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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.
Falling Skillfully
Brother Minh Niệm shares how the Plum Village monastic community helped him to better care for his own suffering and that of others.
Opening the Joyful Path
Brother Pháp Dung teaches us to cultivate our good seeds, community, and freedom.
Everybody Present
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…
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.…
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…
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…