Based on the loving kindness and compassion meditation of the Lotus Sutra, Touching the Earth contains one of the most popular and transformative practices of Thich Nhat Hanh.
Written as a poetic conversation with the Buddha, it is a step-by-step guidebook to the practice of "Beginning Anew." Thich Nhat Hanh describes it as having the capacity to put an end to obstacles brought about by wrongdoing in the past and to give our feeling of the joy of being alive a chance to return. According to many of his students who are deeply touched by this practice, it can help to renew our faith and develop our compassion as it presents an opportunity to heal our relationships through forgiveness and embrace our ancestors, parents, teachers and ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, poet, scholar, and human rights activist. He has been a professor at Columbia and the Sorbonne, and was founder of a Buddhist University in Saigon. In 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is author of more than one hundred books, forty in English, including the best-selling Living Buddha, Living Christ; Teachings on Love; Present Moment Wonderful Moment; Being Peace; and Anger. He lives at Plum Village, a meditation center in France, and travels worldwide, leading retreats on ""the art of mindful living.