Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Walking Toward Enlightenment

by Thich Nhat Hanh

Overview

Revered Zen Buddhist teacher and best-selling author Thich Nhat Hanh explores the connection between psychology, neuroscience, and meditation
 
In his previous book Understanding Our Mind, Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh explored Buddhist psychology and its applications in everyday life. Here, he continues that study by asking, “Is free will possible?” as he examines how the mind functions and how we can work with it to cultivate more freedom and understanding, be in closer touch with reality, and create the conditions for our own happiness.

Drawing stories from the life of the Buddha and Hanh's own experiences, Buddha Mind, Buddha Body addresses such topics as:
 
• The importance of creativity and visualization in a mediation practice
• Basic Buddhist meditation practices such as sitting and walking meditation
• The importance of brotherhood and sisterhood in everyday life

Delivered in Hahn’s inimitable light, clear, and often humorous style, Buddha Mind, Buddha Body will appeal to those new and familiar with Buddhist psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781888375756
Publisher:	Parallax Press
Publication date:	03/09/2003
Edition description:	Combined volume
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.44(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.

Table of Contents

Foreword   Sylvia Boorstein     vii
Two Feet, One Mind     1
How the Mind Works     5
Finding Your Mind     17
The River of Consciousness     31
Perception and Reality     47
Your Chance for Free Will     67
The Habit of Happiness     85
Walking with Buddha's Feet     103
Exercises for Nourishing Buddha Body and Mind     121
Walking Meditation     121
Touching the Earth     124
Deep Relaxation     132
The Verses on the Characteristics of the Eight Consciousnesses     137
The Fifty-one Mental Formations     143