Living Buddha, Living Christ

Living Buddha, Living Christ
by Thich Nhat Hanh

Living Buddha, Living Christ
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Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Introduction: Elaine Pagels
Foreword: David Steindl-Rast
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-09-12
ISBN: 1573220183
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Riverhead
Product features:
  • Religion, Buddism, Christianity

Book Reviews of Living Buddha, Living Christ

Book Review: Living Buddha, Living Christ
Summary: 5 Stars

Simplyfing life by living the truth of the moment greatly touched me. Instead of living the way that others, who have interpreted a reading, tell you to live, just live using Jesus and Buddha as a model. All the rules and meanings others attached to Jesus' life complicate and twist the truth and reality. Mindfull living and stopping to be aware of where we allowing our mind to travel are valuable lessons learned from this book. I want to capture the peace the author has, and I want to practice his teachings until I have the habit of being mindfull. I wanted to read this book in the hope it would guide me to reconcile my belief in Jesus and my approach to living. The book succeeded in doing this for me.

Summary of Living Buddha, Living Christ

Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the course of two millennia. If they were to meet on the road today, what would each think of the other's spiritual views and practices?

Thich Nhat Hanh has been part of a decades-long dialogue between the two greatest living contemplative traditions, and brings to Christianity an appreciation of its beauty that could only be conveyed by an outsider. In a lucid, meditative prose, he explores the crossroads of compassion and holiness at which the two traditions meet, and reawakens our understanding of both. "On the altar in my hermitage," he says, "are images of Buddha and Jesus, and . . . I touch both of them as my spiritual ancestors." >A rare combination of mystic, scholar, and activist, Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West.

"[Thich Nhat Hanh] is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. . . . His ideas for peace . . . would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity."
?Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in nominating Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967

Royalties from the sale of Living Buddha, Living Christ support Thich Nhat Hanh's work at Plum Village and in Vietnam, and the development of a residential retreat center in the United States.

If you have always assumed that Christianity and Buddhism are as far apart philosophically as their respective founders were geographically, you may be in for a bit of a surprise. In this national bestseller, Zen monk and social activist Thich Nhat Hanh draws parallels between these two traditions that have them walking, hand in hand, down the same path to salvation. In Christianity, he finds mindfulness in the Holy Spirit as an agent of healing. In Buddhism, he finds unqualified love in the form of compassion for all living things. And in both he finds an emphasis on living practice and community spirit.

The thread that binds the book is the same theme that draws many Christians toward Buddhism: mindfulness. Through anecdotes, scripture references, and teachings from both traditions, Nhat Hanh points out that mindfulness is an integral part of all religious practice and teaches us how to cultivate it in our own lives. Nhat Hanh has no desire to downplay the venerable theological and ritual teachings that distinguish Buddhism and Christianity, but he does cause one to consider that beyond the letter of doctrine lies a unity of truth.

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