How to Love

Thich Nhat Hanh

Dec 2014 · Mindfulness Essentials Book 3 · Parallax Press

About this ebook

Thich Nhat Hanh shares timeless wisdom and mindfulness meditation practices in this pocket-sized, illustrated guide about cherishing the many ways love manifests in our lives.
 
How to Love is the third title in Thich Nhat Hanh’s series of mindfulness books for beginners and seasoned practitioners. This time, he brings his signature clarity, compassion, and humor to the thorny question of how to love. He distills one of our strongest emotions down to 4 essentials:
 
• You can only love another when you feel true love for yourself
• Love is understanding
• Understanding brings compassion
• Deep listening and loving speech are key ways of showing our love
 
How to Love shows that when we feel closer to our loved ones, we are also more connected to the world as a whole. Thich Nhat Hanh applies this timeless wisdom to the core areas and relationships of our lives, including:
 
• Love vs. Need
• Being in Love
• Reverence
• Intimacy
• Children and Family
• Reconciling with Parents
 
With meditations you can do alone or with your partner, How to Love is a unique gift for those who want a comprehensive yet simple guide to understanding the many different kinds of love, perfect for those practicing in any spiritual tradition, whether seasoned practitioners or new to meditation.

Ratings and reviews

Love us a many tangled thing. What most literature did not tell us is the idea of having loving kindness and compassion in a relationship. With that, a relationship can last because it is build on a foundation of helping the person with their suffering, and not merely what you get from it. When your partner is being unreasonable and harsh, and causing you to suffer, having loving kindness and compassion will help you see him in a different light, and having the bigger heart to accept him, and work together

Lovely and deep.

Extraordinary!

About the author

Thich Nhat Hanh was a world-renowned spiritual teacher and peace activist. Born in Vietnam in 1926, he became a Zen Buddhist monk at the age of sixteen. Over seven decades of teaching, he published more than 100 books, which have sold more than four million copies in the United States alone. Exiled from Vietnam in 1966 for promoting peace, his teachings on Buddhism as a path to social and political transformation are responsible for bringing the mindfulness movement to Western culture. He established the international Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism in France, now the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe and the heart of a growing community of mindfulness practice centers around the world. He passed away in 2022 at the age of 95 at his root temple, Tu Hieu, in Hue, Vietnam.