Book Club: Living Buddha Living Christ

Explore the similarities and differences between Christian and Buddhist beliefs in our next book club selection: "Living Buddha, Living Christ" by Thich Nhat Hanh. This week, we'll focus on the first two chapters: Be Still and Know, & Mindfulness and the Holy Spirit Here's a link to purchase it online: http://www.amazon.com/Living-Buddha-Christ-Thich-Nhat/dp/1573220183/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product Here's the formal description: "When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa." - Thich Nhat Hanh Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people of the course of two millennia. If they were to meet on the road today, what would each think of the other's spiritual views and practices? Thich Nhat Hanh has been part of a decades-long dialogue between the two greatest living contemplative traditions, and brings to Christianity an appreciation of its beauty that would be conveyed only by an outsider. In a lucid, meditative prose, he explores the crossroads of compassion and holiness at which the two traditions meet, and reawakens our understanding of both. "On the altar in my hermitage," he says, "are images of Buddha and Jesus, and I touch both of them as my spiritual ancestors"