Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life PDF

Thich Nhat Hanh war ein vietnamesischer buddhistischer Zen-Meister, Dichter und Friedensaktivist und einer der angesehensten und einflussreichsten spirituellen Lehrer der Welt. Geboren 1926, wurde er im Alter von sechzehn Jahren Zen-Buddhistischer Mönch. Seine Arbeit für Frieden und Versöhnung während des Krieges in Vietnam bewegte Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dazu, ihn 1967 für den Friedensnobelpreis zu nominieren. In Vietnam gründete Thich Nhat Hanh die Van Hanh Buddhist University und die School of Youth for Social Service, ein Korps buddhistischer Friedensarbeiter. Als Ergebnis seiner Arbeit für den Frieden im Exil, setzte er seine humanitären Bemühungen fort, rettete Bootsflüchtlinge und half bei der Umsiedlung von Flüchtlingen. 1982 gründete er Plum Village France, das größte buddhistische Kloster in Europa und das Zentrum der internationalen Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism mehr als vierzig Sprachen und wurden weltweit millionenfach verkauft.

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life pdf von Thich Nhat Hanh

In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to "mindfulness" -- the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now.

Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the reader already is -- in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking a part -- and shows how deep meditative presence is available now. Nhat Hanh provides exercises to increase our awareness of our own body and mind through conscious breathing, which can bring immediate joy and peace. Nhat Hanh also shows how to be aware of relationships with others and of the world around us, its beauty and also its pollution and injustices. the deceptively simple practices of Peace Is Every Step encourage the reader to work for peace in the world as he or she continues to work on sustaining inner peace by turning the "mindless" into the mindFUL.