photo by Paul Davis The first Earth Holders retreat was held at Deer Park Monastery this spring. What happiness it was to have 130 people come together and feel the love of our community encompassing Bodhisattva Gaia and one another. The climate issues we are encountering everywhere on our planet…
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Letters
Dear sisters and brothers on the path, I wonder what you think about an issue dedicated to practicing in a digital world? Several facets to explore: How we relate to increasing use of technology in our daily lives.How technology supports or undermines our practice.How do we look deeply at something…
Making up Songs
Do you ever make up songs? Sometimes when we write the words to a song we don’t have music for it, so we use the music from another song that we already know. In English we have a very old song called “Greensleeves,” but the words are not inspiring. The…
Breaking My Heart Open
Getting Close with the Pain of Injustice Buddha; photo by Paul Davis I wore my Order of Interbeing jacket into a prison for the first time last fall, just two weeks after my ordination. For me, this felt very natural. The brown jacket, a symbol of our engaged Buddhist practice,…
Counting Dragonflies
Deep Listening and Diagnostic Assessment I first meditated with Thich Nhat Hanh at a retreat at Nottingham University in 2012. One day on the retreat, I was quite tired and decided to miss the mindful walking with Thay and go back to my room and rest. I paused on a…
Touching Roots in Vietnam
By Cynthia Jurs In November 1992, Sister Annabel, Joan Halifax, Hugh Wheir, and I went to Vietnam on a pilgrimage to the Buddhist sacred places in the north and to visit Thay's homeland and temples in Hue. Here are some impressions. A small boat gliding gently through channels of water carved into rocky landscapes…
The Friend of the Desert
Existential and curiously hypnotic, Pablo d'Ors evokes the sharp stylized prose of Bolaño, Bernhard, and DeLillo in this strange tale of one man's repeated forays into the desert, and the ultimate silence it contains. "Thanks to the back cover of a book I knew that there lived in Brno a…
A Loving-Kindness Meditation
offered by Roberta Wall September 16, 2001 Another day in precious holy Brooklyn, with vigils, peace walks and interfaith services everywhere. Seven hundred people came together in the Brooklyn Museum to honor fallen firefighters from two local stations. The first four rows of the packed auditorium were filled with mourning families. Black folks…
This Difficult Thing of Being Human
We all long for someone to offer us unconditional love and support. But what if that person is us? The practice of mindful self-compassion creates the space we need so that observation, acceptance, and real love can enter, no matter how judgmental or disconnected we may feel. It sounds like…
North American Tour
Less than a week after the end of the summer retreat at Plum Village, Thich Nhat Hanh and some members of the monastic Sangha embarked on a two-month tour of North America. Retreats and public lectures took place in Massachusetts, Quebec, Colorado, and California. The tour culminated with a visit…