How to Listen

Listening with compassion can solve our most pressing issues—across global politics and interpersonal relationships and within our own hearts and minds.

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Listening with compassion can solve our most pressing issues—across global politics and interpersonal relationships and within our own hearts and minds.

In How to Listen, Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh 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 understanding—when we know that we aren’t separate—our capacity to listen deepens even further.

With clear and gentle guidance from Thích Nhất Hạnh, we learn how truly listening—to ourselves, to each other, to Mother Earth, and to the many “bells of mindfulness” that are available to us in each moment—is the foundation of our practice, an expression of love, and a solution to our deepest and most urgent large-scale conflicts.

All Mindfulness Essentials books are illustrated with playful sumi-ink drawings by California artist Jason DeAntonis.

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Pages	128
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ISBN	9780984627110
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"We have here another quiet, useful publication in 'The Mindfulness Essentials Series' of small books by Thich Nhat Hanh ... including teachings on understanding our suffering, paying attention, 'transforming habit energies,' looking carefully at what we are taking in, and a teaching that Thay often offered from Buddhist psychology about how we are always 'watering seeds' in us, sometimes without awareness. There are seeds of anger and fear and despair that often get watered; instead, with purpose, we can water seeds that 'are beneficial seeds of love, compassion, joy, forgiveness.'"
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About Thich Nhat Hanh

Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh is a global spiritual leader, poet, and peace activist, revered around the world for his pioneering teachings on mindfulness, global ethics, and peace. Born in Vietnam in 1926, he became a Zen Buddhist monk at the age of sixteen. Over seven decades of teaching, he... Read More

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About Jason DeAntonis

Jason DeAntonis is an award-winning polymathic Bay Area artist, known for his fine carpentry, custom furniture, and detailed woodwork. He has also worked in sculpture, costume design, glass blowing, painting, printmaking, and book illustration. His work has appeared in Mindfulness in the Garden, and the Mindfulness Essentials series. He lives... Read More

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