As human beings, we strive to make life go smoothly for ourselves and others, but that is expecting from the world something it cannot give. Ajahn Brahm, the bestselling author of Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? and Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond, presents in this new work wisdom for learning to abandon the headwind of false expectations and follow instead the path of understanding in order to find true joy within. By releasing our attachment to past and future, hope and fear, we can settle into the stillness underlying all our thoughts and discover the bliss of the present moment..

Art of Disappearing: Buddha's Path to Lasting Joy, Ajahn Brahm, Wisdom Publications , Paperback, 148 pages, $17.95

AJAHN BRAHM grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in London. Scholarships got him to Cambridge University where he garnered a degree in Theoretical Physics. Eventually disillusioned with the world of academe, he trained as a monk in the jungles of Thailand under the highly esteeemed Buddhist master Ajahn Chah. A monk for over thirty years, Ajahn Brahm is a revered spiritual guide and the abbot of one of the largest monasteries in the southern hemisphere, regularly drawing multinational audiences of thousands.