Pre-Orders and New Releases
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Thriving Together
Available February 25, 2025.Nine Principles for Cocreating True Community
View this bookResearch over the last few decades, both in the US and abroad, shows us that the fabric of community life is unraveling as our social resources deteriorate, an individualist worldview prevails, and rates of loneliness and isolation continue to rise. Is there another way to live? Where can we look for guidance?
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Fierce Vulnerability
Available March 25, 2025.Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse
View this bookIn 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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Hiking Zen
Available May 27, 2025.Train Your Mind in Nature
View this bookDiscover the joy of mindful walking and hiking, cultivate deep connection with the world around you, and ultimately embrace the path of happiness as a way of life
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Lyrical Dharma
Available July 29, 2025.Hip-Hop as Mindfulness
View this bookReading 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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Soil, Soul, Society
A New Trinity for Our Time
View this bookDiscover Satish Kumar’s Vision for Sustainable Living and Global Unity
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Short Journey Home
Awakening to Freedom with Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookRichard Brady offers a deeply personal account of his mindfulness practice journey, inspired by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, providing unique insights and practical wisdom for lay practitioners.
Take Action: Engaged Buddhism
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True Peace Work
Essential Writings on Engaged Buddhism
View this bookThich 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…
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Unbroken Wholeness: Integrating Social Justice, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Practice
Six Pathways to the Beloved Community
View this bookDistilling a lifetime’s insights on the triangle of healing emotional pain, social justice work, and spiritual growth, veteran activist and educator John Bell shares personal stories and reflective practices to…
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Healing Resistance
A Radically Different Response to Harm
View this bookActivists and social change agents, restorative justice practitioners, faith leaders, and anybody engaged in social progress and shifting society will find this mindful approach to nonviolent action indispensable. Nonviolence was…
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Good Citizens
Creating Enlightened Society
View this bookIn Good Citizens, Thich Nhat Hanh lays out the foundation for an international solidarity movement based on a shared sense of compassion, mindful consumption, and right action. Following these principles,…
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America’s Racial Karma
An Invitation to Heal
View this bookImmediate, 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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The World We Have
A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology
View this bookIn The World We Have noted Buddhist teacher Thích Nhất Hạnh offers a dramatic vision of the future of a planet overheated by rapidly disappearing fossil fuels, degraded by massive…
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A Culture of Happiness
How to Scale Up Happiness from People to Organizations
View this bookPractical principles for creating conditions for happiness at scale from the former program director of the Gross National Happiness Center of Bhutan, the only country in the world to measure…
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Love Letter to the Earth
View this bookWhile many experts point to the enormous complexity in addressing issues ranging from the destruction of ecosystems to the loss of millions of species, Thich Nhat Hanh identifies one key…
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We Were Made for These Times
Ten Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption
View this bookWe all go through times when it feels like the ground is being pulled out from under us. What we relied on as steady and solid may change or even…
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How to Fight
View this bookLearn how to relax the bonds of anger, attachment, and delusion through mindfulness and kindness toward ourselves and others.
Dealing with Difficulty
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Being with Busyness
Zen Ways to Transform Overwhelm and Burnout
View this bookRediscover Balance and Joy Through Mindfulness and Compassion Practices
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The River in Me
Verses of Transformation
View this bookEmbark on a journey of refuge and wisdom with Sister Dang Nghiem, a disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh, through her poignant poetry collection. Delve deep into overcoming life’s adversities with Zen-inspired insight.
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Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World
Zen and the Art of Running Free
View this bookA Zen study wrapped in a memoir of destruction and healing written by an elite ultrarunner as she struggles to make it to the other side of a life-shattering injury…
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Healing Our Way Home
Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation
View this book“This powerful trinity of Black authors invites us into the living room of their hearts, affirming who we are with earthy straight talk, textured diversity, and wise tenderness.”—Ruth King Real…
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Unshakeable
Trauma-Informed Mindfulness for Collective Awakening
View this bookUnshakeable offers a holistic system for gaining and maintaining the stability of mind needed for personal and social transformation, even in the midst of trauma—with simple, body-based exercises.
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How to Live When a Loved One Dies
Healing Meditations for Grief and Loss
View this bookHow to Live When a Loved One Dies offers relief to anyone moving though intense grief and loss. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh shares accessible, comforting words of wisdom on…
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This Difficult Thing of Being Human
The Art of Self-Compassion
View this bookWe all long for someone to offer us unconditional love and support. But what if that person is us? The practice of mindful self-compassion creates the space we need so…
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No Mud, No Lotus
The Art of Transforming Suffering
View this bookThe 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…
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The Nest in the Stream
Lessons from Nature on Being with Pain
View this bookA concise and inspirational book for anyone dealing with pain by a long time palliative care doctor who is greatly inspired by Native American wisdom and the natural world. This…
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Beginning Anew
Four Steps to Restoring Communication
View this bookIn Beginning Anew, Sister Chân Không shares a concrete, four-part process that can help anyone clear up misunderstandings, communicate more honestly and openly with the people around them, and heal…
Children’s Library
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Mixed Rice
A Multicultural Tale of Food, Feelings, and Finding Home Together
View this bookDiscover Harmony and Flavorful Lessons in a Story About Celebrating Cultural Diversity
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Where Is the Buddha?
View this bookA new story for children from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh: a young boy named Minh goes on a journey to find the Buddha, only to discover the Buddha is in each one of us.
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The Adventures of Drip and Drop
View this bookBeloved children’s book authors Jaimal Yogis and Matthew Allen are back with a new children’s book about how mindfulness begins with a leap of faith to feel alive again The…
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Where Did Poppy Go?
A Story about Loss, Grief, and Renewal
View this bookAfter a grandfather dies, a father and son journey forward through seasons and time, discovering how our loved ones remain with us even after they pass on.
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We Are All Flowers
A Story of Appreciating Others
View this bookA rhyming, charming exploration of “flower-watering”—the art of appreciating others—for kids. We are all flowers! We all need to be seen and genuinely appreciated to be our best selves, just…
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Mop Rides the Waves of Courage
A Mop Rides Story (Emotional Regulation for Kids)
View this bookThe third in the Mop Rides series! Surfer Mop is back, this time with a case of the jitters that his dad and friends help him tackle. Mop, his friends,…
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Our Earth, Our Home
The Essential Japanese Green Living Handbook for Kids
View this bookBeautifully illustrated, energetic guide from Japan for forward-thinking kids and parents on how to live in harmony with our earth—contains sections on DIY crafts, design thinking, mindfulness, gardening, eating, permaculture,…
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The Blank Page
How a Piece of Paper Connects to Everything
View this bookIs a blank page really blank? Beloved poet Alberto Blanco pulls back the curtain and illuminates all of the elements hidden in a single piece of paper: the tree it…
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Peace, Love, Action!
Everyday Acts of Goodness from A to Z
View this bookPeace, 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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Mop Rides the Waves of Change
A Mop Rides Story: Save the Ocean with Mindfulness, Surfing, and a Band
View this bookWhen surfer kid Mop sees plastic in the ocean, he gets mad. But with mindfulness, he realizes anger won’t save the waves, and he turns his difficult feelings into a…
Founding Author
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Latest by Thich Nhat Hanh
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How to Listen
View this bookListening 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
Letters from a Zen Master
View this bookExperience 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
View this bookThis 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
Writings on Nonviolent Social Change
View this bookLove in Action is a collection of over two decades of Thich Nhat Hanh’s writing on nonviolence, peace, and reconciliation. Reflecting on the devastation of war, he makes the strong…
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Being Peace
View this bookA 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
Mindful Reflections for Daily Practice
View this book365 page-a-day reflections to encourage concentration, insight, and mindful engagement with the world around us—from the Zen Buddhist teacher “who taught the world mindfulness” (TIME). This deep and simple volume…
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How to Smile
View this bookThe latest book in the bestselling How To series: simple, refreshing meditations of Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh give us inspiration and tools for transforming our suffering and cultivating happiness…
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Cracking the Walnut
Understanding the Dialectics of Nagarjuna
View this bookZen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh’s commentary on Nagarjuna’s Treatise on the Middle Way, one of the most famous Buddhist texts in existence Nagarjuna is a giant in the Buddhist canon,…
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Chanting from the Heart Vol 1
Sutras and Chants for Recitation from the Plum Village Community
View this bookChanting from the Heart Vol. 1: The first volume in the revised edition of Chanting from the Heart, by Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh and the monks and nuns of…
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Chanting from the Heart Vol 2
Ceremonies and Practices from the Plum Village Community
View this bookChanting from the Heart Vol. 2: The second volume in the revised edition of Chanting from the Heart, by Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh and the monks and nuns of…
Authors
Articles
Herstory: A Women’s History Month Interview with Retiring Editor Terry Barber
On this International Women’s Day, we celebrate Terry Barber and her commitment to spreading the teachings of mindfulness and peace. Her dedication and hard work have been a true gift to the community, and we are grateful for all that she has done.
At Home in the World
Have you ever felt lonely or like you didn’t belong? Looking this way and that way for your “True home”? Deer Park Monastery invites you to an international Online Retreat,…
Staff Pick: The Energy of Prayer, How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice by Thích Nhất Hạnh
Read about our latest Staff Pick: The Energy of Prayer, How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice by Thích Nhất Hạnh
