Living Buddha, Living Christ (20th Anniversary Edition)

Living Buddha, Living Christ (20th Anniversary Edition)

Living Buddha, Living Christ (20th Anniversary Edition)

Living Buddha, Living Christ (20th Anniversary Edition)

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

Nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today’s leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort.

The 20th anniversary edition of the classic text, updated, revised, and featuring a Mindful Living Journal.

Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over two millennia. If they were to meet on the road today, what would each think of the other's spiritual views and practices? 

Thich Nhat Hanh has been part of a decades-long dialogue between two great contemplatice traditions, and brings to Christianity an appreciation of its beauty that could be conveyed only by an outsider. IN lucid, meditative prose, he explores the crossroads of compassion and holiness at which the two traditions meet, and he reawakens our understanding of both. "On the altar in my hermitage," he says, "are images of Buddha and Jesus, and I touch both of them as my spiritual ancestors."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101007211
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/06/2007
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 163,760
File size: 654 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese monk, a rare combination of mystic, scholar, and activist and one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West. Poet, Zen master, and chairman of the Vietnamese Buddhist Peace Delegation during the Vietnam War, he was nominated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Twenty years ago at a conference I attended of theologians and professors of religion, an Indian Christian friend told the assembly, "We are going to hear about the beauties of several traditions, but that does not mean that we are going to make a fruit salad." When it came my turn to speak, I said, "Fruit salad can be delicious! I have shared the Eucharist with Father Daniel Berrigan, and our worship became possible because of the sufferings we Vietnamese and Americans shared over many years." Some of the Buddhists present were shocked to hear I had participated in the Eucharist, and many Christians seemed truly horrified. To me, religious life is life. I do not see any reason to spend one's whole life tasting one kind of fruit. We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions.
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Table of Contents


Foreword   Brother David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B.     XIII
Introduction   Elaine Pagels     XIX
Be Still and Know     1
Mindfulness and the Holy Spirit     13
The First Supper     25
Living Buddha, Living Christ     34
Communities of Practice     60
A Peaceful Heart     74
For a Future to Be Possible     87
Taking Refuge     115
The Other Shore     131
Faith and Practice     158
Mindful Living Journal     199
Glossary     209
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