Using Contemplative Wisdom to Bring Peace, Wealth, Warmth and Energy into Your Home

Helen Berliner

Drawing on traditional geomantic systems from both East and West, the author uses Tibetan Buddhist teachings to show how the energies of earth, water, fire, wind and space shape our homes. She explains the role of wakefulness in contemplative arts and design.

Berliner proceeds from living room to bedroom to kitchen to home office, illustrating with rigorous practicality how we can join space, color, function, harmony, and our senses to create functional, welcoming rooms. She draws on traditional geomantic systems from Celtic wisdom to feng-shui to show that home design and ecology are one and the same, and that intuition and our senses are our most effective decorating tools. Working with wakefulness and natural patterns of energy, we can create enlightened environments-and in this case enlightenment begins at home!

256 pages