Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices
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50 short and simple mindfulness practices for cultivating happiness--anytime, anywhere--from world-renowned spiritual teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. You don't need to "formally" meditate in order to bring mindfulness into your daily life Whether you're new to Buddhist teaching or you're a more experienced practitioner, this quintessential resource of Thich Nhat Hanh's most essential teachings will show you how to walk, sit, work, eat, and even drive with full awareness. In one accessible and easy-to-use volume, you'll find many kinds of meditations, including: - Daily Practices: walking meditation, taking refuge, telephone meditation
- Eating Practices: kitchen meditation, mindful eating, tea meditation
- Physical Practices: resting and stopping, deep relaxation, mindful movements
- Relationship & Community Practices: deep listening and loving speech, peace treaty, hugging meditation
- Extended Practices: touching the earth, lazy day, traveling and returning home
- Practices With Children: helping children with anger, the cake in the refrigerator, pebble meditation The only way to truly develop peace both in oneself and in the world is to learn to live in the present moment instead of the past or the future. Integrating these practices into daily life will allow you to cultivate peace and joy within yourself, leading to freedom from fear, misunderstanding, and suffering.
- Eating Practices: kitchen meditation, mindful eating, tea meditation
- Physical Practices: resting and stopping, deep relaxation, mindful movements
- Relationship & Community Practices: deep listening and loving speech, peace treaty, hugging meditation
- Extended Practices: touching the earth, lazy day, traveling and returning home
- Practices With Children: helping children with anger, the cake in the refrigerator, pebble meditation The only way to truly develop peace both in oneself and in the world is to learn to live in the present moment instead of the past or the future. Integrating these practices into daily life will allow you to cultivate peace and joy within yourself, leading to freedom from fear, misunderstanding, and suffering.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1888375914
ISBN13:9781888375916
Release Date:July 2005
Publisher:Parallax Press
Length:120 Pages
Weight:0.51 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"
Customer Reviews
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A True Treasure
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
Thich Nhat Hanh takes simple teachings to teach us the most profound wisdom. Every time I have the privilege of receiving his teaching I am overwhelmed by his ability as a true Zen master. He takes the simplest, most basic components of life and uses them to liberate us from suffering.
Happiness: A Practical Workbook
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh has been a prolific writer. Most books on Buddhism appeal more to the intellect or to the emotions than this one. HAPPINESS is a slim volume crammed with practical daily exercises on mindfulness, lovingkindness, and awareness. This book can be used by anyone, Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike, and it does not matter if you are a beginner or an experienced practitioner. This book suggests simple, easily adaptable exercises on such primary actions as breathing, sitting, walking. awakening, eating and drinking, resting, and moving around. Exercises on such other mundane daily activities as using the telephone, coping with irritation and anger, cooking, traveling, and dealing with significant others, co-workers and strangers round out this book. Zen is at its most effective when the practitioner brings the practice out of the Zendo and into the outside world. HAPPINESS is a concise, intelligent and easy-to-use guide on how to do that.
BEST Book on "Happiness" for Me!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I've read a few :-) "Tay's" writing always speaks to my experiences in the most gentle yet reassuring manner. This book was to be savored. Passages read were digested with time and further thought. Each time I picked up the book again, I'd find myself smiling. (This result is clearly evident when one hasn't smiled for a long time!) What I love most about this book is finding philosophy laced with practical approaches to routine daily living. A lot of emphasis in living in the "present moment." For a long time, even the "present moment" concept was difficult for me to grasp, to truly comprehend the meaning, the experience. Thich Nhat Hanh clarified the idea of past, present, future in a way I had not understood before reading this book. This book is a wonderful gift - from "Tay," for you, and for someone you love.
Good Meditations, But More of the Same
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
A great way to remind ourselves of what is important in life. Many of these chapters are taken from previous works by Thay, but nonetheless, it is helpful to go through the process of being centered and aware of how wonderful the present moment is.
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