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The Heart of Understanding

by Thich Nhat Hanh

📖 54 pages 🗓 1987 ISBN 9780938077114

About This Book

Thich Nhat Hanh's commentary on the Heart Sutra — one of Buddhism's most beloved and paradoxical texts — presenting its teaching on emptiness and interbeing in language that is at once poetic and precisely clear.

What You'll Learn

Understand the Heart Sutra's teaching on emptiness and interbeing through Thich Nhat Hanh's uniquely accessible and poetic commentary. Grasp the specific way in which understanding emptiness — the absence of a fixed, separate self — leads directly to compassion rather than nihilism. Apply this understanding to the specific experience of suffering that arises from the illusion of separation.

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