By One of His Lay Students Following is a report by an elderly Vietnamese woman who recently visited Ven. Thich Huyen Quang, Executive Director of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, currently under house arrest. This report was given to us by Ven. Thich Minh Dung, a disciple of Ven. Thich Huyen Quang. I…
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Bodhisattvas
Excerpts of a Dharma Talk By Thich Nhat Hanh Thay and the bell; photo courtesy of monastic Sangha Green Mountain Dharma Center, Vermont May 17, 2001 Being a member of the Order of Interbeing is to have an opportunity to practice going home to our ancestors, to our children, to…
Heart to Heart
In each issue of the Mindfulness Bell readers take on a different topic, writing in short essays about their personal experience and their practice. The Fourth Mindfulness Training Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful speech and the inability to listen to others, I am committed to cultivating loving speech…
Filling the Lake
photo by Tatian Greenleaf Brother Phap Luu wrote this article in response to the Mindfulness Bell’s invitation to share about the birth of the book, Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide to Cultivating Mindfulness in Education by Thich Nhat Hanh and Katherine Weare, published by Parallax Press in May…
Fragrance of Tea Flowers
Before she became a nun, Sister Dang Nghiem was a physician in the United States. She has been at Prajna Temple (Bat Nha) near Bao Loc since September and she wrote this letter to Thay on December 12, 2005. Beloved Thay, I have wanted to write to you several times.…
Closing the Door
By Mushim Ikeda-Nash On Thursday, April 11, my father, Robert Yoshizo Ikeda, died in his sleep at his home on Lake Anna in Virginia. My son Joshua and I were visiting at the time, mostly to help my mother, who is recovering from lymphoma and needs to be driven back and forth from a…
Language of the Heart
By Paul Tingen Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoingthere is a field.I'II meet you there.When the soul lies in that grass,the world is too full to talk about.Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other"doesn't make any sense. —Rumi Imagine for a moment that you're on a peace mission in another…
Listening Deeply
Public Office as a Dharma Door By Pam Costain photo by Bruce Nichols As an elected member of a school board, I regularly make difficult decisions that affect thousands of children’s lives. While all public officials make tough choices, none are quite so personal as those made by school boards.…
Ancestral Roots
Alda Ngô shares how Thích Nhất Hạnh helps her to transform intergenerational trauma and racial injustice and to honour her blood lineage as a first-generation Vietnamese Canadian.
Mindfulness Educates
Interview with Katherine Weare Katherine Weare Katherine Weare is Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter and Southampton in the United Kingdom. Her long-term career has been in education, developing approaches to promoting well-being and addressing mental health problems. She is known internationally for her teaching, writing, public speaking, research,…