In How to Listen, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh demonstrates how deep listening is a fundamental building block of good communication. But perhaps more fundamentally, listening is central to our practice, a basic ingredient to strengthen our capacity for mindfulness, concentration, insight, and compassion. Learning how to listen with equanimity to life itself, we generate insight into the true nature of our deep connection to all things. And from this place of understanding---when we know that we aren't separate---our capacity to listen deepens even further.

With clear and gentle guidance from Thich Nhat Hanh, we learn how truly listening---to ourselves, to each other, to Mother Earth, and to the many "bells of mindfulness" that are available to us in each moment---is the foundation of our practice, an expression of love, and a solution to our deepest and most urgent large-scale conflicts.

How to Listen, Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, Paperback, 116 pages, $9.95

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is a global spiritual leader, poet and peace activist, revered around the world for his pioneering teachings on mindfulness, global ethics and peace.