Everybody Present illustrates the transformative effects of mindfulness on educators, students, and their classrooms. Using concrete examples, Didde and Nikolaj Flor Rotne present a mode of classroom engagement that reduces stress to make room for thoughtful learning. A working manual addressed to everyone in the educational universe, this book presents…
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The Art of Communicating By Thich Nhat Hanh Hard cover, 166 pages Harper One, 2013 Reviewed by Karen Hilsberg The Art of Communicating contains a wealth of practical teachings and clear instructions about how to enhance relationships using thoughtful and intentional communication. In an era dominated by texting, emailing, tweeting,…
Coming Together to Realize Our True Home
By Karl and Helga Riedl Sangha is some times defined as "the community that lives in harmony and awareness." Community is one important aspect of a Sangha. Sangha can be a beautiful way to live with like-minded people, to share our responsibilities, happiness, and pains with friends in the Dharma. A Sangha supports our endeavor to live in awareness. We feel at home. We are nourished, and given the…
Giving a Talk
By Joseph Emet I have just come back from a five-day Dharma Teachers’ retreat at Blue Cliff Monastery. There I heard a lot of talks, and also many pleas for finding ways of helping new members of the Order of Interbeing to be more effective in Sangha building, and in…
Harmony in the Sangha
This story is adapted from Old Path White Clouds, Thich Nhat Hanh' s recently released biography of the Buddha (Parallax Press, 1990). Annabel Laity's commentary on the Buddha's Six Principles of Harmony follows the excerpt. At monasteries during the life of the Buddha, certain monks were assigned the task of memorizing the teachings of the Buddha.…
Kitchen as a Meditation Hall
By Sister Chan Dieu Nghiem (Sister Jina) Sisters from Lower Hamlet, Plum Village, in the kitchen. Photo courtesy of monastic Sangha I would like to share an experience I had in a Winter Retreat that has inspired me ever since. This was in the early times of Plum Village, maybe…
Pain, Love, and Happiness
By Khanh Le Van The University of California at Santa Barbara campus was huge. "Wait till you see the gym," said my Dharma brother Arnie. Indeed, for the next five days we 1,300 retreatants would sit together in that gym for meditation and Dharma talks. A team beaded by Wendy Johnson was busy arranging the…
Thây Goes to Hollywood to Produce a Collective Awakening
At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006, Dr. B. K. Modi and Thich Nhat Hanh announced the making of a film on the life of the Buddha. Based on Thay’s novel Old Path White Clouds, the film is planned to premiere at Cannes in 2008. Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Modi,…
Thich Nhat Hanh Responds to Young People
At the Colors of Compassion Retreat In March, 2004, at the Colors of Compassion retreat, Thich Nhat Hanh addressed questions from two participants who are part of the group described in the article on page 23. My name is Aaron, I’m from Boston, Massachusetts, I’m seventeen. Where I’m from it’s…
Meditate
photo by Brandy Sacks Sitting meditation is returning home to give full attention to and care for ourself. Like the peaceful image of the Buddha on the altar, we too can radiate peace and stability. We sit upright with dignity and return to our breathing. We bring our full attention…