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"[Thich Nhat Hanh] shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth." --His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today’s leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort.

With hard-won wisdom and refreshing insight, Thich Nhat Hanh confronts a subject that has been contemplated by Buddhist monks and nuns for twenty-five-hundred years— and a question that has been pondered by almost anyone who has ever lived: What is death?

In No Death, No Fear, the acclaimed teacher and poet examines our concepts of death, fear, and the very nature of existence. Through Zen parables, guided meditations, and personal stories, he explodes traditional myths of how we live and die. Thich Nhat Hanh shows us a way to live a life unfettered by fear.

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"Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. His ideas for peace if applied, would build a monument of ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity." —Martin Luther King, Jr.

"He shows us the connection between personal, inner peace, and peace on earth."—His Holiness The Dalai Lama

"Simple but profound." —The Denver Post

"[A] masterwork... Thich Nhat Hanh has rendered us an invaluable service by opening our hearts and minds." —Spirituality & Health Journal

"At some point in their lives, most people are haunted by the question 'What happens after death?' Beloved teacher, poet, and activist Thich Nhat Hanh takes this question to heart in his latest book about how to understand death and stop fearing life...His advice is founded on personal examples, and guided meditations help readers grapple with the loss of a loved one, confront their mortality, and live each day to its fullest." —Tricycle

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Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese monk, a rare combination of mystic, scholar, and activist and one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West. Poet, Zen master, and chairman of the Vietnamese Buddhist Peace Delegation during the Vietnam War, he was nominated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Riverhead; Reissue edition (August 5, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1573223336
ISBN-13: 978-1573223331
Product Dimensions: 4.7 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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No Death, No Fear was my first book by this Godsend. I was raised in a very disfuntional situation that required years of counseling from the age of 8-30. I could never find the healing to fully move forward in life. I was a prisoner of my past, stuck in a box of hurts, confused angery, with a hardened heart. My trust in anyone other than myself was gone... this book and this wonderful teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh has opened my eyes to more than I ever could imagine. I have found more peace and forgiveness by his heart opening practices than I could with any professional. I have acquired many more books of his, and his words have become a part of my daily routine. Many people are asked , "if you could meet one person i your lifetime, who would that be?" I would choose him just to get a long hug and feel his energy . Thank you for
Your beautiful , eye opening wisdom. I love you and I life you!

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Great for anxiety

January 17, 2018

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I was drawn to this book as someone who suffers from anxiety, and more specifically, health anxiety. (aka, hypochondria). A lot of my fears are centered around death. As someone who isn't particularly religious, I've always had trouble believing in something to provide me relief of my own mind. However, through following the Buddhist path and reading this book, I have a new outlook on death as well as my fear surrounding it. Yes, it's still a struggle of mine, but my eyes have been opened to an entirely new perspective that I really needed to be enlightened to. Overall would read over and over again.

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Death vis-a-vis Zen Simplicity

October 30, 2009

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Thich Nhat Hanh's little book on death is a magnificent treatment of the topic intended to be read by the widest possible audience possible. The balance of simplicity and depth here is really quite remarkable. It's as if he has spent his life making Buddhism more understandable...

The book rotates around one central image, that is of wave and water. The problem with the wave is that it often feels that it is taller or shorter, wider or thinner, smoother or more choppy than other waves. Although this causes suffering, nothing causes more fear to the wave that one day it will break on shore and become nothing. But, Thich Nhat Hanh assures the wave that its true nature is that of water. All waves at the core of their being are water. The sooner they realize this, the sooner will they cease to identify with relative definitions and the sooner will the cease to fear their death. The analogy here, I hope, is pretty obvious.

Thich Nhat Hanh, following the teachings of Buddhism, emphasizes pratityasamutpada, or interdependent arising, or the belief that everything is defined by all other things. There is no pen without paper, no coffee mug without coffee, and ultimately no person without people. He spells this out quite wonderfully when he addresses "touching the earth" in chapter 8. First he looks at time in the sense that we are biologically and emotionally dependant upon those who came before us. Our current karmic condition (although he does not emphasize this term) is the bound consequence of our parents and our parents' parents. Next, he looks at space and states that we are all that we encounter. He uses the example of a candle where he states that the candle still exists after it has burnt out. We in the west would say the candle is gone, but Thich Nhat Hanh assures us that it has simply changed form. There are gasses that were released, a bit of ash and also heat and light. The heat is still in the room and some of the light may have escaped the window and is now cruising across the cosmos. People, he writes, are the same. Who we are is not contained in our bodies, but the sum of our actions, thoughts and words. In other words, we live on in all of the people we touch. If this is the case, what does it mean to die? We pass on biologically to our children, but we also pass on our lessons and character. From here, I like to make the analogy that we are more like knots in crochet rather than pieces in a puzzle. The puzzle piece can be isolated and analyzed, but the knot will forever be a nexus of something much larger; anything we do to the know ultimately affects the entire system.

Also addressing this point, Thich Nhat Hanh asks us if we cloned him and placed on in a slum, one in a business school and one in a monastery, who would he be? The conclusion of this little thought experiment, I find, illuminates pratityasamutpada quite well.

Overall, I find this book to be easy to read and deeply insightful for anyone who would pick it up. Thich Nhat Hanh is without question a master at getting such powerful yet subtle ideas across to just about anybody. Whatever your background, you will find something meaningful in this book.

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The Beauty of Looking Deeply

June 22, 2011

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I use the charming stories in this book for my own classes. Of all the books on my bookshelf about Buddhism and emptiness, this is the one I turn to when I need to come back home. Simply told, clearly described, and gently narrated, the charming stories that enhance the main body of the book convey the beauty of this changing universe that we are all a part of. By "looking deeply," we see the miracle that is right before us. We see that although it is ever-changing and forever unfolding into something new and wonderful, it is simultaneously forever a part of us.

In one story a woeful river falls hopelessly in love with a cloud, only to realize one night that he is also the cloud in a different form. A most profound and comforting insight, for, if I can see...really see, that like the river, I too, AM the cloud, as well as the trees and the oceans, and everything else, then I can also see that death is not some horrifying act of annihilation! It is not something that takes me away, that separates me from all that is familiar. Death is found in change itself--every moment is birth and death...birth and death. Or, flipped over, there is no birth and no death; just transformation!

If I can see that, then I can also see the interconnectedness between me and you and all that exists. I can see that my idea of "me," as this material thing, covered in skin, seemingly separated very clearly from "you," is a misperception. My very vital organs would suffocate without the air from the tress, and the trees would suffocate without the sun and the soil that nourishes them, and the worms that nourish the soil, and the rain that falls upon it all. Emptiness. Empty of a separate, independent existence. Emptiness in the fullness of everything. Everything intertwined. We are dependent on one another for our very sustenance, for the air that we breathe. This is what the venerable Thich Nhat Hanh calls Looking Deeply.

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