Teachings on Love

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Summary: Meditations on love...
Review: "Teachings on Love" helps water those seeds of love in your heart. Here one of the parts I liked the most:

"Look into the eyes of your beloved and ask deeply, "Who are you, my love, who has come to me and taken my suffering as your suffering, my happiness as your happiness, my life and death as your life and death? Who are you whose self has become my self? Why aren't you a dewdrop, a butterfly, a bird, a pine tree? Ask with your whole body and mind. Later, you will have to ask the person who causes you the most suffering the same questions...To understand, you have to become one with your beloved, and also one with your so-called enemy. You have to worry about what they worry about, suffer their suffering, appreciate what they appreciate. You and the object of your love cannot be two. They are as much you as you are yourself...See and listen with the whole of your being. If you are fully present, the rain of the Dharma will water the deepest seeds in your store consciousness, and tomorrow, while you are washing the dishes or looking at the blue sky, that seed will spring forth, and love and understanding will appear as a beautiful flower."

Beautiful isn't it? Now I must go, I need to begin my practice...

Rating:
Summary: Meditations on love...
Review: "Teachings on Love" helps water those seeds of love in your heart. Here one of the parts I liked the most:

"Look into the eyes of your beloved and ask deeply, "Who are you, my love, who has come to me and taken my suffering as your suffering, my happiness as your happiness, my life and death as your life and death? Who are you whose self has become my self? Why aren't you a dewdrop, a butterfly, a bird, a pine tree? Ask with your whole body and mind. Later, you will have to ask the person who causes you the most suffering the same questions...To understand, you have to become one with your beloved, and also one with your so-called enemy. You have to worry about what they worry about, suffer their suffering, appreciate what they appreciate. You and the object of your love cannot be two. They are as much you as you are yourself...See and listen with the whole of your being. If you are fully present, the rain of the Dharma will water the deepest seeds in your store consciousness, and tomorrow, while you are washing the dishes or looking at the blue sky, that seed will spring forth, and love and understanding will appear as a beautiful flower."

Beautiful isn't it? Now I must go, I need to begin my practice...

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Summary: Mindfully and Lovingly Written
Review: I don't know how else to describe this book....It's just sheer beauty. Just by picking up this book and reading a few pages, you will feel your heart open and your body relax. It's a positive book that makes you feel great about being alive and reinforces loving behavior. No matter how mindful and compassionate you are, Teachings on Love will inspire you to create beautiful relationships and to love everyone. Do yourself a great favor and buy this wonderful book.

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Summary: My "Go To" book
Review: I have most of Hanh's books. This is the one I keep for personal emergencies, those days when I just feel so incredibly screwed up that I can't stand myself. Open to any page. Perspective. Not at all sentimental, curiously.

'This is so, because of this. That is so because of that. This fits in here, that fits there, this is how to start all over again. You know you need to pay attention to these things, because it's your life. If you have doubts or questions, just keep reading.'

In just a few minutes, I feel human again. This book is good for what ails you, especially when you feel too agitated to sit for meditation.

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Summary: Most practical book on love ever read
Review: I should read this book sooner and it would have saved my relationship with Lily Susanto the lady I love so dearly. I still love her very much till this day. This book I suggest ever one gave it a good look even if they are not buddhist. It also deals with family as well, A great book.. It touch my 'soul' and I shed tears and my heart ache knowing that I should read it sooner.

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Summary: A Valuable Practice Guide
Review: Once more our beloved Zen master and amazing poet does it again in yet another spiritual masterpiece, guiding us all towards a more meaningful and joyful life. I actually may very well believe that this particular text is the very finest you will ever read on this much debated topic: Love. In Buddhism there is a teaching known as The Four Immeasurable Minds. They are love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. The root and source of love is in all human beings, and it is our responsibility to realize this and cultivate love as the way of our very lives.

He starts with beneficial practices here on just how to do that seemingly arduous task; how to listen to others with patience, how to accept and love yourself, and ultimately how in a sense "rewrite your karma." Thich covers issues like anger and jealousy, which of course cause ourselves and countless others innumerable amounts of stress and trouble. As with some of his other works where he advises we create, for instance, our own sutra -Thich likewise develops 4 original mantras in a chapter here intended to develop a loving relationship with all that is through a program of awareness, respect for ourselves and others, nurturing, and perhaps most importantly communication.

It's with practice suggestions and the like which Thay provides here that make this work a landmark in his teaching career. Just when you think you've reaped all which Thich Nhat Hanh has to offer you, a book like this comes along to refresh your expert mind back to a baby. After all, a baby's mind is open to most anything, it has nothing to do but learn. And so is our practice. Learning, cultivation, hardship. To sum up, practice is our life.

Teachings on Love may be that book you are looking for in times of Great Doubt which reminds you of the potential of your practice, thus renewing your Great Belief. This work is a testament to the wonderful teachings this modern master always seems to deliver. I can't actually recommend this one enough. Enjoy it.

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Summary: Changed my life
Review: This book is fabulous. It is simply written and doesn't include an overwhelming dose of academic analysis of buddhist ideology, which often plagues other buddhist texts. I give it to all my friends and loved ones for birthdays or any chance I get, and they all love it as well. It becomes embedded in your way of thinking in a very positive and organic way.