Sangha Building: our noblest career
In this teaching just before his stroke, Thay emphasises that no studies, ceremonies, or personal enlightenments are more noble than the practice of sangha-building and nurturing collective awakening.
Community Building
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
Nick Harding interviews "green crusader" Thich Nhat Hanh before his talk at the Hammersmith Apollo, London.
Love and Liberation
Melvin McLeod interviews Thich Nhat Hanh on true love, the benefits of suffering, and the insight that will set you free.
Seeing Thay in the Sangha
This letter was written by Thay in 2009, after he was urgently hospitalized with a serious lung infection, in the middle of a 3-month U.S. Tour. About 900 people had gathered in at the...
Thay Misses The Sangha
Dear Friends and Co-practitioners at the Retreat One Buddha is Not Enough, Estes Park, CO. My dear friends, I am writing to you from the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. I know the Sangha...
Sitting Still, Imperturbable
Sitting Still Hut, Upper Hamlet, Plum Village July 20, 2009 To my students in Bat Nha, Tu Hieu and everywhere, Thay is sitting at “Sitting Still Hut,” in the Upper Hamlet of Plum Village...
Building a Community of Love
In this remarkable exchange, bell hooks interviews Thich Nhat Hanh on the theme of “Beloved Community” and realising Martin Luther King’s dream.
Giving back to our motherland
Writing from exile in Paris in 1974, Thay wrote these words of encouragement and inspiration to his social workers back in Vietnam, dreaming of creating a village and practice center together.