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.
Developing upon teachings on the art of mindful living begun in Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh shows the connection between inner peace and peace on earth. Recorded live in New York in 1991, he teaches us how mindful breathing and awareness is refreshing and healing, and how it can be used as the basis for examining the roots of war and social problems. His vision for rebuilding society through strengthening families and communities coalesces the ultimate reach of each act in our daily lives.
