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    Thriving Together

    Nine Principles for Cocreating True Community

    David Viafora

    Research over the last few decades reveals that our social fabric is unraveling as rates of isolation and loneliness continue to rise, climate crises intensify, and an individualistic worldview prevails. Is there another way to live? Where can we turn for guidance and hope in the face of such challenges?

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    Fierce Vulnerability

    Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse

    Kazu Haga

    In times of collapse, we need a movement that recognizes injustice as a reflection of collective trauma and embraces its role as a catalyst for collective healing through transformative action.

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    Healing Our Way Home

    Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation

    Marisela B. Gomez MD Kaira Jewel Lingo Valerie Brown

    Real talk on living joyfully and coming home to ourselves—with reflective self-care practices to help us on our interconnected journeys of liberation

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    America’s Racial Karma

    An Invitation to Heal

    Dr. Larry Ward

    Immediate, illuminating, and hopeful: this is the key set of talks given by leading Zen Buddhist teacher Larry Ward, PhD, on breaking America’s cycle of racial trauma.

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    Mop Rides the Waves of Life

    A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing

    Jaimal Yogis

    If only life could be like surfing! Having “funny” hair and being embarrassed in school is hard, but when little surfer Mop studies the lessons of the waves—breathing, letting the…

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    Peace, Love, Action!

    Everyday Acts of Goodness from A to Z

    Tanya Zabinski

    Peace, Love, Action! is an illustrated, illuminated A-Z of everyday actions that directly make a peaceful, fun, and vibrant world. With original artworks bringing each action to life, “make friends,” “go…

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    Long Weekend

    Guidance and Inspiration for Creating Your Own Retreat

    Rachel Neumann Ericka McConnell Richelle Donigan

    With simple mindfulness activities, healthy recipes, and suggested itineraries to recharge, build community, and inspire creativity, this beautiful photo book is full of ideas that will inspire anyone seeking relaxation…

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    Inside the Flame

    The Joy of Treasuring What You Already Have

    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…

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    Ocean of Insight

    A Sailor’s Voyage from Despair to Hope

    Heather Lyn Mann

    Heather Lyn Mann was a battle-weary environmental advocate in Madison, Wisconsin, struggling over what to do about climate change when she and her husband decided to explore the Atlantic on…

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    Awakening Joy for Kids

    A Hands-on Guide for Grown-ups to Nourish Themselves and Raise Mindful, Happy Children

    James Baraz Michele Lilyanna

    2016 Nautilus Book Award – Gold Medal, Parenting & Family Spirit Rock founder, author, and teacher James Baraz’s Awakening Joy offers his large and devoted readership a program to gain…

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    Zooburbia

    Meditations on the Wild Animals Among Us

    Tai Moses

    To be alienated from animals is to live a life that is not quite whole, contends nature writer Tai Moses in Zooburbia: Meditations On The Wild Animals Among Us. Urban…

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    Mindfulness in the Garden

    Zen Tools for Digging in the Dirt

    Zachiah Murray

    Mindfulness in the Garden offers simple mindfulness verses (gathas) composed to connect the mind and body and to bring the reader/gardener’s awareness to the details of the present moment as…

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  • The Mindfulness Bell: The Monastic Path, Issue 95, 2025

    The Mindfulness Bell: The Monastic Path, Issue 95, 2025

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thích Nhất Hạnh

    This issue is included in our subscriptions and features:

    • gāthās for the practice of mindful living from Thích Nhất Hạnh
    • Sister Chân Trì Nghiêm explains how Plum Village practice centers provide much-needed refuge and hope in today’s troubled times
    • Brother Pháp Dung teaches us to cultivate our good seeds, community, and freedom
    • Sister Kính Nghiêm shares about recognizing and embracing suffering in yourself and your family
    • sharings from monastics with Wake Up, the Earth Holder Community, and the Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation
    • poetry of transformation from Sister Đẳng Nghiêm
    • and more…

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    The Mindfulness Bell: The Radiant Insight of Nonduality, Issue 94, 2024

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thích Nhất Hạnh

    The Mindfulness Bell

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. Brother Pháp Lưu says this issue “… explores the radiant nature of nonduality at a critical moment on our planet, at a…

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    The Mindfulness Bell: The Goodwill of Our Ancestors, Issue 93, 2024

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions and reflects on continuation, touching the ancestral steam, and feeling connected with the deep, rich Plum Village lineage:

    • Sister Chân Đức shares about our teacher’s lineage as a peace activist.
    • Dharma teacher Mitchell Ratner reflects on his pilgrimage tracing Thích Nhất Hạnh’s lineage in Vietnam.
    • An interview with Thích Giác Quang, a Most Venerable from Huế, Vietnam, explores the importance of the many ceremonies remembering and honoring Thầy’s passing.
    • Lay friends answer what it means that Thầy is our ancestral teacher.
    • Sharings from ARISE Sangha, Happy Farm, Wake Up Schools, the Earth Holder Community, and the Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation.
    • A guided meditation from Thích Nhất Hạnh, poetry, and more.

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    The Mindfulness Bell: Can Mother Earth Count on Us? Issue 92, 2023

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

    The Mindfulness Bell

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue we give homage to Thầy’s vision of deep ecology, as we share our experience with climate change:

    • In “A Love Letter to the Planet” Thích Nhất Hạnh shares intimate conversations with Mother Earth.
    • Brother Pháp Lưu offers a continuation of the Earth Peace Treaty: a new series of earth-touchings and an updated commitment sheet.
    • Dharma teacher Jem offers insights from his deep Earth holding practice, surviving cancer, and disrobing after eighteen years as a monk.
    • A Dharma talk by Brother Pháp Dung from the Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet online course.
    • Practitioners share about living gently on the Earth and connecting with nature.
    • Sharings from Happy Farm, Wake Up, Wake Up Schools, the Earth Holder Community, and the Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation.
    • Poetry, a recipe from the monasteries, and much more.
    We hope the visions shared in this issue will encourage each of us to engage with our world and each other mindfully and lovingly.

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    The Mindfulness Bell: Mindfulness in Public Health for Collective Awakening, Issue 91, 2023

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

    The Mindfulness Bell

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue focuses on the path of practicing with Buddhist psychology and neuroscience for individual and collective health:

    • In “Rebuilding Health” Thích Nhất Hạnh teaches us to stop running and find healing.
    • Dharma teacher Jo-ann Rosen and the EMBRACE Sangha offer insights on seeing the practice through a neuroscientific and trauma-sensitive lens.
    • “Neuroscience Infused Body-scan,” a Dharma talk by Brother Pháp Linh.
    • Practitioners share about healing trauma and mindfulness in public health research.
    • Sharings from Happy Farm, Wake Up, Wake Up Schools, the Earth Holder Community, and the Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation.
    • …and much more.

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  • Issue 86

    The Mindfulness Bell: Winter/Spring 2021, Issue 86

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

    The Mindfulness Bell

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Dharma talks “Fearlessness and Togetherness” by Thich Nhat Hanh and “Sustaining Earth” from Sister Chan Duc (Sister Annabel); sharings from monastics and practitioners on healing our suffering with our family, healing racial inequities, updates on the Wake Up movement, and more!

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  • Sale! Issue 31

    The Mindfulness Bell: Summer 2002, Issue 31

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

    The Mindfulness Bell

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This special issue celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Plum Village in France and of the Plum Village style of mindfulness practice throughout the world. This issue introduces a few of the thousands of people who have given themselves to this way of living and have been transformed in the process.

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  • Sale! Issue 90

    The Mindfulness Bell: No Birth, No Death, Only Continuation, Issue 90, 2022

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

    The Mindfulness Bell

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue features:

    • Thich Nhat Hanh on the intimate connection between suffering and happiness
    • Dr Larry Ward on caring for our traumatic experiences
    • Brother Peace on losing both his parents to depression and suicide
    • Dharma teacher Valerie Brown on inspiring hope in a world in need
    • Sister Bội Nghiêm on understanding relationships and suffering in the LGBTQIA+ community
    • Updates from ARISE Sangha, the Earth Holder Community, Happy Farm, Wake Up International, Wake Up Schools, and the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation.
    • Practitioners share about spirituality and racial equity, being on the front lines of climate action, practicing online, and much more

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    The Mindfulness Bell: January 1990, Issue 1

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

    The Mindfulness Bell

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Community As a Resource by Thich Nhat Hanh, gathas for inviting and listening to the bell, gems from the Sangha, stories of dally practice, Sangha news, Discourse on Happiness, and more.

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    The Mindfulness Bell: Spring/Summer 1990, Issue 2

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

    The Mindfulness Bell

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Dharma talk on the Five Precepts, waking up in the midst of war and violence, comfort and presence with the dying, Sister Phuong calls our attention to the ignored hungry and oppressed in Vietnam and refugee camps throughout south east Asia, practicing with the precepts, insight poems, tangerine meditation, the Discourse on Love translated by Thay.

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    The Mindfulness Bell: Autumn 1990, Issue 3

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

    The Mindfulness Bell

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thich Nhat Hanh addresses concerns of community, family, and parenting, Annabel Laity and Allan Hunt Badiner’s comments on the Six Principles of Harmony and the Five Awarenesses, daily practice, helping the hungry, Sangha news, hugging meditation, and more.

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    The Mindfulness Bell: Spring 1991, Issue 4

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

    The Mindfulness Bell

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thich Nhat Hanh on nonviolence and a peaceful heart is offered in this vein and essays on the same topic, the Spring 1991 retreats with Thay, daily practice, legacies of the Vietnam War, Sangha news, and more.

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    The Mindfulness Bell: Autumn 1991, Issue 5

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

    The Mindfulness Bell

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: A Dharma talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, the Five Precepts, essays on health and healing, the spring 1991 retreats, Sangha news, daily practice, Buddhism in Vietnam, and more.

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    The Mindfulness Bell: Spring 1992, Issue 6

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

    The Mindfulness Bell

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue features Thich Nhat Hanh’s commentaries on the Five Precepts and related essays, Sangha news, daily practice, and more.

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    The Mindfulness Bell: Summer/Fall 1992, Issue 7

    A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

    The Mindfulness Bell

    This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue offers a Buddhist approach to environmental issues: Thay’s teachings on the environment and interbeing, the 1991 environmentalists’ retreat, a rainforest journey, saving the world without burning out, daily practice, Sangha news, Thay’s proposal for a new practice–the Peace Treaty.

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  • Lyrical Dharma

    Lyrical Dharma

    Available July 29, 2025.

    Hip-Hop as Mindfulness

    Born I

    Reading like a book of poetry with accompanying commentary, Lyrical Dharma explores the lyrics and life experience of Born I, conscious hip-hop rapper and meditation teacher.

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  • Sale! Thriving Together

    Thriving Together

    Nine Principles for Cocreating True Community

    David Viafora

    Research over the last few decades reveals that our social fabric is unraveling as rates of isolation and loneliness continue to rise, climate crises intensify, and an individualistic worldview prevails. Is there another way to live? Where can we turn for guidance and hope in the face of such challenges?

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  • Peace Is This Moment Journal

    Peace Is This Moment Journal

    Available August 5, 2025.

    52 Teachings for a Balanced Life from Thich Nhat Hanh

    Thich Nhat Hanh

    Whether you are new to mindfulness or a longtime practitioner, the Peace Is This Moment Journal offers a year-long companion for mindful living—helping you discover that the deepest peace is available to you right here and now.

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  • Calm in the Storm

    Calm in the Storm

    Available August 26, 2025.

    Zen Ways to Cultivate Stability in an Anxious World

    Brother Pháp Hữu Jo Confino

    A timely Zen guide for those seeking emotional stability, self-compassion, and inner peace in an anxious and perfection-driven world

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  • How to Dream

    How to Dream

    Available August 19, 2025.
    Thich Nhat Hanh Jason DeAntonis

    In the final book of the best-selling Mindfulness Essentials series, Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh shows us how to realize our dreams in this very moment. We all want our lives…

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  • Mindfulness in the Garden

    Mindfulness in the Garden (2025)

    Available September 2, 2025.

    Zen Tools for Digging in the Dirt

    Zachiah Murray

    This 2025 edition of Mindfulness in the Garden is available as a beautiful paperback or ebook. It features a new afterword by Mick McEvoy, manager of Plum Village Happy Farm…

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    How to Listen
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    Listening with compassion can solve our most pressing issues—across global politics and interpersonal relationships and within our own hearts and minds.

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  • In Love and Trust

    In Love and Trust

    Letters from a Zen Master

    Thich Nhat Hanh

    Experience Zen master Thích Nhất Hạnh’s expressions of love, connection, and wisdom through archival photos and personal letters—now published in English for the very first time.

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  • The Sun My Heart

    The Sun My Heart
    Thich Nhat Hanh

    This sequel to The Miracle of Mindfulness offers accessible, eye-opening guidance for spiritual seekers on the path from mindfulness to true insight The Sun My Heart is one of Thích…

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  • Love in Action

    Love in Action

    Writings on Nonviolent Social Change

    Thich Nhat Hanh

    Be inspired by 21 key writings on nonviolence and reconciliation by Vietnamese peace activist and refugee advocate Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh “The essence of nonviolence is love,” Thích Nhất Hạnh says. “Out…

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  • Being Peace

    Being Peace
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    A timeless introduction to Thích Nhất Hạnh’s most important teachings, revealing the connection between peace in oneself and peace in the world.

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  • Peace Is This Moment

    Peace Is This Moment

    Mindful Reflections for Daily Practice

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  • How to Smile

    How to Smile
    Thich Nhat Hanh Jason DeAntonis

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  • Cracking the Walnut

    Cracking the Walnut

    Understanding the Dialectics of Nagarjuna

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  • Chanting from the Heart Vol 1

    Chanting from the Heart Vol 1

    Sutras and Chants for Recitation from the Plum Village Community

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    Chanting from the Heart Vol 2

    Ceremonies and Practices from the Plum Village Community

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Brother Phap Xa

Brother Phap Xa

Brother Pháp Xả (Xả means equanimity) entered the tradition of Zen master Thích Nhất Hạnh as a monk in February… Read More

Brother Pháp Lưu

Ordained in 2003, Brother Pháp Lưu (Brother Stream) received Transmission of the Lamp from Thầy to teach in 2011. He… Read More

Sister Dang Nghiem

Sister Dang Nghiem, MD (“Sister D”) was born in 1968 in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, the daughter of a… Read More

kazu haga

Kazu Haga

Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice, a core member of Building Belonging, the Ahimsa… Read More

David Viafora

David Viafora, LICSW, leads mindfulness retreats for educators, families, teens, young adults, and other groups in North America and Europe…. Read More

Sophie Dipti Sarkar

Sophie Dipti Sarkar is a Bengali, Japanese, and English American artist deeply rooted in the mindfulness practices of Zen Master… Read More

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What is Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh January 15, 2020

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