Meditation

How to See

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...

Savor

With Savor, world-renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and Harvard nutritionist Dr. Lilian Cheung show us how to end our struggles with weight once and for all. Offering practical tools, including personalised goal setting, a detailed nutrition guide, and a mindful living plan, the authors help us to uncover...

How to Live

The five bestselling handbooks of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Mindfulness Essentials Series, How to Sit, How to Eat, How to Walk, How to Love, and How to Relax, are collected together for the first time in a beautifully designed gift box. The books provide explicit, simple directions for carrying out...

How to Eat (Mindful Essentials)

How to Eat is part of the Mindfulness Essentials Series by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, illuminating the basics of mindfulness practice. These short meditations cover everything from eating with others and enjoying our food to connecting with the Earth. Nhat Hanh inspires a joyful and sustainable relationship with all...

How to Sit

The first book in the Mindfulness Essentials Series by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit offers clear, simple directions and inspiration for anyone wanting to explore mindfulness meditation. In short, single-paragraph chapters, Nhat Hanh shares detailed instructions, guided breathing exercises and visualizations, as well as his own personal stories...

The Long Road Turns To Joy

One of the few books focused completely on mindful walking and walking meditation. This revised edition of the best-selling title has new material—including new walking meditation poems and practices—and provides a practical and inspirational introduction to this important practice. The Long Road Turns To Joy reminds us that we...

This Moment Is Full of Wonders

This Moment Is Full of Wonders collects more than 60 full-colour artworks by Thich Nhat Hanh in a richly textured hardcover package. As beautiful as they are inspirational, the ink-rendered phrases offer eloquent distillations of Buddhist wisdom, such as “Peace is every step,” “Be free where you are,” and...

Silence

Silence shows us how to find and maintain our equanimity amid the barrage of noise. Thich Nhat Hanh guides us on a path to cultivate calm even in the most chaotic places. Silence is a concise, practical guide to understanding and developing our most powerful inner resource—silence—to help us find...

Transformation and Healing

The teachings contained in this The Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness are fundamental to the practice of mediation, and constitute the foundation of all mindfulness practice. The Sutra has been studied, practiced and handed down with special care from generation to generation for 2,500 years. In his...

Touching the Earth

Based on the loving kindness and compassion meditation of the Lotus Sutra, Touching the Earth contains one of the most popular and transformative practices of Thich Nhat Hanh. Written as a poetic conversation with the Buddha, it is a step-by-step guide helping us to look deeply, and to renew...

Touching Peace

In Touching Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh expands the teachings on practicing the art of mindful living begun in the best selling Being Peace by giving specific, practical instructions on extending our meditation practice into our daily lives. The book reminds us to focus on what is refreshing and healing...

Peace Is Every Breath

In this deeply insightful meditation, Thich Nhat Hanh illuminates how each of us can incorporate the practice of mindfulness into our every waking moment. It opens a pathway to greater spiritual fulfilment through its patient examination of how we live our lives and is an insightful guide to living a...

Making Space

Find peace and calm amid the busyness of your life with this new book by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Designed to be both inspiration and guidebook for those new to mindfulness practice, Making Space offers easy-to-follow instructions for setting up a breathing room, listening to a bell, sitting,...

The Miracle of Mindfulness

The Miracle of Mindfulness was written by Thich Nhat Hanh, while he was living in exile from his homeland, as a long letter to Brother Quang, a main staff member of the School of Youth for Social Service in South Vietnam in 1974. Exiled from Vietnam he wrote to...

The Blooming of a Lotus

Thirty-four guided meditation exercises that will bring both beginning and experienced practitioners into closer touch with their bodies, their inner selves, their families, and the world. This book is a treasure for those learning meditation and for those who wish to deepen their practice.  Compassionate and wise, Thich Nhat...

The Sun My Heart

The Sun My Heart is one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s most beloved books. It was written as a sequel to Miracle of Mindfulness and contains the journey, on the path of everyday practice, from mindfulness to insight in an informational, conversational manner. Using the objects and events of everyday...

Two Treasures

This volume contains two sutras, The Sutra on the Eight Realisations of Great Beings and its complementary text, The Discourse on Happiness. The sutras explain in practical detail how to progress step-by-step towards the Buddhist ideals of simplicity, generosity, compassion, and enlightenment. The first sutra reflects the insights of...

Mindful Movements

Thich Nhat Hanh has developed these gentle exercises based on Yoga and Tai Chi movements, initially designed as mindful stretching breaks between long periods of sitting meditation, Mindful Movements became a popular practice to complement sitting meditation, extending Thich Nhat Hanh’s trademark gentle approach to Buddhist teachings into a...

Present Moment Wonderful Moment

These gathas, or poetic verses are collected to help practice mindfulness. Reciting these poetic, yet practical verses can help us to slow down and enjoy each moment of our lives. They are designed to use while doing ordinary daily activities such as washing the dishes, driving the car, or...

Peace of Mind

Peace of Mind provides a foundation for understanding the principles of mind/body awareness. By learning how our physical body and mind are inseparable in creating our own perceptions and experiences we can begin to trust and nourish our ability to create well-being. Thinking can be something productive and creative,...

Happiness

All of Thich Nhat Hanh’s key practices are collected in this accessible and easy-to-use book. Happiness is the quintessential resource of mindfulness practices.Happiness is structured to introduce those new to Buddhist teachings as well as for more experienced practitioners. Integrating these practices into daily life allows the reader to...

The Path of Emancipation

The Path of Emancipation transcribes Thich Nhat Hanh’s first twenty-one day retreat in North America in 1998, when he was joined by 400 practitioners around the world. This book deliberately preserves the tone and style of a retreat, including soundings of the bell, meditation breaks, and the question-and-answer sessions....

Breathe, You Are Alive

According to the Buddha’s teaching in the Anapanasati Sutra, maintaining awareness of our breathing is a means of awakening to the true nature of all things and arriving at spiritual liberation. Breathe, You Are Alive outlines 16 exercises of conscious breathing that were taught by the Buddha, together with...

Awakening of the Heart

Awakening of the Heart is a collection of the Buddha’s key sutras with contemporary commentaries and translations by Thich Nhat Hanh. It is an essential complement to Happiness, the bestselling collection of Plum Village meditation and mindful practices released in 2009. Awakening of the Heart captures the heart of...

Being Peace

Since its publication in 1987, “Being Peace” has become a classic of contemporary religious literature. Thich Nhat Hanh shows how our state of mind and body can make the world a more peaceful place. We learn to transform the very situations that pressure and antagonise us into opportunities for...

Peace Is Every Step

In this book Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations in our daily life that usually pressure and antagonise us. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next conscious breath and...

The Art of Prayer

Upon the publication of his book, “The Energy of Prayer”, Thich Nhat Hanh was asked by Publishers Weekly to answer ten questions about his teachings on prayer.

This Is the Buddha’s Love

The great Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh talks about non-self, interdependence, and the love that expands until it has no limit.

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What is Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh January 15, 2020

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