How to Sit
1st Edition
Published on 7. March 2014
120 pages
978-1-937006-59-4 (ISBN)
Description
The first book in the Mindfulness Essentials Series by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit offers clear, simple directions and inspiration for anyone wanting to explore mindfulness meditation. In short, single-paragraph chapters, Nhat Hanh shares detailed instructions, guided breathing exercises and visualizations, as well as his own personal stories and insights. This pocket-sized book is perfect for those brand new to sitting meditation as well as for those looking to deepen their spiritual practice.
With sumi ink drawings by Jason DeAntonis.
With sumi ink drawings by Jason DeAntonis.
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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.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Notes on Sitting
- Body, Mind, and Breath
- Peace is Contagious
- A Boat on the Ocean
- Doing Nothing
- Meditation
- Don't Just Do Something, Sit there
- Story: The Monk on the Platform
- Doing Less
- Enjoy Your Breathing
- The Joy of Meditation
- A Celebration
- Following Our Breath
- Looking Deeply
- Meditation in Daily Life
- Wisdom
- Why Sit?
- The Moment of Enlightenment
- The Non-Practice Practice
- Arriving Home
- Freedom
- Nourish Yourself Wherever You are
- Sitting Comfortably
- Under the Bodhi Tree
- Story: Sitting in Prison
- Ease
- What to Do
- Letting Go
- Smiling
- Happiness
- Breathing Room
- Sitting with the Bell
- Inviting the Bell
- Listening to the Bell
- Accompanying your Breath
- Creating a Good Habit
- Habit Energy
- Story: On the Bus in India
- Seeing Clearly
- Gifts of the Practice
- Recognizing the Body
- Sitting is a Practice and a Luxury
- What is Essential
- A River of Feelings
- Weathering the Storm of Strong Emotions
- Belly Breathing
- Neutral Feelings
- Looking Deeply
- Bringing Our Sitting with us into the World
- The Stars Overhead
- Be Present Where You are
- A Flower Between Two Rocks
- Sitting and Mopping
- Restoring Ourselves
- Spiritual Food
- Counting the Breath
- Using a Clock
- A Sitting Notebook
- We are a Stream
- Sitting With Our Spiritual Ancestors
- Sitting Together
- A Flock of Birds
- Helping Each Other
- Helping a Friend
- A Gardener Returning to the Garden
- Guided Meditations
- Guided Meditation: Joy
- Guided Meditation: Sitting with the Buddha
- Guided Meditation: Talking with your Inner Child
- Guided Meditation: Sitting with Depth
- Guided Meditation: Write your Own
- Copyright
