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Love's Garden: A Guide to Mindful Relationships
A collection of real-life Buddhist love stories, with commentary and guided exercises for couples—with a fresh new cover!
Love's Garden illustrates how Buddhist principles can help couples navigate any stage of their relationship. Authors Peggy Rowe-Ward and Larry Ward—senior students and ordained Dharma teachers in the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh—developed exercises for couples and share them here alongside personal stories from couples of a range of different ages and experiences.
It took the authors some good living and good loving before they realized that the love that they were seeking was already present and available in the depths of their hearts and mind. Love does not depend on anything that is happening "Out There" and is not dependent on anything "he" or "she" might do. It depends on our own willingness to look within and to act. This insight is a result of practicing the teachings of the Buddha on right diligence and right effort. The authors have been studying and practicing with Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and they are happy to report that the practices work.
"The practice is not difficult. We simply need to get in touch with and nourish the practices that are helping us to experience peace. And then we need to stop doing the things that keep us from experiencing peace." —Dr. Larry Ward
Foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh
Love's Garden illustrates how Buddhist principles can help couples navigate any stage of their relationship. Authors Peggy Rowe-Ward and Larry Ward—senior students and ordained Dharma teachers in the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh—developed exercises for couples and share them here alongside personal stories from couples of a range of different ages and experiences.
It took the authors some good living and good loving before they realized that the love that they were seeking was already present and available in the depths of their hearts and mind. Love does not depend on anything that is happening "Out There" and is not dependent on anything "he" or "she" might do. It depends on our own willingness to look within and to act. This insight is a result of practicing the teachings of the Buddha on right diligence and right effort. The authors have been studying and practicing with Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and they are happy to report that the practices work.
"The practice is not difficult. We simply need to get in touch with and nourish the practices that are helping us to experience peace. And then we need to stop doing the things that keep us from experiencing peace." —Dr. Larry Ward
Foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh
- GenresBuddhismRelationships
205 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 28, 2007
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June 4, 2024
A book about finding inner peace and our essential roll of creating a peaceful world through the examples and lives of others.
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May 22, 2014
Great ideas and exercises, as well as shared stories. Need to go back and take the time to sit with some of the exercises. For now, the walking meditation versions are looking like my best bet.
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