True love : a practice for awakening the heart

True love A practice for awakening the heart

Nĥát Hạnh

Book - 2023

In this little treasure, Thich Nhat Hanh offers a Buddhist view of love along with techniques for manifesting it in our daily lives. In his characteristically direct, simple, and compassionate style, he explores the four key aspects of love as described in the Buddhist tradition: lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and freedom. In order to love in a real way, Thich Nhat Hanh explains, we need to learn how to be fully present in our lives.

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Subjects
Love > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Compassion > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Buddhism > Doctrines.
Published
Boulder, Colorado : Shambhala 2023.
Language
English
French
Main Author
Nĥát Hạnh (author)
Other Authors
Sherab Chödzin (translator)
Item Description
Subtitle from cover.
Originally published: Vivre en Pleine Conscience. Editions Terre du Ciel, 1997.
Physical Description
vi, 104 pages ; 18 cm
ISBN
9781645472445
  • 1. The Four Aspects of Love
  • 2. Love Is Being There
  • 3. Recognizing the Presence of the Other
  • 4. Being There When Someone Is Suffering
  • 5. Overcoming Pride
  • 6. Deep Listening
  • 7. Learning to Speak with Love Again
  • 8. Restoring Peace within Yourself
  • 9. The Energy of Mindfulness
  • 10. Caring for Our Pain
  • 11. The Principle of Nonduality
  • 12. Reconciliation
  • 13. Coming to Life Again
  • 14. Telephone Meditation
  • 15. Everybody Should Practice Mindfulness
  • 16. Getting Rid of Our Concepts
  • About the Author
  • Thick Nhat Hank's Practice Centers
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

This umpteenth volume from the highly regarded Vietnamese Zen monk really has nothing new, but that is precisely the author's point: just do a few simple things, and keep doing them. True love-the real thing-is actually hard to practice, and so Nhat Hanh begins with a short Buddhist explanation on the components of love-loving kindness, compassion, joy and freedom-and then offers a series of practices, including mantras, deep listening and a variety of meditations. Throughout, he skillfully weaves in Buddhist teachings about consciousness and nonduality whose complexity belies the simplicity of the author's words. Nhat Hanh is always good, and poetic, at seeing the deep in the ordinary: how the ring of a telephone can be a call to awareness, how the waste material of human fear and pain can be composted-transformed-into flowers of understanding and hope. These teachings will all be familiar to the many students and admirers of the popular monk, but the compassionate call to awareness and to everyday practice does not grow old. The book's gift format makes it an especially good choice as a present to anyone who might need an accessible door to the author's vast body of work and teachings. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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