{ "item_title" : "The Walk", "item_author" : [" Anand Bharat "], "item_description" : "How do I become one with the universe?At what point did you become separate from it?For eleven years a young monk has done everything right. He rises at four, sits for hours in the cold meditation hall and records every minute of practice in a small notebook. He is patient, disciplined and devoted, and he is no closer to peace than the day he arrived.So one May morning, on the temple steps, he puts his question to an old man in a faded jumper. The old man doesn't offer a teaching. He offers to take the monk where he wants to go. It isn't far, he says. There is only one condition: the monk has to buy the coffee.What follows is one long day and night across London. There's the Tube to Baker Street, where the old man puts in his earbuds and only smiles. There's a busker on Westminster Bridge, a downpour in Covent Garden and a market in Brixton. At a fair on Clapham Common a little girl is lost, and at two in the morning a nurse is folding her washing in a launderette. A fox stands on a bin in a Pimlico mews, a man on a milk crate lectures an empty pavement at Speakers' Corner, and dawn breaks over Hyde Park.At every stop the old man asks the same question: Tell me only what is actually here. And slowly, writing down only what he can see for himself, the monk begins to look at his own experience instead of his ideas about it. Where is the self that suffers? Where is the line between him and the world? And who, exactly, has been doing all the searching?The Walk is a warm, funny parable about the oldest question there is. It needs no background in meditation, philosophy or spirituality. Each chapter ends with a simple question to try for yourself, so the monk's journey quietly becomes your own.For anyone who has ever felt that peace is somewhere else, just out of reach, this is the story of finding your way home, and discovering you never left.Anand Bharat is a pen name. More at anandbharatauthor.com.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/808/9798178082041_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "13.22", "online_price" : "13.22", "our_price" : "13.22", "club_price" : "13.22", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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