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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
blahbloo's review against another edition
2.0
It took me a long while to figure out what was annoying to me about this book, but eventually I figured it out. It's coming at everything from a very spiritual or factual place. This IS how things are. Doing x leads to y. You are asked to believe as rite (which seems ironic given Buddha says to go and discover these things for yourself.... But if you ARE supposed to do that there's absolutely no guide on how to get there other other than just keep meditation with no guides on how to do it?).
I was hoping for a bit more of a philosophical debate, or some convincing points. The book hasn't done much to sway my views or convince me of their way of thinking. Which seems somewhat ironic given all their praise of how people who meditate and become "bodisatfas" influence all those around them positively. It's a nice sentiment. I don't even necessarily disagree with it. But I feel like this book has provided me with nothing that I did not come into it with. Perhaps that is my fault for my approach... But it is what it is.
I was hoping for a bit more of a philosophical debate, or some convincing points. The book hasn't done much to sway my views or convince me of their way of thinking. Which seems somewhat ironic given all their praise of how people who meditate and become "bodisatfas" influence all those around them positively. It's a nice sentiment. I don't even necessarily disagree with it. But I feel like this book has provided me with nothing that I did not come into it with. Perhaps that is my fault for my approach... But it is what it is.
anjcgd's review against another edition
3.0
Future Book Club #41 - Zen & the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Thanh
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kabarranco's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Not a fan of the last ending point of it being up to the young people today. Like there are plenty of people who are not actively dying who could also take steps for change. I’m left miffed that it was a young people call to action as the final message but alas. Otherwise great tools, meditations, and stories balance.
emmaemmaemmaemma's review against another edition
5.0
“The moment that you engage in the blaming game and demonizing a person, a company, or a sector, you've lost your game. The moment you start doing that, you come down into a different level, from which it's going to be very difficult to emerge, because someone is going to have to win and someone is going to have to lose.”
This is another one of those books that I now have a thousand sticky note tabs in that I’ll need to come back to and re absorb but needless to say, I am now an avid fan of Thay and everything Plum Village puts into the world. This is the type of spirituality I can get behind. The kind that sees its responsibility to take care of others and the planet, because we are all interconnected in the most beautiful of ways.
Would 10000000% recommend this one to anyone looking find relief from the burdens of climate anxiety, or in need of a renewed sense of strength for their purpose in the movement towards a more equitable world.
This is another one of those books that I now have a thousand sticky note tabs in that I’ll need to come back to and re absorb but needless to say, I am now an avid fan of Thay and everything Plum Village puts into the world. This is the type of spirituality I can get behind. The kind that sees its responsibility to take care of others and the planet, because we are all interconnected in the most beautiful of ways.
Would 10000000% recommend this one to anyone looking find relief from the burdens of climate anxiety, or in need of a renewed sense of strength for their purpose in the movement towards a more equitable world.