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The Miracle of Mindfulness |  | Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher: Beacon Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 4051
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 140
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0807012394
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.3443
UPC: 046442012393
EAN: 9780807012390
ASIN: 0807012394
Publication Date: May 1, 1999
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There have been more than 250,000 copies sold of this famous introduction to Buddhist meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh's gentle stories and exercises show us how to use the practice of
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 fantastic August 7, 2010
Garry
With out a doubt the most important book I ever read. It was and remains a life changing experience reading this book.
 A good introduction to mindfulness May 23, 2010
Iona Tamsin Stewart (Odense, Denmark)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, I had to read this book in Danish translation, since the library wouldn't get it for me in English (I can't buy all the books I read). The English version is a translation from the Vietnamese, the author Thich Nhat Hanh being a Buddhist monk who wrote the book in 1974 as a letter to a teacher at a social school in South Vietnam from his exile in France.
The book exhorts the reader to mindfulness, i.e. to live in the "now", as Echart Tolle directs us to do, and explains how to do so. When you do the dishes, you don't do so to get them clean, but just for the sake of doing them. You do them with mindfulness and love for the process.
The author's words (even in translation) are imbued with peace and calm, and I found myself reading the book more slowly than I otherwise might have done.
Thich Nhat Hanh's text is inspiring and useful. Its essence is his advocacy of the importance of breathing exercises in order to obtain mindfulness, and innumerable of these are found in a subsequent section on mindfulness exercises as a whole.
A chapter enlightens us about the author Nhat Hanh who at the time of writing what turned into the book was committed to explaining to the Americans the necessity of stopping the bombings and killings in his country. He is a poet and Zen Master.
The final sections of the book are devoted to a selection of buddhist Sutras, which I couldn't really make head or tail of.
But all in all, an admirable book - a good introduction to mindfulness meditation.
I will now be trying to obtain other works of this author, preferably some that have not been translated into Danish, so I have a better chance of getting hold of them in English, for instance, "The long road turns to joy".
SIMPLE!!! May 13, 2010
Brog
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've never taken the time to review anything until now.
This book is so simple and so thought evoking that it is always at my side. (Okay, most of the time)
I just open up to a page, as many open up a Bible, and take some pearl away that always seems appropriate.
Thich Nhat Hanh has truly given us a gift in his writing.
 Graceful April 10, 2010
Dr. Gunta M. Caldwell (Melbourne, Australia)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book exudes such peace and tranquility. It oozes what Thich Nhat Hahn practises. If we could all live our lives by his premise we would have a peace loving world. There is such Grace in his writing and such beauty that it is a pleasure to read. Love it.
Dr Gunta Krumins-Caldwell author of On Silver Wings
A lovely, small volume April 4, 2010
W. Harman (Seattle, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A lovely, small volume of Thich Nhat Hanh's observations on mindfulness and meditation. Its small size makes it a great jacket pocket companion for reading & contemplation in coffee shops, at the park, or on the bus. A helpful, well-written handbook.
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