Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
About This Book
A beautifully written novelistic retelling of the life of the Buddha — from his birth as Prince Siddhartha through his awakening, his forty-five years of teaching, and his death — drawn from over a hundred primary sources of the early Buddhist tradition. Thich Nhat Hanh makes the Buddha utterly human: a man struggling with the same universal questions of suffering, love, and liberation that all people face, and showing by his life how they can be answered.
What You'll Learn
The Buddha's greatness lay not in supernatural powers but in the depth of his understanding of suffering and the precision of his teaching on how to end it — a teaching available to all people in all times. The Sangha (community) was not an afterthought of the Buddha's teaching but central to it — awakening happens in relationship and is expressed in community. Every moment of the Buddha's daily life — eating, walking, breathing — was itself a teaching on mindfulness.
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