No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

by Thich Nhat Hanh

Overview

"[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.

With hard-won wisdom and refreshing insight, Thich Nhat Hanh confronts a subject that has been contemplated by Buddhist monks and nuns for twenty-five-hundred years— and a question that has been pondered by almost anyone who has ever lived: What is death?

In No Death, No Fear, the acclaimed teacher and poet examines our concepts of death, fear, and the very nature of existence. Through Zen parables, guided meditations, and personal stories, he explodes traditional myths of how we live and die. Thich Nhat Hanh shows us a way to live a life unfettered by fear.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781573223331
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/05/2003
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	88,018
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)
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.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
1	Where Do We Come From? Where Do We Go?	1
2	The Real Fear	17
3	The Practice of Looking Deeply	37
4	Transforming Grief and Fear	57
5	New Beginnings	91
6	The Address of Happiness	103
7	Continuing Manifestations	119
8	Fear, Acceptance and Forgiveness: The Practice of Touching the Earth	133
9	Accompanying the Dying	173

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"At some point in their lives, most people are haunted by the question 'What happens after death?' Beloved teacher, poet, and activist Thich Nhat Hanh takes this question to heart in his latest book about how to understand death and stop fearing life...His advice is founded on personal examples, and guided meditations help readers grapple with the loss of a loved one, confront their mortality, and live each day to its fullest."—Tricycle

"Simple but profound."—The Denver Post

"[A] masterwork...Thich Nhat Hanh has rendered us an invaluable service by opening our hearts and minds..."—Spirituality & Health Journal

Editorial Reviews

"Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. His ideas for peace if applied, would build a monument of ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity." —Martin Luther King, Jr.

"He shows us the connection between personal, inner peace, and peace on earth."—His Holiness The Dalai Lama

"Simple but profound." —The Denver Post

"[A] masterwork... Thich Nhat Hanh has rendered us an invaluable service by opening our hearts and minds." —Spirituality & Health Journal

"At some point in their lives, most people are haunted by the question 'What happens after death?' Beloved teacher, poet, and activist Thich Nhat Hanh takes this question to heart in his latest book about how to understand death and stop fearing life...His advice is founded on personal examples, and guided meditations help readers grapple with the loss of a loved one, confront their mortality, and live each day to its fullest." —Tricycle 

From the Publisher

"Our biggest fear," Thich Nhat Hanh writes, "is that we will become nothing when we die. If we think that we cease to exist when we die, we have not looked very deeply at ourselves." Exploring that deepest fear and the very nature of existence, the author of Living Buddha, Living Christ teaches readers how our fear of annihilation can actually help us learn how to conquer fear. Sound crazy? "Freedom from notions," the author gently reminds us, "is the purpose of our practice."

bn.com

A well-respected Zen holy man and poet offers a way to regard life that addresses the fear most people have of death. His worldview transcends the physical manifestations we’re accustomed to regarding reality. Nhat Hanh says that our true being is not segmented by birth or death--it exists across space and time, manifesting only when causes and conditions are right. These ideas represent the deeper layers of Zen thought and may be difficult to access for the beginner, even as expressed by Ken McLeod, an acclaimed and articulate teacher. But to the intermediate Zen student, this will be a rich and sustaining listening experience. T.W. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine

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