Thich Nhat Hanh
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The Zen 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, and peace. Many people embark on a seemingly futile search for happiness, running as if there is somewhere else to get to, when the world they live in is full of wonder. To be alive is a miracle. Beauty calls to us every day, yet we rarely are...
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We face a potent intersection of crises: ecological destruction, rising inequality, racial injustice, and the lasting impacts of a devastating pandemic. The situation is beyond urgent. To face these challenges, we need to find ways to strengthen our clarity, compassion, and courage to act.
Beloved Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is blazingly clear: there’s one thing we all have the power to change, which can make all the difference, and that is our...
3) How to Smile
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2023
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The latest book in the bestselling How To series: simple, refreshing meditations of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh give us inspiration and tools for transforming our suffering and cultivating happiness
In inspiring passages and simple exercises, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us what he calls “the art of suffering.” He gives us teachings and tools for transforming suffering as well as ways to touch moments of happiness and smile...
In inspiring passages and simple exercises, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us what he calls “the art of suffering.” He gives us teachings and tools for transforming suffering as well as ways to touch moments of happiness and smile...
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Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, 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 happiness through mastering life's most important skill. How do we say what we mean in a way that the other person can really hear?
How can we listen with compassion and understanding?
Communication fuels the ties that bind, whether in relationships, business, or everyday interactions....
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"Power is good for one thing only: to increase our happiness and the happiness of others. Being peaceful and happy is the most important thing in our lives and yet most of the time we suffer, we run after our cravings, we look to the past or the future for our happiness." Turning our conventional understanding of power on its head, world-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and national bestselling author Thich Nhat Hanh reveals how true power comes...
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Fans of Thich Nhat Hanh's Peace is Every Step and Anger, and Deepak Chopra's Buddha, will appreciate Hanh's wisdom and storytelling in his novel The Novice, which contains universal themes that transcend all boundaries of faith, creed, country, and era. Through the parable of a young woman who stays true to herself and her faith in the face of adversity, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh enables readers to embark on...
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Fear 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 was once nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr.-Thich Nhat Hanh has written a powerful and practical strategic guide to overcoming our debilitating uncertainties and personal terrors. As the Buddhist leader with the most influence in the...
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In this much-anticipated follow-up to his bestselling classic, Peace Is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hanh-one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today-offers an insightful guide to living a fuller life. In this deeply insightful meditation, the world-renowned Vietnamese Zen Buddhist master, poet, scholar, and peace activist illuminates how each of us can incorporate the practice of mindfulness into our every waking moment. In the tradition...
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Common sense tells us that to lose weight, we must eat less and exercise more. But somehow we get stalled. We start on a weight-loss program with good intentions but cannot stay on track. Neither the countless fad diets, nor the annual spending of $50 billion on weight loss helps us feel better or lose weight. Too many of us are in a cycle of shame and guilt. We spend countless hours worrying about what we ate or if we exercised enough, blaming ourselves...
11) How to eat
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Eating is a chance to return to the present moment. How to Eat is the second in Parallaxs series of how-to titles by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. How to Eat clearly and succinctly explains how you can incorporate eating as a form of meditation. The book provides practical advice on how to become truly nourished through the mindful preparation, serving, eating, and cleaning up of food. Eating a meal in mindfulness reveals that you are nourished by the...
12) Being peace
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An ideal starting point for those interested in Buddhism, Being Peace contains Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings on peace and meditation. Using real examples from his own life, as well as poems and fables, Nhat Hanh explains his key practices for living "right in the moment we are alive." These lessons are taught with fine writing and sparkling phrases that draw the reader in and make Being Peace an audiobook that encourages multiple listenings. Still as...
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In this classic 1989 talk, Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh uses flower arranging as a metaphor for establishing harmony both within ourselves and in our families. Thay, as his followers call him, says: "Beauty is the aim of our art, of our action. We want to arrange flowers because we want life to be beautiful. If you take care of your flower, you will become fresh, smiling, and you will recognize people around you as flowers too. In that...
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Any adult wishing to plant seeds of peace, relaxation, and awareness in children will find this helpful. It is full of wisdom on how to simply be with children and nourish their compassion for themselves and others. The audio recording has inspiring recordings of all the songs in the book, Planting Seeds, as well as a guided pebble meditation, total relaxation, and children's touching the earth.
15) Truly Seeing
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Drawing on the story of a Zen student asking his teacher for his most advanced teaching, Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh shares his own experiences on how to take care of sadness, anger, loss, injustice, and how to transform the seeds of suffering we have inherited from past generations. Using examples and often humorous stories, this classic talk (given during a retreat in 1998) offers concrete practices and contains the teachings that would...
16) No Mud, No Lotus
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The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. In No Mud, No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh offers practices and inspiration transforming suffering and finding true joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh acknowledges that because suffering can feel so bad, we try to run away from it or cover it up by consuming. We find something to eat or turn on the television. But unless we're able to face our suffering, we can't be present and...
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Jede gewöhnliche Tätigkeit kann in achtsames Handeln verwandelt werden: Das Aufwachen, Zähneputzen, Essen, Laufen, Autofahren, Arbeiten. Fast die Hälfte unseres Lebens verbringen wir bei der Arbeit. Umso wichtiger ist es, wie wir uns dabei fühlen. Der Umgang mit Kollegen oder mit Vorgesetzten, das Verhalten in Sitzungen oder Konferenzen, bei Entscheidungsfindungen oder bei Routinearbeiten - was immer es ist: Die Praxis des achtsamen Tuns und...
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Die Grundlagen für ein zufriedenes Leben: kompakt, achtsam, verständlich
"Ob dies ein glücklicher Moment ist, hängt nicht vom Moment ab, sondern von unserer Sichtweise", sagt Thich Nhat Hanh. Deshalb ist es wichtig, die eigenen Wahrnehmungen zu hinterfragen und uns nicht an sie zu klammern. Denn oft verhindert nur unsere Vorstellung vom Glücklichsein, dass wir wirklich glücklich sind. In diesem Hörbuch erklärt der bekannte Zen-Meister, wie...
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""Es ist nie zu spät für eine glückliche Kindheit." Dieser berühmte Satz ist für alle gültig, die sich von Thich Nhat Hanh leiten lassen. Die Folgen seelischer Verletzungen in der Kindheit wie Angst und Verlassenheitsgefühle oder Wut und Trauer sind bis in die Zellebene hinein wirksam und blockieren unser inneres Wachstum. Thich Nhat Hanh zeigt, dass meist schon unsere Eltern oder sogar frühere Generationen dieselben belastenden Gefühlsmuster...
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In Plum Village, the practice of chanting in English is a flower, slowly blossoming. The chants and music on this audio book are some of the first petals to open on this beautiful flower. Chanted by the resident community of Plum Village in 2002, these recordings include most of the chants contained in Chanting from the Heart, with live tracks from a monastic ordination ceremony and a traditional incense offering chanted by Thich Nhat Hanh in Vietnamese....