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The Mindfulness Bell: Building Community in Divisive Times, Issue 96, 2025
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- Thích Nhất Hạnh’s teachings on sangha-building, the spirit of togetherness, safety, despair, and conflict between nations
- Brother Pháp Dung outlines Thầy’s aspiration and vision for residential spiritual communities as a service and refuge for society
- Dharma Teacher Marisela Gomez on how turning the upside-down world right side up requires us to resist, maladjust to, and defy the normalization of greed, hatred, and delusion.
- lay friends offer their practice of sangha building and community building
- sharings from Wake Up, Wake Up Schools, Happy Farm, Earth Holder Community, and Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation
- poetry continuing the gentle spirit of our teacher
Mindfulness Bell 96
In this issue practitioners answer: How does your Plum Village practice help you to create in-person connections and find commonality with others? Thích Nhất Hạnh’s teachings on sangha-building, the spirit of togetherness, safety, despair, and conflict between nations; Brother Pháp Dung outlines Thầy’s aspiration and vision for residential spiritual communities as a service and refuge for society; Dharma Teacher Marisela Gomez on how turning the upside-down world right side up requires us to resist, maladjust to, and defy the normalization of greed, hatred, and delusion; lay friends offer their practice of sangha building and community building sharings from Wake Up, Wake Up Schools, Happy Farm, Earth Holder Community, and Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation; poetry continuing the gentle spirit of our teacher.
The Path of Compassion Is Endless, but Together Is a Lot of Fun!
Brother Chân Trời Đạo Bi reflects on the importance of being yourself, play as a Dharma door, and the support of living in community.
Walking with Ancestors
Brother Pháp Xả shares how his aspiration to end suffering is a continuation of his family’s work to save onderduikers, people hiding from the Nazi German army, in World War II.
Happiness
Thich Nhat Hanh's central teaching is that, through mindfulness, we can learn to live in the present moment instead of in the past and in the future. It’s only way to truly develop peace, both in one's self and in the world. Now, for the first time, all of Thich…
Opening the Joyful Path
Brother Pháp Dung teaches us to cultivate our good seeds, community, and freedom.
True Happiness
By Ian Sneath Ian and the Charnwood Sangha on a boat photo by Steve Priestly One of the senior nuns, Sister Tu Nghiem, encouraged me to take the Five Mindfulness Trainings as Master Thay's vision of a global ethic on 27th March 2014. I agreed to do it, even though…
Migrating into Happiness
By Robin Lee Schiff and Joost van Rens photo by David Nelson Robin: Yesterday evening we were lying on the smooth sun-warmed road that winds its way down the mountain at Deer Park Monastery, watching the moon rise over the crest of the ridge, enjoying the coolness of the evening…
A Culture of Happiness
Practical principles for creating conditions for happiness at scale from the former program director of the Gross National Happiness Center of Bhutan, the only country in the world to measure progress by the happiness of its citizens. Despite countless happiness programs focused on individual well-being, are we any happier, really?…