True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

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Overview

In this little treasure, Thich Nhat Hanh offers a Buddhist view of love along with techniques for manifesting it in our daily lives. In his characteristically direct, simple, and compassionate style, he explores the four key aspects of love as described in the Buddhist tradition: loving kindness, compassion, joy, and freedom.

In order to love in a real way, Thich Nhat Hanh explains, we need to learn how to be fully present in our lives. In True Love he offers readers the technique of conscious breathing as a method for synchronizing the mind and body to establish the conditions of love. He goes on to offer a mantra practice for generating love that consists of expressing four key statements or intentions in our relationships. These include: "Dear one, I am really there for you"; "Dear one, I know that you are there, and I am really happy about it"; "Dear one, I know that you are suffering, and that is why I am here for you"; and "Dear one, I am suffering, please help me."

In the concluding section of the book, Thich Nhat Hanh explains how love can help us to heal our own pain, fear, and negativity. He explains that we must not regard negative emotions as bad and repress them. We must recognize them as part of us and allow them into our consciousness, where they can be cared for by the "loving mother of mindfulness."

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With the elegant simplicity that characterizes his style, Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh here explores the four key aspects of love: lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and freedom. Not merely descriptive, True Love explains how mantra practice and the technique of conscious breath can actually enhance our capacity for love. In the book's concluding section, he tells how love can help us heal our pain, fear, and habitual negativity. A gorgeous keepsake; a gift of love.
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Zen monk Nanh offers his insights into love as private emotion and public force in his thought-provoking guide to Buddhism's four key aspects of love. Narrator James Gimian, a Buddhist himself, relates Hanh's ideas with admirable clarity. However, listeners may find themselves struggling to get through the entire recording as Gimian's delivery is fairly monotonous. For those able to focus on the message rather than the medium, there is much to be gained by repeated listening. A Shambhala hardcover. (Mar.)

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This umpteenth volume from the highly regarded Vietnamese Zen monk really has nothing new, but that is precisely the author's point: just do a few simple things, and keep doing them. True love-the real thing-is actually hard to practice, and so Nhat Hanh begins with a short Buddhist explanation on the components of love-loving kindness, compassion, joy and freedom-and then offers a series of practices, including mantras, deep listening and a variety of meditations. Throughout, he skillfully weaves in Buddhist teachings about consciousness and nonduality whose complexity belies the simplicity of the author's words. Nhat Hanh is always good, and poetic, at seeing the deep in the ordinary: how the ring of a telephone can be a call to awareness, how the waste material of human fear and pain can be composted-transformed-into flowers of understanding and hope. These teachings will all be familiar to the many students and admirers of the popular monk, but the compassionate call to awareness and to everyday practice does not grow old. The book's gift format makes it an especially good choice as a present to anyone who might need an accessible door to the author's vast body of work and teachings. (Sept.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781590304044
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
  • Publication date: 9/12/2006
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 120
  • Sales rank: 149,260
  • Product dimensions: 4.14 (w) x 6.76 (h) x 0.36 (d)

Meet 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.

Table of Contents

1 The Four Aspects of Love 1
2 Love Is Being There 5
3 Recognizing the Presence of the Other 13
4 Being There When Someone Is Suffering 19
5 Overcoming Pride 23
6 Deep Listening 33
7 Learning to Speak with Love Again 39
8 Restoring Peace within Yourself 43
9 The Energy of Mindfulness 49
10 Caring for Our Pain 55
11 The Principle of Nonduality 65
12 Reconciliation 71
13 Coming to Life Again 81
14 Telephone Meditation 85
15 Everybody Should Practice Mindfulness 91
16 Getting Rid of Our Concepts 95
About the Author 103
Thich Nhat Hanh's Practice Centers 105

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  • Posted March 14, 2010

    Training is needed to know how to truly love

    A brilliantly simple and easy book to read which skillfully brings
    a solution to how to be true to self and other in relationships.
    Thich Nhat Hanh teaches simply how to be present for yourself and how to offer time, full presence,mindfulness, freedom and joy to love. I find myself wishing I had found this as a child so I would could have gifted happiness and joy to others as well as to myself in my life. This is a must read for all those who are wanting truth, peace and a recipe for loving.

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    Beautiful, Lovely, Relevant Read

    It is a wonderful read. It helps you to understand, to see things in regards to love from a different perspective.

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