What Universe Are You Creating?
Zen and the Art of Recording and Listening: A 52-Card Deck & Guidebook
Structured as a daily game, this book and card deck has readers randomly choose a card and then read the corresponding pages in the book. The intention is to broaden perspective, lift spirits, and improve the quality of one’s life. What Universe Are You Creating? is a playful, powerful tool for learning the skill that frees us: Zen, the practice of presence. Recording and listening is a revolutionary tool for practicing turning attention from incessant, haranguing, karmically conditioned patterns of thought and action to the peace of presence. Recording in our own voice and then listening to kind words, encouragement, inspirational readings, favorite songs, gratitude lists, meditations—in short, being our own mentor—turns attention away from the constant stream of negative self-talk, revealing its illusory nature.
Cheri Huber is the founder of the Zen Center in Palo Alto, California; the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Murphys, California; and Living Compassion, a nonprofit organization dedicated to peace and service. She is the author of How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything; There Is Nothing Wrong with You; Transform Your Life; and When You’re Falling, Dive. Her weekly Internet radio show, Open Air with Cheri Huber, broadcasts every Tuesday on TalkShoe. She lives in Murphys, California. Ashwini Narayanan is a student of Cheri Huber, has cofacilitated and created workshops with her, and currently runs the operations of the two nonprofits that Cheri founded. She lives in Santa Clara, California.
