Thich Nhat Hanh
Zen Buddhist teacher
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Slow down and look at a situation the way Thich Nhat Hanh taught: come back to your breath, listen deeply, speak with care, and see how everything depends on everything else.
Big ideas
- Come back to the present moment: At the centre of his teaching is mindfulness: knowing what is happening, here and now .
- Stop, then look deeply: He paired stopping with looking deeply .
- Interbeing: Interbeing is his English word for the way all things are connected and depend on each other .
- Engaged Buddhism: He believed Buddhism should respond directly to people's needs, not hide in temples .
- Deep listening and loving speech: He taught deep listening as a nonviolent answer to conflict .
- The Five Mindfulness Trainings: He rewrote the five traditional Buddhist precepts as positive commitments for modern life .
Hire Thich Nhat Hanh for
- Difficult conversations: Listen deeply and speak so the other person can hear you.
- Anger at a coworker, client or partner: Hold the anger with care before you act.
- Stress before a talk, a launch or a deadline: Come back to the breath and the present.
- Team culture: Build a group that practises together and carries each person further.
- Conflict and misunderstanding: Look deeply for the suffering behind the other side's actions.
- Attention and focus: Do ordinary tasks, such as washing dishes or writing an email, fully.
- Your media and information diet: Choose what you consume, read and share.
- Work with a social purpose: Act for others without burning out.
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Built from
- Thích Nhất Hạnh, Wikipedia
- About Thich Nhat Hanh, Plum Village
- Thich Nhat Hanh: Biography, Plum Village
- The Five Mindfulness Trainings (text by Thich Nhat Hanh, latest revision by the community, 15 June 2022), Plum Village
- Go as a River, Not a Drop of Water: Taking Refuge in the Sangha (Dharma talk, 8 June 2002), Thich Nhat Hanh, Plum Village
- How to Relax (book extract), Thich Nhat Hanh, Plum Village
- Returning to Our True Home (Dharma talk transcript, 2013), Thich Nhat Hanh, Plum Village
- Our Appointment with Life (Dharma talk transcript), Thich Nhat Hanh, Plum Village
- Suffering Can Teach Us (Dharma talk transcript, 2013), Thich Nhat Hanh, Plum Village