photo by Ron Forster Blue Cliff Monastery hosted a Sacred Justice Retreat on January 18, 2016. This is an excerpt from the retreat’s Q&A panel on mindful activism—a conversation about the challenges and successes that can come with activism and spiritual practice. Sangha members posed the following themes for the…
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Restoring Peace and Safety
Excerpts from a Panel Discussion Paths to Community Justice By Cheri Maples Cheri, Thay, and friends at the 2003 retreat for police in Green Lake, Wisconsin Baltimore, Maryland, USA August 24, 2016 Good evening, everybody. Thanks for being here. I’m really happy to be spending the time with you. There…
Race: A Dharma Door
ARISE Sangha offers the Race: A Dharma Door (RADD) training. Love in action interwoven with interbeing, the program used the Four Noble Truths as the framework to invite us into a discussion of race as a Dharma door for greater understanding and less suffering.
The Hands of the Bodhisattvas
By Sister Hy Nghiem photo by Jitka Slamova Dear Thay, dear Brothers, dear Sisters, and dear Sangha, Today is February 19, 2012, and we are in our final week of the winter retreat here at Magnolia Grove Monastery. Today we continue our investigation of the Fifth and Sixth Mindfulness Trainings…
Unconditional Acceptance
An Interview with Joanne Friday Joanne Friday with members of Rhode Island Community of Mindfulness; photos courtesy of Joanne Friday Joanne Friday is a Dharma teacher in the Order of Interbeing. In 2003, she received authority to teach from Thich Nhat Hanh, her teacher for twenty years. Joanne leads meditation…
Dharma Talk: Finding Our True Home
March 28, 2004 – Colors of Compassion Retreat On March 28th, at the end of the three-month winter retreat, Thich Nhat Hanh and the Sangha offered a three-day retreat called Colors of Compassion, for people of color. Three hundred retreatants gathered to practice mindfulness, listen to teachings, and share with…
A Biography of Thay Giac Thanh
In Loving Memory of Thay Giac ThanhJune 9, 1947 - October 15, 2001 That you are a real gentleman is known by everyone The work of a true practitioner has been accomplished When you stupa has just been raised on the hillside The sound of children's laughter will already be…
Intersein-Zentrum
Impressions, Experiences, and Interviews By David Viafora and Vanessa Ixil Chavez Loucky Intersein lay practice center; photo by David Viafora “We need to establish retreat centers where we can go from time to time to renew ourselves. The features of the landscape, the buildings, and even the sound of the…
My Retreat
By Anneke Brinkerink Three days before the retreat with Thay in Amsterdam last October, I went to the mailbox on my bicycle for the last mailing of retreat information. On the ride home, a driver did not notice me on my bicycle, and there was an accident. My head hit his windshield. I woke…
The Light at the Tip of the Candle
I was deeply touched recently by a book called At Hell’s Gate: A Soldier’s Journey from War to Peace. The author, Claude Anshin Thomas, describes in detail the suffering he has experienced as a Vietnam veteran [see below]. The description of his suffering made me look more deeply into the…