The Path of Emancipation / Edition 1

by Thich Nhat Hanh

Overview

The Path of Emancipation transcribes Thich Nhat Hanh's first twenty-one day retreat in North America in 1998, when more than four hundred practitioners from around the world joined him to experience mindfulness. This book deliberately preserves the tone and style of a retreat, including soundings of the bell, meditation breaks, and the question-and-answer sessions. This not only provides a genuine feeling of a retreat for those who have not had the chance to participate in one, but it also preserves this wonderful practice time for those who have attended. In The Path of Emancipation, Thich Nhat Hanh translates the Buddhist tradition into everyday life and makes it relevant and transforming for us all. Studying in-depth the Discourse on the Full Awareness of Breathing, he teaches how mindfulness can help us reduce stress, and live simply, confidently, and happily while dwelling in the present moment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781888375152
Publisher:	Parallax Press
Publication date:	05/31/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 8.99(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

In May, 1998, more than four hundred Buddhists from around the world joined Vietnamese Buddhist monk, poetry and peace advocate Thich Nhat Hanh's first 21-day retreat in Vermont for the purpose of experiencing "mindfulness". Comprising an in-depth instruction in the "Sixteen Ways of Breathing", The Path Of Emancipation is a transcription of Hanh's discourse and responses to questioners. This is a most remarkable and welcome addition to the growing library of Buddhist instructional literature available for western readers.