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Thich Nhat Hanh

32 books in this section — 17 with a full summary so far

023At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life— Thich Nhat Hanh
At Home in the World is Thich Nhat Hanh's most directly autobiographical book, gathering stories from his childhood in central Vietnam, his ordination as a young monk, the founding of the School of Youth for Social Service, his decades of exile after speaking out against the…
084Be Free Where You Are— Thich Nhat Hanh
Be Free Where You Are is a small, plainly spoken book built from a single dharma talk Thich Nhat Hanh gave in 1999 at the Maryland Correctional Institution in Hagerstown, later transcribed and lightly edited into this pocket-sized volume with a short question-and-answer section…
034Being Peace— Thich Nhat Hanh
Being Peace, one of Thich Nhat Hanh's earliest and most influential English-language books, makes the case that peace in the world cannot be separated from peace within a single person's daily consciousness — that international peace movements often fail because the people…
078Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm— Thich Nhat Hanh
*Fear* is Thich Nhat Hanh's extended exploration of fear as a universal human experience rooted, in his account, in a deep-seated fear of impermanence and death that most people spend enormous energy avoiding rather than facing directly. Drawing on Buddhist teaching and his own…
094Gieo Trồng Hạnh Phúc (Cultivating Happiness)— Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Gieo Trồng Hạnh Phúc" is a practical mindfulness manual by Zen master Thích Nhất Hạnh, built around a single, repeated claim: happiness is not something we stumble into, it is something we grow, the way a farmer grows a crop, through steady daily tending. The book is less a…
103Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices— Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices assembles roughly fifty short, concrete meditation exercises that Thich Nhat Hanh developed out of decades of retreat teaching at Plum Village, organized less as a single sustained argument than as a working manual. Each entry names an…
111How to Eat— Thich Nhat Hanh
*How to Eat* is the second title in Thich Nhat Hanh's Mindfulness Essentials series, a set of small, pocket-sized books that distill core mindfulness practices — eating, sitting, walking, relaxing, loving — into short, accessible teachings illustrated with simple black-and-white…
113How to Love— Thich Nhat Hanh
How to Love is one of Thich Nhat Hanh's short pocket-sized guides (part of a Parallax Press "Mindfulness Essentials" series that also includes How to Eat, How to Sit, and How to Walk), applying his mindfulness teaching specifically to romantic and family relationships. His…
115How to Relax— Thich Nhat Hanh
*How to Relax* is part of Thich Nhat Hanh's Mindfulness Essentials series, sharing the same small, illustrated, pocket-sized format as its companion titles. Where *How to Eat* and *How to Sit* focus on specific activities, this volume addresses a broader and more diffuse…
116How to Sit— Thich Nhat Hanh
*How to Sit* was the first title published in Thich Nhat Hanh's Mindfulness Essentials series, and it addresses what is, for many people, the most immediately recognizable image of Buddhist practice: formal seated meditation. True to the series' format, the book is short,…
118How to Walk— Thich Nhat Hanh
*How to Walk* is part of Thich Nhat Hanh's Mindfulness Essentials series, applying the same short, illustrated, pocket-sized format to one of the most ordinary human activities: putting one foot in front of the other. The book treats walking not as mere transportation between…
149Making Space: Creating a Home Meditation Practice— Thich Nhat Hanh
Making Space is Thich Nhat Hanh's practical, gently instructive guide to building a personal meditation and mindfulness practice at home, aimed explicitly at readers without any prior background in Buddhist practice or philosophy. Rather than a doctrinal or historical text, the…
187No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering— Thich Nhat Hanh
No Mud, No Lotus takes its title from an image Thich Nhat Hanh returns to throughout the book: a lotus flower cannot bloom in clean water or on marble — it needs the mud of a pond to grow at all. His central claim is that suffering and happiness work the same way. They are not…
194Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life— Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace Is Every Step was assembled in 1990 from Thich Nhat Hanh's lectures, essays, and informal talks by a small group of his students working closely with him, and it reads accordingly — as a sequence of short, self-contained pieces rather than one sustained argument. The book…
209Quyền Lực Đích Thực (The Art of Power)— Thích Nhất Hạnh
*The Art of Power* (published in Vietnamese as *Quyền Lực Đích Thực*) is Thich Nhat Hanh's direct engagement with a subject he approaches from an unusual angle for a Buddhist teacher: power itself, and the widespread but — in his view — mistaken belief that power, wealth, fame,…
226Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise— Thich Nhat Hanh
Silence argues that the constant sensory and mental noise defining modern life is best understood the way Buddhism understands food: as something we consume, often compulsively, whether or not it nourishes us. Thich Nhat Hanh opens the book by naming this "steady diet of noise"…
297The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation— Thich Nhat Hanh
Originally written as a long letter to a fellow Vietnamese monk running an orphanage and social-work operation during the Vietnam War, The Miracle of Mindfulness is Thich Nhat Hanh's answer to a very practical question: how do you keep your own inner calm and clarity while doing…

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