The Mindfulness Survival Kit offers a practical guide to incorporating mindfulness into one's daily life, using the Five Mindfulness Trainings as a framework. Thich Nhat Hanh provides insightful and compassionate explanations of each precept, offering a path to living with greater awareness and compassion. This book is recommended for anyone looking to deepen their mindfulness practice, or seeking guidance on cultivating mindfulness in their daily lives.

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The Five Mindfulness Trainings (also referred to as “Precepts”)—not to kill, steal, commit adultery, lie, or take intoxicants—are the basic statement of ethics and morality in Buddhism. Zen Master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh argues eloquently for their applicability in our daily lives and on a global scale. Nhat Hanh discusses the value and meaning of each precept, offering insights into the role that it could play in our changing society.Thich Nhat Hanh calls the trainings a “diet for a mindful society”. With this book, he offers a Buddhist contribution to the current thinking on how we can come together to define secular, moral guidelines that will allow us to explore and sustain a sane, compassionate, and healthy way of living. The Five Mindfulness Trainings offer a path to restoring meaning and value in our world, whether called virtues, ethics, moral conduct, or precepts they are guidelines for living without bringing harm to others.

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