No Mud, No Lotus Paperback – 7 December 2014

The book teaches how to manage each one's suffering. The guidelines provided in the book helps us to understand and manage their personal's sufferings.

Thank you for another wonderful book, Thay! You have been an exceptional teacher and world is blessed to study your teachings. You’re still continuing with us :)

Honestly, Telling my choice of book which I prefer to read about life philosophy is quite different from this book.My expectation from this book was more than only reading. Undoubtedly, Well written book. But the ideas inside the book is all felt me nothing interesting. There are numbers of affirmations that is mentioned to help you to overcome from despair, and also few yoga methods that is helpful for praticener which helpful in physical exercises. Nothing more than that.

Reading this book is a conscious and important step towards mindfulness.However,reading alone won't help, practicing mindfulness is also required. How we can be able to carry out day to day activities for livelihood along with this practice is a question.

This book has beautiful lessons and offers simple ways to practice meditation.

The book is well written.We are aware of the concept of mindfulness and meditation.This book tell us how to do it and that is where the beauty lies.It will certainly help many of us to achieve peace and happiness.

This book talks of suffering/ bad situation / sad experience and happiness/joy/ peace as necessary to our lives. They are two different faces of the same coin. Without suffering or pain we do not appreciate or recognise what is peace or joy: if we are constantly in peace or joy, we would not have been able to distinguish it from pain or sadness or suffering; hence suffering is a sort of necessity . A flower cannot grow in a marble but requires murky soil (here flower, marble and murky soil are allegorical).It recommends embracing and acknowledging that there is pain or suffering in us and transform it into a joyful one just as a lotus emerge from a murky soil.There are ways described to tackle pain or sufferings in the positive light.

Great techniques mentioned to transform oneself. Main motto is to concentrate on yourself initially then you will be capable to help others, always cherish the present moments.