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reviewed The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thích Nhất Hạnh

Thích Nhất Hạnh: The Miracle of Mindfulness (AudiobookFormat, 2017, Penguin Audio) 5 stars

In this beautifully written book, Buddhist monk and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thích Nhất Hạnh …

Sage Guidance for Practitioners at All Experience Levels

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I've read from others that they consider Thích Nhất Hạnh's The Miracle of Mindfulness to be useful only to beginning meditators, but I think it is so much more than that. Especially with the context given in translator Mobi Ho's introduction that the book was originally written as a long letter, and then having read the book myself as someone who has been meditating for years, it is clear to me that the book is equally valuable or perhaps even more valuable as an inspiring reminder to practice and how practice can be done.

Beyond the main text of the letter, I was impressed by the list of practices and the selection of suttas/sutras at the end. I have read very few manuals of meditation which left with the feeling that they were enough to cultivate a practice, but this one is written and put together in such a way …

I'm often at a loss for words for things happening inside my body. Physical things, emotional things. I wish I could express them to you but I've not figured out how. I feel hope and despair at once. I feel alienated and overwhelming compassion for people. The words I use juxtapose them but inside me they are one. What should I call these things?
(We can talk about physical stuff another time.)
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