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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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Together We Are One
Honoring Our Diversity, Celebrating Our Connection
View this bookBased on four retreats that Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh led specifically for people of color, this book is for people of all colors, backgrounds, and experiences who have ever...
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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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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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Cultivating the Mind of Love
View this bookIn Cultivating the Mind of Love, Thích Nhất Hạnh shares a most unusual Dharma teaching: the story of his first love. He pairs these heartfelt moments in his own life...
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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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Teachings on Love
View this bookWeaving together traditional stories, personal experiences, and a deep understanding of the Buddha's way of mindful living, Thích Nhất Hạnh provides step-by-step practices that foster understanding and intimacy in any...
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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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One Buddha is Not Enough
A Story of Collective Awakening
View this bookHow do we learn to believe in ourselves and not just rely on our spiritual teachers? This question often directly posed to Thich Nhat Hanh as "Who will be your...
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Fidelity
How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
View this bookWhat does healthy intimacy look like? How we do we keep the energy and passion alive in long-term relationships? What practices can help us forgive our partner when he or...
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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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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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Moments of Joy
The Poetry of Sister Jina, Chan Dieu Nghiem
View this bookThe first full-length collection of poems from contemplative Buddhist nun Sister Jina van Hengel, each short verse radiates the energy of a single moment of awareness. Like a master gardener,...
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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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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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A Rose for Your Pocket
An Appreciation of Motherhood
View this bookA Rose for Your Pocket is a beautiful prose poem on motherhood by Vietnamese Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh. He reminds us of the qualities embodied by our mother and...
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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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Love’s Garden
A Guide to Mindful Relationships
View this bookA collection of real-life Buddhist love stories, with commentary and guided exercises for couples developed by Peggy Rowe-Ward and Larry Ward, senior students and ordained Dharma teachers in the tradition...
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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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On Mindful Democracy
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
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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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The 7 Laws of Enough
Cultivating a Life of Sustainable Abundance
View this bookThe gap between those who have and those who don't grows; the deep conflicts within our society around race and privilege are pervasive; and many other inequities undermine our sense...
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Lyrical Dharma
Hip-Hop as Mindfulness
View this bookReading 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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The Idealist’s Survival Kit
75 Simple Ways to Avoid Burnout
View this bookThe Idealist's Survival Kit is a series of 75 short reflections on mindfulness in action designed to support humanitarian professionals and volunteers in addressing the specific themes and issues that they are likely...
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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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When the Whole World Tips
Parenting through Crisis with Mindfulness and Balance
View this bookMove from helplessness to stability as a parent through the ancient practice of equanimity, or balance. Drawn from Buddhist wisdom and with practices included, this new approach to mindful parenting...
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Work That Matters
Create a Livelihood That Reflects Your Core Intention
View this bookCreate a career that expresses your life's core intention as you use mindfulness-based guide to clarify your true calling, create a vision for meaningful vocation, and enact practical steps to make that vision a vivid reality.
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Divine Gardens
Mayumi Oda and the San Francisco Zen Center
View this bookKnown to many as "the Matisse of Japan," Oda combines traditional Japanese and Buddhist iconography with her own unique sense of color, line, and movement in Divine Gardens.
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Keeping the Peace
Mindfulness and Public Service
View this bookKeeping the Peace speaks to all of us who work in difficult, people-oriented jobs and shows us how to turn environments that are often filled with anger, stress, and frustration...
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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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We Are the Economy
The Buddhist Way of Work, Consumption, and Money
View this bookA no-nonsense Zen approach to our economic realities can change everything. Is it possible to be personally fulfilled, and also make a difference within our current financial system? If you're...
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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...