Pre-Orders and New Releases
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Thriving Together
Available February 25, 2025.Nine Principles for Cocreating True Community
View this bookResearch over the last few decades, both in the US and abroad, shows us that the fabric of community life is unraveling as our social resources deteriorate, an individualist worldview prevails, and rates of loneliness and isolation continue to rise. Is there another way to live? Where can we look for guidance?
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Fierce Vulnerability
Available March 25, 2025.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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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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Hiking Zen
Available May 27, 2025.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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Lyrical Dharma
Available July 29, 2025.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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In Love and Trust
Letters from a Zen Master
View this bookDiscover Thich Nhat Hanh’s Intimate Letters and Wisdom
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Being Peace
View this bookA timeless introduction to Thich Nhat Hanh’s most important teachings, revealing the connection between peace in oneself and peace in the world.
Best Sellers
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True Peace Work
Essential Writings on Engaged Buddhism
View this bookThich Nhat Hanh and many others are featured in this foundational trove of Buddhist essays, poems, and teachings. Now a modern classic, True Peace Work is the premier collection of…
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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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Peace Begins Here
Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other
View this bookIn this Buddhist perspective on resolving conflict, global spiritual leader, poet, and peace activist Thích Nhất Hạnh demonstrates how a real peace process is based on spiritual, not political strength. Inspired…
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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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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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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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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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A Handful of Quiet
Happiness in Four Pebbles
View this bookA Handful of Quiet presents one of the best known and most innovative meditation practices developed by Thich Nhat Hanh as part of the Plum Village community’s practice with children….
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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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The Other Shore
A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries
View this bookThis new translation of the Buddha’s most important, most studied teaching offers a radical new interpretation. In September, 2014 Thich Nhat Hanh completed a profound and beautiful new English translation…
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Flowers in the Dark
Reclaiming Your Power to Heal Trauma through Mindfulness
View this bookLearn the accessible and deeply compassionate practices for healing trauma, known as the Five Strengths of applied Zen Buddhism. More than a philosophy, these body-based practices are backed by modern…
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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.
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
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…
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Healing Our Way Home
Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation
View this book“This powerful trinity of Black authors invites us into the living room of their hearts, affirming who we are with earthy straight talk, textured diversity, and wise tenderness.”—Ruth King Real…
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Mindfulness as Medicine
A Story of Healing Body and Spirit
View this bookBefore she became a Buddhist nun in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Dang Nghiem was a doctor. She’d traveled far in her 43 years. Born during the Tet…
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Unfinished Conversation
Healing from Suicide and Loss
View this bookUnfinished Conversation is a story of profound grief and the journey to healing that followed. Based on a journal Robert Lesoine kept during the two years following the suicide of his…
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
Authors
Articles
Herstory: A Women’s History Month Interview with Retiring Editor Terry Barber
On this International Women’s Day, we celebrate Terry Barber and her commitment to spreading the teachings of mindfulness and peace. Her dedication and hard work have been a true gift to the community, and we are grateful for all that she has done.
At Home in the World
Have you ever felt lonely or like you didn’t belong? Looking this way and that way for your “True home”? Deer Park Monastery invites you to an international Online Retreat,…
Staff Pick: The Energy of Prayer, How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice by Thích Nhất Hạnh
Read about our latest Staff Pick: The Energy of Prayer, How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice by Thích Nhất Hạnh
