Our Appointment with Life is a translation and commentary on the Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone, the earliest teaching of the Buddha on how to live fully in the present moment.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Vietnamese, Chinese
Original Language: Vietnamese, Chinese
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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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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
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Simple, succinct and wonderful,
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This review is from: Our Appointment with Life: Discourse on Living Happily in the Present Moment (Paperback)
Don't be fooled by the thinness of this book, because it is packed with wisdom presented in an easily absorbed manner. The simplicity of Thich Nhat Hanh's commentary on this sutra makes its meaning so crystal clear, reading this was like experiencing an epiphany. It provides more information on mindfulness, and as a novice, the more concrete the information the better, and this has been the best so far. Perhaps the best guide I have found for instruction on how to live in the here and now and how important the present is to our future. We are how we are because of how we lived in the past, so we must pay critical attention to the present to ensure our futures are happy ones, because the now will turn into the future.
50 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
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Welcome addition to Buddhist studies for the western reader.,
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This review is from: Our Appointment with Life: Discourse on Living Happily in the Present Moment (Paperback)
Our Appointment With Life: Discourse On Living Happily In The Present Moment is a splendid and "reader friendly" translation and commentary on the Sutra on "Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone" and one of the earliest teachings of the Buddha on living fully in the present moment. "To live alone" means to live in mindfulness: to let go of the past and the future, and to look deeply and discover the true nature of all that is taking place in the present moment. It does not mean isolating from society, but to know what to do and what not to do to be of help with people. Our Appointment With Life is a welcome addition to library of Buddhist studies available to the Western reader.
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I like TNH and I believe in supporting the Buddhist press. That said, this is a poorly written, repetitive, rip-off of a book. Its scant 54 pages contain the poem/teaching noted in another's review 3 times. The premise of the book can be stated in a simple paragraph.
Simplicity is a hallmark of TNH's style. And there are other texts written by him which are clear, gorgeously-written and inspiring. I highly recommend "The Path of Emancipation." Read slowly, it is bound to put you in a meditative state. "Our Appointment with Life" is not a bad book. It is just very thin and more of a disappointment than an appointment for it's $9.95 cost.
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I heard these words of the Buddha one time when the Lord was staying at the monastery in the Jeta Grove, in the town of Shravasti. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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I heard these words of the Buddha one time when the Lord was staying at the monastery in the Jeta Grove, in the town of Shravasti. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
internal formations, selfless nature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Blessed One, Awakened One, Shakyan Hermitage Sutra, Sutra Spoken, Samyutta Nikaya, Venerable Ananda New!
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- Anguttara Nikaya by Nyanaponika Thera on page 26
- Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing by Thich Nhat Hanh in Back Matter
- The Saints' Guide to Happiness by Robert Ellsberg in Back Matter
- Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series) by Thich Nhat Hanh in Front Matter
- To the Light: A Journey Through Buddhist Asia by Sharon Collins in Back Matter
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