How to Achieve Total Enlightenment: A Practical Guide to the Meaning of Life - Softcover

Martin, Sam

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9780740750342: How to Achieve Total Enlightenment: A Practical Guide to the Meaning of Life

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ISBN 10: 0740750348 ISBN 13: 9780740750342

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005

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How to Achieve Total Enlightenment is both a humorous and inspirational guide for the soul searcher in all of us. From organized religion to surfing, from alms-seeking to Zen rock gardening, it demystifies various spiritual paths and practices and proves that the quest for meaning can be entertaining as well as enlightening. Author Sam Martin offers a no-nonsense, lighthearted approach to finding Truth in some of life's most common pursuits. You might . . .

" Learn how to build a shrine to Buddha

" Sign up for a pilgrimage in the Pyrenees

" Make your own communion wafers

" Get the perfect abs through yoga

" Learn the basic techniques of the Whirling Dervish

With unique, step-by-step instructions, illustrations, informative lists, and practical advice, How to Achieve Total Enlightenment is the divine guide to the meaning of life that no one should be without.

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About the Author:

Sam Martin is the author of How to Mow the Lawn: The Lost Art of Being a Man. He honed his "do-it-yourself" approach as a senior editor at This Old House and Mother Earth News magazines. He is now a contributing editor at Budget Living magazine and is an award-winning author for Lonely Planet Guidebooks. He makes his home in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two sons

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