Mindfulness Bell #5

Issue 5
  • Planting Seeds of Self-Respect

    I teach meditation, Aikido, and nonviolence to kids in East Los Angeles who come from neighborhoods of violence, drive-by shootings, and drugs. The gangs the kids are sometimes pressured into joining reflect the battles their parents at home are fighting with drugs, low self-esteem, and…

  • Transforming Anger in Prison

    I teach meditation at a juvenile prison in Kansas. One Friday evening I was teaching meditation to a new group of young men, drawing heavily on my experience from the retreat and Thich Nhat Hanh. After I gave a brief definition of meditation, a…

  • Family Illness

    Just three days after our retreat in Chicago with Thich Nhat Hanh, I received a late-night phone call from my mother. My dad had been rushed to the hospital, his skin sickly pale for lack of oxygen. Mom sounded convinced that Father was going…

Other articles in this issue

From the Editors

It is obvious from the response to Thich Nhat Hanh's tour of North America this past Spring that we aren't the only ones who care about breathing, smiling, and rebuilding society from the…

The Five Wonderful Precepts

Following the Spring Retreats, Thich Nhat Hanh re-translated the Five Precepts to express their implications more thoroughly and to rephrase the "Do not's" in a way that articulates these positive practices: …

Meeting in Silence

Carpooling to school one Monday morning, my fellow teacher asked, "How was your weekend?" As the Educator's Sangha had just met that Sunday, I described the afternoon. Tina listened attentively as I spoke…

Teachings Given to the Sick

By Ananda Mahathera I heard these words of the Buddha one time when the Lord was staying in the monastery in the Jeta Grove in Anathapindika's park, near Shravasti. At that time…

Announcements

Plum Village Chanting Book This collection of sutras (discourses of the Buddha) and other chants and ceremonies is now available in a lovely spiral-bound edition from Parallax Press, P.O. Box 7355, Berkeley, CA…

“Insight Poems”

These insight poems were presented at Plum Village on the evening of August 15 at a special tea with Thay to celebrate the end of the summer retreat. Healing is to give…

Five Precepts & Social Change

By Patricia Ellsberg Since attending two retreats with Thich Nhat Hanh at Mt. Madonna, this spring, I have had the feeling of being "in love," not just with Thay and Sister Phuong…

Present Moment, Wonderful Moment

When I was growing up, my father had many things to teach me about things like honesty, loyalty, generosity, and thoroughness. Now, at age 79, he lives with Alzheimer’s disease in a nearby…

Gatha for the Sick

By Annabel Laity I accept the cancer in this body,Knowing that it is not me.Hand in hand we play and practice together,That all who suffer may be free. NAMO RATNATRAYAYAI…

Teaching Smiling

Reading Being Peace has been a real help to me, in my personal life, with my family, and at work. I now practice deep breathing and smiling instead of talking when I…

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What is Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh January 15, 2020

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