Dr. Ashley Mack shares how Thầy’s teachings bring freedom to the challenges of raising foster kids in a LGBTQIA+ family facing intergenerational trauma and depression.
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Caring for the Forest that Cares for Us
By Victoria Rosas Peribán Forest of Interbeing participants. Photos courtesy of Forest of Interbeing The Forest of Interbeing is a cooperation between the international Wake Up movement (young people for a healthy and compassionate society) and the local conservation project DEMATAC (Defenders of the Environment of Los Tuxtlas) in the…
To Enjoy the Craic
Receiving Spiritual Practice in Ireland By Paul Lavender As I stepped off the plane and into Dublin on a wet and windy April Tuesday to hear Thay’s public talk, “Cooling the Flames,” I was somewhat curious how a teetotal pacifist Buddhist monk would be received in a hard-drinking, strongly Christian…
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.…
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…
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,…
Orange, Maroon, and Brown
Please Call Me by My True Colors By Brother Chan Phap Tu Brother Phap Son, Brother Phap Tu (Tenzin Donpal), and Sister Luong Nghiem in India My precious master Thich Nhat Hanh says, “Please call me by my true names.” This is a very interesting saying. When I look into…
Growth in Wake Up Nijmegen
By Manon Wetzels and Reinier de Nooij Nijmegen Snagha The seed for Wake Up Nijmegen germinated during a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh in Papendal, the Netherlands, in the spring of 2009. In a gathering of young people at the retreat, there was fertile soil, plenty of Dharma rain, and…
Dwelling in the Ultimate in North Mississippi
By Steve Black “In the Ultimate I dwell,” Thay says. And turning to the child holding his right hand, he says, “Do you know what the Ultimate is?” Silence. The child looks at Thay. His head is level with Thay’s thigh. He says nothing. Thay gently repeats the question: “Do…