Learn the Mindfulness Essentials for Winning the Mental Battle: A Guide to Fighting

Zack Rogers: I’ll say the one thing that bugs me first. There’s a lot of repeat ideas and you’ll be like, “He already said this, but now this is just a different story to say this.” It’s a little annoying… however

I can understand why he says the same idea in a different way because one way of saying it might not resonate with you. So basically you have to read the whole book and extract whatever concepts you want. I thought I didn’t care about the tree trunk and the branches passage, but naturally my brain took hold of that one. I’m also not going to tell you what it means. You’ll just have to read it.

I will say that this book has helped a little bit (I’m no saint after reading it). You have the power to catch yourself being angry and try to chill yourself out. I do have a favorite line that I remember daily, still not going to tell you, but you know, you gotta try not to be pissy all the time.

And as a side note, there was 1 or 2 passages that I completely disagreed with (reconciling with people who have already died… I don’t have the book in front of me, but there was another passage about smiling to someone who’s angry at you. I’m about...

United States on Aug 25, 2023

Sammie: A great little book - very helpful and inspiring!

United Kingdom on Aug 05, 2023

Second to NUN: How toなんちゃらシリーズは過去の著作を適当に組み合わせての
焼き直し　多分　なので目新しいことはないと思いますが
繰り返しが大事なので　買ってしまいました
まあ　そんな感じです

Japan on Mar 29, 2023

Georges Tormen: From How To Fight To How To Not Fight! Isn't it the Path To Understanding, Peace, Love And Compassion? Breahing In And Breathing Out!

Canada on Feb 18, 2023

Phan: Really enjoyed reading this book before going to bed. Practising breathing in and out while reading this book calmed me down and helped me have a good night sleep.

Australia on Nov 01, 2022

sreevidya menon: cleared many of my doubts and reinstilled faith in god and his ways.best book for personality development.understood how non violence works.and that it has to be imbibed in ones own self.this book explined the speeches of gurudev sri sri ravishankarji for a stress free violence free society.

India on Mar 29, 2022

samuel.m.johnson3: So practical, so basic, so simple, so important, but so hard. Anger is inherent in all of us, yet because of that seldom is it understood. Anger is pointed outward, towards the person we think made us angry. Yet, Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us that the true causes are inside ourselves from past hurts. Only by mindfulness, becoming aware of deep breathing and of our deeper suffering, can we transform our anger into compassion. It needs to and can become a daily practice.

United States on Mar 28, 2022

Danny: I find myself returning to this book again and again, and each time I find it more relevant and profound. Hanh uses deceptively simple language and so makes it easy to understand his interpretation of Buddhism, but one must not mistake the simplicity for a lack of depth.

Applying Hanh's mindfulness to my life has made me a calmer, more compassionate person. For example, like many people, I am naturally prone to retaliate against hurtful comments by slinging more hurtful comments in the aggressor's direction. But, as Hanh convincingly explains, hurting someone—even in retaliation—harms oneself more than it harms the intended target, and it certainly harms the relationship as a whole. One must instead look to others with compassion to understand their own suffering. When one realizes that they, too, are suffering, one no longer feels the need to harm them. If you have an attitude of compassion and understanding, you will improve the lives of everyone around you—including yourself.

This is merely one of the many beautiful teachings to be found in this wonderful book, and Hanh explains them all better than I can. I implore you to read it for yourself and think...

United States on Oct 19, 2018

MW: I picked up another of Thich Nhat Hanh's books some time ago. "How to Love." I couldn't stand it. When I saw this title, however, I said, "That sounds a bit more like me." I was right. If you are, like me, a cantankerous misanthrope who has no patience for anybody else's nonsense to the degree that you get angry at yourself for the amount of time you spend irritated over pointless minutia, this is where you start. The benefits of mindfulness and meditation are real, but for me, the mental habits that give you access to those benefits are so foreign they might as well have originated on Mars. This book, however, is exactly right for translating meditative/mindful thinking into angry person thinking and back again to help we the habitually furious learn how to calm ourselves down when anger is making us miserable.

United States on Jan 17, 2018

Dechen Karl Thurman: Thick Nhat Hahn has a talent for writing in a simple way that connects the heart to the mind. Most of the words in this volume you can find in his other books, yet the most powerful truths are the simplest, and do not diminish through repetition. Can non monks benefit from the wisdom of a monk? Somewhat. Perhaps to a non-monk some of this advice seems too passive and self sacrificing? Nonetheless, to reinforce the ideas of self love, self care, open dialogue and peaceful resolution is always worth it even if some situations in life need to be fought for and the non-violent approach is too privileged to be appropriate in today’s times of economic inequality and corporate spin doctoring.

United States on Oct 08, 2017