How to Dream

In the final book of the best-selling Mindfulness Essentials series, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to realize our dreams in this very moment.

We all want our lives to be useful and meaningful. The aspiration to transform suffering--our own, each other's, and the Earth's--can give us the energy we need to continue on a wholesome path. In How to Dream, Thich Nhat Hanh explains how to let our deep desire nourish us and, in turn, how to keep that desire alive.

With inspiring illustrations throughout, this pocket-sized book explains how to:

- Get in touch with our deepest dream
- Live our dream in every moment of daily life
- Keep our dream alive with the help of a community
- Protect our dream from the dampening effects of our fast-paced modern life
- Direct energy towards lasting personal, social, and political change

If our aspiration is lost, depleted, or if we've slowly let it go, we must rekindle it. Whatever our role in society--activist, businessperson, teacher, parent, or politician--we can live into our deep aspiration and change the direction of civilization. And together, as a community with a collective aspiration, we have the energy to realize our dream.

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher: Parallax Press
Published: 08/26/2025
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 5.90h x 3.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781952692994
ISBN10: 1952692997
BISAC Categories:
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Mindfulness & Meditation
- Philosophy | Eastern
- Religion | Buddhism | Zen (see also Philosophy | Zen)

About the Author
Thich Nhat Hanh, a world-renowned spiritual teacher and peace activist, was born in Vietnam in 1926 and became a Zen Buddhist monk at the age of sixteen. Over seven decades of teaching, he published more than one hundred books, which have sold millions of copies. Exiled from Vietnam in 1966 for promoting peace, his teachings on Buddhism as a path to social and political transformation are responsible for bringing the mindfulness movement to the West. He established the international Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism in France, now the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe and the heart of a growing community of mindfulness practice centers around the world. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh passed away in 2022 at the age of ninety-five at his root temple, Tu Hieu, in Hue, Vietnam, surrounded by his beloved community.

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