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Under the Rose-Apple Tree

Name: Under the Rose-Apple Tree
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN: 9781888375046

by Thich Nhat Hanh, Nhat Hanh, Philippe Ames

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Overview

Sitting Inside is a practical guide for prisoners-and for all of us on how to find true freedom through the practice of meditation. Interspersed with inspiring anecdotes from inmates, Sitting Inside never underestimates the challenges that prisoners face in trying to integrate meditation practice into a violent, noisy, and painful life and environment. Although in some ways prison's isolation makes it as suitable as a monastery for practice, it is not a monastery. Still, efforts to maintain a meditation practice can be bravely made. As Jarvis Jay Masters, an inmate on San Quentin's Death Row, comments". It is so difficult to integrate my meditation practice with all the suffering here. In trying to live a life that reflects the Buddhas ways, I fail continuously! I know so little! I'm just hanging in there my meditation. Practice is my best companion.

Presents teachings, stories, and practices that are meant to help the reader "touch the Buddha inside."

Synopsis

The third in our series of books by Thich Nhat Hanh for children, Under the Rose Apple Tree contains teachings and stories that the whole family can enjoy, as well as practices such as transforming anger in the family, instructions on how to invite the bell, breathing and sitting meditation, touching the Buddha inside, and others.