In your daily life, do you have awareness that you have feet? When you walk across the parking lot or around your office, do you have mastery of your steps? There is a story about a scorpion and a frog. One day, the scorpion needs to cross a pond. So…
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Earth Holding and Protecting Practices at Deer Park and Beyond
Working meditation, Deer Park Monastery oak grove; photo courtesy of monastic Sangha We are a continuation ... In the fall of 2008, Thay spent a couple of weeks at Deer Park Monastery. One afternoon, all the monastics sat with Thay for a Be-In. During his sharing, Thay stressed that the…
Fractals and Interbeing
Homage to the Buddha Shakyamuni. Dear beloved teacher, respected monastic brothers and sisters, and dear noble community, several years ago we had a teaching tour in Southeast Asia. One evening in Taiwan, our teacher taught about the Four Gratitudes: gratitude to our parents who gave us this body and this…
Poem: Discourse on True Contentment
I heard these words of Thay one time when he was living in the vicinity of Escondido at the Deer Park Monastery in the Oak Grove. Late at night, a group of coyotes appeared, whose passionate howls made the whole Oak Grove tremble joyfully. After paying respects to Thay with…
Raising the Tension: Nonviolent Action to Cultivate Beloved Community
In this excerpt from Brothers in the Beloved Community, author Bishop Marc Andrus discusses how Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used the nonviolent technique of "raising the tension" to cultivate reconciliation and acknowledgement of the interbeing of all people.
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PassagesMarried: John Balaam, True Original Mountain, and Charito Sanchez were married in Waipio Valley, Hawai'i on January 1, 2000. Ordained: A warm welcome to new Order members, Virginia Bollero, Sheila Klein, Judy Weaver, Karen Zampalia, Chau Yoder, Peter Hawkins, and Bethany Freshnock. One Hundredth Monastic: During the Winter Retreat in Plum Village, sixteen new monastics were ordained—the sixteen "cherry trees."…
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Parallax Press
This affectionate trip down memory lane by outgoing publisher Hisae Matsuda shares the backstory behind Parallax’s publications, celebrating the people who made the books possible and the team of practitioner-publishing professionals guiding the journey of tomorrow.
Inter-Becoming a Chaplain
For two years, I’ve been the Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Supervisor for Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, training priests and deacons to be better pastoral care visitors. It’s become clear to me that the CPE model was created by, and best serves, those of the dominant culture. It requires intellectual and…
Making Friends with Time
By Tracy Sarriugarte and Peggy Rowe Smell the Roses People from a planet without flowers wouldthink we must be mad with joy the whole time tohave such things about us.—Iris Murdoch Beauty from nature is one of my favorite touchstones and it comes in all forms and shapes and sizes-trees, flowers, clouds, and…
Tears Become Rain
32 mindfulness practitioners around the world reflect on encountering the extraordinary teachings of Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh, who passed away in January 2022, exploring themes of coming home to ourselves, healing from grief and loss, facing fear, and building community and belonging. Some moments change our lives. We experience…