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The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching Summary & Study Guide Description
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Thich Nhat Hanh gives us a simply written, beautiful guidebook to Buddhism in The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching. With each set of practices, we are assisted in understanding the concepts of mindfulness, as well as the seeds that manifest as good and bad feelings and events. A thorough explanation of how our mental formations and perceptions can deceive us and prevent us from feeling the ever-present and available feelings of joy and happiness is provided in this book, along with anecdotes and stories. Thich Nhat Hanh was born and raised in Viet Nam during war time and has experienced suffering like all people. However, he has learned to transform suffering into joy with simple mindfulness and the knowledge of the sources of unhappiness. He does not encourage people to become Buddhists, or to adopt a new set of religious dogmas, but instead,...
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