By Savitri Tsering There are times in my day that my actions are like ritual moments that help me remember to come back to the present moment. Some of those critical times are when I ride my bike to and from work, when I go for a walk at lunchtime and,…
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Ask the Dharmacarya: How do you practice in your Workplace?
Chan Huy - Montreal, Canada I am back to work after a two-year sabbatical. I am an engineer, a construction project manager for a federal department in Canada. I work with a team of consultants, architects, engineers, contractors and in-house resources specialists. This team changes with each new cycle of the work project. I…
Silence Is Goldish Blue
By Christian McEwen photo by Renee Burgard Twenty-six hundred years ago a little Indian boy lay resting in the shade under a rose-apple tree. It was the time of the spring plowing, and he watched the men and oxen as they worked their way up and down the lengthy furrows.…
Dharma Talk: The Four Immeasurable Minds
During the lifetime of the Buddha, those of the Brahmanic faith prayed that after death they would go to Heaven to dwell eternally with Brahma, the universal God. One day a Brahmin man asked the Buddha, "What can I do to be sure that I will be with Brahma after…
Just Listening
By Christian McEwen Christian and the Giant Ear; photo by Laura Iveson “To talk with someone ask a question first, then—listen.”—Antonio Machado For several years now, I have been gathering material for a book on listening. So when a local business association advertised a small grant focusing on “art in…
A Special Section: Buddhism in Vietnam
Editor's Note: In universities throughout North America and Europe, there are many professors specializing in Buddhism in Japan, Tibet, Korea, China, Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka, India, and other countries, and there are numerous texts to support their studies. But to date, no Western scholar specializes in Vietnamese Buddhism, and there is very little written about it…
Dharma Talk: Liberation from Suffering
Questions and Answers with Thich Nhat Hanh Each Saturday afternoon during the September 1996 "Heart of the Buddha" retreat at Plum Village in southwestern France, the entire community gathered in the New Hamlet for a question-and-answer session with Thich Nhat Hanh. Thay responded to written questions that had been left…
Rebuilding Health, Part 2
Thích Nhất Hạnh teaches us to liberate ourselves from restlessness and find ease, joy, and happiness in the present moment and in Mother Earth.
Bearing Witness, Being With
By Cao Ngoc Phuong Fourth Precept of the Order of lnterbeing "Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means,…
The Better Way to Live Alone in the Jungle
By Terry Masters The Buddha taught: “…I want to tell you that there is a wonderful way to be alone. It is the way of deep observation to see that the past no longer exists and the future has not yet come, and to dwell at ease in the present…