By Cheri Maples photo by Paul Davis Cheri Maples offered this Dharma talk at the 21-Day Retreat: Vulture Peak Gathering on June 15, 2016, in New Hamlet, Plum Village. Dear Thay, dear beloved community, it’s so wonderful to be here with you. I was a police officer seven years into…
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Becoming a Second Body with a Frontline Community
We relate deeply with Thay’s teaching about understanding...
Always at the Beginning
My First Retreat Experience By Haven Tobias A friend and I set out from Oklahoma, bound for the Rocky Mountains, and my first mindfulness retreat. Two years before I knew nothing of Buddhism or Thich Nhat Hanh. Now, I still feel uninformed, but trust my friend, Marla, and my well-intentioned…
The True Warrior
A Dharma talk on feeling safe and secure in the island of self
Taking Refuge in the Sangha
By Sister Trang Uu Bat Sister Trang Uu Bat during the 2018 Adelaide retreat, Australia Recently, I had the good fortune to tour Australia where our Sangha offered retreats. I appreciate how easy it is to stay focused on the Dharma and practice when immersed in the flow of the…
The Wisdom of Ordinary Children
By Mike Bell photo courtesy of the monastic Sangha photo by David Nelson I started learning to meditate in the late 1980s and went on my first retreat with Thay around 1992. I joined the Order of Interbeing in 1996. By 1999 I was looking for a new career and…
Heart to Heart
Heart to Heart is a new section of the Mindfulness Bell — for you to express your thoughts and share your practice on a given topic. In this issue we focus on the Second Mindfulness Training (of the Five). For the Autumn 2007 issue, we invite you to write on…
To Enjoy the Craic
Receiving Spiritual Practice in Ireland By Paul Lavender As I stepped off the plane and into Dublin on a wet and windy April Tuesday to hear Thay’s public talk, “Cooling the Flames,” I was somewhat curious how a teetotal pacifist Buddhist monk would be received in a hard-drinking, strongly Christian…
Happy with Myself
Reflections on a Teen Retreat By Emma Carey The nonprofit Peace in Schools (peaceinschools.org) launched the United States’ first for-credit mindfulness course in a high school in 2014. This semester-long Mindful Studies class helps teens develop compassion, calm, emotional resilience, and self-awareness. At a time when many teens struggle with…
Sowing Sangha Seeds
By Judith Toy A Sangha Sprout My husband Philip Toy and I first began inviting folks to sit with us in Black Mountain, North Carolina, in 1999, in a room in our cottage that could barely hold four cushions. Today, eight years later, our sangha’s twenty-by-thirty-foot Dharma hall has been…