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Tea and Cake with Demons

A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy

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This is the book on Buddhism the new generation has been waiting for.
 
If the Buddha were alive today, what would he say about the unique challenges we face? In Tea and Cake With Demons, NYC-based mindfulness and meditation teacher Adreanna Limbach shares a down-to-earth, often humorous, and delightfully insightful discussion of Buddhism through the lens of modern life—and all our cultural, technological, and still-timeless obstacles.
 
So many of us go through our days feeling overwhelmed. We do our best to navigate the craziness of the modern world—finding a purpose while making ends meet, going down social media black holes but craving meaningful relationships, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle in a society that seems to be falling apart . . .
 
At the end of the day, we have a sneaking suspicion of some fundamental flaw—our "demons" rear their heads, manifesting for many of us as a chronic sense of not-enoughness.
 
Using The Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path as a guide, Adreanna guides us to meet all our most common demons—shame, perfectionism, self-doubt, fixation—all while myth-busting the cultural narratives that keep us stuck.
 
Throughout Tea and Cake with Demons, Adreanna shares simple meditation practices, personal anecdotes, and traditional Buddhist tales that help you embrace the full experience of being human—even those pesky demons—and realize your fundamental, untouchable, and true self-worth.
 

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 27, 2019
      Limbach, a meditation instructor, introduces Buddhism through a discussion of the negative effects of self-doubt and feelings of unworthiness in her engaging debut. She opens with a parable about the Buddha welcoming a fierce demon to sit down for tea, unlike local monks who made desperate plans to fight or flee from the demon. From this story, she extracts the lesson that each person has the potential for enlightenment and encourages readers to recognize the often harmful, reactive ways one copes with personal demons, namely habitual emotions and states of mind that cause pain. Limbach then lays out an unembellished explanation of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. With a keen eye and lucid prose, Limbach offers up novel understandings of key Buddhist concepts—such as her association of the raw human pain of the charnel grounds with social media, and her call to see past the idea of karma as a universal ledger that tallies each decision so as to better understand the damaging default patterns that can emerge from constantly counting one’s “good” actions. Each chapter ends with a brief exercise, and some include detailed guidance for meditation practices. Readers unfamiliar with Buddhist concepts or those looking for fresh interpretations will find this guide a welcome entry point.

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