In The Art of Mindful Living, Thích Nhất Hạnh offers a deeply accessible and soothing guide for integrating mindfulness, love, and compassion into everyday life. Drawn from teachings delivered during a family meditation retreat, the work combines traditional gathas (short poems or verses), guided meditations, breathing practices, and reflections to help listeners or readers face common cha…
Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children is the fruit of decades of development and innovation in the Plum Village community's collective practice with children. Based on Thich Nhat Hanh's thirty years of teaching mindfulness and compassion to parents, teachers, and children, the book and enclosed CD cover a wide range of contemplative and fun activities parents and educators can do…
In Is Nothing Something?, Thích Nhất Hạnh answers a collection of heartfelt, funny, and sometimes difficult questions that children ask about life, death, family, friendship, love, change, and meaning, offering simple but profound Zen-inspired responses. Illustrated with bright, full-color art by Jessica McClure, each page pairs a child’s question—like “What is important in life?”,…
A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles introduces young children to a simple and playful meditation technique “pebble meditation” developed by Thích Nhất Hạnh. Using four ordinary pebbles—each representing something in nature (for example, a mountain, sky, ocean, and space)—the book guides children step by step to breathe, focus, and imagine being each one of these elements,…
Happy Teachers Change the World offers a rich and practical guide for educators that weaves together the wisdom of Thích Nhất Hạnh’s mindfulness teachings with research and classroom experience, via Katherine Weare. The book insists that for teachers—whether in preschool, primary, secondary, or higher education—the foundation of meaningful, compassionate teaching is a mindfulness pra…
This book is a mindfulness-guide to improving how we speak, listen, and relate to ourselves and others. Thích Nhất Hạnh argues that communication is like food: words, thoughts, and interactions can either nourish the mind and spirit or cause harm. Before we can truly communicate with others, we need to establish mindful communication with ourselves—by observing our breath, noticing our e…