These notes were taken by Therese Fitzgerald at a gathering in Virginia, following an ordination ceremony for eight new members of the Order of Interbeing Core Community. The Order of Interbeing…
Thich Nhat Hanh
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
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Anger
Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
View this bookIt was under the bodhi tree in India twenty-five centuries ago that Buddha achieved the insight that three states of mind were the source of all our unhappiness: wrong knowing,...
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Mystery How To Box
View this bookEnjoy five bestselling handbooks from the Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Mindfulness Essentials Series. This Mystery How To Box will includes 5 out of the 8 handbooks, How to Sit, How to...
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Sea Libre Donde Este
View this bookSea Libre Donde Este is the Spanish translation of Be Free Where You Are, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s compendium of core teachings. A transcription of a talk given at...
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Transformation at the Base
50 Verses on the Nature of Consciousness
View this bookA finalist for the 2001 Nautilus award, Transformation at the Base is a profound look at Buddhist psychology with insights into how these ancient teachings apply to the modern world....
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Freedom Wherever We Go
A Buddhist Monastic Code for the Twenty-first Century
View this bookIn Freedom Wherever We Go, Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh takes the centuries-old Buddhist monastic code, the Pratimoksha, and updates it for the twenty-first century. "The Buddha," Thích Nhất Hạnh...
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The Art of Living
Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now
View this bookIn troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In...
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The Path of Emancipation
Talks from a 21-Day Mindfulness Retreat
View this bookThe Path of Emancipation transcribes Thich Nhat Hanh's first twenty-one day retreat in North America in 1998, when more than four hundred practitioners from around the world joined him to...
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Finding Our True Home
Living in the Pure Land Here and Now
View this bookFinding Our True Home presents a new definitive translation of the Amitabha Sutra along with Thích Nhất Hạnh’s first commentary on one of the most practiced forms of Buddhism in...
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The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookA pocket-sized treasury of writings and teachings from the beloved Zen teacher Thích Nhất Hạnh. Since Thích Nhất Hạnh’s exile from his native Vietnam in 1966, the Zen Buddhist monk...
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A Rose for Your Pocket
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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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 passionate appeal from Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh for ecological...
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The Raft Is Not the Shore
Conversations Toward a Buddhist-Christian Awareness
View this bookMeeting for long, midnight conversations in Paris, two poets and prophetic peacemakers explore together the farthest reaches of truth. East and West flow together in this remarkable book as Vietnamese...
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Zen Keys
A Guide to Zen Practice
View this bookThích Nhất Hạnh brings his warmth and clarity to this unique explication of Zen Buddhism. Beginning with a discussion of daily life in a Zen monastery, he illustrates the character...
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Taming the Tiger Within
Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions
View this bookTaming the Tiger Within is a handbook of meditations, analogies, and reflections that offer pragmatic techniques for diffusing anger, converting fear, and cultivating love in every arena of life-a wise and...
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You Are Here
Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
View this bookCut through the busyness and anxieties of daily life to discover the simple happiness of living in the present moment, as taught by a world-renowned Zen monk In this book,...
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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 expolre Buddhist...
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The Art of Communicating
View this bookZen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh, bestselling author of Peace Is Every Step and one of the most respected and celebrated religious leaders in the world, delivers a powerful path to...
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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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Being Peace
View this bookA timeless introduction to Thích Nhất Hạnh’s most important teachings, revealing the connection between peace in oneself and peace in the world.
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True Love
A Practice for Awakening the Heart
View this bookA renowned Zen master and Nobel Peace Prize nominee introduces a Buddhist approach to practicing authentic love in our everyday lives In this eye-opening guide, Zen monk Thích Nhất Hạnh...
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Silence
The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
View this bookZen master and one of the world's most beloved teachers returns with a concise, practical guide to understanding and developing our most powerful inner resource—silence—to help us find happiness, purpose,...
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Your True Home
The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookBringing the energy of true presence into our lives really does change things for the better—and all it takes is a little training. This treasury of 365 gems of daily...
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Going Home
Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
View this bookNominated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thích Nhất Hạnh is one of today’s leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort. Exiled from Vietnam...
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Fear
Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm
View this bookFear is destructive, a pervasive problem we all face. Vietnamese Buddhist Zen Master, poet, scholar, peace activist, and one of the foremost spiritual leaders in the world—a gifted teacher who...
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Art of Power
View this bookTurning our conventional understanding of power on its head, world-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and national bestselling author Thích Nhất Hạnh reveals how true power comes from within. What we...
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Peace Is Every Breath
Mindful Eating, Mindful Life
View this bookIn this much-anticipated follow-up to his bestselling classic, Peace Is Every Step, Thích Nhất Hạnh—one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today—offers an insightful guide to living...
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Mindful Living Every Day (DVD)
Practicing in the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookMindfulness is the practice of cultivating full awareness of the present moment. Mindful Living Every Day, filmed on location in Plum Village, France, gives an overview of the concrete practices...
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Walking Meditation
Easy Steps to Mindfulness
View this bookInsight, joy, and serenity are available to you in every moment, whether you're sitting in silence or strolling down a bustling sidewalk in the city. This is the promise of...
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Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings
Modern Spiritual Masters Series
View this bookZen master, poet, monk and peace advocate, Thích Nhất Hạnh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who lived in exile in France for over 30 years. Through his writings and retreats he...
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The Novice
A Story of True Love
View this bookFans of Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Peace is Every Step and Anger, and Deepak Chopra’s Buddha, will appreciate Thích Nhất Hạnh’s wisdom and storytelling in his novel The Novice, which contains universal themes that transcend all...
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A Lifetime of Peace
Essential Writings by and about Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookA Lifetime of Peace follows the successful model established by A Lifetime of Wisdom: Essential Writings by and about the Dalai Lama. It draws on dozens of sources to collect...
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Creating True Peace
Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
View this bookCreating True Peace is both a profound work of spiritual guidance and a practical blueprint for peaceful inner change and global change. It is the Venerable Thích Nhất Hạnh's answer...
Articles in The Mindfulness Bell
Meditation for 1995
By Thich Nhat Hanh
May I be peaceful, happy, and light in body and in mind.May I be safe and free from accidents.May I be free from anger, unwholesome states of mind, fear, and…
Poem: The Old Mendicant
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Being rock, being gas, being mist, being Mind,being the mesons travelling among the galaxies at the speed of light,you have come here, my beloved.And your blue eyes shine, so beautiful,…
Peace Treaty
By Thich Nhat Hanh
In Order That We May Live Long and Happily Together, In Order That We May Continually Develop and Deepen Our Love and Understanding, We the Undersigned, Vow to Observe and Practice…
Hugging Meditation
By Thich Nhat Hanh
When you practice hugging meditation, before you hug someone, you breathe in, bow to him or her with respect, and say to yourself, "A lotus for you." If you have never seen a…
The Two Promises for Children
By Thich Nhat Hanh
I vow to develop understanding in order to live peacefully with people, animals, plants, and minerals. I vow to develop my compassion in order to protect the lives of people,…
International Mindfulness Network
By Thich Nhat Hanh
A Message from Thich Nhat Hanh November 2 , 1999 Plum Village, France Sharing a Practice Twelve years ago, at a retreat in Montreal, a lady told me after the first…
The Six Points Suggested by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh on the Openness of the Vietnamese Communist Party
By Thich Nhat Hanh
The Vietnamese Communist feels at ease with the cultural traditions of Vietnam and is determined to live in such a way as to make it more beautiful day by day.The…
Poem: Please Call Me By My True Names
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow—even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arrivingto be a bud on a Spring branch,to be a tiny bird,…
Poem: Contemplation
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Since the moon is full tonight,let us call upon the stars in prayer.the power of concentration, seen through the bright,one-pointed mind, is shaking the universe. All living beings are present…
Poem: Structure of Suchness
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Do not scold the little birds. We need their songs. Do not hate your own body. It is the altar for humanity's spirit. Your eyes contain the trichiliocosm, and your…
Poem: You Set Out This Morning
By Thich Nhat Hanh
You set out this morning to give the silver space a future. The phoenix spreads her wings and takes to the immense sky. The water clings to the feet of…
Gatha: Washing your hands
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Water flows over these hands.May I use them skillfully to preserve our precious planet. gatha, a short practice poem, from Thich Nhat Hanh's Stepping into Freedom (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1997)
Poem: For Warmth
By Thich Nhat Hanh
I hold my face in my two hands.No, I am not crying.I hold my face in my two handsto keep the loneliness warm—two hands protecting,two hands nourishing,two hands preventingmy soul…
Gatha for Blessing the Offering to the Hungry
By Thich Nhat Hanh
The ways of the Awakened One are wondrous His limitless compassion transforms seven grains of rice into food enough for everyone
Poem: A Teacher Looking for His Disciple
By Thich Nhat Hanh
I have been looking for you, my child, Since the time when rivers and mountains still lay in obscurity. I was looking for you When you were still in a…
Mindfulness Practice Centers
By Thich Nhat Hanh
In Plum Village we have meditated for more than a year on how to offer mindfulness as a nonsectarian practice that can be applied in schools, hospitals, prisons, and society at large. According…
The Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Thay has recently replaced the ten "precepts" (sila) with the term "mindfulness trainings" (siksa) to more accurately reflect their intention and purpose. This is a term also used by the Buddha. Thay also…
Human Relations, Human Rights
By Thich Nhat Hanh
I am more than Vietnamese. I am also a citizen of the world. We must be aware of the "interbeing" of all countries' happiness. Happiness is not an individual matter. The happiness of…
Poem: Open the Road Wider
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Hair which is the color of precious woodis now offered as incense.Beauty becomes eternity.How wonderful the awareness of impermanence! Since everything is as a dream,the true mind is determined to…
Gatha for Adjusting Posture
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Feelings come and golike clouds in a windy sky.Conscious breathingis my anchor.
The Way Ahead for Buddhism in Vietnam
By Thich Nhat Hanh
The following proposal has been offered by Thich Nhat Hanh for bringing about reconciliation between the government of Vietnam and the Vietnamese Buddhists. 1. Protecting our Nation's Nature-Heritage (Preserving our Mother's Body): As…
An Interview with Thay
By Thich Nhat Hanh
By Stanley Young During the Retreat for Environmentalists, a reporter from the Los Angeles Reader came to Camp Shalom and conducted this interview with Thay. What is your message to environmental activists?…
Poem: The Good News
By Thich Nhat Hanh
The good newsthey do not print.The good newswe do print.We have a special edition every momentthat we need you to read.The good news is that you are aliveand the linden…
The Five Wonderful Precepts
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Following the Spring Retreats, Thich Nhat Hanh re-translated the Five Precepts to express their implications more thoroughly and to rephrase the "Do not's" in a way that articulates these positive practices: …
Poem composed by Thich Nhat Hanh
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Alfred Hassler, one of the primary supporters of Thich Nhat Hanh in the American peace movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, passed away in June. Thay and Sister Phuong…
New Mindfulness Verse
By Thich Nhat Hanh
During the Spring Lectures and Retreats, Thich Nhat Hahn has been suggesting we use this gatha: In-OutBreathing in, I know that I am breathing in.Breathing out, I know that I…
