Best Thich Nhat Hanh Mindfulness Books
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The top books by popular Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh
I've found you the 10 most popular of his books.
1) The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
Amazon Price: $8.17 (as of 02/15/2012)
2) Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
This is one of Thich Nhat Hanh's most popular books, an eternal classic.
There's depth as well as every day advice in here, which is probably precisely why it's so popular. Combining deep psychological insight with meditative living this book gives a hint of the kind of life you might lead if you actually practiced what's in here. The kind of book that can be on your bedside table for years - just for reading a paragraph each night.
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Amazon Price: $7.91 (as of 02/15/2012)
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Thich Nhat Hanh's writing is deceptive in its subtlety. He'll go on and on with stories about tree-hugging or metaphors involving raw potatoes; he'll tell you how to eat mindfully, even how to breathe and walk; he'll suggest looking closely at a flower and to see the sun as your heart.
As the Zen teacher Richard Baker commented, however, Nhat Hanh is "a cross between a cloud, a snail, and piece of heavy machinery." Sooner or later, it begins to sink in that Nhat Hanh is conveying a depth of psychology and a world outlook that require nothing less than a complete paradigm shift. Through his cute stories and compassionate admonitions, he gradually builds up to his philosophy of interbeing, the notion that none of us is separately, but rather that we inter-are. The ramifications are explosive.
How can we mindlessly and selfishly pursue our individual ends, when we are inextricably bound up with everyone and everything else? We see an enemy not as focus of anger but as a human with a complex history, who could be us if we had the same history. Suffice it to say, that after reading Peace Is Every Step, you'll never look at a plastic bag the same way again, and you may even develop a penchant for hugging trees.Brian Bruya
3) True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
In GIFT FORMAT
Throughout, he skillfully weaves in Buddhist teachings about consciousness and nonduality whose complexity belies the simplicity of the author's words. Nhat Hanh is always good, and poetic, at seeing the deep in the ordinary: how the ring of a telephone can be a call to awareness, how the waste material of human fear and pain can be composted-transformed-into flowers of understanding and hope. These teachings will all be familiar to the many students and admirers of the popular monk, but the compassionate call to awareness and to everyday practice does not grow old.
The book's gift format makes it an especially good choice as a present to anyone who might need an accessible door to the author's vast body of work and teachings.
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
Amazon Price: $2.64 (as of 02/15/2012)
4) The Miracle of Mindfulness
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Amazon Price: $7.89 (as of 02/15/2012)
5) Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices
This key practice is the foundation for this accessible, easy-to-understand volume, and an invaluable tool for change for both seasoned Buddhist practitioners and lay readers interested in bettering their lives through full awareness.
Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices
Amazon Price: $8.21 (as of 02/15/2012)
6) Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh is a real poet. -- Robert Frost
Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh
Amazon Price: $9.55 (as of 02/15/2012)
7) Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
This is not a scholarly study but rather a heartfelt interpretation that draws on important sources. The result is a beautiful and contemporary book that can offer an attractive introduction for those new to the subject as well as many bright moments for serious students of Buddhism. Recommended for college and public libraries.
Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
Amazon Price: $15.55 (as of 02/15/2012)
8) Living Buddha, Living Christ
10th Anniversary Edition
Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition
Amazon Price: $8.41 (as of 02/15/2012)
9) You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (Translator)
You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
Amazon Price: $17.00 (as of 02/15/2012)
10) Mindful Movements: Ten Exercises for Well-Being
Initially Thich Nhat Hanh designed these exercises as stretching breaks between long periods of sitting meditation. However, they became so popular that they're now an integral part of his retreats. The exercises are simple movements based on yoga and tai chi and help reduce mental, physical, and emotional stress.
And for those of us with sitting jobs, they're way healthier than sitting meditation - we sit enough as it is, don't we?
This book brings the program to your home. You will find a DVD included that makes the program easy to follow and literally brings Thich Nhat Hanh into your home.
The ten routines are designed to be easily accessible to people of all ages and all body types, whether they're familiar with mindful practices or not. They can be done before or after sitting meditation, at home, at work, or any time the reader has a few minutes to refresh both mind and body.
If you're new to meditation, these exercises will help you get right down to a calm mindful practice that integrates into your life easily.
For those who have an active meditation practice, or previous experience with meditation that has lapsed this book plus DVD will add a welcome physical element to your practice. It's all about balancing mind, body and spirit after all. Getting the body involved is essential.
Mindful Movements: Ten Exercises for Well-Being
Amazon Price: $9.55 (as of 02/15/2012)
BONUS) Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings
Modern Spiritual Masters Series
THE Thich Nhat Hanh gift book for those of your friends who could use some mindfulness but look at you weird when you mention it.
Seriously - this is a 'best of Thich Nhat Hanh' and we need one, given the amount of books he's produced over the years. You'll get some of his poetry, his Christian-Buddhism dialogues, introduces a few sutras as well as his unique interpretations of core Buddhist traditions and concepts.
If there's one thing many of us need it's 'balance'. Which requires body, emotion, mind, spirit and right relationship with whatever it is we have in our lives. This 'interbeing', the name Thich Nhat Hanh gave to his own monastic order, is also the basis of mindfulness meditation. The understanding, not just mentally but in our very bones, of interconnectedness may be the only way to avoid tuning out and instead be with what is and respond appropriately.
Included is a brief biography by Sister Annabel Laity, a master in her own right who has received transmission from Nhat Hanh. She also provided inspiring introductions to each chapter.
The book is organised by theme - for instance: mindfulness, compassion, delicate attention to detail, patience, and forgiveness.
Aside from a great introduction to Thich Nhat Hanh's work, it's also an essential read for those who've only come across one or two aspects of this versatile man's literary output.
Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series)
Amazon Price: $10.95 (as of 02/15/2012)
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