Peace Is This Moment: Mindful Reflections for Daily Practice

Peace Is This Moment: Mindful Reflections for Daily Practice

Thich Nhat Hanh
$19.95
Publication Date: December 19th, 2023
Publisher:
Parallax Press
ISBN:
9781952692604
Pages:
380
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Description

365 page-a-day reflections to encourage concentration, insight, and mindful engagement with the world around us—from the Zen Buddhist teacher “who taught the world mindfulness” (TIME).

This deep and simple volume brings together some of Thich Nhat Hanh’s most insightful teachings to inspire our daily mindfulness practice. Through 365 short reflections on common obstacles and opportunities, Peace Is This Moment encourages us to engage more skillfully with life on every level. Presented in an accessible, page-a-day format, this book is a perfect companion for experienced and new practitioners.

Featuring carefully selected passages from Thich Nhat Hanh’s vast collection of published works, Peace Is This Moment offers guidance on a diverse range of topics, including:

  • Letting go of views about ourselves and others
  • Reconciling with loved ones
  • Decompartmentalizing our lives
  • Transforming ordinary moments into extraordinary ones
  • Meeting the present moment—wherever we find ourselves—with equanimity, solidity, and peace

With these daily practices, we discoverthat the deepest peace—the only peace—is available right now.

About the Author

Thich Nhat Hanh was a world-renowned spiritual teacher and peace activist. Born in Vietnam in 1926, he became a Zen Buddhist monk at the age of sixteen. Over seven decades of teaching, he published more than 100 books, which have sold more than four million copies in the United States alone. Exiled from Vietnam in 1966 for promoting peace, his teachings on Buddhism as a path to social and political transformation are responsible for bringing the mindfulness movement to Western culture. He established the international Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism in France, now the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe and the heart of a growing community of mindfulness practice centers around the world. He passed away in 2022 at the age of 95 at his root temple, Tu Hieu, in Hue, Vietnam.

Praise for Peace Is This Moment: Mindful Reflections for Daily Practice

“Thich Nhat Hanh shows us the connection between personal inner peace and peace on earth.”
—His Holiness the Dalai Lama
 
“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 to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
“Thich Nhat Hanh’s work, on and off the page, has proven to be the antidote to our modern pain and sorrows. Here is a monumental, life-giving mind, preserved as textual force. And that's what I feel reading and practicing his teachings: that I am being acted on by a compassion equal to and pervasive as gravity itself. His books help me be more human, more me than I was before.”
—Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
 
“A glass of water in the desert for those interested in both Buddhism and the world.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Thich Nhat Hanh is a great teacher. I have studied him, his work, his passage through life, with gratitude and joy. Through his writings, his public offerings, his insights, I’ve gained vision and clarity; I’ve often felt it would be impossible to find a more lucid, determined, and courageous soul.”
—Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple