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Your True Home

The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh
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Your True Home offers 365 days of practical and powerful teachings from esteemed Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. This collection encourages daily mindfulness practice to bring joy, insight, and peace into every moment. Drawing on his best-selling works, the book explores themes like overcoming fear, deepening relationships through love and presence, and promoting peace in the wider world. It serves as a guide to training the mind to meet life with full attention, demonstrating how inner peace radiates outward to transform ourselves and society.
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This book is ideal for readers seeking daily mindfulness inspiration, those interested in Buddhist teachings, and anyone wishing to cultivate peace and presence in their lives and relationships.

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Inspiring, joyful, and deeply insightful, this book offers daily contemplations and words of wisdom from one of today's most important spiritual teachers. These powerful and transformative words of wisdom, drawn from the works of a bestselling and prolific author, touch all aspects of readers' lives, from the personal to the global, and reflect the great themes of his teachings.

65 days of practical, powerful teachings from the beloved Zen teacher

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365 days of practical, powerful teachings from the beloved Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh.

365 practical, powerful teachings for daily inspiration on how mindfulness can transform our lives and the greater world—from the beloved Zen teacher and author of No Mud, No Lotus.

"Thich Nhat Hanh shows us the connection between personal inner peace and peace on earth." -His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Bringing the energy of true presence into our lives really does change things for the better—and all it takes is a little training. This treasury of 365 gems of daily inspiration is for anyone who wants to train to meet every moment of life with 100 percent attention.

Beloved spiritual teacher Thich Nhat Hanh draws from his best-selling works to offer powerful and transformative words of wisdom that reflect the great themes of his teachings—how the practice of mindfulness brings joy and insight into every moment of our lives; how to transcend fear and other negative emotions; how to transform our relationships through love, presence, and deep listening; and how to practice peace for our world.

Inspiring, joyful, and deeply insightful, Your True Home shows how practicing mindfulness can improve every area of our lives—and how its benefits radiate beyond us to affect others and the whole, larger world.

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"Thich Nhat Hanh shows us the connection between personal inner peace and peace on earth." – His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha." – Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

"365 pithy teachings... Each passage cuts directly through to the heart of the matter. The selections are simple, profound, and meaningfully applicable to everyday life." – Shambhala Sun, New Spirit Journal

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781590309261

Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 November 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc

Contributors:

  • Edited by Melvin McLeod

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 177.0mm

Weight: 380g

Pages: 400

About the Author

A Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh is an internationally known author, poet, scholar, and peace activist, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr. He is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling Living Buddha, Living Christ; Anger- Wisdom for Cooling the Flames; Peace Is Every Step; and The Miracle of Mindfulness. He has founded monastic communities in France, Vermont, and California and teaches actively around the world.

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