This profound look at Buddhist psychology offers important insights into how Buddhism's ancient teachings apply to the modern world. Basing his work on the writings of the great fifth-century Buddhist master Vasubandhu and the teachings of the Avatamsaka Sutra, Thich Nhat Hanh focuses on the direct experience of recognizing the true nature of consciousness. Presenting the basic teachings of Buddhist applied psychology, he shows how the mind is like a field, where every kind of seed is planted -- seeds of suffering, anger, happiness, and peace. The quality of life, he writes, depends on the quality of the seeds. By learning how to water seeds of joy and transform seeds of suffering, understanding, love, and compassion can flower.

Understanding Our Mind , Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, Paperback, 2006, 250 Pages, $16.95

Thich Nhat Hanh has survived three wars, persecution, and more than thirty years of exile. A Buddhist monk, he is the master of a temple in Vietnam, the lineage of which is traceable across two centuries to the Buddha himself. Hanh has written more than 100 books of poetry, fiction and philosophy, wit over a million copies in print. He live in France and Vermont, He is the author of Living Buddha, Living Christ and Anger.

	Contents: Understanding our Mind
	Introduction by Reb Anderson	9
	Welcome	11
	Fifty Verses on the Nature of Consciousness	13
	Commentaries
	Part I. Store Consciousness	23
1.	The Mind is A Field	25
2.	Every Kind of Seed	26
3.	Nothing is Lost	31
4.	Transmission	34
5.	Individual and Collective Seeds	39
6.	The Quality of Seeds	45
7.	Habit Energies	49
8.	Fields of Perception	53
9.	Ripening and Emancipation	58
10.	The Five Universals	69
11.	The Three Dharma Seals	72
12.	Seeds and Formations	78
13.	Indra's Net	81
14.	True and Not True	84
15.	Great Mirror Wisdom	87
	Part II. Manas	91
16.	Seeds of Delusion	93
17.	Mentation	96
18.	The Mark of a Self	100
19.	Discrimination	105
20.	Companions of Mans	109
21.	Shadow Follows Form	113
22.	Release	115
	III. Mind Consciousness	121
23.	Sphere of Cognition	123
24.	Perception	125
25.	The Gardener	135
26.	Non-Perception	138
27.	States of Mind	141
	Part IV. Sense Consciousness	145
28.	Waves upon the Water	147
29.	Direct Perception	150
30.	Mental Formations	154
	Part V. The Nature of Reality	157
31.	Subject and Object	159
32.	Perceiver, Perceived, and Wholeness	166
33.	Birth and Death	170
34.	Continous Manifestations	173
35.	Consciousness	179
36.	No Coming, No Going	183
37.	Causes	186
38.	Conditions	188
39.	True Mind	190
40.	The Realm of Suchness	195
	Part VI. The Path of Practice	197
41.	The Way to Practice	199
42.	Flower and Garbage	207
43.	Interbeing	210
44.	Right View	213
45.	Mindfulness	217
46.	Transforamtion at the Base	222
47.	The Present Moment	229
48.	Sangha	236
49.	Nothing to Attain	241
50.	No Fear	245
	Afterword
	The Sources of the Fifty Verses	247