Dharma Gaia in New Zealand By the Dharma Gaia Core Community photos courtesy of Dharma Gaia Winter Retreat, 4 a.m. Low in the east a bright Venus lifts the dome of sky just as the Milky Way has spilled herself through it. The womb of breathable darkness draws you in,…
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Writing out the War
By Therese Fitzgerald The UC Berkeley campus hosted an event for war veterans entirely different from the days of dualistic rallies. Thirty men and women, mostly Vietnam veterans, gathered in a spacious, woodsy room of the Faculty Club on a Saturday in June to spend a day with Maxine Hong Kingston nourishing their writing process.…
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…
Conscious Sexuality as a Spiritual Path
Jane Ellen Combelic and Colin Ralph; photo courtesy of J.E. Combelic I’m standing in the old phone box at Lower Hamlet, the one that used to be by the bookstore under the tall oak trees. I am talking to my mother in Colorado, who has mild dementia. “Mom, I’ve met…
Dharma Talk: Karma, Continuation, and the Noble Eightfold Path
Good morning, dear friends. Today is August 5, 2005. We’re in the Upper Hamlet of Plum Village on the last day of our summer session. Today I would like to speak about reincarnation, rebirth, and continuation. If we look at an orange tree we can see that it makes an…
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…
Tree-being
By Bill Clark Yesterday I became mindful of you.It happened when I saw youburning for us in the fireplace,giving us everything you had.There would be nothing left but ashes,that would fertilize the earth.You appear as lumber, popsicle sticks, firewood,furniture, toothpicks, and paper.You do these things for us without protest. But…
Living into Nondual Parenting
Alicia LeClair and Owen Zinaman explore their insights into building a community of care.
The Art of Transforming Suffering: Part Two
If you have eyes of signlessness, you can recognize your beloved cloud in her new form–the rain. The following Dharma talk is a continuation of Part One, which appeared in the Summer 2021 issue. No Birth, No Death In the Heart Sutra, it says that nothing is born and nothing…
Healing All Moments
A Retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh By Jill Siler The Vietnamese monk seemed to float onto the stage. He put his palms together and bowed his head. Then smiling, he folded his legs, effortlessly sank to the floor, and settled on a small round cushion. “Dear friends,” said Thich Nhat…