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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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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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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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Present Moment Wonderful Moment
Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living
View this bookIllustrated by Mayumi Oda
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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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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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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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Fragrant Palm Leaves
Journals 1962–1966
View this bookRegarded by many as Thich Nhat Hanh'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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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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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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My Master’s Robe
Memories of a Novice Monk
View this bookZen Master, poet and peace and human rights activist Thich Nhat Hanh was born in central Vietnam in 1926 and joined the monkhood at the age of sixteen. Written by...
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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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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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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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Eyes of Compassion
View this book"When I met Thich Nhat Hanh at the Fellowship of Reconciliation headquarters in Nyack, New York, he was thirty-nine and I was twenty-four.… This book attempts to share some of...
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The Raft is Not the Shore
Conversations Toward a Buddhist-Christian Awareness
View this bookMeeting for long, midnight conversations in Paris, two poets and prophetic peacemakers explore together the farthest reaches of truth. East and West flow together in this remarkable book as Vietnamese...
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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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Love in Action
Available January 17, 2023.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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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, these fifty poems, explore his journey from young boy in Vietnam to being a leader in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community. The early poems...
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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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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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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...
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Present Moment Wonderful Moment (Revised Edition)
Available November 10, 2022.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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Call Me By My True Names (New Edition)
Available November 8, 2022.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.