About this title: "Our Appointment with Life" is a translation and commentary on the Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone, the earliest teaching of the Buddha on how to live fully in the present moment.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Parallax Press
Date Published: 1990-10-01
ISBN-13:9780938077367ISBN:0938077368
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Parallax Press
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780938077367ISBN:0938077368
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Parallax Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780938077367ISBN:0938077368
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. One corner of cover is slightly worn. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 56 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PARALLAX PR
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780938077367ISBN:0938077368
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Full Circle Publishing Ltd
Date Published: 15/03/2003
ISBN-13:9788121606790ISBN:8121606799
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"This is an excellent little book that manages to sum up the core of Buddhist philosophy with one sutra. Thich Nhat Hanh is always clear cut and easy to understand. This is the first discourse that I've read of his and, though it differs in style from Peace is Every Step and Living Buddha Living Christ, it in some ways spoke to me more than those two books did. When he writes "Our appointment with life is in the present moment. The place of our appointment is right here, in this very place", I had to really stop and think about that. On an intellectual level, of course, that's a basic Buddhist principle. But to put mindfulness into practice in everyday life is difficult, especially when I'm faced with work and drama of all sorts. To stop in the midst of the tornado and check in with myself, to say "here I am", it makes me a bit freaked out. When I read that passage, I was on the bus heading to a client's house and all of these questions just started coming up: what am I doing in this job? Am I in the right place? Am I associating with the kind of people I should be associating with?
I think it's far too easy to not check in with ourselves, especially with all the distractions of modern life. Change can be such a daunting thing, especially when talking about change from within. What I gleaned from this book is that it's all about babysteps - not the big "what ifs" that are so easy to get hung up on. In other words, stop worrying about the past and future and stop and look at what's happening right now.
Thanks a lot to my bff; that was some Christmas present!"
"The essential teaching of Buddhism is to free oneself from all anxiety concerning the past and desire for the future in order to come back into the present. Liberation, awakening joy, and inner work can only happen in the present. This is Thich Nhat Hanh's translation of the earliest teaching of the Buddha on living in the present."
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