{"product_id":"on-tuesdays-im-a-buddhist-pb-w2","title":"Michael Harding: On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist: Expeditions in an in-between world where therapy ends and stories begin [2018] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Searingly honest, funny, self-deprecating, Harding's narrative seems to rest on the pulse of Ireland' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding's wife brought an unusual gift home from Warsaw. All of a sudden, he found himself falling back into the old religious devotions of an earlier time. The meaning he had found through years of engagement with therapy began to dissolve.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHere, in \u003ci\u003eOn Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist\u003c\/i\u003e, Harding examines the search for meaning in life which keeps him fastened to the idea of god.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter many therapy sessions focused on an effort to uncover personal truth, and long solitary months on the road with a one man show, Harding is finally led to an artists' retreat in the shadow of Skellig Michael.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMixing stories from the road with dispatches from his \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e columns, \u003ci\u003eOn Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist \u003c\/i\u003eis a spell-binding and powerful book about the human condition, the narratives we weave around the self, and the ultimate bliss of living in the present moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'What happens between one story and the next? That's the really interesting part. That's the space where we find bliss; where we float sometimes, suspended, and only for a brief moment.  Perhaps only for a few scarce moments in an entire life.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harding, Michael","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47052283248979,"sku":"XG81473623507","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":42324098973881,"sku":"9781473623507","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47097217810771,"sku":"XV81473623507","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/harding-michael-michael-harding-on-tuesdays-i-m-a-buddhist-expeditions-in-an-in-between-world-where-therapy-ends-and-stories-begin-2018-paperback-57846008807763.jpg?v=1726913489","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/on-tuesdays-im-a-buddhist-pb-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}