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Anyone Ever Read Any Thich Nhat Hanh?

#1 User is offline   Haganrih

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Posted 15 April 2005 - 06:23 AM

Wondering what your thoughts are. :blink:
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Posted 15 April 2005 - 07:05 AM

He's wonderful... and very prolific - I've never read anything of his that I wouldn't recommend.
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#3 User is offline   Haganrih

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Posted 15 April 2005 - 09:04 AM

Cynthia, on Apr 15 2005, 07:05 AM, said:

He's wonderful... and very prolific - I've never read anything of his that I wouldn't recommend.
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What have you liked the best? I'm looking at Living Buddha, Living Christ and Peace is every Step. :huh:
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Posted 15 April 2005 - 09:17 AM

Living Buddha, Living Christ, if I'm remembering correctly, is a pairing of sayings from each. If you're interested in the comparison, I really enjoyed Going Home - Jesus and Buddha as Brothers.

I haven't read Peace is Every Step, but I'm sure it is good :)

He also has very insightful books on Anger and Love (makes a great wedding gift! - the second!! :) - the first might be better 5 or 10 yrs down the road :lol: )

His theme is compassion in all the books I have read. Radical compassion - much like Jesus. I find his writings to be very powerful. They seem infused with the divine to me. Not that I think he is divine - just very much tuned in. A lot like reading Mother Teresa or the Dalai Lama.... to me.
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#5 User is offline   Lolly

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Posted 15 April 2005 - 10:38 AM

Both of those books are great places to start, I've read them both. As Cynthia noted, TNH is very prolific and there's nothing I've read from him that I wouldn't recommend highly.
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Posted 15 April 2005 - 01:17 PM

Howdy--

THN's "Living Buddha, Living Christ" is actually a discussion of Christianity from a Buddhist's point of view. A quote from this book is discussed in cunninglily's "Praxis and Ritual in Christianity" thread.

Peace,
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Posted 02 May 2005 - 03:34 PM

Everything by Hanh is good. I especially liked "Living Buddha, Living Christ", although I haven't read "Jesus & Buddha as Brothers", at least not yet.
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