Title Page; Foreword; Introduction; Part One: -- First Love; 1 -- Roots; 2 -- The Beauty of Spring; 3 -- The Guard; 4 -- Saying Good-bye; 5 -- Separation and Strength; Part Two: -- The Buddha's Love; 6 -- What Happened Next; 7 -- Love and Mahayana Buddhism; 8 -- The Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Catch a Snake; 9 -- The Diamond Sutra; 10 -- The Lotus Sutra; 11 -- The Three Dharma Seals; 12 -- The Three Doors of Liberation; 13 -- The Avatamsaka Sutra; 14 -- The Ultimate Dimension; 15 -- The Next Buddha; 16 -- A Love Story without Beginning or End; Notes; Copyright Page
Summary
When Thich Nhat Hanh was a 24-year-old monk, he fell desperately in love with a nun of 20. He couldn't sleep, and stayed up all night writing poetry. This book taps that experience in an ambitious double narrative that interweaves his memories of that first love with how it was transmuted into boddhichitta with a thoughtful study of the Mahayana Buddhist sutras. Through this unusual approach, Nhat Hanh shows readers how to nurture their own "mind of love" and bring joy and hope to themselves and those around them
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-124)
