Monday, April 24, 2006

Thich Nhat Hanh & The Miracle of Mindfulness

I came across this Vietnamesse Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh, in the amazon review I was reading today in the office, Red Pine's ' Heart Sutra'. There, this reviewer, who wrote a comprehensive review, mentioned the other enlightened Zen masters, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jack Kornfield ( he had interactions with Sage Nisargadatta Maharaj, u remember? ), and Pema Chodron. The reviewer mentioned about this book of his ; ' the Miracle of Mindfulness', which, reminded me of Jon Kabat-Zinn.

So, I searched this Thich Nhat Hanh withine quotes in amazon and wiki and could not find. Then I removed quotes and the pages on this master popped up ! Here's the wiki page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Nhat_Hanh


Here's the amazon front page of all his books, all of them highly rated. Read reviews and get some gyan.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=br_ss_hs/002-5510841-6399265?platform=gurupa&url=index%3Dstripbooks%3Arelevance-above&keywords=Thich+Nhat+Hanh+&Go.x=8&Go.y=10

Here's the amazon page on the book, the reveiwer was mentionning : The Miracle of Mindfulness'.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807012394/sr=1-10/qid=1145899460/ref=sr_1_10/002-5510841-6399265?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=books

Here's another book of his , on the same subject ; " Mindfulness living and compassion in daily life " ( 5 star rating ) :

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1564557987/sr=1-4/qid=1145899460/ref=sr_1_4/002-5510841-6399265?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=books

This is another book, ' The Sun My Heart ' , which received a 5-star rating .

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0938077120/sr=1-3/qid=1145899460/ref=sr_1_3/002-5510841-6399265?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=books

Another book, with 5-star rating : Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series) (Paperback)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1570753709/sr=1-1/qid=1145899460/ref=sr_1_1/002-5510841-6399265?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=books

..............read them in leisure..... and meditate. Also read Red Pine's Diamond Sutra reviews. God knows what diamond lurks inside....

Friday, April 14, 2006

Csikszent Mihalyi - the Hungarian Psychologist

I heard about ( read ) this difficult to pronounce name in today's ' citings' of economics times. Went to amazon but could find none of books written by him. Search in Wikipedia too, proved to be elusive. So, resorted to web.

Here's an interview in ' tribune india' web site, with his protege, Dr.Reed Larson, about the problems of adolescence ( to both the teen agers and parents ) . Very enlightening interview. Here's the link.

http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99apr11/sunday/view.htm

At last, I found his amazon page, here it is ;--)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author-exact=Mihaly%20Csikszentmihalyi&rank=-relevance%2C%2Bavailability%2C-daterank/002-5510841-6399265

I found this web page of amazon, from this unusual web site, which I found,by searching in ' clusty.com'

http://www.brainchannels.com/thinker/mihaly.html

READ THEM IN LEISURE.