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Caregiving and the Art of Presence: A Zen Nun's Journey of Love and Letting Go

Caregiving and the Art of Presence: A Zen Nun's Journey of Love and Letting Go

Nghiem, Tue

Paperback

BuddhismDeath & DyingGeneral Parenting

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1967175039
ISBN13: 9781967175031
Publisher: Parallax Press
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
In this tender, candid memoir looking back over the last seven years of her mother's life, a Vietnamese American Zen teacher shares the deep challenges, unexpected gifts, and the pathways she found through the responsibilities of caregiving and the long-term aftermath of loss.

Ordaining as a Buddhist nun right after university, the young Sister Tuệ Nghiêm (Sister Insight) set out to study and practice mindfulness under the tutelage of the celebrated Zen master Thích Nhất Hạnh, a war refugee and celebrated peace activist. When the health of her beloved mother begins to decline, she is confronted with the challenge of applying Zen teachings on impermanence to real life. Through caring for Má, a widow who had taken her five small children on a rickety boat onto the open seas to seek refuge from the war in Vietnam and raised them in America singlehandedly--the author discovers insights on self-care and healing in her own mind and body.

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