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For nearly 30 years Sister Chan Khong’s Deep Relaxation practice has been a highlight for thousands of people who have attended Order of Interbeing Buddhist retreats. With Deep Relaxation book and audio CD, the reader/listener will learn to meditate and relax body and mind at the deepest level, leading to a measurable...

In 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 relationships. Thousands have been introduced to the beginning anew practice at the retreats led worldwide each year by Zen Master...

Learning True Love is a moving personal memoir by Thich Nhat Hanh’s right hand-woman and oldest disciple Sr. Chan Khong. It is an introduction to the mindfulness teachings and life of Thich Nhat Hanh and his community in exile, an overview to the development of the European and American...

Inspired by the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, in Each Breath a Smile by Sister Susan, young children learn how to calm body and mind and enjoy the present moment.

The Ten Gates is an audio CD designed to help the listener through a twelve week course based on Brother Phap Hai’s book Nothing To It: Ten Ways To Be At Home With Yourself.

In Nothing To It, Brother Phap Hai who is an Australian-born senior monk in the Plum Village Tradition, brings his characteristic warmth and humour to explore the many different gates to transformation offered by Buddhism. A gate is a teaching, practice, or way of looking at things. Each gate is...

Before 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 Offensive and part of the amnesty for Amerasian children of the late 1970s, Dang Nghiem arrived in this country...

This extraordinary autobiography by Sister Dang Nghiem takes the reader from the rice fields of Vietnam to the peaceful surrounding of Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in Plum Village where she took refuge. There she gained a deep understanding of the Buddhist teachings of mindfulness forged in the fire of...

In 1988, Sister Annabel Laity became the first Western person to be ordained as a monastic disciple in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vietnamese Zen lineage. She was given the Dharma name Chan Duc, which means True Virtue. Thirty years later, Sister Annabel is a much-loved senior Dharma teacher in the...

How we develop misperceptions, how we can gain insight, and how mindfulness practices can help us see ourselves, each other, and the world around us more clearly are just a few of the topics touched upon in this latest addition to the Mindfulness Essentials Series. In brief meditations accompanied...

Learn how to relax the bonds of anger, attachment, and delusion through mindfulness and kindness toward ourselves and others. This time Nhat Hanh brings his signature clarity, compassion, and humour to the ways we act out in anger, frustration, despair, and delusion. The Mindfulness Essentials series introduces beginners and...

True Peace Work is an anthology of voices from many lineages. Thich Nhat Hanh and many others such as His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Joanna Macy, Gary Snyder, Maha Ghosananda, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Matthieu Ricard are featured in this foundational trove of Buddhist essays, poems, and teachings. The topics covered...

Perhaps Thich Nhat Hanh’s most enduring legacy may be his extraordinary contribution to the Buddhist canon. He has offered new translations, modern commentaries, and radical revisions to both ancient sutras and the Buddhist monastic code, making them relevant to the challenges of our times. His English translation of the...

In the early 2000s Thich Nhat Hanh’s engaged mindfulness teachings began to be applied in workplaces, schools, hospitals, town halls – and even prisons, police forces and parliaments. Perhaps the field where his impact has been greatest is in education, where his “applied ethics” have been taken up by...

Thich Nhat Hanh has been a pioneering voice in spiritual ecology since the early 1970s, contributing a new language of “interbeing” vividly articulating the interconnectedness of all that is. In “Love Letter to the Earth” (2013), he called for a radical shift in consciousness to protect the planet. Bringing...

After decades of peace activism, Thich Nhat Hanh realised that there was a lot of anger and violence in the peace movement. “You can send all the bombs to the moon, but the roots of the bombs would still be there in our hearts, and sooner or later, we...

Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that if we are to sustain ourselves while taking action to relieve suffering in the world, we need to come together in community, close to nature. Plum Village in France was a natural continuation of “Fragrant Palm Leaves” (Phương Bối) a spiritual community he and...

As Thich Nhat Hanh’s exile continued, his following also continued to grow. Refugees fleeing Vietnam, and Westerners curious to learn more about Buddhist meditation, sought his teaching and guidance. In 1982 he founded Plum Village Mindfulness Practice Center in Southwest France, a rural refuge where he continued his research...

In 1966 Thich Nhat Hanh was exiled for daring to travel to the West to call for peace. He was cut off from his community back in Vietnam, unable to return. He wrote “The Miracle of Mindfulness” (“Phép Lạ Của Sự Tỉnh Thức”) in 1975, as a manual for...

As war raged in Vietnam, Thich Nhat Hanh became a leading figure in the Buddhist peace movement. “Lotus in a Sea of Fire” published in 1967 in the US (and underground in Vietnam as “Hoa Sen Trong Biển Lửa”), was his uncompromising and radical call for peace. It gave...