Product Details
Author: Minh Niem
Publishing company: First News - Tri Viet
Release date: 2026
Number of pages: 480
Size: 13 x 20.5 cm
Publisher: Ho Chi Minh City General Publishing House
Cover price: 158,000 VND
Cover type: Cover soft
Product description:
UNDERSTANDING THE HEART – A BOOK THAT OPENS EVERYONE'S EMOTIONAL WORLD
Understanding the Heart Tim is a special book written by Zen master Minh Niem. With a style and writing style close to Vietnamese people's activities, teacher Minh Niem has truly breathed Vietnamese soul into this small book.
First published in 2011, Understanding the Heart was released at the same time with a record: the book with the largest number of first printings: 100,000. version. The Vietnam Record Book Center recognized that feat, but up to now, the number of releases of Understanding the Heart has shown no signs of slowing down.
Is the first work of monk Minh Niem, founder of the Understanding Meditation line, combining Mahayana Buddhist thought and Vipassana Theravada Zen, but Understanding the Heart It is not a work that preaches Buddhism. The book is very "lifelike" with the concerns of a practitioner looking at the world. There, there is happiness, there is suffering, there is love, there is loneliness, there is despair, there is laziness, there is weakness, there is letting go... But, all of those joys, angers and sorrows are put on a new shirt, a pure and transparent shirt, making the reader see everything as lighter when they look at it...
In In the busy flow of life, have we ever stopped and asked ourselves: Why are we angry? Why are we sad? Why are we happy? Why are we lonely?... All these psychological phenomena are constantly changing in us and impacting our lives, but we know very little about their origin and operation. Just one anger, or one thought of doubt, can wipe out the peaceful energy within us and cause us to see everything in the wrong way. From failure to failure we cannot explain, we can only use our will to remind ourselves to try to improve. Therefore, understanding the heart is the most basic need of humans.
Understanding the heart is the attitude of returning to receive and renew your soul. Because we understand ourselves, we will easily understand others, so we can truly love each other.
Throughout the book, the author has introduced 50 concepts in life, 50 psychotherapy articles, presented very straightforwardly, easy to understand, realistic, inherently very ordinary, but if we reflect a little we will see how profound they are, such as Suffering, Happiness, Love, Anger, Jealousy, Selfishness, Ambition, Honesty, Doubt, Worry, Hesitancy, Letting go, Relaxation, Peace, Loneliness, Loving speech, Listening... Just like the title of the book, the book will help us understand the heart, understand the moods and personalities deep in our hearts.
When the late Professor, Tien was born, Doctor Tran Van Khue, had the opportunity to approach Understanding the Heart. He commented that, as the first book on the topic Seeds of the Soul written by a Vietnamese author, the book will help readers understand the emotions of their own souls and hearts and those of others. To, ultimately, eliminate sadness, hurt and find happiness in life. Perhaps, because of this, over the past 10 years, Understanding the Heart is still a book that is constantly being republished and shows no signs of "cooling down", for many years it has continuously been in the top best-selling books in Vietnam.
More preciously, all profits earned from the release of this book will be transferred to the charity fund of the same name "Understanding the Heart" to help children in difficult and unfortunate circumstances in Vietnam. And this is also the happiness and greatest sense of compassion that the book has brought, especially when all of this journey is also accompanied and contributed by hundreds of thousands of readers across Vietnam.