The Mindful Athlete: Second Edition
Secrets to Pure Performance for Everyone
We are re-releasing George Mumford’s first book, The Mindful Athlete—which has sold more than 100,000 copies since its initial publication in 2015—with new stories, new practices, and a key reframe. With forewords by Dan Harris and Phil Jackson.
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No Mud, No Lotus: Hardcover Gift Edition
Available August 18, 2026.The Art of Transforming Suffering
View this bookNo Mud, No Lotus introduces ways to be in touch with suffering without being overwhelmed by it. This special hardcover edition is a beautiful gift to share these teachings with friends, family, and community.
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Live Beautifully, Die Beautifully
Available September 8, 2026.Field Notes from the Edge of Impermanence
View this bookA luminous guide to aging, illness, and loss—rooted in the lived experience of a refugee, physician, and Zen nun who transformed profound personal trauma into a path of clarity, courage, and compassion
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12-Step Zen
Available September 15, 2026.Pathways of Recovery
View this bookAn unflinching and compassionate exploration of addiction, healing, and renewal through Zen practice and Twelve-Step recovery
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Love Is Liberation
Available September 22, 2026.Five Contemplations for Daily Ethical Living
View this bookA courageous call forward from BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ Buddhist practitioners to transform the cycle of racial, ethnic, and social suffering through ethical choices and action from a place of belonging and love—the ultimate liberation—in this companion to Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Five Mindfulness Trainings
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Our Appointment with Life
Available September 22, 2026.Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone
View this book“Our appointment with life is in the present moment. The place of our appointment is right here, in this very place.” —Thích Nhất Hạnh
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A True Friend of the Buddha
Available October 13, 2026.Revealing the Essence of the Buddha’s Teachings
View this bookUsing clear and direct language, Thích Nhất Hạnh investigates the teachings passed down on key Buddhist teachings such as emptiness, non-self, nirvana, and the Twelve Nidanas, among others.
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No Self
Available December 15, 2026.View this bookA concise, accessible guide and a profound invitation into one of Buddhism’s most challenging and liberating insights: non-self
Special Hardcover Editions of the Mindfulness Essentials
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How to Relax
Available August 4, 2026.Hardcover Gift Edition
View this bookThe fifth book in the bestselling Mindfulness Essentials series, a back-to-basics collection from world-renowned Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh that introduces everyone to the essentials of mindfulness practice—now available in a special hardcover edition!
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How to Connect
Available August 25, 2026.Hardcover Gift Edition
View this bookThe eighth book in the bestselling “How To” series—now available in special hardcover edition.
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How to Sit
Available August 25, 2026.Hardcover Gift Edition
View this bookThe first book in the bestselling “How To” series—now available in special hardcover edition.
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How to Eat
Available December 22, 2026.Hardcover Gift Edition
View this bookThe second book in the bestselling “How To” series—now available in special hardcover edition.
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How to Fight
Hardcover Gift Edition
View this bookSpecial hardcover edition of the sixth book in the bestselling Mindfulness Essentials series, a back-to-basics collection from world-renowned Zen master Thích Nhất Hạnh that introduces everyone to the essentials of mindfulness practice
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How to Love
Hardcover Gift Edition
View this bookThe most popular book in the “How To” series—now available in special hardcover edition.
The Plum Village Cookbook
The Plum Village Cookbook features more than a hundred recipes, giving aspiring mindful chefs all they need to recreate the mouthwatering, nourishing dishes from the famed French retreat center founded by Vietnamese Zen master Thích Nhất Hạnh, where thousands of people go annually to learn how to meditate and live in harmony with nature.
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Take Action: Engaged Buddhism
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Interbeing Hardcover
The 14 Mindfulness Trainings of Engaged Buddhism
View this bookIn celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Order of Interbeing, this beautifully-textured keepsake edition evokes the “brown jacket” of the OI and includes the most up-to-date language of the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings.
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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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Fierce Vulnerability
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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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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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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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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How to Fight
View this bookLearn how to relax the bonds of anger, attachment, and delusion through mindfulness and kindness toward ourselves and others.
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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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Love Letter to the Earth
View this bookWhile many experts point to the enormous complexity in addressing issues ranging from the destruction of ecosystems to the loss of millions of species, Thich Nhat Hanh identifies one key…
Connecting with the Earth
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Between Earth and Sky
100 Days of Deep Looking in the Place of the Dead
View this bookA visually arresting and contemplative giftable book that pairs luminous, full color macro photography from the stark, mythical deserts of Oaxaca, Mexico with short, reflective prose rooted in mindfulness
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Hiking Zen
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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Love Letter to the Earth
View this bookWhile many experts point to the enormous complexity in addressing issues ranging from the destruction of ecosystems to the loss of millions of species, Thich Nhat Hanh identifies one key…
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World as Lover, World as Self: 30th Anniversary Edition
Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal
View this bookAn enduring classic of the environmental movement, Joanna Macy’s poetic, groundbreaking call to action is poised to inspire a new generation. It’s official: humanity is in crisis. Facing the magnitude…
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The Mindful Family Guidebook
Reconnect with Spirit, Nature, and the People You Love
View this bookTurn off screentime and come back to earth with this family mindfulness guidebook from Chippewa clinical psychologist Renda Dionne Madrigal, who reconnects her family with time-honored indigenous circle practice and…
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Soil, Soul, Society
A New Trinity for Our Time
View this bookDiscover Satish Kumar’s Vision for Sustainable Living and Global Unity
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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…
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Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
View this bookWe face a potent intersection of crises: ecological destruction, rising inequality, racial injustice, and the lasting impacts of a devastating pandemic. The situation is beyond urgent. To face these challenges,…
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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…
Lastest Articles from The Mindfulness Bell
Dealing with Difficulty
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Caregiving and the Art of Presence
A Zen Nun’s Journey of Love and Letting Go
View this bookIn this tender, candid memoir spanning the last decade of her mother’s life, a Vietnamese American Zen teacher shares the deep challenges, unexpected gifts, and pathways through the overwhelming exhaustion and isolation of caregiving with the practice of mindfulness
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Calm in the Storm
Zen Ways to Cultivate Stability in an Anxious World
View this bookA timely Zen guide for those seeking emotional stability, self-compassion, and inner peace in an anxious and perfection-driven world
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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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Healing Our Way Home
Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation
View this bookReal talk on living joyfully and coming home to ourselves—with reflective self-care practices to help us on our interconnected journeys of liberation
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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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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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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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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…
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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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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
Children’s Library
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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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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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The Adventures of Drip and Drop
View this bookBeloved 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
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 Are All Flowers
A Story of Appreciating Others
View this bookA 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)
View this bookThe 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
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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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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Mop Rides the Waves of Change
A Mop Rides Story: Save the Ocean with Mindfulness, Surfing, and a Band
View this bookWhen 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…
Latest Articles from Parallax Press
Remembering Debbie Berne
Our dear colleague Debbie Berne, who created the series look for Thích Nhất Hạnh’s iconic “How to” mindfulness books, died December 24, loved by family and friends.
Celebrating World Children’s Day
On World Children’s Day, we honor the right of all children to live in peace, safety, and dignity. In this article, we are delighted to share insights from the book Mixed Rice and a dialogue with author, Sophie Sarkar.
Honoring the Life and Legacy of Terry Barber
Our dear friend, Dharma Teacher Terry Barber transitioned on November 9, 2024. Terry was a beloved colleague and had been the longest-serving member of Parallax Press.
Fierce Vulnerability for Collective Liberation
Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse details the need for nonviolent action that moves beyond “us vs them” dynamics, recognizes the need for healing collective trauma, and reconnects spiritual practice to standing up against injustice.