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		<description><![CDATA[Thundering Silence
Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Catch A Snake
These teachings illustrate how openness, non-attachment from view, and playfulness are essential elements for liberation.



The Heart of Understanding
Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
This sutra is regarded as the essence of Buddhist teaching, offering subtle and profound teachings on the letting go of all preconceived notions, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulreader.org&blog=2109214&post=112&subd=mindfulreader&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the Self: Teachings on the Middle Way</title>
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Beyond the Self: Teachings on the Middle Way focuses on three key Buddhist concepts: Right View (keeping an open mind and avoiding extreme perspectives and dualities), Interdependence (dependent co-arising, the dependent and mutually-created nature of all things), and No-self (the lack of attachment to an individual separate existence).
Our difficulties arise, the sutra teaches, when we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulreader.org&blog=2109214&post=105&subd=mindfulreader&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Enjoy your practice with a relaxed and gentle attitude, with an open mind and receptive heart&#8230;.Joy and happiness are available to you in the here and now.&#8221; -Thich Nhat Hanh
With sections on Daily Practice, Relationships, Physical Practices, Mindful Eating, and Practicing with Children, Happiness is a comprehensive guide to living our daily lives with full [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulreader.org&blog=2109214&post=99&subd=mindfulreader&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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Practical Responses to Life&#8217;s Burning Questions
What is the right way to live?  How do I balance my work and family? Why do I worry, even what everything is okay?  How can I repair my relationship with my parents?  In Answers from the Heart, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh offers his personal, heartfelt, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulreader.org&blog=2109214&post=91&subd=mindfulreader&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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Lessons from the Lotus Sutra
In Peaceful Action, Open Heart, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh uses the Lotus Sutra, one of Mahayana Buddhism&#8217;s most revered texts, to illustrate the Buddha nature inherent in everyone.  With great passion and clarity, he demonstrates how each human being has the capacity to transform their individual suffering, develop compassion, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulreader.org&blog=2109214&post=95&subd=mindfulreader&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Energy of Prayer
This new boxed gift set includes Thich Nhat Hanh&#8217;s book The Energy of Prayer, and forty prayer cards that were selected to help direct our thoughts and intentions towards a state of mindfulness.   The prayer cards included in this set are prayers and meditations drawn from Thich Nhat Hanh&#8217;s Buddhist tradition. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulreader.org&blog=2109214&post=82&subd=mindfulreader&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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In Thich Nhat Hanh&#8217;s new and provocative book, he offers a dramatic vision for the future of our planet and links his contemplation of environmental destruction to the Buddhist teachings of interconnectedness and the impermanence of all things.  Rather than seeing impermanence as an excuse for disengaging from the world, he argues passionately that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulreader.org&blog=2109214&post=57&subd=mindfulreader&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breathe, You Are Alive!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
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20th Anniversary Edition
According to the Anapanasati Sutra, maintaining awareness of our breathing is a means of awakening to the true nature of all things and arriving at spiritual liberation.  Breathe, You Are Alive! outlines the Buddha&#8217;s exercises of conscious breathing along with commentaries and further exercises for daily life.
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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Long-time couple and Buddhist Dharma teachers Larry Ward and Peggy Rowe Ward offer ways to deepen our spiritual practice and strengthen our most important relationships.  Through insights, exercises, and personal stories, the authors illustrate how Buddhist principles can help couples navigate difficulties and misunderstandings an reach new levels of happiness together.
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		<title>Mindful Movements</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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These simple and effective practices reduce stress and tension and help create peace of mind and body. When used as a complement to other meditation practices, these movements can alleviate mental, emotional, and physical strain. Drawn in a whimsical and immediately appealing style, the book presents ten gentle physical routines that can be practiced by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulreader.org&blog=2109214&post=45&subd=mindfulreader&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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