The Still Point: Running, Meditation and the Practice of Presence - Couverture souple

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0645062847 ISBN 13 : 9780645062847

Editeur : Duc Do, 2026

Synopsis

From Antarctica to the North Pole, from burning deserts and alpine ridges to the exposed highways of Tennessee, ultrarunning taught me that reaching the finish line was never the realpoint.

For all but a few elites, these races offer little tangible reward for what they demand. Yet in that apparent pointlessness lies their gift: they strip life back until the deeper reward appears - noticing the life unfolding along the way.

The Still Point begins with a body I did not trust. Illness followed me from childhood into adulthood, until one hesitant two-kilometre run opened a life I had never imagined. Half marathons became marathons, then journeys lasting several days and nights across mountains, deserts, ice and roads.

Across more than 150 completed events, including six 200-milers and two 300-milers, I discovered that distance does more than test endurance. Pain, fatigue, hallucinations, failure, family and the kindness of strangers became teachers. Running first helped me build a self I could believe in. Then it taught me how lightly that self could be held.

Reflective, candid and gently irreverent, The Still Point brings Samatha and Vipassanā onto roads and trails without turning either running or meditation into doctrine. It invites readers to reconsider their relationship with discomfort, achievement and identity, and to discover how attention can make even the hardest moments more fully lived.

The journey culminates on a lonely road through Tennessee, where more than 500 kilometres reduce life to its simplest elements: one step, one breath, this moment. What the journey ultimately reveals is not a method for conquering life, but a way of meeting it - awake, honest and fully present.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duc Do
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0645062847
• ISBN 13: 9780645062847
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg