This book is a series of essays, and takes a bit to work through. I started this while traveling through Vietnam, but didn't finish until months later. I also read "The Hidden Life of Trees" and "The Overstory" while reading this book and it was interesting how many of the essays spoke of trees and overlapped in ideas and themes with those books. Overall this was a nice book that made you feel better about humanity, and that is something I have needed. ( )

Beautiful stories from one of our greatest teachers. ( )

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Hanh-La-Terre-est-ma-Demeure/964244
> Bibliographie : http://www.librarything.fr/work/254643/details/198902861
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> DÉCOUVRIR THICH NHAT HANH AUTREMENT. — Livre de réflexions, de souvenirs, d'enseignements empreints d'une grande douceur et de compassion, à l'image de la vie et de l'engagement de ce grand maître qui a su rester humble.
Les courts chapitres qui le composent se lisent aisément, et peuvent servir de source d'inspiration au quotidien. Thich Nhat Hanh se révèle de l'enfance à sa vie actuelle, et nous permet de découvrir le novice qu'il fut, le moine qu'il est devenu à travers des rencontres, des expériences. Une lecture apaisante et joyeuse, à son image. Eu égard à son grand âge, et si ce livre doit être l'ultime ouvrage publié de son vivant, il laissera une trace optimiste, qui ne perd pas espoir, par son conseil de garder confiance lorsque les temps sont difficiles.
Thay reste Thay en somme.
A recommander à tous, pratiquants ou non. (Daniel ROBERT)
—le 20 févr. 2018, (Sur Amazon.fr) 5/5

I was disappointed with this one. The entries are so short that with few exceptions they can't do justice to the incidents that they describe or the concepts that they illustrate. There's too much "I got into this situation, I did this correct thing, life was beautiful." More fleshing out of each piece would have been a big improvement. ( )

Read this book hoping that it might be a good gift for my yoga instructor and/or fill a hole in a blog post about memoir that I'm working on. Unfortunately, it didn't fill either need for me. This book is part memoir and part mindfulness instruction. However, by trying to be both, it sort of misses the mark for either. While there are some great short gems (as always with this author), the format (chronological anecdotes) doesn't do justice to the takeaways. I prefer his other writing that is less auto-biographical. He often weaves personal stories into his writing as appropriate. The vignettes here were very short and the format made this a little disjointed. Still, there, as always, some great takeaways and insights in his writing.

I received an advanced copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley in exchange for an honest review.