Parallax Press: 144 books
Work That Matters
Create a Livelihood That Reflects Your Core Intention
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
So many of us feel trapped in wage slavery and deadened to our true talents and life’s purpose. Or we’ve wandered through dozens of jobs and are left feeling adrift and without meaning in our lives. Livelihood is a source of great suffering for way too many.
Author and longtime meditator...
Divine Gardens
Mayumi Oda and the San Francisco Zen Center
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Known to many as "the Matisse of Japan," Mayumi Oda combines traditional Japanese and Buddhist iconography with her own unique sense of color, line, and movement. In this collection, her groundbreaking artwork is paired with essays by San Francisco Zen Center and Green Gulch Farm Zen Center...
Beyond the Self
Teachings on the Middle Way
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
One of the Buddha's most central ideas is the importance of transcending "either/or" thinking to avoid the trap of extremist views. In Beyond the Self Thich Nhat Hanh suggests that we can find tranquility by embracing all aspects of life, instead of focusing on what we like and dislike....
Fidelity
How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
What does healthy intimacy look like? How we do we keep the energy and passion alive in long-term relationships? What practices can help us forgive our partner when he or she has hurt us? How can we get a new relationship off to a strong and stable start? What do we do if we feel restless in a relationship...
Our Appointment with Life
Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
This easily accessible translation and commentary by Thich Nhat Hanh on the Sutra on Knowing the Better Way To Live Alone, is the earliest teaching of the Buddha on living fully in the present moment. "To live alone" doesn’t mean to isolate oneself from society. It means to live in mindfulness:...
Healing
A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
This extraordinary story takes the reader from the rice fields of Vietnam to the peaceful surrounding of Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in Plum Village where Sister Dang Nghiem took refuge. There she gained a deep understanding of the Buddhist teachings of mindfulness forged in the fire of her own...
What Book!?
Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1994
With poems from spiritual teachers to jazz musicians, from the monastery to the street, What Book!? brings together a boad range of verse, expressions of living in an awakened way. " A poet once located poetry as somewhere before or after words take place. Mindfulness is the practice of finding...
Inside the Now
Meditations on Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
This beautifully designed book will be cherished for generations. Written in the summer of 2013, Inside the Now contains the most recent, never before published commentaries and reflections of Thich Nhat Hanh on living in stillness and timelessness.
The book begins with an autobiographical...
Together We Are One
Honoring Our Diversity, Celebrating Our Connection
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2005
Based on four retreats that Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh led specifically for people of color, this book is for people of all colors, backgrounds, and experiences who have ever felt excluded or alienated, or anyone concerned with issues of social justice. Although Together We Are One is based on teachings...
Path of Compassion
Stories from the Buddha's Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Path of Compassion is a collection of key stories from Thich Nhat Hanh’s classic Old Path White Clouds, a book celebrating its 20th publishing anniversary this year. It tells the fascinating life story of Prince Siddhartha, who left his family and renounced his carefully guarded life, and after...
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
How to Eat is part of the Mindfulness Essentials Series by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, illuminating the basics of mindfulness practice. These short meditations cover everything from eating with others and enjoying our food to connecting with the Earth. Nhat Hanh inspires a joyful and sustainable relationship...
Inside the Flame
The Joy of Treasuring What You Already Have
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Inside the Flame invites readers to unplug their computers, cell phones, and televisions and plunge back into overlooked nooks and crannies of everyday experience. We've lost touch with the richness of the tangible and with it our reverence for the physical world. Our ability to focus on the here...
Mindfulness in the Garden
Zen Tools for Digging in the Dirt
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Mindfulness in the Garden offers simple mindfulness verses (gathas) composed to connect the mind and body and to bring the reader/gardener’s awareness to the details of the present moment as they work in the garden. These gathas are signposts leading to nature, to the present, and ultimately to...
Holding Space
On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A look at the spiritual, emotional, and philosophical implications of end-of-life care by an elegant and literary writer who is a hospital chaplain.
As a hospital chaplain, Amy Wright Glenn has been present with those suffering from suicide, trauma, disease, and unforeseen accidents and has...