Losing my Brother in a New York State of Mind By Nate Metzker photo by Corina Benesch My girlfriend, Cameron, and I moved to New York City in 2005 with great expectations for her career as an educator and my career as a musician and novelist. My girlfriend’s career soon…
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Aimless Determination
By Jonathan Borella photo by Lee Aspland The Buddha spoke of three doors of liberation: signlessness, aimlessness, and emptiness. Often, these doors were taught as practices to engage practitioners in letting go of attachment to form, desire, and self. Other times, they were taught as descriptions of the true nature…
Book Reviews
Peaceful Action, Open Heart Lessons from the Lotus Sutra By Thich Nhat Hanh Parallax Press, 2008 Softcover, 287 pages Reviewed by Judith Toy Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us that the strength of the Lotus Sutra is its ability to present deep teachings in a clear, easy-to-understand way that applies to…
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…
Meditations for the Terminally Ill
By Elisabeth Ollagnier When you accompany a patient until his death, you are walking together on the final piece of life's path. The patient chooses the one he wants to accompany him. He chooses someone with whom he feels a closeness, without considering the person's position or status. All that a terminally-ill patient has been…
Simplicity, Sisterhood and Freedom
Interview with Sister Ha Nghiem (Sr. Fern) Why did you become a nun? Sister Ha Nghiem: There are times in life when you touch life really deeply and you touch yourself really deeply. You can see how beautiful life is and there's a deeper connection between everything than you can usually see…
In celebration of Black history and Black futures
Kaira Jewel Lingo I was lucky enough to be able to mark the official end of Black History Month with a touching and all around inspiring interview with Dharma teacher and spiritual mentor Kaira Jewel Lingo, a nun for fifteen years in the international Plum Village community of Thich Nhat…
Plumeria Tree Buddha
From a Dharma Talk by Eileen Kiera November 6, 2004 There are an estimated ten to the thirty-seventh, that’s ten with thirty-six zeros after it, molecules in a cubic inch. And within our bodies there are how many cubic inches? There are an inconceivable number of molecules in our body.…
I Embrace the Sky
Sometimes, I don't know how I managed to survive those few months in the north of France. At times, I thought death might be better. Every morning around five, I woke up to intense pain in my side. I had to go to the bathroom, where I experienced more pain with the passing of digested…
Nirvana is our daily business
Photo courtesy of PVCEB In celebration of this release, editor and translator Sister Annabel Laity sat down and answered some questions about the message of Enjoying the Ultimate, misconceptions about Nirvana, and why Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh chose this chapter to teach to his students. Sister Annabel Laity (Chan…