Sangha Building This latest issue of the Mindfulness Bell is just bursting with treasures for Sangha practice (as well as a very helpful article on the aspirant training process!). It really helps those of us with young Sanghas and provides us with inspiration and direction with wonderful examples from practice.…
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Healthy Boundaries
photo by Zachiah Murray The Fourteenth Mindfulness Training is jampacked! It invites us to consider our own powerful sexual energy, the sexual energy of those around us, the environmental factors that may contribute to sexual misconduct, and so much more. As I’ve moved through life with this training, different facets…
Seven Interbeings
By Tetsunori Koizumi Interbeing as a Binary Relation “Interbeing” is a new word invented by Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay), which he employs to explain the interconnectedness of all things in the universe. A sheet of paper, for example, is an interbeing as it is connected with a cloud through a…
Master Tang Hoi for Our Time
By Sister Annabel, True Virtue photo by Paul Davis “Mindfulness of breathing is the great vehicle used by the Buddhas to save beings who are drifting and sinking in the ocean of suffering.” This is the opening sentence of a text that was studied in a course for Dharma teachers in training at…
Caring for Those Who Are Dying
By Hope Lindsay Patty, a Sangha friend, is a nurse for Mercy Medical Center Hospice in Roseburg, Oregon. Many people know that hospice is a cluster of care services for individuals in the last six months of life. When someone is diagnosed with a terminal condition, a team of health…
Reflections on Thầy
Kaira Jewel Lingo shares a few precious insights from Thầy about freedom in practice, being the first Black monastic in the Plum Village tradition, difficulties living in community, and inspiring self-confidence.
Book Reviews
Mindful Movements:Ten Exercises for Well-Being Thich Nhat Hanh and Wietske Vriezen Parallax Press, 2008Hardcover, ringbound, 61 pages With DVD featuring Brother Michael, Thich Nhat Hanh, and monks and nuns of the Plum Village community, produced by Sounds True — 36 minutes Reviewed by Judith Toy, True Door of Peace What…
All of Us as One
Interbeing in International Development By Jindra Čekan/ová Jindra doing fieldwork in Sierra Leone, 2009; photo by Elizabeth Manga I have worked as an employee in international development for thirty years, interacting with grassroots organizations, big international charities, and bigger donors. My work led me to Niger, Africa, for Catholic Relief…
Sangha Building
By Thich Nhat Hanh From a Dharma Talk at Joongang Sangha University for monks and nuns in Kimpo, Korea on March 31st, 2003 My dear friends, according to my experience the study of Buddhism and the practice of Buddhism should always go together. It is not possible to learn the…
A Hut for Thay in Our Heart
Thai Plum Village, 24th November 2014 The Garden of the Buddha and Thay’s hut, Thai Plum Village. Photo by Carolyn Marsden Today, Monday, is usually Lazy Day, but we decided not to have a lazy day in order to support Thay and keep sending good, healing energy Thay’s way, because…