After days of heavy rain in the region, gorges had overflowed so quickly that it was impossible to escape the floods, leaving more than 4,000 people dead and thousands of homes washed away.
Under these harsh conditions, Nhat Hanh, who had previously contracted malaria and dysentery, suffered a recurrence of both diseases. The team was without mosquito netting or potable water, and, despite the icy winds, they slept and took their meals of plain rice in their boats. In the tradition of The Art of Happiness and Living Buddha, Living Christ, Thich Nhat Hanh’s Peace Is Every Breath opens a pathway to greater spiritual fulfillment through its patient examination of how we live our lives.In seven boats filled to the brim with food, Thich Nhat Hanh and a small team of volunteers rowed up the Thu Bon River, going high into the mountains, where soldiers were shooting at each other and the air reeked of dead bodies. In this deeply insightful meditation, the world-renowned Vietnamese Zen Buddhist master, poet, scholar, and peace activist illuminates how each of us can incorporate the practice of mindfulness into our every waking moment. In this much-anticipated follow-up to his bestselling classic, Peace Is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hanh-one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today-offers an insightful guide to living a fuller life. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity.” -Martin Luther King, Jr., nominating Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. “Among Buddhist leaders influential in the West, Thich Nhat Hanh ranks second only to the Dalai Lama.” -New York Times
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