An exciting contribution to the growing trend of applying Buddhist practices to encourage wellness and balance mental health. Reconciliation focuses on mindful awareness of our emotions and offers concrete practices to restore damaged relationships through meditations and exercises to help acknowledge and transform the hurt that many of us may have experienced as children. Reconciliation shows how anger, sadness, and fear can become joy and tranquility by learning to breathe with, explore, meditate, and speak about our strong emotions. Written for a wide audience and accessible to people of all backgrounds and spiritual traditions.
Thich Nhat Hanh has written a book that helped me to touch the very deepest roots of suffering, anger, violence and neglect within myself, and the generations that are a part of me. A path toward living happily and at peace even amidst suffering. Through the teachings, stories and practices offered in this book, I found the fertilizer for my own practice. Taken to heart, applied honestly, with wisdom and with encouragement from trusted friends, the flowering of peace within individuals, families and society can be made possible.Thich Nhat Hanh writes, “Many of us practice sitting meditation in order to run away from suffering…we behave like a rabbit going back into its hole in the earth in order to feel protected…We do this because we suffer so much, we want some kind of rest, some kind of running away. But that is not the true purpose of meditation…We have to use our intelligence and concentration to get insight, transform the suffering within, and become a Buddha, an enlightened one, a free person…Without suffering, without the understanding of suffering, true happiness is impossible.”
My advice: Buy this book for yourself, for a person you love, and for a person you think may need it, who may be open to receiving it. Smile, and enjoy!
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