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WHY IS RACIAL EQUITY WORK IMPORTANT TO ME?
ANTOINETTE GONZÁLEZ The practice of pausing, looking deeply, and being fully present is very difficult and liberating. When I first seriously looked at racial inequality, I was an undergraduate grappling with coming out as a lesbian and being a first-generation Chicana in college. As I learned more about social inequity,…
New Sangha in Thailand!
Members of the Sangha of Mindfulness at the Suan Pai Vegetarian Restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand. Clockwise, from the left: Warunee Dejsakulrit, Pongsathorn Tantiritthisak, David Percival, Sandra Brantley, Kittiya Pholkerd, and Piangporn Lapeloima. There is an oasis of mindfulness amidst the congestion and noise of Bangkok. It is the new community…
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Book Manuscript Submissions Parallax Press is a nonprofit publisher cofounded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. We publish between 10 and 15 books annually on the art of mindful living and Engaged Buddhism. We are committed to offering teachings that help transform suffering and injustice and our aspiration is to…
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…
Scorpion Nature
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…
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…
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.
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…
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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."…