How to Connect (Mindfulness Essentials)

The theme of How to Connect is that mindfulness is the end to the illusion of seperateness, and to heal the illusion of isolation . We are often distracted from true communication, which can lead to negative communication. We must interact and listen to ourselves to fully engage with others. Coming home with Earth, we realize as we step in walking mediation, we are touching the entire Earth. We see this in images of the Earth from space with its thin ozone shield protecting it from above.Seeing everything as “inter-being” requires us, for example, to truly see something, to look at every element of its existence. It is the same with connecting with humans. It awakens our connection, our joy and our suffering everywhere. Everything exists interdependent of anything, and there is nonself. During mediation, we connect with the entire Earth and all of humanity. Thich Nhat Hhan recognizes the necessity to restore the Earth.

all his books are worth the purchase and thought provoking to read each day...so very helpful in our busy world to stop and read.

This is a short & meaningful book. I especially love the simplicity and power of the practice ideas they are a beautiful takeaway

This book is for everyone, young and old. It’s teaching are simple so everyone can benefit from them and yet the depth of these teachings are endless. I recommend this book for daily reading or just a one time ready to plant the seeds of love, compassion and mindfulness.

It reads very quickly, in beautifully written short passages. I really appreciated the meditations at the end. Highly recommend this book and any in the series.

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Beautiful and important messages that has helped inspire me to work on actually living presently for the first time in my life. (23 yrs)

If you’ve read one Thich Nhat Hahn book you’ve read them all. That said, there’s no substitute for reading them all. Read, read, read.

I feel good because TNH makes me connect with my body, my mind, my spirit. I feel good because TNH makes me connect with my myself and all others. TNH makes me connect with the past, the present and the future. It is so good to be in harmony and connected with the Universe in an opened and peaceful way.

The other 7 books in this series are all the same however this one is bigger and looks like it doesn’t belong.

Thich Nhat Hanh has beautiful, simple,direct and easy to consume writings for ideas that we tend to create deep and complicated explanations to help us understand.