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The Mindfulness Survival Kit: Five Essential Practices Paperback – October 31, 2013

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Join Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh as he explores 5 essential mindfulness practices that offer a blueprint for healthy, compassionate living—no matter your spiritual path or background.
 
The Five Mindfulness Trainings (also referred to as “Precepts”)—not to kill, steal, commit adultery, lie, or take intoxicants—are the basic statement of ethics and morality in Buddhism. Zen Master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh argues eloquently for their applicability in our daily lives and on a global scale. Nhat Hanh discusses the value and meaning of each precept, offering insights into the role that it could play in our changing society.

Thich Nhat Hanh calls the trainings a “diet for a mindful society”. With this book, he offers a Buddhist contribution to the current thinking on how we can come together to define secular, moral guidelines that will allow us to explore and sustain a sane, compassionate, and healthy way of living. The Five Mindfulness Trainings offer a path to restoring meaning and value in our world—whether called virtues, ethics, moral conduct, or precepts they are guidelines for living without bringing harm to others.
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“Nhat Hanh’s meditations illuminate the connection between spirituality and social action and point us to thevalue of mindfulness in everyday life.”
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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Parallax Press; Revised edition (October 31, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1937006344
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1937006341
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.47 x 0.54 x 6.5 inches
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Thich Nhat Hanh (1926–2022) was​ a Vietnamese Buddhist Zen Master, poet, and peace activist and one of the most revered and influential spiritual teachers in the world​. Born in 1926, he became a Zen Buddhist monk at the age of sixteen. His work for peace and reconciliation during the war in Vietnam moved Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. In Vietnam, Thich Nhat Hanh founded Van Hanh Buddhist University and the School of Youth for Social Service, a corps of Buddhist peace​ workers. Exiled as a result of his work for peace, he continued his humanitarian efforts, rescuing boat people and helping to resettle refugees. ​In 1982 he established Plum Village France, the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe​ and the hub of the international Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism​.​​ Over seven decades of teaching, he published a hundred books, which have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide.

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Customers find the book's content helpful and inspiring. They find the mindfulness trainings and Buddhist ethical teachings explained in detail. The book is described as a wonderful, rewarding read with a lovely and easy-to-understand style.

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Customers find the book helpful and inspiring. They appreciate its focus on mindfulness trainings and Buddhist ethical principles. The book provides clear explanations of the three precepts, with concrete practices. Readers say it's a great way to look at mindfulness and includes suggestions for simple daily practices.

"...It doesn’t tell stories and focuses on the mindfulness trainings in great detail and other Buddhist ethical concepts in modern plain language and..." Read more

"Love this handy little book! Really clarifying some ideas for me and inspiring me" Read more

"An easily understood interpretation and application of the Five Mindfulness Trainings. Especially good for beginners in the practice." Read more

"...It is amazing how an apparently simple book can be so deep in many teachings and daily life practices...." Read more

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Customers find the book easy to read and engaging. They find it enlightening and inspiring, clarifying ideas and practices. Readers recommend reading from the Plum Village tradition and appreciate the metta prayer on page 75.

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"Another gem from Thay. Love the metta prayer on page 75. So concise and includes suggestions for simple daily practices...." Read more

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"This is a very nice read up for the five essential practices. It's presented in a neat and tidy package, simple and unassuming...." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's style. It is written in a straightforward manner and presented in a simple yet effective way.

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"In typical TNH style, written in a way that is easy to understand yet challenges the gray matter makes the reader ponder all the ramifications of..." Read more

"What can I say, it's Thich Nhat Hanh; always at his best, and simply lovely." Read more

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  • Peter
    5.0 out of 5 stars Simple, Relatable Approach to Buddhism
    Reviewed in Canada on February 6, 2022
    Thick Nhat Hanh boils Zen Buddhism down into 5 straightforward practices and elaborates them. Very easy and approachable guide to the steps to take to build a Buddhist practice.
  • Dazmeister
    5.0 out of 5 stars BeAutifully written
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 23, 2015
    Read this to understand that to apply thought and love to your actions and words each moment in each day has an impact on you and others.
    Just to smile all day changes your feelings that run thru you.
    This left me knowing that my greatest pleasure is to serve others with mindful words and actions.
    Even those you feel have hurt you.
  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended for simplicity
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2020
    Bought this as a gift for partner - he loved it. Nice and simple explanations. I enjoyed dipping in to it too!
  • JP
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book
    Reviewed in Canada on November 1, 2014
    After going on retreat last year this book serves as a great reminder of the importance of the five mindfulness trainings. Thay weaves together the trainings and loops and a section on philosophical differences of different ethical systems
  • Sandra Rae
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thich Nhat Hanh is always a 5
    Reviewed in Canada on June 27, 2015
    Thich Nhat Hanh is always a 5. He puts Buddhist philosophy and psycology into eveyday language accesible to anyone seeking.