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The Present Moment
$90.99 CAD |
Thich Nhat Hanh, author of Peace is Every Step, The Miracle of Mindfulness and many other books, is one of the most delightful and skillful awareness teachers of our time. Recorded live during his 1993 North American retreats, this audio set—along with your own willingness and commitment—can provide the teaching for a fruitful self-retreat, or a meditation weekend with friends. One can thus experience firsthand the traditional Buddhist practices designed to “touch the energy of mindfulness” within us.
Thich Nhat Hanh has developed a quite wonderful way of teaching the dharma (essential truths of Buddhism) in the West: a way that addresses the spiritual challenges unique to our day, while honouring all faiths. The seeds of internal and external peace are already inside you, he teaches. You need only learn to contact and nurture them. This is the path to transcending fear and anger, and thus a path to a more peaceful world.
The Present Moment offers a treasury of detailed meditations designed to help you walk, breathe, communicate—even cope with traffic—more deeply and consciously. And through the songs of Sister Chan Không you also gain an ancient Buddhist technique for communicating tenderness and healing to your body. The study guide provides a glossary of Buddhist terms and texts on the precepts, prostrations, skandhas (ingredients of consciousness), the Heart Sutra, and the Five Remembrances and Five Contemplations.
FIVE REMEMBRANCES
• I am of the nature to grow old. I cannot escape old age.
• I am of the nature to get sick. I cannot escape sickness.
• I am of the nature to die. I cannot escape death.
• Everyone and everything I love, I will one day have to leave behind. I cannot escape this.
• I am the heir of my own karma (actions). Only my karma will follow me.