“Mindfulness is the best way to be with our suffering without being overwhelmed by it. Mindfulness is the capacity to dwell in the present moment, to know what’s happening in the here and now.”
“With mindfulness we can discover the fact that the conditions of happiness we already have are sufficient… and that happiness is possible right now.”
—No Mud, No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness, Meditation and Living on Earth
We recommend these books that offer teachings on mindfulness, lovingkindness and living with compassion and awareness on earth.
May they offer insight into being present, suffering well and living in full awareness that peace, love and happiness can be found within you, right here, right now.
No Mud, No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh
Lovingkindness, Sharon Salzberg
True Love, Thich Nhat Hanh
Be Free Where You Are, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Other Shore, Thich Nhat Hanh
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
Awake Where You Are, Martin Aylward
We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons on Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption, Kaira Jewel Lingo
The True Source of Healing: How the Ancient Tibetan Practice of Soul Retrieval Can Transform and Enrich Your Life, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
A Course in Meditation, OSHO
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, Francis Weller
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down, Haemin Sunim
“Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world… We can open to everything with the healing force of love. When we feel love, our mind is expansive and open enough to include the entirety of life in full awareness, both its pleasures and its pains.”
—Lovingkindness, Sharon Salzburg
Poetry and Philosophy
These books of poetry and philosophy help readers see the world through the lens of poetry as meditation and presence, and philosophy as a way to navigate life with clarity, wisdom, lightness and ease.
A Year with Hafiz: Daily Contemplations, Hafiz, translated by David Ladinsky
The Essential Rumi, Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
Upstream, Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems, Volume 1, Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems, Volume 2, Mary Oliver
Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World, Jane Hirshfield
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, Jane Hirshfield
Cold Mountain Poems, Han Shan
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, Basho
The Tao of Pooh: The Principles of Taoism Demonstrated by Winnie-the-Pooh, Benjamin Hoff
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tao: The Watercourse Way, Alan Watts
The Way of Zen, Alan Watts
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, Thich Nhat Hanh