Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, poet, scholar, and human rights activist. He has been a professor at Columbia and the Sorbonne, and was founder of a Buddhist University in Saigon. In 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is author of more than one hundred books, forty in English, including the best-selling Living Buddha, Living Christ; Teachings on Love; Present Moment Wonderful Moment; Being Peace; and Anger. He lives at Plum Village, a meditation center in France, and travels worldwide, leading retreats on ""the art of mindful living.
Thich Nhat Hanh’ s classic talk on the ancient traditions of flower arranging uses the elements and tradition of classical flower arrangement as metaphors for Buddhist teachings on Interbeing, meditation practice, living in the present moment, and for establishing harmony in ourself and with others. In contrast with classical schools of flower arranging, which have duality at their base, Thich Nhat Hanh proposes the school of non-duality of flower arranging.
