The Blooming of A Lotus : Essential Guided Meditations for Mindfulness, Healing, and Transformation

In The Blooming of a Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the world’s most revered Buddhist teachers, presents a lucid, yet powerful guide to building loving relationships, cultivating compassion, and fostering a deeper sense of commitment to the self. Through a range of meditation exercises, this book teaches both beginners and seasoned practitioners how to regulate their patterns of consumption and actions to become more aware and, as a result, prevent grief and anger from driving our decisions. Thematically organized according to the complex bonds we share with our physical bodies, our inner world, and the outside world, The Blooming of a Lotus is a meditative journey that will enable readers to experience a calmer, more rooted, and, ultimately, more joyous way of life.