How to Love
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of How to Love—a beloved title in Thích Nhất Hạnh’s bestselling Mindfulness Essentials series—this luminous hardcover gift edition features a refreshed design with crimson sprayed edges, iridescent foil, and spot-color illustrations.
Special Offerings
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The Mindfulness Bell: Building Community in Divisive Times, Issue 96, 2025
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thích Nhất Hạnh
View this bookThis issue is included in our subscriptions and features:
- Thích Nhất Hạnh’s teachings on sangha-building, the spirit of togetherness, safety, despair, and conflict between nations
- Brother Pháp Dung outlines Thầy’s aspiration and vision for residential spiritual communities as a service and refuge for society
- Dharma Teacher Marisela Gomez on how turning the upside-down world right side up requires us to resist, maladjust to, and defy the normalization of greed, hatred, and delusion.
- lay friends offer their practice of sangha building and community building
- sharings from Wake Up, Wake Up Schools, Happy Farm, Earth Holder Community, and Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation
- poetry continuing the gentle spirit of our teacher
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Peace Is This Moment Journal
52 Teachings for a Balanced Life from Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookWhether 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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Thich Nhat Hanh 2026 Weekly Planner
View this bookFocus on tranquility in 2026. This planner can support your mindfulness in all matters. Showcasing peaceful watercolor images by Marisol Ortiz of sacred symbols from Eastern cultures and quotes from…
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Thich Nhat Hanh 2026 Day-to-Day Calendar
View this bookTranquil watercolor paintings by contemporary artist Marisol Ortega complement the words of wisdom of Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh.
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Thich Nhat Hanh 2026 Wall Calendar
View this bookFor Zen inspiration, this meditative wall calendar pairs quotes of wisdom from Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh, author of Touching Peace, with vibrant watercolor art by Marisol Ortega.
New Releases and Pre Orders
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Reincarnation
Available October 28, 2025.View this bookEvery moment is a moment of rebirth. And because the future is made of the present, we must live so that we have peace, freedom, and happiness in this moment.
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How to Love
Hardcover Gift Edition
View this bookThe most popular book in the “How To” series—now available in special hardcover edition.
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Mindfulness in the Garden
Zen Tools for Digging in the Dirt
View this bookThe 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 Dream
View this bookIn 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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Calm in the Storm
Zen Ways to Cultivate Stability in an Anxious World
View this bookA timely Zen guide for those seeking emotional stability, self-compassion, and inner peace in an anxious and perfection-driven world
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Hiking Zen
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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Thriving Together
Nine Principles for Cocreating True Community
View this bookResearch 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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On Mindful Democracy
Available February 3, 2026.A Declaration of Interdependence to Mend a Fractured World
View this bookAn antidote to political burnout and civic despair: drawing on mindfulness and modern wisdom to cultivate resilience, healthy engagement, and skillful presence in turbulent times
Take Action: Engaged Buddhism
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Fierce Vulnerability
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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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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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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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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The World We Have
A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology
View this bookIn The World We Have peace activist and venerable Buddhist teacher Thích Nhất Hạnh offers a dramatic vision of the future of our planet facing multiple crises. Thích Nhất Hạnh…
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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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How to Fight
View this bookLearn how to relax the bonds of anger, attachment, and delusion through mindfulness and kindness toward ourselves and others.
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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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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…
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 with her sanity, and her marriage, intact
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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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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 Thích Nhất Hạnh: 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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Touching Peace: Updated Edition
Practicing the Art of Mindful Living
View this bookIn Touching Peace, Thích Nhất Hạnh expands the teachings on practicing the art of mindful living begun in the best-selling Being Peace by giving specific, practical instructions on extending our meditation practice into our daily lives.
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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 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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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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Sea Libre Donde Este
Una guía práctica para vivir con plena consciencia
View this bookFreedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. Sea Libre Donde Este is the Spanish translation of Be Free Where You Are, and this…
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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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Fierce Vulnerability for Collective Liberation
Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse details the need for nonviolent action that moves beyond “us vs them” dynamics, recognizes the need for healing collective trauma, and reconnects spiritual practice to standing up against injustice.
Remembering Dr. Tho Ha Vinh
Breathing together, we remember Dr. Tho Ha Vinh, teacher, humanitarian, and friend of the world. His vision of happiness as a collective path to healing and harmony continues to ripple across the Earth.
America’s Racial Karma: Dr. Larry Ward’s invitation to heal
On the morning of Tuesday, August 19, beloved teacher, Lotus Institute co-founder, and dear friend to many across the world, Larry Ward, passed away at his home in Rhode Island.
