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Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens

by Diana Winston

Buddhist practice for everyday pressures

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Buddhist practice for everyday pressures

Diana Winston connects Buddhist teachings with concerns named in the book’s description: peer pressure, stress, difficult emotions, self-acceptance, and decision-making around sex and drugs. Practical topics include meditation, finding calm amid life’s changes, volunteering, working for peace, and environmental care. The book frames Buddhism as a source of guidance for self-awareness and for responding to pressures to compete and consume, bringing spiritual practice into conversation with choices and challenges in teenagers’ lives.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults curious about Buddhism and meditation
  • Young people seeking guidance on stress, emotions, peer pressure, and self-awareness
  • Readers interested in linking personal choices with volunteering, peace, and environmental concerns

Themes

Buddhism and meditationStress and emotional difficultySelf-acceptance and decision-makingPeace and environmental responsibility

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Book overview

Many of today's teenagers are tired of the pressure to compete and consume-and are looking for a different way to live their lives. This book offers an alternative: the 2,500-year old practice of Buddhism.

Written in a style that will have immediate appeal to young "seekers" and those wanting to understand the ancient teachings, this book addresses such relevant topics as peer pressure, emotional difficulties, stress, fostering peace, and even protecting the environment. For everyone looking for self-help, self-esteem, and self-awareness, this book offers advice on:

-Discovering truth in a world of hype

-Finding peace amid the ups and downs of life

-Accepting ourselves

-Working with difficult emotions

-How to meditate

-Dealing with temptations and making the right decisions about sex and drugs

-Advice on volunteering, working for peace, and protecting the environment

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