When Bad Lands

How Not to Numb Out, Freak Out, or Bottom Out-Buddhist Style

2019 Gold Medal Winner of the Nautilus Award in the category Religion / Spirituality of Eastern Thought

2019 Indie Book Award / Spirituality

Change. Sometimes it wells up from within and we enter gracefully. At other times, it is utterly choiceless and the past, present, and future get burned up in the most unforgiving flames.

The seven skills presented in When Bad Lands help guide us through this challenging and rewarding journey. This is not a shortcut to clean up the surface or soften the edges. Rather, it is a mirror for courageously seeing ourselves with humor and heart.

©2019 Alan Kent Anderson (P)2020 Alan Kent Anderson

Life changing

I needed to hear that it’s not enough to meditate consistently, you have to actually do the work to accept who you are, eventually coming to the hard earned understanding of basic goodness. If you’re ready to look deeper, this is the book for you.