Books

The Undefeated Mind (Fall 2012)

Though our ability to control what happens to us in life may be limited, our ability to establish a life state that enables us to surmount the suffering life brings us is not. In The Undefeated Mind, physician Alex Lickerman distills the wisdom Nichiren Buddhism considers essential for the creation of resilience into nine core principles—principles supported by new scientific research that suggests resilience isn’t something with which only a fortunate few of us have been born, but rather something we can all take action to develop. In telling the stories of patients who’ve used these principles to overcome suffering caused by unemployment, unwanted weight gain, addiction, rejection, chronic pain, retirement, illness, loss, and even death, The Undefeated Mind shows readers how they too can make these principles function within their own lives, whether they have any interest in practicing Buddhism or not.