Summer Solstice Offerings
Enjoy these selected titles for Summer Reading, up to 60% off
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Thriving Together
Nine Principles for Cocreating True Community
Research 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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Fierce Vulnerability
Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse
In 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
Immediate, 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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Mop Rides the Waves of Life
A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing
If only life could be like surfing! Having “funny” hair and being embarrassed in school is hard, but when little surfer Mop studies the lessons of the waves—breathing, letting the…
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Peace, Love, Action!
Everyday Acts of Goodness from A to Z
Peace, 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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Long Weekend
Guidance and Inspiration for Creating Your Own Retreat
With simple mindfulness activities, healthy recipes, and suggested itineraries to recharge, build community, and inspire creativity, this beautiful photo book is full of ideas that will inspire anyone seeking relaxation…
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Inside the Flame
The Joy of Treasuring What You Already Have
Inside the Flame invites readers to unplug their computers, cell phones, and televisions and plunge back into overlooked nooks and crannies of everyday experience. We’ve lost touch with the richness…
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Mindfulness in the Garden
Zen Tools for Digging in the Dirt
Mindfulness in the Garden offers simple mindfulness verses (gathas) composed to connect the mind and body and to bring the reader/gardener’s awareness to the details of the present moment as…
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The Mindfulness Bell: The Monastic Path, Issue 95, 2025
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thích Nhất Hạnh
This issue is included in our subscriptions and features:
- gāthās for the practice of mindful living from Thích Nhất Hạnh
- Sister Chân Trì Nghiêm explains how Plum Village practice centers provide much-needed refuge and hope in today’s troubled times
- Brother Pháp Dung teaches us to cultivate our good seeds, community, and freedom
- Sister Kính Nghiêm shares about recognizing and embracing suffering in yourself and your family
- sharings from monastics with Wake Up, the Earth Holder Community, and the Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation
- poetry of transformation from Sister Đẳng Nghiêm
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The Mindfulness Bell: The Radiant Insight of Nonduality, Issue 94, 2024
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thích Nhất Hạnh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. Brother Pháp Lưu says this issue “… explores the radiant nature of nonduality at a critical moment on our planet, at a…
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The Mindfulness Bell: The Goodwill of Our Ancestors, Issue 93, 2024
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions and reflects on continuation, touching the ancestral steam, and feeling connected with the deep, rich Plum Village lineage:
- Sister Chân Đức shares about our teacher’s lineage as a peace activist.
- Dharma teacher Mitchell Ratner reflects on his pilgrimage tracing Thích Nhất Hạnh’s lineage in Vietnam.
- An interview with Thích Giác Quang, a Most Venerable from Huế, Vietnam, explores the importance of the many ceremonies remembering and honoring Thầy’s passing.
- Lay friends answer what it means that Thầy is our ancestral teacher.
- Sharings from ARISE Sangha, Happy Farm, Wake Up Schools, the Earth Holder Community, and the Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation.
- A guided meditation from Thích Nhất Hạnh, poetry, and more.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Can Mother Earth Count on Us? Issue 92, 2023
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue we give homage to Thầy’s vision of deep ecology, as we share our experience with climate change:
- In “A Love Letter to the Planet” Thích Nhất Hạnh shares intimate conversations with Mother Earth.
- Brother Pháp Lưu offers a continuation of the Earth Peace Treaty: a new series of earth-touchings and an updated commitment sheet.
- Dharma teacher Jem offers insights from his deep Earth holding practice, surviving cancer, and disrobing after eighteen years as a monk.
- A Dharma talk by Brother Pháp Dung from the Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet online course.
- Practitioners share about living gently on the Earth and connecting with nature.
- Sharings from Happy Farm, Wake Up, Wake Up Schools, the Earth Holder Community, and the Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation.
- Poetry, a recipe from the monasteries, and much more.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Mindfulness in Public Health for Collective Awakening, Issue 91, 2023
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue focuses on the path of practicing with Buddhist psychology and neuroscience for individual and collective health:
- In “Rebuilding Health” Thích Nhất Hạnh teaches us to stop running and find healing.
- Dharma teacher Jo-ann Rosen and the EMBRACE Sangha offer insights on seeing the practice through a neuroscientific and trauma-sensitive lens.
- “Neuroscience Infused Body-scan,” a Dharma talk by Brother Pháp Linh.
- Practitioners share about healing trauma and mindfulness in public health research.
- Sharings from Happy Farm, Wake Up, Wake Up Schools, the Earth Holder Community, and the Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation.
- …and much more.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Winter/Spring 2021, Issue 86
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Dharma talks “Fearlessness and Togetherness” by Thich Nhat Hanh and “Sustaining Earth” from Sister Chan Duc (Sister Annabel); sharings from monastics and practitioners on healing our suffering with our family, healing racial inequities, updates on the Wake Up movement, and more!
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The Mindfulness Bell: Summer 2002, Issue 31
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This special issue celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Plum Village in France and of the Plum Village style of mindfulness practice throughout the world. This issue introduces a few of the thousands of people who have given themselves to this way of living and have been transformed in the process.
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The Mindfulness Bell: No Birth, No Death, Only Continuation, Issue 90, 2022
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue features:
- Thich Nhat Hanh on the intimate connection between suffering and happiness
- Dr Larry Ward on caring for our traumatic experiences
- Brother Peace on losing both his parents to depression and suicide
- Dharma teacher Valerie Brown on inspiring hope in a world in need
- Sister Bội Nghiêm on understanding relationships and suffering in the LGBTQIA+ community
- Updates from ARISE Sangha, the Earth Holder Community, Happy Farm, Wake Up International, Wake Up Schools, and the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation.
- Practitioners share about spirituality and racial equity, being on the front lines of climate action, practicing online, and much more
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The Mindfulness Bell: January 1990, Issue 1
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Community As a Resource by Thich Nhat Hanh, gathas for inviting and listening to the bell, gems from the Sangha, stories of dally practice, Sangha news, Discourse on Happiness, and more.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Spring/Summer 1990, Issue 2
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Dharma talk on the Five Precepts, waking up in the midst of war and violence, comfort and presence with the dying, Sister Phuong calls our attention to the ignored hungry and oppressed in Vietnam and refugee camps throughout south east Asia, practicing with the precepts, insight poems, tangerine meditation, the Discourse on Love translated by Thay.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Autumn 1990, Issue 3
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thich Nhat Hanh addresses concerns of community, family, and parenting, Annabel Laity and Allan Hunt Badiner’s comments on the Six Principles of Harmony and the Five Awarenesses, daily practice, helping the hungry, Sangha news, hugging meditation, and more.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Spring 1991, Issue 4
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thich Nhat Hanh on nonviolence and a peaceful heart is offered in this vein and essays on the same topic, the Spring 1991 retreats with Thay, daily practice, legacies of the Vietnam War, Sangha news, and more.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Autumn 1991, Issue 5
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: A Dharma talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, the Five Precepts, essays on health and healing, the spring 1991 retreats, Sangha news, daily practice, Buddhism in Vietnam, and more.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Spring 1992, Issue 6
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue features Thich Nhat Hanh’s commentaries on the Five Precepts and related essays, Sangha news, daily practice, and more.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Summer/Fall 1992, Issue 7
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue offers a Buddhist approach to environmental issues: Thay’s teachings on the environment and interbeing, the 1991 environmentalists’ retreat, a rainforest journey, saving the world without burning out, daily practice, Sangha news, Thay’s proposal for a new practice–the Peace Treaty.
And for 50% off all ebooks use coupon code: SUMMER2025
Pre-Orders and New Releases
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Lyrical Dharma
Available July 29, 2025.Hip-Hop as Mindfulness
Reading 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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Thriving Together
Nine Principles for Cocreating True Community
Research 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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Peace Is This Moment Journal
Available August 5, 2025.52 Teachings for a Balanced Life from Thich Nhat Hanh
Whether 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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Calm in the Storm
Available August 26, 2025.Zen Ways to Cultivate Stability in an Anxious World
A timely Zen guide for those seeking emotional stability, self-compassion, and inner peace in an anxious and perfection-driven world
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How to Dream
Available August 19, 2025.In 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…
Take Action: Engaged Buddhism
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Fierce Vulnerability
Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse
In 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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Unbroken Wholeness: Integrating Social Justice, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Practice
Six Pathways to the Beloved Community
Distilling 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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How to Fight
Learn how to relax the bonds of anger, attachment, and delusion through mindfulness and kindness toward ourselves and others.
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America’s Racial Karma
An Invitation to Heal
Immediate, 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
In 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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A Culture of Happiness
How to Scale Up Happiness from People to Organizations
Practical 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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We Were Made for These Times
Ten Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption
We 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…
Dealing with Difficulty
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Unshakeable
Trauma-Informed Mindfulness for Collective Awakening
Unshakeable 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
How 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
We 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
The 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
A 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
In 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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The Adventures of Drip and Drop
Beloved 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
After 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
A 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)
The 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
Beautifully 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
Is 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
Peace, 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
When 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…
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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
Listening 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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The Sun My Heart
This 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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Peace Is This Moment
Mindful Reflections for Daily Practice
365 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
The 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
Zen 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
Chanting 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
Chanting 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…
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Book Club: The World We Have – A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology
You’re invited to a series of book club discussions on Thích Nhất Hạnh’s book The World We Have – A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology. Understanding the impermanence of all…

Book Club: Fierce Vulnerability – Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse
You’re invited to a series of book club discussions on Kazu Haga’s new book Fierce Vulnerability. In times of collapse, we need a movement that recognizes injustice as a reflection of…

Learning True Love: Book Club reflections celebrating Sister Chân Không
Today, April 9, 2025, we honor the Continuation Day of Sister Chân Không—beloved elder in the Plum Village tradition and a lifelong companion to Thích Nhất Hạnh.