Most of us live our whole lives either in the past or in the world of future expectations. We become the puppets of automatic reactions created by past experience, and while we continue to hope and dream of a better future, somehow we end up in the same old muddle. Yet life becomes an endless meditation when we make a conscious decision to live in the present. Every act becomes a reality. "Hard Zen, Soft Heart" teaches you how to acknowledge and change styles of reactive behavior which are no longer useful so you can live in the endless meditation of the present. This Is The Afterlife. So What Are You Waiting For?