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Cleaning the Sponge
A Dharma Talk on Beginning Anew By Sister Dang Nghiem and Brother Phap An At the Stonehill retreat in New York, two senior Dharma teachers teamed up to speak about the practice of Beginning Anew. This excerpt preserves some of the playfulness, humor, and depth of their presentation, which took…
Falling Back in Love with Mother Earth
Journalist Jo Confino interviews Thích Nhất Hạnh on how we can practice with and relate to insights arising from contemplating the Earth as our Mother.
Book Reviews
The Garden at Night Burnout and Breakdown in the Teaching Life By Mary Rose O’Reilley Heinemann 2005 Softcover, 96 pages Reviewed by Richard Brady In case she’s not already known to you, it’s my happy task to shine the light on one of Buddhism’s hidden Dharma teachers, Mary Rose O’Reilley.…
Thay in Disguise
By Vickie MacArthur Lower Hamlet, Plum Village; photo by Vickie MacArthur In the fall of 2017, I had the opportunity to stay at Lower Hamlet in Plum Village for four weeks. This was not my first visit; I had been blessed to attend the 21-Day Retreat in both 2012 and…
A Net of Sangha Jewels
By Jack Lawlor There is a famous metaphor in the Avatamsaka Sutra about the Jeweled Net of Indra, which likens the interdependent, interwoven nature of reality to a vast net of jewels in which each jewel is reflected in the other. The Sanghas that have been inspired by Thich Nhat…
The Role of the Lay Sangha
in the Time of Buddha Shakyamuni By Sister Annabel, True Virtue With the publication of Freedom Wherever We Go (1)the Revised Pratimoksha (precepts of the fully-ordained Buddhist monks and nuns) becomes available to be studied and read by laypeople. Traditionally, lay practitioners have not been permitted to read the Pratimoksha.…
Dharma Rain in the Rocky Mountains
The monks and nuns who answered our questions during the panel discussion at the retreat astonished us with their wisdom and enlightened us with their insight. This heavily edited version gives you a taste; we hope to publish more excerpts in future issues. Question 1 (from a lay man): How…
Lotus Flowers Sing in Lower Hamlet
By Ian Prattis photo by Jitka Slamova During the 2001 Summer Retreat in Plum Village, I found a way to put the Three Refuges to good use in a totally unexpected manner. I was staying in Lower Hamlet with my friend Carolyn, and we had asked Sister Jina, the Abbess…
Spanning a Bridge
Still With Faith While Thay and the delegation were in Hue, there were fewer visitors and retreatants than in 2005. Yet we continued our activities as planned. Thay gave Dharma talks with utmost compassion and inclusiveness. Sometimes while I was translating his words into English, I felt dizzy and nauseous.…