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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 294 EAN: 9780712674065 ISBN: 0712674063 Label: Rider & Co Manufacturer: Rider & Co Number Of Pages: 134 Publication Date: August 03, 1995 Publisher: Rider & Co Studio: Rider & Co Sales Rank: 3747
Rating: - Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!!!
First things first, I completely agree with the many positive reviews already posted. Although I wouldn't have expected it from such a short little book, reading this has taught me simple techniques that have changed my life for the better and made me happier day to day and moment to moment. Hence five stars doesn't really seem enough!!
To review this book from the context of my own life, I have been practicing Buddhism for about a year now. Naturally I have made myself familiar with the theory, and try to practice it, for the benefit of myself and others. Rather than giving a complete overview of Buddhist thought (as many books do), this particular book focuses on just one of the eight practices of the Noble Eightfold Path: ... Read More:
Rating: - What a wonderful book!
What a wonderful book! It is written so beautifully, that its simplicity is deceptive. It belongs on everybody's bookshelf as a reminder of the grace of Buddhism in a world where we have forgotten the meaning of living simply, mindfully and gracefully. Buy it and be nurtured.
Selima Gurtler
Founder
East meets West- The Peace Charity
www.emwpeace.com
Patron: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Rating: - An inspiring book.
This book is one I have kept by my bed ever since I received it. I read a few lines each night before sleep, it inspires and relaxes. I often recall it's message the following day. A simple, gentle read but life changing.
Rating: - Simple, inspiring, tranformational
An excellent book written by a Buddhist monk about different ways to live 'mindfully' - which seems to mean living so that I do not lose touch with what is of ultimate significance in the daily round of passing tasks/events. The style is simple, but the message inspiring, and ultimately life-transforming if absorbed and lived.
Rating: - This book changed my life
A little over three years ago I received this book as a birthday present (in the wonderful Dutch translation by Anna Bol and Eveline Beumkes). After quickly reading it, I put it away: 'surely, a lot of peace for such a small book'. It was only six months later, when I started reading the short, meditative pieces one a day, that some of the messages began to take hold. The simplicity is both real and deceptive at the same time: even after three years, new meanings suddenly appear -- "ah, that's what he means!" A rich and inspiring book. And the English version is as beautiful as the Dutch.