{"product_id":"9781473623507-on-tuesdays-im-a-buddhist","title":"On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExpeditions in an in-between world where therapy ends and stories begin\u003cbr\u003eMore observations from Ireland's best-loved memoirist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Searingly honest, funny, self-deprecating, Harding's narrative seems to rest on the pulse of Ireland' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding's wife brought an unusual gift home from Warsaw. All of a sudden, he found himself falling back into the old religious devotions of an earlier time. The meaning he had found through years of engagement with therapy began to dissolve.\u003cbr\u003eHere, in \u003ci\u003eOn Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist\u003c\/i\u003e, Harding examines the search for meaning in life which keeps him fastened to the idea of god.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter many therapy sessions focused on an effort to uncover personal truth, and long solitary months on the road with a one man show, Harding is finally led to an artists' retreat in the shadow of Skellig Michael.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMixing stories from the road with dispatches from his \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e columns, \u003ci\u003eOn Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist \u003c\/i\u003eis a spell-binding and powerful book about the human condition, the narratives we weave around the self, and the ultimate bliss of living in the present moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'What happens between one story and the next? That's the really interesting part. That's the space where we find bliss; where we float sometimes, suspended, and only for a brief moment.  Perhaps only for a few scarce moments in an entire life.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450730000758,"sku":"9781473623507","price":9.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28905746.jpg?v=1760453883","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781473623507-on-tuesdays-im-a-buddhist","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}