PICO IYER

. Uno de los primeros dos libros de la serie de TED BooksEn un mundo en el que, gracias a las redes sociales, se nos ofrece distracción las 24 horas y en la cual nos sentimos a la vez sobrecargados

Beautiful Iyer masterfully and lyrically shows us how we may need to find a new home one far more solemn communal and silent than our present one in order to return properly to ourselves Alain de Botton I trust that reading this book may help many to lead lives of greater compassion and deeper peace of mind His Holiness the Dalai Lama One of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time Maria Popova An exquisite call to silence and the myriad connections it kindles Katherine May I urge everyone to read Pico Iyer s beautifully written meditative book Learning from Silence As I turned to this I felt my blood pressure reducing and I began to read in a different slower and more concentrated way Jane Shaw Financial Times From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat Over the past three decades Pico Iyer has made more than a hundred journeys to a small hermitage high above the sea in Big Sur California He s not a Christian nor a member of any religious group and yet his life has been transformed by these periods of time spent in silence In Learning from Silence Iyer travels deep into inner stillness and joy in his many seasons at the m

En un mundo en el que, gracias a las redes sociales, se nos ofrece distracción las 24 horas y en la cual nos sentimos a la vez sobrecargados de información pero con miedo a perdernos algo, este libro trae una solucion simple. Detente, aunque sea durante poco tiempo. Las recompensas seran enormes.Pico Iyer nos muestra en este libro como muchos han encontrado la verdadera riqueza en la quietud, desde Marcel Proust hasta Blaise Pascal pasando por Phillipe Starck. Explora tambien una verdad contraria a la intuicion como que mientras mas posibilidades tenemos de conectarnos, mas deseamos desesperadamente desconectarnos.En las dos charlas TED que ha dado reflexiona sobre la razon por la cual tanta gente acude a tecnicas como el yoga, la meditacion o el tai chi. No son modas new age, sino nuevas formas de conectar con una era pasada. Tambien existe una tendencia a adoptar fines de semana sabaticos de Internet, desconectando la tecnologia y recuperando la costumbre como la conversacion y las comidas familiares.

* 100 imágenes inéditas del gran fotógrafo estadounidense Steve McCurry, quien cuenta con una extraordinaria capacidad de captar el alma de las personas mientras estas llevan a cabo actividades sencillas. * Fotografias de todos los rincones del mundo, que revelan la diversidad humana y que muestran al ser humano detras de la imagen, lo que incita a restaurar la humanidad en cada uno de nosotros. * Un libro imprescindible que descubre algunas de las perlas ocultas de este gran fotografo. Durante mas de cuatro decadas, Steve McCurry ha sido una de las figuras mas emblematicas de la fotografia contemporanea. Nacido en Filadelfia, McCurry estudio cinematografia en la Universidad Estatal de Pensilvania, antes de trabajar para un diario. Al cabo de dos años, realizo el primero de muchos viajes a la India. Un viaje avituallado con poco mas que un bolso con ropa y carretes, Steve cruzo el subcontinente y exploro el pais con su camara. Tras varios meses de viaje, cruzo la frontera hacia Pakistan. En una pequeña aldea, conocio a un grupo de refugiados de Afganistan, quienes lo introdujeron de contrabando a traves de la frontera hacia su pais, justo cuando la invasion rusa cerraba el territorio a los periodistas occidentales. Con vestimenta tradicional, barba y rasgos desgastados por el clima tras los meses de convivenci...

Guiados por la curiosidad vital insaciable de Pico Iyer, recorreremos medio mundo, desde Inglaterra a Japón, en busca del concepto de hogar y la noción de “alma planetaria”. Un libro para comprender

A Vintage Shorts Travel Selection Welcome to China in 1985, to a nation that has just begun to swing open for the West, and specifically for a young Time magazine journalist named Pico Iyer. From the beloved set of travel essays Video Night in Kathmandu, this is his dispatch. From Beijing to Chengdu to Guangzhou, Iyer crisscrosses the country, making friends, gathering impressions, and always getting to the train station early (very early). Along the way he encounters a China eager to take in Western goods, but not always Western valuesand a Great Wall, established to keep the world out, thats now being used to draw it in. Neither Easterner nor Westerner knows where to turn. With frank curiosity and prophetic clarity, Iyers travel essays have become the gold standard for the genre. Here he gives us a time capsule of an ambiguous and fast-changing China that remains strikingly familiar even today. An eBook short.

Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of floatingness.In the transnational village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us. As Iyer points out, "everywhere is so made up of everywhere else," and our very souls have been put into circulation. Yet even global beings need a home.Using his own multicultural upbringing (Indian, American, British) as a point of departure, Iyer sets out on a quest, both physical and psychological, to find what remains constant in a world gone mobile. He begins in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life shops, services, sociability is available without a town, and in Hong Kong, where people actually live in self-contained hotels. He moves on to Toronto, which has been given new life and a new literature by its immigrant population, and to Atlanta, where the Olympic Village inadvertently commemorates the corporate universalism that is the Olympics secret face. And, finally, he returns to England, where the effects of empire-as-global-village are still being sorted out, and to Japan, where in the midst of alien surfaces, Iyer unexpectedly finds a home."As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed,"The New Yorker has written. In The Global Soul, he extends the meaning of far-flung to places within and all around us.

Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castros Cuba. "On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight."--Los Angeles Times.

In Tropical Classical the author of Video Nights in Katmandu and The Lady and the Monk visits a holy city in Ethiopia, where hooded worshippers practice a Christianity that has remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. He follows the bewilderingly complex route of Bombays dabbawallahs, who each day ferry 100,000 different lunches to 100,000 different workers.Iyer chats with the Dalai Lama and assesses the books of Salman Rushdie and Cormac McCarthy. And he brings his perceptive eye and unflappable wit to bear on the postmodern vogues for literary puffery, sexual gamesmanship, and frequent-flier miles. Glittering with aphorisms, overflowing with insight, and often hilarious, Tropical Classical represents some of Iyers finest work.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER For Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, an exceptionally intimate portrait (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love) of the Dalai Lamaone of the most singular figures of our time.For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of the Dalai Lama, explaining his work and ideas about politics, science, technology, and religion. The Open Road illuminates the hidden life and the daily challenges of this global icon.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, TIME MAGAZINE& MORE Masterful . . . A book of inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors . . . One of his very best. Washington Post Dazzling. Time Magazine, Best Books of 2023 From one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time (Brain Pickings): a journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world.Paradise: that elusive place where the anxieties, struggles, and burdens of life fall away. Most of us dream of it, but each of us has very different ideas about where it is to be found. For some it can be enjoyed only after death; for others, its in our midstor just across the oceanif only we can find eyes to see it. Traveling from Iran to North Korea, from the Dalai Lamas Himalayas to the ghostly temples of Japan, Pico Iyer brings together a lifetime of explorations to upend our ideas of utopia and ask how we might find peace in the midst of difficulty and suffering. Does religion lead us back to Eden or only into constant contention? Why do so many seeming paradises turn into warzones? And does paradise exist only in the afterworld or can it be found in the here and now? For almost fifty years Iyer has been roaming the world, mixing a global souls delight in observing cultures with a pilgrims readiness to be transformed. In this culminating work, he brings together the outer world and the inner to offer us a surprising, original, often beautiful exploration of how we might come upon paradise in the midst of our very real lives.

From the national bestselling author of The Half-Known Life comes an intoxicating novel thats at once a stylish intellectual mystery and a pulse-quickening love storythe love in question being at once sacred and profane. John Macmillan, a classically reticent Englishman who has moved to California to study the poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi, unexpectedly becomes involved in two equally absorbing quests. The first is for a mysterious Rumi manuscript that may have been smuggled out of Iran; the second for the elusive Camilla Jensen, who continually offers herself to him only to repeatedly slip from his grasp. Are these quests somehow related? And can Macmillan give himself over to them without losing his career and identity? Moving deftly from California academia to the mosques of Iran, filled with insights into the minds of Islam and the modern West, Abandon is a magic carpet-ride of a book.

A follow up to Pico Iyers essay The Joy of Quiet, The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has journeyed from Easter Island to Ethiopia, Cuba to Kathmandu, think that sitting quietly in a room might be the ultimate adventure? Because in our madly accelerating world, our lives are crowded, chaotic and noisy. Theres never been a greater need to slow down, tune out and give ourselves permission to be still.In The Art of Stillnessa TED Books releaseIyer investigate the lives of people who have made a life seeking stillness: from Matthieu Ricard, a Frenchman with a PhD in molecular biology who left a promising scientific career to become a Tibetan monk, to revered singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who traded the pleasures of the senses for several years of living the near-silent life of meditation as a Zen monk. Iyer also draws on his own experiences as a travel writer to explore why advances in technology are making us more likely to retreat. He reflects that this is perhaps the reason why many peopleeven those with no religious commitmentseem to be turning to yoga, or meditation, or seeking silent retreats. These arent New Age fads so much as ways to rediscover the wisdom of an earlier age. Growing trends like observing an Internet Sabbathturning off online connections from Friday night to Monday morninghighlight how increasingly desperate many of us are to unplug and bring stillness into our lives.The Art of Stillness paints a picture of why so manyfrom Marcel Proust to Mahatma Gandhi to Emily Dickinsonhave found richness in stillness. Ultimately, Iyer shows that, in this age of constant movement and connectedness, perhaps staying in one place is a more exciting prospect, and a greater necessity than ever before.In 2013, Pico Iyer gave a blockbuster TED Talk. This lyrical and inspiring book expands on a new idea, offering a way forward for all those feeling affected by the frenetic pace of our modern world.

The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the worlds loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious.

Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.

When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through literature, of the lunar Japan that still lives on behind the rising sun of geopolitical power.All this he did. And then he met Sachiko.Vivacious, attractive, thoroughly educated, speaking English enthusiastically if eccentrically, the wife of a Japanese "salaryman" who seldom left the office before 10 P.M., Sachiko was as conversant with tea ceremony and classical Japanese literature as with rock music, Goethe, and Vivaldi. With the lightness of touch that made Video Night in Kathmandu so captivating, Pico Iyer fashions from their relationship a marvelously ironic yet heartfelt book that is at once a portrait of cross-cultural infatuation -- and misunderstanding -- and a delightfully fresh way of seeing both the old Japan and the very new.

In this exquisite personal blend of philosophy and engagement, inner quiet and worldly life" (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed author returns to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-laws sudden death and picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites, reminding us to take nothing for granted.In a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, Pico Iyer comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance.