The Five Mindfulness Trainings—protecting life, acting with generosity, behaving responsibly in sexual relationships, speaking and listening deeply and mindfully, and avoiding substance abuse—are the basic statement of ethics and morality in Buddhism. In For a Future to be Possible, Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh and fourteen prominent co-authors discuss these Five Mindfulness Trainings and offer insights and challenges for how they might play an important role in our personal lives and in society.
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Excellent guide to implement precepts into daily life,
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Thich Nhat Hanh has updated the traditional Buddhist precepts in this book. His version goes beyond "do not kill," for example, to be mindful of that we might be killing inadvertently. He makes us aware of the broadness of the precepts and thus encourages us to be more mindful. If we are not mindful, we break the precepts. Therefore, he calls them Mindfulness Trainings. Thay's approach frames the precepts in a way that is helpful in our daily life. He makes them relevant.
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A brilliant book with a guiding view of a potential reality.,
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There are few well-informed observers of world events that would deny that in the present we are faced with many challenges, some of which go as far as calling into question the future capacity of the Earth to sustain human habitation. What can we do to address these issues and give way to a more just, satisfying, peaceful world? The answers are many: technological advance, spiritual enlightenment, scientific endeavour, political action, and radical revolution, among many others. In "For a Future to be Possible", published by Parallax Press, Thich Nhat Hanh (1998), the renowned Zen master and creator of the term `engaged Buddhism', aims to address some of the foundations of the most pressing problems in the world today. By employing the Buddha's teaching of pañcashi''la, which he translates as The Five Mindfulness Trainings, Thich Nhat Hanh aims to provide a positive framework to transform individuals, families, and societies.
The Buddha, through Thich Nhat Hanh, may be seen as having provided a blueprint for engaging with the root causes of all ecological and social problems through these trainings. Following the author's guidelines on the practice of the Five Mindfulness Trainings does not denote the abandonment of action aimed at social and environmental justice, but rather reinforces the foundations upon which such action can be based, namely compassion and a broad view, rather than a narrow dichotomy placing ideas and issues in categories of `right' and `wrong', `good' and `bad.' In fact, all of the trainings have an outward looking perspective that entails the empowerment of the individual. Importantly, the author focuses on an often-neglected aspect of debate on social and environmental issues: the mind. In some ways, the author can be seen to outline the pathology of ignorant action causing destruction and suffering, and can be seen as providing an insight into a potential remedy for such ignorance. Thich Nhat Hanh does not claim to provide an image of an alternative reality to the present situation, but simply provides an alternative path to make the journey more compassionate and kind. Most importantly, Thich Nhat Hanh highlights that our tendency to reduce systems and problems to their parts has not helped to stem the decline of life systems: we are not just human beings, but humans interbeing.
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This review is from: For a Future to Be Possible: Commentaries on the Five Mindfulness Trainings (Paperback)
In a world of deceit, excess, killing, lying and stealing, the present moment works with faith FOR A FUTURE TO BE POSSIBLE by enlightenment from the Buddha, the practice of love and understanding, and ever bigger and greater numbers of communities seeking wisdom, harmony and awareness. Art and meditation send energy into cell nutrition and nervous system health. Mindfulness teaches respect for all life, generosity, responsibility, careful speech and healthy diet for concentration and insight. Nobel Prize winner Thich Nhat Hanh's book is a beautifully reader-friendly steppingstone to THE GOOD HEART by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, AWAKENING THE BUDDHIST HEART by Lama Surya Das, and LOVINGKINDNESS by Sharon Salzberg.
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