The Zen master explains the practice, nature, and basic attitudes of Zen meditation.

Power is one of the central issues in our lives. From work to personal relationships, the struggle for power plays a pivotal role and more often than not prevents us from attaining freedom and happiness. Peace activist and spiritual teacher Thich Nhat Hanh illustrates how our current understanding of power leads us on a never-ending search for external markers like job title or salary. This me-first approach to life may have originated in the business...

Offers brief, general outlines of each of the Four Noble Truths; examines a particular delusion of anger in chapters that more or less correspond to those Noble Truths, pointing out the many problems anger can cause; investigates why we get angry; sets forth "patient acceptance" as a method of liberating one's mind from anger; and offers specific strategies for nurturing patient acceptance.