The Buddhist Enneagram - by Susan Piver (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

"With wisdom, creativity, and artistry, Susan Piver brings a Buddhist lens to the spiritual map of the enneagram. The results are vibrant and nourishing; a banquet of insights that help us transmute our difficult emotions into pure expressions of our basic goodness." -Tara Brach, best-selling author of Radical Acceptance and Trusting the Gold

"By blending her long-time studies of Buddhism and the enneagram, Piver supports us to turn away from incessant self-improvement and relax into our natural brilliance. She assures us that everything we seek . . .is already here." -Mark Hyman, MD, 14-time New York Times best-selling author and founder of "Ultrawellness"

The Buddhist Enneagram is a personal exploration of Buddhist teachings on liberation from suffering and how the enneagram illuminates the way. This work is not an academic overview of interesting correlations between the systems. Rather, it shows how the enneagram gives powerful insight into your unique spiritual journey-and how you can support others in theirs.

Buddhist teacher and New York Times bestselling author Susan Piver has spent nearly 30 years in parallel study of Tibetan Buddhism and the enneagram. Piver masterfully weaves together two ancient schools of wisdom and magic in a compassionate exploration of the nine styles of traveling the path from confusion to wisdom.

With Buddhist teachings for each of the nine types, Piver illustrates that, no matter what your spiritual path is (including the path of no path), the enneagram offers profound support for living a deeply compassionate and fiercely awake life.

In this groundbreaking work, we find a way to untether ourselves from the merciless treadmill of self-improvement to see what is already perfect in ourselves, in others, and in every moment. This is the warrior's journey.

Review Quotes

"Vibrant and nourishing: a banquet of insights that help us transmute our difficult emotions into pure expressions of our basic goodness."

Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Trusting the Gold

"Piver brings to life an ancient, seemingly magical, wisdom for unleashing our natural compassion, skill, and kindness."

Michael Carroll, author of Awake at Work and The Mindful Leader

"Piver's enneagram teachings have allowed me to hold up a multidimensional mirror for my clients."

Kristoffer Carter, CEO of Epic Leadership, author of Permission to Glow

"A revelation. A genuinely novel, deeply wise, immensely insightful, and valuable guide that will change the way you see yourself and live your life."

Jonathan Fields, founder of Good Life Project, author of Sparked

"The Buddhist Enneagram is simultaneously personal, funny, insightful, and tender. In the times we're in and the ones ahead of us, this book will be a wonderful guide to living more open-heartedly and courageously."

Charlie Gilkey, author of the award-winning Start Finishing

"Blending her long-time studies of Buddhism and the enneagram, Piver supports us to turn away from incessant self-improvement and relax into our natural brilliance"

Mark Hyman, MD, 14-time New York Times best-selling author and founder of "Ultrawellness"

"A remarkable work of art, a raw, real, and intelligent field guide to your own freedom. Piver shows us a pathway out of confusion and guesswork and into insight and truth."

Christine Kane, author of The Soul Sourced Entrepreneur

"This diamond of a human, Susan Piver, is one of my wisdom heroines. Her compassion is practical. Her humanness is relatable... I've gifted dozens of her books to friends."

Danielle LaPorte, author of How to Be Loving

"With a fresh, wise, and unassuming voice, Susan Piver weaves profound Buddhist wisdom with the enneagram, showing us a way to personal freedom and liberation."

Marcela Lobos, author of Awakening Your Inner Shaman

"Susan Piver offers a brilliant heart-opening road map to understanding yourself and everyone you care about-and those that you don't but need to co-exist with-in ways that will change your life forever. This book is pure magic!"

Jennifer Louden, bestselling author of Why Bother?

"Right here, in this unusual and exceptional book, Susan takes a powerful shot at integrating her two great pursuits-Buddhism and the enneagram-on her journey toward personal realization and deepening her (and our) understanding of this thing we call life."

David Nichtern, author of Awakening from the Daydream and Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck

"This wonderful book rescues the enneagram from a sea of meme-worthy flotsam, reinstating it among the mysterious treasures of human wisdom."

Kevin Townley, author of Look, Look, Look, Look, Look Again

"The Buddhist Enneagram is audacious and light-hearted, a brilliant foray into love and numbers, dharma and the confounding and courageous journey we each travel."

Alberto Villoldo, Phd, bestselling author of Shaman, Healer, Sage and the Wisdom Wheel