Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries

Awakening of the Heart is a comprehensive single volume edition of Thich Nhat Hanh's sutra translations and commentaries on key Buddhist sutras. Awakening of the Heart contains the following nine sutras and their commentaries:

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Talks from a 21-Day Mindfulness Retreat by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Path of Emancipation transcribes Thich Nhat Hanh's first twenty-one day retreat in North America in 1998, when more than four hundred practitioners from around the world joined him to experience mindfulness. This book deliberately preserves the tone and style of a retreat, including soundings of the bell, meditation breaks, and the question-and-answer sessions.

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Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy & Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh brings his gifts of clarity and poetry to an explication of the basic teachings of Buddhism--the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. These teachings are the time-tested means to transform our suffering into mindfulness and joy. Original and very accessible, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching is a profound introduction to the practice and insights of Buddhism.

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The Buddha's Teaching on Living in the Present by Thich Nhat Hanh

This is a translation and commentary by Thich Nhat Hanh on the Sutra on Knowing the Better Way To Live Alone, the earliest teaching of the Buddha on living fully in the present moment.

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Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness is the most basic meditation practice--awareness of what is going on in the body, the feelings, the mind, and the world. Nhat Hanh presents three versions of the sutra and explores the psychological implications of these teachings.

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Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Catch a Snake by Thich Nhat Hanh

In Thundering Silence, Thich Nhat Hanh presents the early teachings of the Buddha on how to see reality clearly without becoming caught by notions and ideologies, however noble. These teachings illustrate how playfulness, openness, and non-attachment from views are essential elements for liberating us from our mental contructions so that we can enjoy our lives more fully. Nhat Hanh demonstrates the practicla applications of these teachings in everyday life.

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