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Title: Creating True Peace : Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World by Thich Nhat Hanh, Thich Nhat Hanh ISBN: 0-7432-4519-9 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 06 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: practical advice to bring about peace
Comment: Once again Thich Nhat Hanh has provided a very practical guide to bringing about peace in our lives. As the title says first we must end violence in ourselves, then our families, our communities and finally the world. The book is filled with concrete suggestions for what we can do to reach these goals and examples of how these methods have worked for others. It is a book filled with a simple wisdom that can't be challenged. Along with the books, ANGER: WISDOM FOR COOLING THE FLAMES and NO DEATH, NO FEAR, Thich Nhat Hanh has given us three jewels which will help us live better, happier lives and bring us closer to the end of our own suffering.
Rating: 5
Summary: Simplicity Engenders Peace
Comment: If you are one of those who feels you never have a moment's peace, then it's obvious that you need to simplify your life. While Thich Nhat Hanh is considered the world's foremost peace activist, he is perhaps its foremost simplicity activist as well and a prime example that simplicity engenders peace. He is a simple monk who leads a plain and simple life and writes the same way. I have always admired his style for its ease and clarity in pointing to the plain truths behind the often didactic tenants of Buddhism. Using very clear and yet subtle metaphors and personal anecdotes, he points to the basic truths beyond the dicotomies of the sutras and koans. In fact, many academicians, scholars and Buddhist teachers would do well to emulate his style. Because Nhat Hanh's writing is so simplistic, many pass off his ideas as being too naïve. After all, how can anyone ever hope to achieve world peace? But Nhat Hanh's writing is deceptive in its subtlety. In his newest book, CREATING TRUE PEACE: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World , Nhat Hanh teaches how the seed of peace planted within one individual with proper nurturing can bloom into a peaceful family and then a peaceful community and later a peaceful country, and finally turn the entire world into a garden of peace.
CREATING TRUE PEACE is a compilation of his teachings from other works such as Peace Is Every Step, Miracle of Mindfulness, and Interbeing to name a few. As usual, he uses metaphors, personal anecdotes, commentaries and meditations, many from past lectures and texts, to show us how such an improbable task is truly possible. He discusses his usual topics: breathing, sitting and walking meditation, the five mindfulness trainings, listening and more. But unlike some of his earlier works, this one presents practical, step-by-step methods for getting along with oneself, one's mate and children, one's neighbors and co-workers and one's country as well as a Manifesto for World Peace and some previously unpublished mindfulness trainings, which Nhat Hanh has developed over the years.
Although his writing is simplistic that doesn't mean it should be taken literally. One still must find one's own path through the violence that exists in the world today. He uses the metaphor of a lotus that grows in mud to show how the practice of acceptance can lead to peace even in a world of turmoil and upheaval. .Nhat Hanh believes the seed of peace begins with mindfulness. Especially, we need to be mindful consumers. We must watch for the consumption of that which leads to unmindfulness like alcohol or violence in the media. However, even these remain open to interpretation. I doubt if Nhat Hanh would seriously tell us to avoid Shakespeare's Macbeth or even Kubrick's classic Clockwork Orange.
I was particularly fascinated by Nhat Hanh's discourse on Interbeing. Here, he turns to the insect kingdom for his analogy, relating the interaction of worker bees to the shared unconsciousness that connects us all. My fascination stemmed from having written a screenplay, in which one of the character's uses the same analogy when explaining a supernatural cataclysm that is starting to destroy our hive mind and leaving in its path only mankind's sense of individuality - The Root of All Evil.
Speaking of writing and other forms of creativity, you may find some of Nhat Hanh's methods particularly helpful in those areas. I adapted a couple of his techniques to overcome writer's block. But you must be careful. You might get so creative that you won't leave time for anything else, which is probably why this review is rather lengthy. But his techniques do work.
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Title: Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Nhat Hanh, Thich Nhat Hanh ISBN: 1573229377 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Living Word of St. John: White Eagle's Interpretation of the Gospel by White Eagle ISBN: 0854871233 Publisher: White Eagle Pub Trust Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Tao of Inner Peace: A Guide to Inner Peace by Diane Dreher ISBN: 0452281997 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh, Arnold Kotler, Thich Nhatthanh ISBN: 0938077007 Publisher: Parallax Pr Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life by Nhat Hanh, Thich Nhat Hanh, Pritam Singh ISBN: 1573223336 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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