Clearance: Final Opportunity

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. The Mindfulness Bell would like to honor Thầy’s transformation by offering this curated collection of highlights from the week of memorial ceremonies; teachings from Thích Nhất Hạnh on death, impermanence, and interbeing; and reflections and recollections of Thầy from elder monastics, lay Dharma teachers, and friends.

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue we give homage to Thầy’s vision of deep ecology, as we share our experience with climate change:

• In “A Love Letter to the Planet” Thích Nhất Hạnh shares intimate conversations with Mother Earth.
• Brother Pháp Lưu offers a continuation of the Earth Peace Treaty: a new series of earth-touchings and an updated commitment sheet.
• Dharma teacher Jem offers insights from his deep Earth holding practice, surviving cancer, and disrobing after eighteen years as a monk.
• A Dharma talk by Brother Pháp Dung from the Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet online course.
• Practitioners share about living gently on the Earth and connecting with nature.
• Sharings from Happy Farm, Wake Up, Wake Up Schools, the Earth Holder Community, and the Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation.
• Poetry, a recipe from the monasteries, and much more.

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions and reflects on continuation, touching the ancestral steam, and feeling connected with the deep, rich Plum Village lineage:

• Sister Chân Đức shares about our teacher’s lineage as a peace activist.
• Dharma teacher Mitchell Ratner reflects on his pilgrimage tracing Thích Nhất Hạnh’s lineage in Vietnam.
• An interview with Thích Giác Quang, a Most Venerable from Huế, Vietnam, explores the importance of the many ceremonies remembering and honoring Thầy’s passing.
• Lay friends answer what it means that Thầy is our ancestral teacher.
• Sharings from ARISE Sangha, Happy Farm, Wake Up Schools, the Earth Holder Community, and the Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation.
• A guided meditation from Thích Nhất Hạnh, poetry, and more.

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. Featuring: “The Art of Transforming Suffering” by Thich Nhat Hanh, “Resting Back and Trusting the Unknown” by Kaira Jewel Lingo, “Gathas for the Practice of Mindful Living” with Brother Chan Phap Luu, “Contemplations of the Five Mindfulness Trainings” by Marisela Gomez and Valerie Brown, sharings from practitioners on social justice, service as chaplains, navigating suffering, Wake Up, schools, and much more...

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. Featuring Dharma talks “The Art of Transforming Suffering” by Thich Nhat Hanh, “How to Be Your Own Soulmate” by Sister Dang Nghiem, and “Busynessless” by Brother Chan Phap Dung; sharings from monastics and practitioners on truly loving ourselves, living harmony, gratitude, mindful community, and more.