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Neha Malhotra
Swami Vivekanand Subharti University

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The Art of Compassionate Communication: Deep Listening and Loving Speech in Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Engaged Buddhism Neha Malhotra
Punggawa Social Inquiry: Journal of Crime, Culture, and Social Dynamics Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Punggawa Social Inquiry 1(2) 2026
Publisher : Punggawa Legacy Center

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Research had examined compassionate communication, Buddhist communication and nonviolent rhetoric, but the reciprocal relationship between deep listening and loving speech in Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Engaged Buddhism remained less clearly articulated. This study investigated deep listening and loving speech in Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Engaged Buddhism and examined how these practices translated mindfulness and compassion into relationally grounded ethical practice. A qualitative textual and thematic analysis was conducted using selected writings by Nhất Hạnh alongside relevant scholarship on Buddhist communication, compassionate communication and Engaged Buddhism. The findings showed that mindfulness enabled awareness of suffering and reactive tendencies before they shaped communicative responses. Deep listening functioned as receptive compassion by creating space for another person’s suffering and perspective without requiring uncritical agreement. Loving speech functioned as expressive compassion by bringing understanding into truthful, non-harmful and responsible expression. Their reciprocity formed a relational communicative ethic grounded in mindfulness, compassion and interbeing. Compassionate communication was found to support conditions favourable to understanding and reconciliation while remaining distinct from structural or institutional responses to suffering. Deep listening and loving speech thus provided a communicative expression of Engaged Buddhist ethics linking contemplative cultivation with responsibility towards others.
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