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Touching the Earth: Guided Meditations for Mindfulness Practice

Name: Touching the Earth: Guided Meditations for Mindfulness Practice
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN: 9781935209195

by Thich Nhat Hanh

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Overview

Written as a poetic conversation with the Buddha, this step-by-step guide to the transformative practice of "Beginning Anew" helps readers renew faith, rediscover joy, and remove obstacles caused by past wrongdoings. Based on the loving kindness and compassion meditation of the Lotus Sutra, it contains over 40 guided meditations that can be practiced alone or with others. In its original edition, Touching the Earth has been one of the author's most popular titles. This new edition makes the exercises more accessible to those new to mindfulness practice.

Synopsis

Though the original edition of Touching the Earth is deeply embraced by those already practicing mindfulness in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, the revised edition seeks to make the exercises contained within more accessible for those new to Buddhist or mindfulness practice. Based on the loving kindness and compassion meditation of the Lotus Sutra, Touching the Earth contains one of the most popular and transformative practices of Thich Nhat Hanh. Written as a poetic conversation with the Buddha, it is a step-by-step guidebook to the practice of 'Beginning Anew'. Thich Nhat Hanh describes it as having the capacity to removing obstacles brought about by past wrongdoings and to bring back the joy of being alive. According to many of his students who are deeply touched by this practice, it can help renew our faith and develop our compassion. It presents a opportunity to heal our relationships through forgiveness and to embrace our ancestors, parents, teachers, and ourselves. Touching the Earth contains clear instructions for the 'Beginning Anew' practice with over 40 guided meditation verses, allowing the reader to practice alone or with others.

About the Author, Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, poet, scholar, and human rights activist. He has been a professor at Columbia University in New York and the Sorbonne in Paris, and was founder of Van Hanh Buddhist University in Saigon. In 1967, he was nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr., for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is author of more than one hundred books, forty in English, including the best-selling Living Buddha; Living Christ; Teachings on Love; Present Moment Wonderful Moment; Being Peace; and Anger. He lives at Plum Village, a meditation center in France, and travels worldwide leading retreats on “the art of mindful living.”