Saturday, August 28, 2010

True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart 1

Title: True Love: a practice for awakening the heart.
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh

"We must not get caught in the trap of notions and concepts," which includes what is right or wrong, concept of birth and death, concept of being and non being, concept of permanance.

" We are afraid of everything-- of our death, of being alone, of change-- and the practice of Mindfulness helps us to touch nonfear.

In the book, Master Hanh, illustrates that there are four elements of True Love: Understanding, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity / Freedom.

Nhat Hanh is always good, and poetic, at seeing the deep in the ordinary: how the ring of a telephone can be a call to awareness, how the waste material of human fear and pain can be composted—transformed—into flowers of understanding and hope.

To be continued...

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