In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. A ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to �mindfulness��the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now. Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries, meditations, personal anecdotes, and stories from Nhat Hanh�s experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the reader already is�in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking�and shows how deep meditative presence is available now. Nhat Hanh provides exercises to increase our awareness of our own body and mind through conscious breathing, which can bring immediate joy and peace. Nhat Hanh also shows how to be aware of relationships with others and of the world around us, its beauty and also its pollution and injustices. The deceptively simple practices of Peace Is Every Step encourage readers to work for peace in the world as they continue to work on sustaining inner peace by turning the �mindless� into the mindful. Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Peace Is Every Step : The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Thich Nhat Hanh, Blackstone, Audio CD, 3.5 hours, 2012, $24.95
Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the best-known and respected Zen masters in the world today. He is the founder of a Buddhist university, a publishing house, an influential peace activist magazine, and the School of Youth Social Service, a grassroots relief organization that provided aid to Vietnamese citizens in the 1960s. He is also the founder of Plum Village, a Buddhist community that works to alleviate the suffering of refugees, political prisoners, and hungry families in Vietnam and throughout the third world. He is the author of Creating True Peace and Living Buddha, Living Christ, as well as a number of poems and stories.
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