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Insight, joy, and serenity are available to you in every moment, whether you're sitting in silence or strolling down a bustling sidewalk in the city. This is the promise of Walking Meditation, an essential guide to cultivating mindfulness and presence no matter where you are. Created by the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh and one of his first students, Nguyen Anh-Huong, this practical book shows readers how to establish their own walking meditation practice. These esteemed teachers will lead you progressively from basic mindfulness techniques such as conscious breathing and walking mindfully in nature, proceeding to methods for meditative walking even in busy public spaces. Now including online access to audio and video guided meditations, this newly revised paperback edition of Walking Meditation brings these insights to a harried world increasingly in need of them.
About the Author
Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist Zen Master, poet, scholar, and peace activist, one of the most revered and influential spiritual teachers in the world today. Born in 1926, he became a Zen Buddhist monk at the age of sixteen. During the Vietnam War, his work for peace and reconciliation moved Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. He founded the Van Hanh Buddhist University in Saigon and the School of Youth for Social Service. He was exiled as a result of his work for peace but continued his activism, rescuing boat people and helping to resettle Vietnamese refugees. He has written more than 100 books, which have sold millions of copies around the world. HIs teachings on Buddhism as a path to social and political transformation are responsible for bringing mindfulness to the West. In 1982 he established the international Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism in France, now the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe. He lives in Hue in Central Vietnam.
