How to Walk is the fourth title in Parallax’s popular Mindfulness Essentials Series of how-to titles by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, introducing beginners and reminding seasoned practitioners of the essentials of mindfulness practice. Slow, concentrated walking while focusing on in- and out-breaths allows for a unique opportunity to be in the present. There is no need to arrive somewhere—each step is the arrival to concentration, joy, insight, and the momentary enlightenment of aliveness. When your foot touches the Earth with awareness, you make yourself alive and the Earth real, and you forget for one minute the searching, rushing, and longing that rob our daily lives of awareness and cause us to "sleepwalk" through life.
Thich Nhat Hanh shares amusing stories of the impact mindful walking has on both the walker and those who notice him, and shows how mindful walking can be a technique for diminishing depression, recapturing wonder, and expressing gratitude. Pocket-sized, with original two color illustrations by Jason DeAntonis, How to Walk k is a unique gift for all ages, sharing a simple practice that can have a profound effect on practitioners.
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Review
Appeared on every Regional Trade Association bestseller list in 2015:
GLIBA (Great Lakes)
MIBA (Midwest)
MPIBA (Mountains and Plains)
NAIBA (New Atlantic)
NCIBA (Northern California)
NEIBA (New England)
PNBA (Pacific Northwest)
SCIBA (Southern California)
SIBA (South)
“A slim, simply worded collection of [Thich Nhat Hanh’s] immeasurably wise insights on the most complex and most rewarding human potentiality… How to Love * explores the simple, profoundly transformative daily practices of love and understanding, which apply not only to romantic relationships but to all forms of 'interbeing.'”— Brain Pickings*
About the Author
Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most revered Zen teachers in the world today. His best–selling books include Be Free Where You Are and Peace of Mind. He lives in Plum Village in southwest France. Nhat Hanh has been teaching the art of mindful living for more than 70 years.
Jason DeAntonis is an award–winning polymathic Bay Area artist, known for his fine carpentry, custom furniture, and detailed woodwork. He has also worked in sculpture, costume design, glass blowing, painting, printmaking, and book illustration. His work has appeared in Mindfulness in the Garden, How to Sit, How to Eat, How to Walk, How to Love, and How to Relax. He lives in Berkeley, California.
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How to Walk is the fourth title in Parallax’s popular Mindfulness Essentials Series of how-to titles by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, introducing beginners and reminding seasoned practitioners of the essentials of mindfulness practice. Slow, concentrated walking while focusing on in- and out-breaths allows for a unique opportunity to be in the present. There is no need to arrive somewhere—each step is the arrival to concentration, joy, insight, and the momentary enlightenment of aliveness. When your foot touches the Earth with awareness, you make yourself alive and the Earth real, and you forget for one minute the searching, rushing, and longing that rob our daily lives of awareness and cause us to "sleepwalk" through life.
Thich Nhat Hanh shares amusing stories of the impact mindful walking has on both the walker and those who notice him, and shows how mindful walking can be a technique for diminishing depression, recapturing wonder, and expressing gratitude. Pocket-sized, with original two color illustrations by Jason DeAntonis, How to Walk k is a unique gift for all ages, sharing a simple practice that can have a profound effect on practitioners.
**
Review
Appeared on every Regional Trade Association bestseller list in 2015:
GLIBA (Great Lakes)
MIBA (Midwest)
MPIBA (Mountains and Plains)
NAIBA (New Atlantic)
NCIBA (Northern California)
NEIBA (New England)
PNBA (Pacific Northwest)
SCIBA (Southern California)
SIBA (South)
“A slim, simply worded collection of [Thich Nhat Hanh’s] immeasurably wise insights on the most complex and most rewarding human potentiality… How to Love * explores the simple, profoundly transformative daily practices of love and understanding, which apply not only to romantic relationships but to all forms of 'interbeing.'”— Brain Pickings*
About the Author
Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most revered Zen teachers in the world today. His best–selling books include Be Free Where You Are and Peace of Mind. He lives in Plum Village in southwest France. Nhat Hanh has been teaching the art of mindful living for more than 70 years.
Jason DeAntonis is an award–winning polymathic Bay Area artist, known for his fine carpentry, custom furniture, and detailed woodwork. He has also worked in sculpture, costume design, glass blowing, painting, printmaking, and book illustration. His work has appeared in Mindfulness in the Garden, How to Sit, How to Eat, How to Walk, How to Love, and How to Relax. He lives in Berkeley, California.