A Message from Thich Nhat Hanh November 2 , 1999 Plum Village, France Sharing a Practice Twelve years ago, at a retreat in Montreal, a lady told me after the first…
Thich Nhat Hanh
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
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The Long Road Turns to Joy
A Guide to Walking Meditation
View this bookThe Long Road Turns to Joy is one of the few books focused completely on mindful walking and walking meditation. This revised edition of the best-selling title (nearly 80,000 copies...
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Buddha Mind, Buddha Body
Walking Toward Enlightenment
View this bookThich Nhat Hanh explores the connection between psychology, neuroscience, and meditation. He discuss the importance of creativity and visualization in a successful meditation practice, presents basic Buddhist practices (in particular...
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Answers from the Heart
Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions
View this bookWe all share the experience of carrying with us the one question that has always seemingly stood in the way of the next step in our personal development, the development...
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Cultivating the Mind of Love
View this bookIn Cultivating the Mind of Love, Thích Nhất Hạnh shares a most unusual Dharma teaching: the story of his first love. He pairs these heartfelt moments in his own life...
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Teachings on Love
View this bookWeaving together traditional stories, personal experiences, and a deep understanding of the Buddha's way of mindful living, Thích Nhất Hạnh provides step-by-step practices that foster understanding and intimacy in any...
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One Buddha is Not Enough
A Story of Collective Awakening
View this bookHow do we learn to believe in ourselves and not just rely on our spiritual teachers? This question often directly posed to Thich Nhat Hanh as "Who will be your...
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Calming the Fearful Mind
A Zen Response to Terrorism
View this bookIn a time of terrorism and uncertainty, how can any of us feel truly safe? Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh looks at the real roots of terrorism and fear and...
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How to Smile
View this bookThe latest book in the bestselling How To series: simple, refreshing meditations of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh give us inspiration and tools for transforming our suffering and cultivating happiness...
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Fidelity
How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
View this bookWhat does healthy intimacy look like? How we do we keep the energy and passion alive in long-term relationships? What practices can help us forgive our partner when he or...
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Mindfulness Essentials Cards
52 Inspiring Practices and Meditations
View this book"The monk who taught the world mindfulness." —TIME 50+ prompts, exercises, and meditations for your mindfulness practice from the bestselling How To series, by the world-renowned Zen Buddhist teacher who introduced...
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Thundering Silence
Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Catch a Snake
View this bookIn Thundering Silence Thich Nhat Hanh presents the early teachings of the Buddha on not becoming so attached to his teachings that we don’t see reality clearly anymore and become...
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Mindful Movements
Ten Exercises for Well-Being
View this bookOver the years, Thich Nhat Hanh and his monastic community in Plum Village, have developed more and more ways to integrate mindfulness practices into every aspect of their daily life....
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Is Nothing Something?
Kids' Questions and Zen Answers About Life, Death, Family, Friendship, and Everything in Between
View this bookIn Is Nothing Something? Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh answers heartfelt, difficult, and funny questions from children of all ages. Illustrated with original full-color artwork by Jessica McClure, Is Nothing...
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Hermitage Among the Clouds
An Historical Novel of Fourteenth Century Vietnam
View this bookHermitage Among the Clouds tells the story of the fourteenth century Princess Amazing Jewel, the daughter of one of Vietnam's greatest historical Zen master kings. This beautifully written story expresses...
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Sacred Places
A Mindful Journey and Coloring Book
View this bookIn 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...
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The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
View this bookThe indispensable book containing Thich Nhat Hanh's introduction to the most essential Buddhist teachings, including the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Three Doors of Liberation, the Three...
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The Miracle of Mindfulness
An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
View this bookIn this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical exercise as a means of learning the skills of mindfulness--being awake and fully aware....
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Peace Is Every Step
The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday
View this bookIn the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh...
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Two Treasures
Buddhist Teachings on Awakening and True Happiness
View this bookTwo Treasures contains two sutras: The Sutra On The Eight Realizations Of Great Beings and The Discourse on Happiness. They explain in practical detail how to progress step-by-step towards realization...
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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 Thich Nhat Hanh offers a dramatic vision of the future of a planet overheated by rapidly disappearing fossil fuels, degraded by massive overconsumption,...
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No Death, No Fear
Comforting Wisdom for Life
View this bookWith hard-won wisdom and refreshing insight, Thich Nhat Hanh confronts a subject that has been contemplated by Buddhist monks and nuns for twenty-five-hundred years— and a question that has been...
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Touching Peace
Practicing the Art of Mindful Living
View this bookIn 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...
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Under the Rose Apple Tree
View this bookIn this sequel to A Pebble for Your Pocket, Zen teacher and poet Thich Nhat Hanh looks deeply at the issues that confront young people in today's society. Applying his...
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Living Buddha, Living Christ
20th Anniversary Edition
View this bookNominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today’s leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort. The 20th anniversary edition...
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The Blooming of a Lotus (Revised & Expanded)
The Essential Guided Meditations for Mindfulness, Healing, and Transformation
View this bookA revised and expanded edition of Thich Nhat Hanh’s classic introduction to guided meditation for a world in search of mindfulness In this revised edition of The Blooming of a...
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Anger
Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
View this bookIt was under the bodhi tree in India twenty-five centuries ago that Buddha achieved the insight that three states of mind were the source of all our unhappiness: wrong knowing,...
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The Six Points Suggested by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh on the Openness of the Vietnamese Communist Party
By Thich Nhat Hanh
The Vietnamese Communist feels at ease with the cultural traditions of Vietnam and is determined to live in such a way as to make it more beautiful day by day.The…
Poem: Please Call Me By My True Names
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow—even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arrivingto be a bud on a Spring branch,to be a tiny bird,…
Poem: A Teacher Looking for His Disciple
By Thich Nhat Hanh
I have been looking for you, my child, Since the time when rivers and mountains still lay in obscurity. I was looking for you When you were still in a…
The Way Ahead for Buddhism in Vietnam
By Thich Nhat Hanh
The following proposal has been offered by Thich Nhat Hanh for bringing about reconciliation between the government of Vietnam and the Vietnamese Buddhists. 1. Protecting our Nation's Nature-Heritage (Preserving our Mother's Body): As…
Poem composed by Thich Nhat Hanh
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Alfred Hassler, one of the primary supporters of Thich Nhat Hanh in the American peace movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, passed away in June. Thay and Sister Phuong…