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20 Zen Lessons For Overthinkers
Simplicity in an Overstimulated WorldBy Naomi Mori
Length1h 45m
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"Just this." Two words. The whole of Zen.
Everything else — every koan, every teaching, every hour of zazen — is pointing at those two words and what they actually mean when they land in the body rather than the intellect.
20 Zen Lessons for Overthinkers is a book for the mind that cannot stop. Not because it is broken — but because it was never shown another way. Each lesson takes one concept from the Zen tradition — the beginner's mind, the gateless gate, the empty bowl, the silence between the notes — and brings it into direct contact with the specific modern experience of mental overload: the loop that won't quit, the analysis that replaces action, the planning that substitutes for living, the noise that fills every space before anything quieter can emerge.
Written in the same reflective, unhurried voice as its companion volume, 20 Buddha Lessons for Modern Anxiety, this book does not promise stillness. It offers something more honest: a way of recognizing when thinking has exceeded its brief, and a set of twenty different doors back to what is simple, direct, and already here.
For the reader who has read about presence without feeling it. Who understands mindfulness as a concept and lives in their head regardless. Who suspects that the solution is not more information but a different kind of attention entirely.
Just this. The whole teaching. Everything else is the pointing.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, Philosophy, Spirituality and Religion
Length1 hr 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 4, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Before We Begin
2Lesson 1: The Map Is Not the Territory
3Lessn 2: Beginner's Mind Sees More
4Lesson 3: Sit Down and Stop Explaining Yourself
5Lesson 4: The Koan Has No Answer You Can Think Your Way To
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6Lesson 5: Chop Wood, Carry Water
7Lesson 6: Your Thoughts Are Not Weeds to Be Pulled
8Lesson 7: The Gateless Gate
9Lesson 8: Not Two
10Lesson 9: Before Thinking
11Lesson 10: Mu
12Lesson 11: The Tea Is Already Cold
13Lesson 12 The Sound of Rain Is Enough
14Lesson 13: When You Are Angry, Be Angry
15Lesson 14: The Finger Pointing at the Moon
16Lesson 15: You Are Already Home
17Lesson 16: The Empty Bowl
18Lesson 17: The Ox Is Always Here
19Lesson 18: Nothing Extra
20Lesson 19: The Silence Between the Notes
21Lesson 20: Just This
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