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Stress Management : Thich Nhat Hanh 's Being Peace

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Book Summary - The book Being Peace , written by Vietnamese Buddhist Thich Nhat Hahn , is a book about finding the peace in life . The book provides simple thoughts , provided the readers with a reading material which is easily read and easily understood , enabling for the easier ways for the people to apply it to their daily lives

The book Being Peace features seven different chapters , each chapter interrelated with the other chapters and provides supporting ideas so

that after reading the book , the entire message of the book is easily absorbed and easily put into practice . The chapters that divide the book start with the first chapter which is entitled `Suffering is Not Enough ' followed by the second chapter `The Three Gems ' The third and the fourth chapters are `Feelings and Perceptions ' and `The Heart of Practice ' specifically , followed by `Working for Peace ' `Interbeing and `Meditation in Daily Life ' which are the fifth , sixth and last chapters of the book

Many consider this book as a very good book to start for those who are interested in getting started with Buddhism and its important tenets starting with the finding of inner peace . The book was about Nhat Hanh 's lecturing as it was about his exposition about what he learned from personal experience

Nhat Hahn uses this book so that the readers can start with the proper mindset that can assist them in their future endeavors in reaching the calmness of the mind and body which is necessary for meditation and prayer for those who are pursuing Buddhism . The content of the book Being Peace are direct and indirect excerpts based on what happened in the life of Thich Nhat Hahn . The book emphasizes on the right things to do so that the life being lived in this lifetime while a mortal in the planet is well spend , with well spent , Nhat Hahn is pertaining to the characteristics of the life spent pursuing and achieving happiness through calmness , natural beauty of earth , and without attachment towards worldly or earthly material possessions that corrupts the spirit and distracts the mind

And while this book is one of the many different works of the author who is an activist as well as a monk that focuses on finding peace and happiness for oneself , the equally important and equally significant aspect of the book is the focus of the teaching of Thich Nhat Hahn about the need for global peace

Nhat Hahn discussed in the book about the capability of the rest of the world to wage several wars more , about the capability of the rest of the world to destroy earth not just once but many times , using the breadth of weapons of mass destruction available to them in just one lifetime about the role of humans to alter this path and eventually , about the role of inner peace in every individual which will pave the way for the creation of...