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At Home in the World
Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk’s Life
View this bookThe 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.
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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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Call Me By My True Names (New Edition)
The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThe definitive poetry collection by the world renowned Zen master, peace activist, and author of The Miracle of Mindfulness.
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Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire
View this bookThis stunning commentary on the cultural and political background to the war and refugee crisis resonates deeply as the early work of Vietnamese writer, peace activist, and Buddhist monk Thich...
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Tears Become Rain
Stories of Transformation and Healing Inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh
View this book32 mindfulness practitioners around the world reflect on encountering the extraordinary teachings of Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh, who passed away in January 2022, exploring themes of coming home to...
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Fragrant Palm Leaves
Journals 1962–1966
View this bookRegarded by many as Thích Nhất Hạnh's most personally revealing and endearing book, these collected journals chronicle the first-hand experiences of the Zen master as a young man in both...
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Healing Our Way Home
Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation
View this bookReal 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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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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Brothers in the Beloved Community
The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr.
View this bookThe never-before-told story of a friendship between two of the most well-known peace icons of the twentieth century. Although Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr. knew each other...
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True Virtue
The Journey of an English Buddhist Nun
View this bookThe First Western Monastic Disciple of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
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The Deepest Peace
Contemplations from a Season of Stillness
View this bookA beautiful glimpse into the daily practice of a modern contemplative, The Deepest Peace reveals moments of stunning clarity from the eyes of a Zen priest. Through silence, stillness, and...
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Present Moment Wonderful Moment (Revised Edition)
Verses for Daily Living-Updated Third Edition
View this bookBeloved Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh offers 79 meditations to help you through your daily routines in a peaceful and mindful way and connect to the joy of the present moment
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My Master’s Robe
Memories of a Novice Monk
View this bookZen master, poet, and peace and human rights activist Thích Nhất Hạnh was born in central Vietnam in 1926 and joined the monkhood at the age of sixteen. Written by...
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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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Holding Space
On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
View this bookA look at the spiritual, emotional, and philosophical implications of end-of-life care by an elegant and literary writer who is a hospital chaplain.
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Love in Action
Writings on Nonviolent Social Change
View this bookBe 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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First Buddhist Women
Poems and Stories of Awakening
View this bookFirst Buddhist Women is a readable, contemporary translation of and commentary on the enlightenment verses of the first female disciples of the Buddha. The book explores Buddhism’s relatively liberal attitude...
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Ocean of Insight
A Sailor's Voyage from Despair to Hope
View this bookHeather 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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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.
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The Healing
One Woman's Journey from Poverty to Inner Riches
View this bookIn this memoir of upward mobility through the unexpected route of yoga, a young African American woman signs up for lessons in yoga and clean eating as a sign that...
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What Now?
Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond
View this bookBuddhist teachings and meditation offer a roadmap to help college students and others in early adulthood incorporate mindfulness into their lives as a means of facing the myriad struggles unique to this stage of life.
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Things I Did When I Was Hangry
Navigating a Peaceful Relationship with Food
View this bookAfter years of struggling with eating disorders and anxiety around food and eating, Annie Mahon figured that having a path, any path, would be helpful. When she read The Miracle...
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Zooburbia
Meditations on the Wild Animals Among Us
View this bookTo 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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Not Quite Nirvana
A Skeptic's Journey to Mindfulness
View this bookThis book is a memoir of how a skeptical, fast-talking New Yorker became Thich Nhat Hanh's editor, turned forty, realized she was aging, and slowly and reluctantly started to absorb...
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Scattered Memories
View this bookPublished here for the first time, Scattered Memories includes fifty poems that explore his journey from young boy in Vietnam to being a leader in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community....
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A Sense of Something Greater
Zen and the Search for Balance in Silicon Valley
View this bookA detailed investigation into the unlikely but growing connection between Zen and Silicon Valley, from a former employee of IBM and the abbot of Kannon Do Zen center.
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Strange Beauty
A Portrait of My Son
View this bookA unique and hopeful story of how one woman and her family were transformed by her child's multiple disabilities and inability to talk and how she, in turn, transformed a community.
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Wonderland
The Zen of Alice
View this bookWritten in the non-traditional, humorous, and slightly irreverent tone of books like Sit Down and Shut Up, and Dharma Punx, Wonderland is a highly original riff on Alice in Wonderland, using...
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In Real Life
Searching for Connection in High-Tech Times
View this bookTechnology can help us with some of our most difficult work. It can also offer us endless distractions. Can technology help us, as individuals and communities, in our most important...
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Sit, Walk, Don’t Talk
How I Survived a Silent Meditation Retreat
View this bookListen to Jennifer's interview on NPR's Weekend Edition. Jennifer Howd had been building a mindfulness practice for a few years before taking on the challenge of her first nine-day silent...