken women. By listening to spiritual music, chanting, and spontaneous dancing, people can awaken, and reclaim peace and joy in their lives.
Recommended by Chen Lv-an, Hanne Strong (Wife of Maurice Strong, Former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations), Peggy Dulany (from the Rockefeller family), Zainab Salbi (founder of Women for Women International), Master Tsin Tao (founder of the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Foundation), John Young (chairman of Chung Gung Biotech), Peter Buffett, Mark Yuting Chen
Recommendations
“Yangjin’s experience represents a major step forward for mankind, demonstrating how we can regain the female energy in ourselves and in society. Through her personal experience to awakening step by step, we see the wisdom and courage of female energy, which shows us a bright path to awakening.”
--Peggy Dulany, the Rockefeller family
“Yangjin's book is written especially for modern women. She extracted six awakening methods to help women take control of their lives, become masters of their own minds, and stay away from inner fear and confusion. This is a “self-help handbook for women’s awakening.”
--Hanne Strong, Wife of Maurice Strong, Former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations
“Yangjin personally walked out a path of inner awakening in the real world and developed a set of methods for awakening in daily life. This is the story of Yangjin.”
--Peter Buffett, musician, son of Warren Buffett
The Harvard MBA Monk
Mark Yuting Chen is the eldest grandson of Chen Cheng, Vice President of the Republic of China. He is a graduate from Princeton, holds an MBA from Harvard, and used to work as a senior consultant at McKinsey. In his search for answers to life, he lived as a monk for three years, trying to find ways to tame the mind from Zen, Han and Tibetan Buddhism traditions. He also visited and learned from nearly a hundred eminent monks and Tulkus in Tibet, Qinghai, Yunnan, India, and Nepal.
The Harvard MBA Monk was written with extraordinary courage and searing honesty, with a hope to “help those that are seeking for the nature of mind to avoid the detours and pitfalls along the journey.”
In this remarkable autobiography, Mark recounted his legendary experience over half a lifetime - his early years in Taiwan, his time studying in the United States, the years working at investment banks and McKinsey, his experience of becoming a monk and seeking dharma, and his legendary marriage with Grammy-winning musician Yangjin Lamu.
The book is written in plain language with rich and intriguing details. It is a must-read for Buddhism enthusiasts, business people and all those with questions about life.
“This is not a religious book, but a story about how an ordinary man ultimately discovered the answer to his heart after twenty-five years of searching.”
--Mark Yuting Chen