Living Buddha, Living Christ
About This Book
Nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today’s leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort. The 20th anniversary edition of the classic text, updated, revised, and featuring a Mindful Living Journal. 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 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 two great contemplatice traditions, and brings to Christianity an appreciation of its beauty that could be conveyed only by an outsider. IN lucid, meditative prose, he explores the crossroads of compassion and holiness at which the two traditions meet, and he 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."
What You'll Learn
The Holy Spirit and Buddha-nature point to the same living reality — the capacity for awakening and compassion that is inherent in all beings. True dialogue between religions happens at the level of experience, not doctrine — and at that level, the distance between genuine Christians and genuine Buddhists is very small. Practicing deeply within one's own tradition is not an obstacle to understanding other traditions but its prerequisite.
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