Society
Society
101 items
Sort by:
-
The Dragon Prince
Stories and Legends from Vietnam
View this bookThe Dragon Prince is a collection of 15 stories and legends from Vietnam retold by Zen master poet and peace activist Thích Nhất Hạnh. As in many of his teachings,...
-
Radical Love
From Separation to Connection with the Earth, Each Other, and Ourselves
View this bookTo see peace in our lifetimes, we have to practice love. This is the radical message of this inspirational book of pithy advice from environmental activist Satish Kumar, which helps...
-
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...
-
The Art of Money
A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness
View this bookThe Art of Money brings mindfulness, body-based awareness, and radical self-love to one of our most troublesome relationships, the one with our money.
-
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...
-
Tiny Gratitudes
View this bookTiny Gratitudes shares full-color illustrated moments from daily life, captured in miniature detail and offers a beautiful reminder of the joy that can be found in even the most ordinary...
-
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.
-
Seeking Soulmate
Ditch the Dating Game and Find Real Connection
View this bookTransform dating and the often-fraught search for a fulfilling relationship into a fun, exciting adventure using mindfulness techniques and practices. Dating is a 2 billion dollar industry. Everyone, it seems,...
-
How to Love
Hardcover Gift Edition
View this bookThe most popular book in the "How To" series—now available in special hardcover edition.
-
Soil, Soul, Society
A New Trinity for Our Time
View this bookDiscover Satish Kumar's Vision for Sustainable Living and Global Unity
-
A Love Letter to the Planet
View this bookA Love Letter to the Planet is part of the Parallax Press Moments series of short ebooks. It is a 32-page passionate appeal from Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh for...
-
A Way of Life
Zen Monastics at Work and at Play
View this bookThe beauty and joy of monks and nuns at work and play is captured in this inspiring photobook, with quotes from Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh.
-
Sale!
Worlds in Harmony
Compassionate Action for a Better World
View this bookIn Worlds in Harmony, the Dalai Lama explores the nature of suffering and its release through compassionate action. The book focuses on the understanding that a deep awareness of our...
-
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.
-
What Book!?
Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
View this bookWith poems from spiritual teachers to jazz musicians, from the monastery to the street, What Book!? brings together a broad range of verse, expressions of living in an awakened way....
-
The Friend of the Desert
A Novel
View this bookExistential and curiously hypnotic, Pablo d'Ors evokes the sharp stylized prose of Bolaño, Bernhard, and DeLillo in this strange tale of one man's repeated forays into the desert, and the...
-
Fear, Illustrated
Transforming What Scares Us
View this bookFear, Illustrated is a visually stunning, light-hearted, and compelling visual exploration of the fears people confront in their daily lives. For many years artist Julie Elman has collected common and not-so-common...
-
Long Weekend
Guidance and Inspiration for Creating Your Own Retreat
View this bookWith 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...
-
The Stone Boy and Other Stories
View this bookThe Stone Boy and Other Stories is a collection of ten short fiction stories by the well-known Zen monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh. These short stories explore Buddhist themes...
-
Sale!
I Am Home
Portraits of Immigrant Teenagers
View this bookIn I Am Home, you will meet the faces and voices behind the conversations around immigration. These portraits and stories of teenagers who are recent immigrants to the US from...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Friends on the Path
View this bookFriends on the Path presents some of Thich Nhat Hanh's most precious offerings on the necessity of practicing with a Sangha (spiritual community) in order to receive support and encouragement...
-
Morning Night
View this bookWelcome to Morning Night, Dr. Larry Ward's first poetry collection. This book emerged from his thirty years of teaching mindfulness and focuses on the themes of spirit, race, and nature with the aim of lifting our sights. It has been washed in holy tears and the joys of many hearts.
-
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...
-
Scattered Memories
View this bookPublished here for the first time, Scattered Memories includes fifty poems that explore his journey from young boy in Vietnam to being a leader in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community....
-
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.
-
Inside the Flame
The Joy of Treasuring What You Already Have
View this bookInside 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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Mindfulness in the Marketplace
Compassionate Responses to Consumerism
View this bookMindfulness in the Marketplace suggests a reorientation of consumers from passive purchasers to aware, responsible citizens who see the dynamic connection between their purchases and their values. The Middle Path...
-
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...