Zen and the Rescue Dog: Journeying with Your Dog on the Path to Enlightenment

by Pico Iyer (Introduction), KJ Fallon

Overview

Think you don't have time to really get to know your shelter dog?

Using the steps in Zen Buddhism as a starting off point, this book offers insights, practical tips, and exercises you can use to bond with your adopted dog and achieve a more relaxed and enjoyable life together. While feeding, walking, and occasionally petting your dog is a good start, no matter how busy you are, you will be able to better connect with your dog by trying the suggestions in this book.

With entertaining stories about the author's particularly idiosyncratic dog and the trials and tribulations that others have had with their rescue dogs, the author shows us that owners of an adopted dog can peacefully coexist with their pets. Observations and advice from animal experts at rescue organizations, vets, and experienced dog owners also provide insight about how to better succeed at understanding your adopted dog. Readers will also discover why adopted dogs are often best suited to rehabilitating humans in need.

If you have a rescue dog or are thinking about adopting one, and are looking for ways to help the two of you have a more peaceful existence together, this book is for you.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161452639
Publisher:	Post Hill Press
Publication date:	04/30/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

KJ Fallon was a reporter with Time magazine for 17 years who currently works as an author, and freelance writer. KJ has contributed to Independent Banker, Southampton Press, and other publications and is also a freelance book editor.

Hometown:

Japan

Place of Birth:

Oxford, England, UK

Editorial Reviews

There are many paths to enlightenment. For Robert Pirsig in 1974, the path of Zen famously involved a motorcycle trip with his son, while for KJ Fallon, it's been through the experience of adopting and caring for rescue dogs. Her book, Zen and the Rescue Dog offers a beguiling how-to guide for those who would take this path. There's something for every dog lover in this book, and much practical advice.

author of The Parrots Lament - Eugene Linden

In the marvelous and insightful book Zen and the Rescue Dog, KJ Fallon shows that the deeply interdependent relationships humans have with their canine companions help us to be centered and loving even if we never meet a monk or enter a monastery.

Chief Opinion Editor at Scientific American and the author of The Perpetual Now - Michael D. Lemonick

When life throws us blistering curve balls, many try to deflect or minimize their impact. Others crumble into a dark place. How to cope? Zen and the Rescue Dog lights a path for embracing tough moments and keeping focus on the present. Even without a dog of your own, you'll likely find that KJ Fallon' lessons will resonate. And who knows? You just might be persuaded to adopt a canine companion of your own.

Managing Editor of REALTOR Magazine - Wendy Cole

For those who are tired of simply mindful breathing but are not yet ready to embrace the entirety of life as a patience-teaching experience, KJ Fallon reminds us that there are rescue dogs. Fallon's genius insight is that every rescue dog arrives marked by a (usually mysterious) past life. And that this, along with the ongoing and loving diligence of adopting and raising one, is a wonderful vehicle for teaching the dharma. It turns out the Eightfold Path is strewn with kibble.

Former lead religion writer, Time Magazine. - David Van Biema

KJ precisely reminds us of the uniqueness of rescue dogs in rescuing humans and masterfully urges us to see the whole dog in this embracing book. Dog and Zen may not be the first thing you think of or think of at all. Now you know thanks to KJ Fallon. And just wait until they place their paw on you. Leave it there and don't move.

Award-winning foreign correspondent, poet and dog lover - Tom Squitieri