A Buddhist teacher shares his principles and techniques of guided meditation, offering exercises that enhance joy in life, heal loneliness, and provide heightened awareness and insight. 30,000 first printing.
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Thich Nhat Hanh is a great teacher. More than anyone I know, he has made mindfulness practice accessible to the modern world. --Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones
"Any one of these meditations, if practiced with sincerity and wholeheartedness, can make the richness of the present moment apparent and bring you closer to yourself." --Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are
"Here the deepest, subtlest teachings of the Dharma are made as immediate as the miracle of our own breathing." --Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Any one of these meditations, if practiced with sincerity and wholeheartedness, can make the richness of the present moment apparent and bring you closer to yourself." --Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are
"Here the deepest, subtlest teachings of the Dharma are made as immediate as the miracle of our own breathing." --Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Vietnamese
Original Language: Vietnamese
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Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese monk, a renowned Zen master, a poet, and a peace activist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize by Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1967, and is the author of many books, including the best-selling The Miracle of Mindfulness.
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74 of 75 people found the following review helpful:
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Meditation exercises to nourish and transform.,
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This review is from: The Blooming of a Lotus (Paperback)
I have read several of Thich Nhat Hanh's books and consider them invaluable. While I have found all of his books to contain insights and helpful advice two, The Blooming of a Lotus and Present Moment, Wonderful Moment, stand out in their application in my daily life. Present Moment, Wonderful Moment supplies short verses that helps bring mindfulness to my daily activities. In The Blooming of a Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh provides 34 meditation exercises from the simplest to the most sublime. The practices in this book are meant to be guided meditation exercises but I use them in my daily meditation practice. There are short, simple exercises to ease the pain, stress and turmoil of day to day existence, and lengthier exercises that allow me to look deeply into my life, releasing and healing long pent up pain and trauma. I have been using these exercises for two years and I feel I have only begun to probe their potential to help. The author's Being Peace and Peace is Every Step are among the important books I return to every day for inspiration on why I should meditate and practice mindfulness. But nothing compares to The Blooming of a Lotus for its power to daily nourish and transform.
41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
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Indespensable for those seeking Buddhist meditation,
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This review is from: The Blooming of a Lotus (Hardcover)
After searchiing for meditation exercises in the true Buddhist tradition, this book was a revelation, like the opening of a flower. It is all you need for everyday meditation, deep meditation on death, aging, beauty, love, body, mind--it has it all. And it is so elegantly translated it reads like poetry, every time you look at it. If you are looking for the inspiration to do your own guided meditation, get this one.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Breathe.,
This review is from: The Blooming of a Lotus: Guided Meditations for Achieving the Miracle of Mindfulness (Paperback)
I have enjoyed Thich Nhat Hanh's other books because (the translation of) his writing makes Buddhist thoughts and practices clear and accessible; not too simplistic and not too academic. The guided meditations in this book are no exception. Ranging from very simple to rather complex, each meditation is written in poem like phrases, or stages, with the key words of each in the border off to the side. I have been memorizing the key words and saying them to myself while I run--it makes me much more aware of myself and my surroundings than listening to earphones and makes me concentrate on my breathing, all of which makes the experience more enjoyable.
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