How to See

Return to Previous Page
New

ISBN:9781946764331
Trade Pbk, 128 pages
Trim size: 4″ x 6″

How to See

Thich Nhat Hanh

Illustrated by Jason DeAntonis

$9.95

Learn to look deeply at the nature of things, objects, emotions, and perceptions.

In stock

Add to Wishlist
SKU: 9781946764331 Categories: , , , , , Tags: , , , , , , , ,
How we develop misperceptions, how we can gain insight, and how mindfulness practices can help us see ourselves, each other, and the world around us more clearly are just a few of the topics touched upon in this latest addition to the Mindfulness Essentials Series. In brief meditations accompanied by whimsical sumi-ink drawings, Thich Nhat Hanh helps us focus on perceptions and challenging situations. How to See is pocket-sized with two color original artwork by California artist Jason DeAntonis.
Also available at Buy on AmazonBuy on Barnes & NobleBuy on Indiebound
Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh

Born in Hue, Vietnam, Thich Nhat Hanh is a Buddhist monk, poet, scholar, and human rights activist. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is author of more than one hundred books, and is one of the best known Buddhist teachers in the world today. Previous best-selling books include Being Peace and Buddha Mind Buddha Body. He lives at Plum Village, his meditation center in France, and travels worldwide, leading retreats on the art of mindful living.

Related products
Become a Friend of Parallax
$49.00
Old Path White Clouds Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
Old Path White Clouds
Thich Nhat Hanh
Old Path White Clouds presents the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha. Drawn directly from 24 Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese sources, and retold by Thich Nhat Hanh in his inimitably beautiful style, this book traces the Buddha’s life slowly and gently over the course of 80 years, partly through the eyes of Svasti, the buffalo...
$32.95
Call Me by My True Names Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
Call Me by My True Names
Thich Nhat Hanh
“The clear, still mind of this meditation teacher gives rise to piercing images time and time again. Nhat Hanh seems an inherently skilled poet.It is these poetic works,more than his essays or lectures, that show Thich Nhat Hanh clearly to be a Zen mystic”. San Francisco Chronicle, “Thich Nhat Hanh’s poems have an almost uncanny...
$24.95
Being Peace Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
Being Peace
Thich Nhat Hanh
A bestseller with over 250,000 copies sold, Being Peace is the seminal founding work by Zen Master and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh. With a new introduction by Jack Kornfield and the first update since its release over fifteen years ago, this eloquent meditation on “being peace in order to make peace” is...
$14.95
The Energy of Prayer Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
The Energy of Prayer
Thich Nhat Hanh
In The Energy of Prayer Thich Nhat Hanh looks at the applications and effectiveness of prayer in Buddhist and other spiritual traditions and closely examines the question of why we pray. The Energy of Prayer introduces the reader to several meditation methods that re-envision prayer as an open, inclusive, and accessible practice that helps create...
$12.95
Touching Peace Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
Touching Peace
Thich Nhat Hanh
In Touching Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh expands the teachings on practicing the art of mindful living begun in the best selling Being Peace by giving specific, practical instructions on extending our meditation practice into our daily lives. The book reminds us to focus on what is refreshing and healing within and all around us, and...
$19.95
The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Diamond Sutra, a mainstay of the Mahayana tradition, has fascinated Buddhists for centuries because of its insights into dualism and illusion: the “diamond” can cut through any obstacle on the road to enlightenment. In the Diamond Sutra, the Buddha responds to a disciple’s question about how to become a Buddha. The Diamond that Cuts...
$21.95
Reconciliation Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
Reconciliation
Thich Nhat Hanh
Based on Dharma talks by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and insights from participants in retreats for healing the inner child, this book is an exciting contribution to the growing trend of using Buddhist practices to encourage mental health and wellness. Reconciliation focuses on the theme of mindful awareness of our emotions and healing our...
$15.95
Breathe: A Thich Nhat Hanh Journal Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
Breathe
Thich Nhat Hanh
A lovingly and artistically designed journal, Breathe features excerpts from Thich Nhat Hanh’s best-loved breathing meditations, prayers, and poems. They are intended to inspire the user’s own personal reflections, sketches, or jotting down of favorite quotes or poems. Includes material on breathing and writing, and on the value of mixing writing and mindfulness. Comes with crush-proof...
$16.95
Making Space Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
Making Space
Thich Nhat Hanh
Find peace and calm amid the busyness of your life with this new book by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Designed to be both inspiration and guidebook for those new to mindfulness practice, Making Space offers easy-to-follow instructions for setting up a breathing room, listening to a bell, sitting, breathing, and walking meditations, and cooking...
$9.95
Awakening of the Heart Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
Awakening of the Heart
Thich Nhat Hanh
Awakening of the Heart is a comprehensive, single volume collection of the Buddha’s key sutras, translated with contemporary commentary by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. It is an essential complement to Happiness, the bestselling collection of meditation and mindful practices released in 2009. Awakening of the Heart captures the heart of Buddhist wisdom and Thich...
$39.95
Work Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
Work
Thich Nhat Hanh
In Thich Nhat Hanh’s latest teachings on applied Buddhism for both the work place and daily life, chapters include dealing with workplace scenarios; dealing with home and family; encounters with strangers and with daily life; transportation; and creating communities wherever you are. This book is designed for adults who are new to meditation as well...
$12.95
Awakening Joy Cover - James Baraz
Awakening Joy
James Baraz , Shoshana Alexander
Awakening Joy is more than just another book about happiness. More than simply offering suggested strategies to change our behavior, it uses time-tested practices to train the mind to learn new ways of thinking. The principles of the course are universal, although much of the material includes Buddhist philosophy drawn from the author’s thirty years...
$18.95
Deep Relaxation Cover - Chan Khong
Deep Relaxation
Sister Chan Khong
For nearly 30 years Sister Chan Khong’s Deep Relaxation practice has been a highlight for thousands of people who have attended Order of Interbeing Buddhist retreats. With Deep Relaxation the reader/listener will learn to meditate and relax body and mind at the deepest level, leading to a measurable reduction of stress levels. Sister Chan Khong...
$14.95
Ten Breaths to Happiness Cover - Glen Schneider
Ten Breaths to Happiness
Glen Schneider
Zen teacher Glen Schneider has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate happiness and fulfillment in the course of our daily lives. Happiness is far more than a positive feeling that comes and goes, happiness is wired into the physiology of our brains. It is a skill we can all develop through...
$12.95
Moments of Mindfulness Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
Moments of Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh
This beautifully designed gift book contains many of the best-loved inspirational quotations and passages from Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. Basic meditation instructions and messages of peace, love, insight, understanding, and compassion accompany two-color illustrations throughout, with blank pages for personal reflections and inspiration. Moments of Mindfulness is a perfect journal for spiritual exploration. Moments...
$16.95
How to Sit Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
How to Sit
Thich Nhat Hanh
To sit is to restore ourselves, to become fully present and fully alive in the here and now.—Thich Nhat Hanh How to Sit provides simple directions on the mechanics of posture and breathing, along with instructions for how best to achieve the awakened, relaxed, state of clarity to cultivate concentration and compassion through meditation. Thich Nhat...
$9.95
Is Nothing Something? Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
Is Nothing Something?
Thich Nhat Hanh
In Is Nothing Something? Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh answers heartfelt, difficult, and funny questions from children of all ages. Illustrated with original full-color artwork by Jessica McClure, Is Nothing Something? will help adults plant the seeds of mindfulness in the young children in their lives. Beginning with the most basic questions, “What is important...
$16.95
How to Eat Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
How to Eat
Thich Nhat Hanh
How to Eat clearly and succinctly explains how you can incorporate eating as a form of meditation. The book provides practical advice on how to become truly nourished through the mindful preparation, serving, eating, and cleaning up of food. Eating a meal in mindfulness reveals that you are nourished by the whole universe. This awareness helps...
$9.95
No Mud
No Mud, No Lotus
Thich Nhat Hanh
The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. In No Mud, No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh offers practices and inspiration transforming suffering and finding true joy. Thich Nhat Hanh acknowledges that because suffering can feel so bad, we try to run away from it or cover it...
$14.95
How to Walk Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
How to Walk
Thich Nhat Hanh
How to Walk is the fourth title in Parallax’s popular Mindfulness Essentials Series of how-to titles by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, introducing beginners and reminding seasoned practitioners of the essentials of mindfulness practice. Slow, concentrated walking while focusing on in- and out-breaths allows for a unique opportunity to be in the present. There is...
$9.95
Nothing To It Cover - Phap Hai
Nothing To It
Brother Phap Hai
In Nothing To It, Brother Phap Hai brings his characteristic warmth and humor to explore the many different gates to transformation offered by Buddhism. A gate is a teaching, practice, or way of looking at things. Each gate is an invitation to consider a new frame of reference through which we can consider our situation,...
$16.95
Charlotte and the Quiet Place Cover - Deborah Sosin
Charlotte and the Quiet Place
Deborah Sosin
2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award – Gold Winner 2016 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) – Silver Medal Winner 2015 National Parenting Publications (NPPA) – Bronze Award Winner Charlotte likes quiet. But wherever Charlotte goes, she is surrounded by noise, noise, noise—her yipping dog, Otto; the squeaky, creaky swings; the warbling, wailing sirens. Even...
$16.95
How to Relax Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
How to Relax
Thich Nhat Hanh
In How to Relax, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh shares inspiration and clear, simple directions for exploring mindfulness meditation. With sections on healing, relief from nonstop thinking, transforming unpleasant sounds, solitude, being at peace, and more, How to Relax includes meditations to help you achieve the benefits of relaxation no matter where you are. Pocket–sized with...
$9.95
Clouds in a Teacup Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
Clouds in a Teacup
Thich Nhat Hanh
As soon as you open the cover of Clouds in a Teacup, you step into a contemplative journey of your own creation. Oakland, California artist and activist Brett Cook invites you to shed your stress and worries to consider the wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh during the relaxing process of coloring. His evocative black and...
$14.95
The Other Shore
The Other Shore
Thich Nhat Hanh
This new translation of the Buddha’s most important, most studied teaching offers a radical new interpretation. In September, 2014 Thich Nhat Hanh completed a profound and beautiful new English translation of the Prajñaparamita Heart Sutra, one of the most important and well-known sutras in Buddhism. The Heart Sutra is recited daily in Mahayana temples and...
$14.95
Sacred Places Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
Sacred Places
Thich Nhat Hanh
In this second book in our Mindful Journey Coloring Book series, Thich Nhat Hanh’s wisdom is paired with black-and-white renderings of magical places and simple interiors created by multi- faceted Berkeley, California artist Jason DeAntonis, the bestselling illustrator of the Mindfulness Essentials series. Each image offers a contemplative setting that you can make your own;...
$14.95
Inside the Flame
Christina Waters
Inside the Flame invites readers to unplug their computers, cell phones, and televisions and plunge back into overlooked nooks and crannies of everyday experience. We’ve lost touch with the richness of the tangible and with it our reverence for the physical world. Our ability to focus on the here and now is in crisis. By...
$16.95
Drawing Your Own Path - John F. Simon Jr.
Drawing Your Own Path
John Simon
Drawing Your Own Path is an account of how multi–media artist John Simon’s daily drawing discipline became a meditation practice, and how that meditation illuminated his creative source. A practical guidebook full of the Simon’s own art, Drawing Your Own Path offers meditators an alternative path to ‘just sitting’ and offers artists a way to mindfully examine...
$24.95
Fear
Fear, Illustrated
Julie M. Elman
Fear, Illustrated is a visually stunning, light-hearted, and compelling visual exploration of the fears people confront in their daily lives. For many years artist Julie Elman has collected common and not-so-common fears people have shared with her. Elman transforms the fears from words into multi-media collages full of color and intensity. The fears include death, failure,...
$24.95
Happy Teachers Change the World
Thich Nhat Hanh , Katherine Weare
Happy Teachers Change the World is the first official, authoritative guide to the Thich Nhat Hanh/Plum Village approach to mindfulness in education. Spanning the whole range of schools and grade levels, from preschool through higher education, the teachings, guidance, practices, and techniques are grounded in the everyday world of schools, colleges, and universities. Beginning firmly with teachers...
$18.95
At Home in the World
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Followers and newcomers to Nhat Hanh’s teaching alike will find this collection inspiring for everyday practice and for social engagement in the world.” — Publisher’s Weekly This collection of autobiographical and teaching stories from peace activist and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is thought provoking, inspiring, and enjoyable to read. Collected here for the first time,...
$24.95
Mini Bell of Mindfullness
These elegant brass bells invite us to spend a moment in mindfulness. Imported from Japan, they are available in two sizes and come with a cushion and an inviter. Small bell: 2.7” diameter
$40.00
HOW TO LIVE (BOXED SET)
Thich Nhat Hanh
The five bestselling handbooks of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Mindfulness Essentials Series, How to Sit, How to Eat, How to Walk, How to Love, and How to Relax, are collected together for the first time in a beautifully designed gift box. The box contains all five titles in their original trade paperback editions, each printed with...
$49.75
Work That Matters cover
Work That Matters
Maia Duerr
Create a career that expresses your life's core intention as you use mindfulness-based guide to clarify your true calling, create a vision for meaningful vocation, and enact practical steps to make that vision a vivid reality.
$18.95
Awake at 3:00 a.m. Yoga Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Pregnancy and Early Motherhood
Awake at 3 a.m.
Suzannah Neufeld, MFT C-IAYT
Pregnancy and new motherhood are often thought of as the most joyful, exciting, and blissful times in your life—but they can also be difficult and overwhelming. Yoga therapy offers practical mind-body tools (simple breath, movement, and mindfulness practices) to support you and provide solace, steadiness, and ease in difficult times. Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders...
$18.95
The Mindfulness Survival Kit Cover - Thich Nhat Hanh
The Mindfulness Survival Kit
Thich Nhat Hanh
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...
$12.95
Mindful Arts in the Classroom
Andrew Jordan Nance
Written especially for the teacher or camp director who wants to bring mindfulness, social and emotional learning (SEL), and the arts into their busy day through storytelling and fun games, this book offers a complete course that helps kids identify and talk about their feelings, self-regulate and self-soothe when stressed, and learn from easy mindfulness...
$19.95
Biography of Silence
Pablo d'Ors
A publishing phenomenon in Spain—a moving, lyrical, far-ranging meditation on the deep joys of confronting oneself through silence by a Spanish priest and Zen disciple. 
$14.95
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buddha!
Bodhipaksa
Quotes from the Buddha are everywhere: on Facebook, Instagram, coffee mugs, posters. There’s only one problem: the Buddha didn’t actually say most of them. This humorous and informative book takes these fake Buddha quotes as a launching point for a discussion on what the Buddha really did say, and is a great entry point for...
$11.95
Interbeing
Thich Nhat Hanh
Formulated during the Vietnam War, these ethical guidelines remain a penetrating expression of traditional Buddhist morality and how to come to terms with contemporary issues. Interbeing offers a practical blueprint for living mindfully, one that has proven useful and meaningful to people from all walks of life. The book also includes a brief history, ceremonies, and...
$14.95
New
True Virtue
Sister Annabel Laity
The First Western Monastic Disciple of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh  
$18.95
New
Thich Nhat Hanh mini calendar 2020
Thich Nhat Hanh
Zen symbols and the gentle reflections of nature are united in Nicholas Kirsten-Honshin’s meditative artwork. The Thich Nhat Hanh mini calendar combines Honshin’s graceful paintings, infused with transcendental and archetypal symbols, with the wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh, renowned Zen master and peace activist. His gentle wisdom will inspire and guide you on your own...
$7.99
New
At Home in the World (paperback edition)
Thich Nhat Hanh
The definitive entry point into Thich Nhat Hanh's life and message: the global peace icon shares personal stories, told with his signature simplicity and humor, that reveal his most essential teachings.
$14.95
New
The Lion in Me
Andrew Jordan Nance
“When I feel anger start to roar, I take a deep breath and count to four…” In the latest picture book from educator Andrew Nance, author of the bestselling Puppy Mind, a young boy learns to calm his ferocious anger. Using deep breaths, the lion inside–his growling anger–can be tamed. With illustrations by Jim Durk,...
$16.95
New
True Peace Work
Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh and many others are featured in this foundational trove of Buddhist essays, poems, and teachings. Now a modern classic, True Peace Work is the premier collection of writings on the practice of Engaged Buddhism, a term that Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh coined in the 1950s as part of his peace work...
$19.95
New
The Friend of the Desert
Pablo d'Ors
$13.95
New
Healing Resistance
Kazu Haga
$17.95
New
Interbeing
Thich Nhat Hanh
$16.95
Mindful Living Every Day (DVD)
Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness is the practice of cultivating full awareness of the present moment. Mindful Living Every Day, filmed on location in Plum Village, France, gives an overview of the concrete practices that help bring awareness to our breath, body, and mind in each moment. Members of the monastic and lay community of Zen Master Thich Nhat...
$18.95

Community

FAQs

Catalog

Donate

Quick Links

Resources

My Account

Contact Us

P.O. Box 7355 Berkeley, CA 94707
orders [at] parallax.org

© 2016 Parallax Press  |  Site by Elephant