Child’s question: How can I control my temper?Once we’re aware of our anger, we can be gentle with it. Don’t try to control your anger. As soon as you try to control it, this may start a fight between you and your temper. Instead, just be with it and accept…
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Is Nothing Something? Kid's Questions and Zen Answers About Life, Death, Family, Friendship, and Everything in Between by Thich Nhat Hanh Plum Blossom Books, 2014 Hardcover, 40 pages Reviewed by John Malkin Fifteen years ago I was at a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh at Deer Park Monastery, and during a…
The journey to discovery starts with a question. Where is the Buddha?
Sister Trì Nghiêm and Jacob Surpin In celebration of this release, editors Sister Trì Nghiêm of Magnolia Grove Monastery and associate publisher Jacob Surpin sat down and answered some questions around the Buddha’s true nature, lessons children can learn, and what makes this book different from previous children’s books by…
Why Don’t Monks and Nuns Eat Meat?
Q&A with Thich Nhat Hanh Monastic sisters at Magnolia Grove Monastery. Photo courtesy of monastic Sangha Child’s question: Why don’t monks and nuns eat meat? Thich Nhat Hanh’s answer: We don’t eat meat because we want to reduce the suffering of living beings. Human beings suffer, but animals also suffer.…
You Are Also a Cloud
Child’s question: Do you remember any of your past lives? Thich Nhat Hanh’s response: Yes. When I practice looking deeply, I see that one time in the past I was a rock, a tree, a squirrel, a bird, a fish, a cloud, and a river. If I continue to look…
Becoming an “Elder in Training”
D. F. Tweney embraces the support and wisdom of Dharma teachers as a retreat facilitator
Realizing True Education
Leaders of the international Wake Up Schools initiative offer stories of building connection and community.
The Peace Treaty
Because a lot of suffering arises when we become angry or upset with our partner or other friends, at Plum Village we have created a "Peace Treaty" which we sign in front of the sangha. I would like to explain something about it. The treaty was written to help us live happily together.…
We All Belong Together
Sister Thuc Nghiem's Insight Gatha Just one instant of the present moment and something knocks so loudly at my heart; The love that we all belong together. A star at dawn above the darkened earth, they talk together of this. The blades of grass, the dew and the sunshine, they…
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.…