The Healthy Planet Radio Show.

The Healthy Planet Radio Show has been airing on WUSB, 90.1 FM since January of 2007. It immediately follows Democracy Now! during “drive time,” from 6 to 7 PM. Now airing on the first and third Fridays of each month, HealthyPlanet’s Bob DiBenedetto brings you twice as much empowering, life-and-world-changing information as before.

We’re proud to announce that The Healthy Planet Radio Show has won 2nd Place at the 2023 Press Club of Long Island (PCLI) Media Awards for Environment Radio. PCLI is one of the largest pro chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists. They’re devoted to protecting and advocating for First Amendment rights, furthering ethical standards and providing ongoing training for their members. Thank you PCLI for that recognition!

WUSB is LI’s largest non-commercial, free-form radio station. The signal can be heard at 90.1 FM on most of Long Island, and in Southern Connecticut, parts of NYC (Brooklyn and Queens), and Westchester County. It also simulcasts on 107.3 FM to reach Stony Brook University campus. It can be heard over the Internet 24/7, on www.WUSB.FM.

Appreciating The Wisdom of
Thich Nhat Hanh


Zen Master, Author of Over 100 Books, Global Spiritual Leader,
Poet and Peace Activist

 

LISTEN HERE: Appreciating The Wisdom And Joy of Zen Master Thich Hnat Hanh

Show Description:

Join HealthyPlanet’s Bob DiBenedetto to hear and reflect upon the wisdom of the recently passed Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Thich Nhat Hanh was one of the world’s most influential spiritual leaders and pioneer of the modern mindfulness movement. He was a prolific author and poet, having written over 100 books, translated into over 40 languages. Over five million have sold in the U.S. alone. 

Thich Nhat Hanh has influenced leaders in the fields of politics, business, social justice, and environmental action. His latest book, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, was published by HarperCollins in October 2021. 

Thich Nhat Hanh also advocated for a vegan diet, believing it benefits both animals and the environment. He argued that choosing food with compassion brings happiness in return.

We should eat and drink in such a way that can preserve compassion in our heart. We should consume in such a way that helps reduce the suffering of living beings. In that way we can preserve compassion in our heart. A person who does not have much compassion in his heart, cannot be a happy person any more.”

His bestselling titles include The Miracle of Mindfulness, Peace is Every Step, Anger, and How to Love. Often called “the father of mindfulness” who sowed the seeds of the mindfulness revolution, Thich Nhat Hanh taught many of today’s leading mindfulness teachers, and developed healing methodologies that are incorporated into mainstream clinical psychology to treat depression, anxiety, and stress. 

He has spoken at the US Congress, the UK Parliament, the Indian Parliament, and the Northern Ireland Assembly. The tech billionaire Marc Benioff, the former president of the World Bank, Jim Kim, and the architect of the Paris Climate Agreement, Christiana Figueres, have credited his teachings with giving them strength and inspiration. Walk With Me, the documentary about his life narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch was released in 2017 and sold out in cinemas across Europe. 

Thich Nhat Hanh first came to international prominence in 1966, when he arrived in the West to call for an end to the Vietnam War. He befriended Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and played a pivotal role in the decision of the civil right’s leader to speak out against the war. In 1967, Dr. King nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize calling him, “an apostle of peace and nonviolence.” Thich Nhat Hanh was exiled from Vietnam for 39 years as a result of his peace work and returned only in 2018 to spend his last days in his root temple. 

His work is continued by the International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism which he founded: a global grassroots network comprising more than 1,000 local mindfulness groups, dozens of meditation centers, and ten  monasteries in the U.S., Europe and Asia. His practice centers, home to over 700 monks and nuns, represent the fastest-growing Buddhist monastic order in the West, and receive tens of thousands of visitors every year. Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic and lay followers continue to apply his teachings on mindfulness, peacemaking, and compassionate dialog, in schools, workplaces, businesses, and prisons. 

I am a continuation, like the rain is a continuation of the cloud.”

                                                              — Thich Nhat Hanh

  
 
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Winner of 2nd Place at the 2023 Press Club of Long Island Media Awards for Environment Radio

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