Going home

Description

Exiled from Vietnam over thirty years ago, Thich Nhat Hanh has become known as a healer of the heart, a monk who shows us how the everyday world can both enrich and endanger our spiritual lives. In Going Home he shows us the relationship between Buddha and Jesus by presenting a conversation between the two. In this unique way we learn how such concepts as resurrection and mindfulness converge. The brotherhood between Jesus and Buddha can teach us to "practice in such a way that Buddha is born every moment of our daily life, that Jesus Christ is born every moment of our daily life."

First Sentence

Dear friends, today is the twenty-fourth of December 1995. We are in the Lower Hamlet, in our Winter Retreat.

Description

"Having lived in the West for more than thirty years, exiled from his native Vietnam, Thich Nhat Hanh has become known as a healer of the heart, identifying our cultural wounds and trying to find a way to repair them."--BOOK JACKET. "This book continues the dialogue with Christianity that began in Living Buddha, Living Christ. In that book, the door was opened to the idea that Buddha and Jesus speak to each other. In Going Home, they sit down and talk about each other's prayers and rituals. They ask how they can help renew each other's traditions. They look at the convergence of concepts such as resurrection and the practice of mindfulness. They see where the Buddhist understanding of the nature of reality and the concept of God come together. Their conversation shows the deep connection between Jesus and Buddha."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

• Going home: Jesus and Buddha as brothersRiverhead Books1999-01-01
• Going HomeHardcoverRiverhead Hardcover1999-09-06
• Going HomeAudio CassetteSimon & Schuster Audio1999-10-01
• Going HomePaperbackEbury Publishing1999-10-07
• Going homeRiverhead Books2000-01-01
• Going HomePaperbackRiverhead Trade2000-10-10