The Book of Ichigo Ichie

The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way

By: Francesc Miralles, Héctor García

Narrated by: Louis Ozawa Changchien

Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

Learn to make every moment a once-in-a-lifetime experience with this definitive guide to the Japanese art of ichigo ichie, from the best-selling authors of Ikigai.

Every moment in our life happens only once, and if we let it slip away, we lose it forever - an idea captured by the Japanese phrase ichigo ichie. Often spoken in Japan when greeting someone or saying goodbye, to convey that the encounter is unique and special, it is a tenet of Zen Buddhism and is attributed to a 16th-century master of the Japanese tea ceremony, or 'ceremony of attention', whose intricate rituals compel us to focus on the present moment.

The Book of Ichigo-Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way is an inspirational work which shows us how to:

• Free ourselves from the past and the future and to make each moment something unique.
• Bring into our lives the Zen that Steve Jobs learned from a Japanese master, and which was key to his success.
• Turn coincidences into a tool for conscious magic.
• Create unforgettable moments in professional and personal circles.
• Improve our relationships with a new type of mindfulness.
• Open the floodgates to the flow of creativity whenever we need it.

The Book of Ichigo Ichie will help you find your ikigai.

©2020 Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles (P)2020 Quercus Editions Limited

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Author did an amazing job on this piece. To ichigo ichie for all of you reading this

Living in the present cannot be done by...

Living in the present cannot be done by following laws, but as a Spirit-led day-to-day process



This book makes a clear, powerful stand on how to live in the present.

With conspicuous observations of how we in western society don’t do this, the author reveals techniques, speech patterns, and lifestyle practices to aid us in how to live moment to moment.

For anybody who has studied theology or philosophy of any kind, one powerful conclusion that we can gain about life, is that living in the present is a key to peace and joy.

The question of course is: ‘how?’

Ichigo Ichie presents all the methods we can employ to do this.

From breathing exercises, to dialogue injections, to 10 principles of the philosophy, it’s a comprehensive guide.

The only problem—and this is a large one—is the challenge of application.

To apply this to life, is to live another form of law.

Any philosopher will know that humanity as a species struggles with living by law.

We will naturally try to change, add, or subtract from it. It’s just our way.

In keeping in mind this folly of the human condition, a more complete understanding of Ichigo Ichie, would be to relay this brokenness that we all deal with; a reluctance easily described as ‘disobedience’ or ‘rebellion.’

Regardless, the book makes a solid point with good supporting observations of the human plight.