In a time of great division and discord, our capacity to listen deeply and with compassion is paramount to solving pressing issuesacross the realms of global politics, interpersonal relationships, and our own hearts and minds.In How to Listen, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh demonstrates how deep listening is a fundamental building block of good communication.
But perhaps more fundamentally, listening is central to our practice, a basic ingredient to strengthen our capacity for mindfulness, concentration, insight, and compassion.
Learning how to listen with equanimity to life itself, we generate insight into the true nature of our deep connection to all things.
And from this place of understandingwhen we know that we arent separateour capacity to listen deepens even further.
With clear and gentle guidance from Thich Nhat Hanh, we learn how truly listeningto ourselves, to each other, to Mother Earth, and to the many bells of mindfulness that are available to us in each momentis the foundation of our practice, an expression of love, and a solution to our deepest and most urgent largescale conflicts.
All Mindfulness Essentials books are illustrated with playful sumiink drawings by California artist Jason De Antonis.