Published lectures
The Heart of Understanding
His most quoted exposition of the Heart Sutra: the cloud floating in the sheet of paper, emptiness understood as “being full of everything”, interbeing. A short text from which many of the formulations he would repeat for thirty years derive.
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Authorship note
Oral commentaries on the Heart Sutra, edited by Peter Levitt.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
The Heart of Understanding
The Conscious LibraryThe Heart of Understanding
Parallax Press, 1988
Edición ampliada 2009
Other works by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Buddhism Enters Life · 1964
- Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals 1962–1966 · 1966
- Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire · 1967
- A Rose for Your Pocket · 1962
- The Miracle of Mindfulness · 1975
- The Sun My Heart · 1982
- Being Peace · 1987
- Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism · 1987
- Transformation and Healing · 1990
- Peace Is Every Step · 1991
- Old Path White Clouds · 1988
- Touching Peace · 1992
- Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems · 1993
- The Blooming of a Lotus · 1993
- Living Buddha, Living Christ · 1995
- Cultivating the Mind of Love · 1996
- Teachings on Love · 1997
- The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching · 1998
- Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers · 1999
- Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames · 2001
- No Death, No Fear · 2002
- True Love · 1997
- Understanding Our Mind · 2006
- The Art of Power · 2007
- You Are Here · 2001
- The Novice: A Story of True Love · 2011
- Fear · 2012
- The Art of Communicating · 2013
- Mindfulness Essentials series (How to Sit, How to Eat, How to Walk, How to Love, How to Relax, How to Fight, How to See, How to Connect, How to Focus, How to Smile) · 2014
- Silence · 2015
- At Home in the World · 2016
- The Art of Living · 2017
- Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet · 2021
- Chanting from the Heart: Buddhist Ceremonies and Daily Practices · 2006
- Zen Keys · 1973
- The Cry of Vietnam · 1968
- The Raft Is Not the Shore · 1975
- The Sutra on the Eight Realizations of the Great Beings · 1987
- Breathe! You Are Alive · 1988
- The Moon Bamboo · 1989
- Present Moment Wonderful Moment · 1990
- Our Appointment with Life · 1990
- The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion · 1992
- A Taste of Earth and Other Legends of Vietnam · 1992
- Hermitage Among the Clouds · 1982
- Love in Action · 1993
- For a Future to Be Possible · 1993
- Thundering Silence · 1993
- The Long Road Turns to Joy · 1985
- The Stone Boy and Other Stories · 1996
- Stepping into Freedom · 1997
- The Path of Emancipation · 2000
- Be Free Where You Are · 2000
- Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings · 2001
- A Pebble for Your Pocket · 2001
- Master Tang Hoi · 2001
- My Master's Robe · 2002
- Under the Rose Apple Tree · 2002
- Friends on the Path · 2002
- Creating True Peace · 2003
- Finding Our True Home · 2003
- Opening the Heart of the Cosmos · 2003
- Joyfully Together · 2003
- Taming the Tiger Within · 2004
- Freedom Wherever We Go · 2004
- Peace Begins Here · 2004
- Calming the Fearful Mind · 2005
- Keeping the Peace · 2005
- The Energy of Prayer · 2006
- Walking Meditation · 2006
- Two Treasures · 2006
- Buddha Mind, Buddha Body · 2007
- Nothing to Do, Nowhere to Go · 2007
- The Coconut Monk · 2006
- The Dragon Prince · 2007
- The World We Have · 2008
- Mindful Movements · 2008
- Happiness · 2009
- Answers from the Heart · 2009
- Beyond the Self · 2010
- Savor · 2010
- Reconciliation · 2010
- Together We Are One · 2010
- Your True Home · 2011
- Making Space · 2011
- Planting Seeds · 2011
- Fidelity · 2011
- Peace Is Every Breath · 2011
- Awakening of the Heart · 2012
- Good Citizens · 2012
- Work · 2012
- A Handful of Quiet · 2012
- Love Letter to the Earth · 2013
- Zen Battles · 2013
- Peace of Mind · 2013
- No Mud, No Lotus · 2014
- Is Nothing Something? · 2014
- The Mindfulness Survival Kit · 2014
- Inside the Now · 2015
- The Other Shore · 2017
- Happy Teachers Change the World · 2017
- How to Live When a Loved One Dies · 2021
- Admonitions and Encouraging Words of Master Guishan · 2022
- Cracking the Walnut · 2023
- Touching the Earth · 2004
- Be Still and Know · 1996
- Song of an Autumn Evening · 1949
- Golden Light of Spring · 1950
- Fable Poems · 1950
- Eastern Logic · 1950
- Human Affection · 1951
- The Buddhist Family · 1952
- Buddhism Today · 1965
- Modernising Buddhism · 1965
- Palms Joined, I Pray for the White Dove to Appear · 1965
- Speaking to Twenty-Year-Olds · 1966
- Vietnamese Buddhism and the Truly Humanist Path · 1967
- The Wingbeat of the Great Bird · 1967
- Vietnam Poems · 1967
- The Problem of Knowledge in Consciousness-Only Philosophy · 1969
- Tomorrow's Buddhism · 1970
- Buddhism Applied to Daily Life · 1973
- A History of Vietnamese Buddhism · 1973
- Zen Poems · 1976
- Kiều and the Heartbreaking Art · 1994
- A Joyful Path: Community, Transformation and Peace · 1994
- A Lifetime of Peace: Essential Writings by and about Thich Nhat Hanh · 2003
- The Hermit and the Well · 2003
- Each Breath a Smile · 2001
- Moments of Mindfulness: Daily Inspiration · 2005
- The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh · 2012
- The Bodhisattva Path · 2022
- Where Is the Buddha? · 2022
- Peace Is This Moment · 2023
Sources
- Nhat Hanh, Thich. The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajñaparamita Heart Sutra. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1988.
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