Koshin Paley Ellison - Untangled

With tender, searing honesty, Koshin Paley Ellison shows us how to find peace and inner freedom right in the heart of our struggles and pain. The writing is heartfelt and charming, theres a fresh retelling of the Buddhas wisdom, and each page shines with insightful suggestions for a life that is brave, honest, and filled with love. Ive never read a more compelling, liberating book.

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Buddhas Brain, Hardwiring Happiness, Resilient, and Making Great Relationships

Untangled is a love letter to the broken-hearted. It is a balm for what ails us. Koshin Paley Ellison writes with the wit, wisdom, and loving embrace of one who has walked the path of heartache and loss and discovered the comfort of our shared humanity embedded in that experience. Each of us can be nourished by his words; each of us needs to be untangled so that we may live well and love each other. This is the book the world needs now.

Jerry Colonna, author of Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up.

In Koshin Paley Ellisons wonderful book Untangled, he places the classical framework of the Buddhas Noble Eightfold Path in the context and complexity of our daily lives. The clarity of his open heart and deep wisdom shine on every page.

Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

This wonderful, thoroughly contemporary, totally engaging presentation of Buddhist wisdom uses sources as diverse as the Buddha and Dogen and Cinderella and Einstein and Star Wars and the authors grandmother, echoing the instruction that the Buddha gave to monks whom he had trained as they left his community to become teachers themselves: Teach the holy Dharma in the idiom of the people. Koshin has done that! And I love it! It is a pleasure to read.

Sylvia Boorstein, author of Happiness Is an Inside Job

What!?? An approachable Zen Master? Whos willing to be vulnerable and is comfortable with hugs and tears? In Untangled, Koshin Paley Ellison reveals just such a Zen Master. In effortless prose full of personal stories and simple exercises, he offers a way for anyone who is willing to practice the Buddhas path of healing and transformation.

Norman Fischer, Zen priest and author of When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen

Koshin Paley Ellison pays as much attention to inner practice as he does outer life. Here is a guide who approaches you with respect. Here is a friend on the page.

Padraig OTauma, author of Poetry Unbound

Personal, practical, intimate, and illuminating. Untangled is filled with vivid stories that give the practitioner much to think about and even more to feel.

Laurie Anderson, avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director

Sadly, many of us get tangled by the reality of everyday life, which for many results in suffering. In this wonderful book, we are given the opportunity to get untangled, allowing for greater clarity and insight to not only understand the meaning of being present but, ultimately, our purpose in life.

James R. Doty, M.D., founder and director of the Stanford University Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE)

Koshins book Untangled guides us to find peace using Buddhist teachings. Koshin is a role model for Buddhist monks.

Kodo Nishimura, makeup artist, Buddhist monk, and LGBTQ activist

Koshin Paley Ellison engages us from a life of hard-earned wisdom, showing us a way out of our countless tangles toward a path to freedom.

Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

For my uncle Victor Honigmann, who was the first person I heard speak openly of terror and trauma as the gate to walk through toward healing and love.

BEFORE YOUR JOURNEY
(IS THERE A BEFORE?)

Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al ander. (Traveler, there is no path to follow, you make your own way as you walk.)

ANTONIO MACHADO