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Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
Breathe! You Are Alive offers the Buddha's sixteen basic exercises for conscious breathing.
Paperback, 104 pages
Published
January 1st 1996
by Parallax Press
(first published 1987)
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I cannot express how delighted I was to finally find a Buddhist text that focused primarily on breathing meditation. Many Buddhist works tend to briefly cover meditation in a few pages - ensuring the reader knows proper posture and providing a simple counting method - before launching into philosophy on karma, reincarnation,impermanence, compassion, etc.
Thich Nhat Hanh graciously presents a little-known Sutra by Buddha called Anapansati Sutta in Pali and Tipitaka in Sanskrit, or The Full Awarene...more
Thich Nhat Hanh graciously presents a little-known Sutra by Buddha called Anapansati Sutta in Pali and Tipitaka in Sanskrit, or The Full Awarene...more
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This book was really just a follow up to the more detailed and complete "The Heart Of the Buddha's Teaching" by the same author. This book delved into to meaning of the Sutra On the Full Awareness Of Breathing attributed to Buddha. It gives the sutra, and offers some commentary, although the commentary was predictable and didn't reveal much beneath the surface of the meditative words. Below is the complete Sutra, with minor paraphrastic revisions. I have since committed it to memory and have use...more
Thich Nhat Hanh has a remarkable plain-and-simple way of writing as if everything he says were just perfectly obvious and apparent and easy. It's even funny at times, though I'm sure unintentionally. He says things like, "Out of forgetfulness, we create internal knots in each other and don't realize it, until one day we can no longer look each other in the eye, and we watch television instead." Anyway, very helpful and happy and simple advice on meditation, breathing, and peaceful living.
I've given all his books five stars because their wisdom is invaluable, but this might be my favorite. Perhaps the most practical. Awareness is awareness of everything: all that you're thinking and feeling in body and mind. This book gives very practical technology for practicing that.
Great reminder of going back to the basics and following the breath. I don't really think this is a book for beginners but I think it's great for people who have been into Zen for a while and need to be reminded of the beginning.
Singers, this is book based on Buddism and sutra but it really applies to singing and making breathing enjoyable. I've gained a lot from it already.
a wonderful reminder that each breath is a miracle! and each breath can serve as a way to bring us back to the present moment.
This is my favorite book by Thich Nhat Hanh. If you are at all interested in meditation, this book spells out how to get started.
here is the key practice of bringing our mind back home to our body. this is a classic teaching from the our great Teacher Sakyamuni Buddha. an essential stepping stone. beware, it can change your life.
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After reading the sutra, you can breathe....:))
An essential, key Sutra. I return again and again to these Hanh translations/commentaries. Highly recommended for anyone on, or wanting to get on, the path...
Fantastic guide to conscious breathing and the exercises you can employ to get the most out of your mediation practices. Best read when you are actually ready to start practicing meditation, or to strengthen or supplement your current practices.
I thought that this was an excellent book fore anyone interested in the breath and body, especially in a meditation practice. It outlined a breath practice with insightful commentary.
As always, Thich Nhat Hanh speaks to my heart and gives me
useful information. Literally helpful for those of us with
asthma, spiritually helpful to remind of the essence of living.
useful information. Literally helpful for those of us with
asthma, spiritually helpful to remind of the essence of living.
This book offers good guided breathing meditations with Appendix in the back describing the previous lessons in more detail.
This book is the simplest way to mindfulness, joy, and enlightenment. Happy Cotinuation Day, Thai!
This book has done more for me than any book I've read. I use it's lessons daily. Everyone should read it.
A little technical -- an exposition on a Sutra.
He has other better books with which to begin.
He has other better books with which to begin.
Good instructive book on being aware of your breath to calm and bring mindfulness.
one of the essential texts for Buddhist practice
Very simple, but necesary
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Thích Nhất Hạnh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist who now lives in southwest France where he was in exile for many years.
Born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo, Thích Nhất Hạnh joined a Zen (Vietnamese: Thiền) monastery at the age of 16, and studied Buddhism as a novitiate. Upon his ordination as a monk in 1949, he assumed the Dharma name Thích Nhất Hạnh. Thích is an honorary...more
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Born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo, Thích Nhất Hạnh joined a Zen (Vietnamese: Thiền) monastery at the age of 16, and studied Buddhism as a novitiate. Upon his ordination as a monk in 1949, he assumed the Dharma name Thích Nhất Hạnh. Thích is an honorary...more
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