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Learning True Love
Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War
View this bookIn January of 2005, after nearly 40 years in exile, Sister Chân Không was able to return on a 3-month visit to Vietnam. In this fully revised edition of Learning...
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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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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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Inside the Now
Meditations on Time
View this bookThis beautifully designed book will be cherished for generations. Written in the summer of 2013, Inside the Now contains the most recent, never before published commentaries and reflections of Thich Nhat Hanh...
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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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Healing
A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun
View this bookHealing is an extraordinary story that takes the reader from the rice fields of Vietnam to the peaceful surrounding of Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in Plum Village where Sister Dang...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bent
How Yoga Saved My Ass
View this bookA yoga teacher with an attitude shares irreverent stories about addiction, heartbreak, and illness.
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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...