By Brother Phap Ho A Dharma sister of mine wrote a wonderful song about joy: “Your joy is my joy, my joy is your joy!” What makes you happy and joyful? For me art is one way of filling my heart with joy. So I will tell you a little…
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Renewing Communication
By Lennis Lyon Smiling nuns; photo courtesy of our monastic friends The last sentence in the Eighth Mindfulness Training encourages us to “be active in finding ways to reconcile and resolve all conflicts however small.” The words “however small” have challenged me for years. If I have discomfort in my…
Avant-Garde Dharma
For “People in Sorrow” By Karen Hilsberg and Peter Kuhn photos by Ernestine Lona On October 2, 2011, in downtown Los Angeles at the REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theater), an unusual fusion of jazz legends and the Plum Village Sangha converged. The occasion was the world premiere…
Coming Home
Compassionate Presence in Prison By David Haskin Coming Home Project volunteers (back row, left to right): David Haskin, Chris Lee-Thompson, Steven Spiro, Walt Keough; (front row) Janice Sheppard, Ron Schell It was the type of confrontation that is all too common in prison. Albert walked into a common area in…
A Sweet Reunion
Transcending Birth and Death By Beth Howard I first heard Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings on transcending birth and death in August of 2002, while on retreat at the Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center. My father had just been diagnosed with terminal chronic lymphocytic leukemia. I was fortunate to have many months…
For Abby-Rose, With Love
By Laura Lester Fournier The night before I received the Five Mindfulness Trainings at Stonehill College last August, I sat with friends and together we read the Trainings. I remember taking in every word deeply and contemplating what I was about to commit to. The topic that kept coming up…
Schizophrenia and Mindfulness
By Jack Bragen Plum Village Upper Hamlet between storms; photo by David Nelson I am a self-taught meditation practitioner and I also suffer from a disease called schizophrenia. The teachings of Buddha, Thich Nhat Hanh, and others have furnished me with the basic guidelines for my meditative effort. The meditation…
Extend the Peace and Joy of Plum Village
Brother Phap Luu (Brother Stream) and kids; photo courtesy of monastic Sangha Each year over ten thousand lay practitioners come from around the world to join the monastics of Plum Village for a mindfulness retreat. Practicing alongside the monks and nuns, retreatants enjoy the healing power of living in the…
Punk Palace in the Moonlight
By Ian Prattis My eighteen-year-old son, Alexander, was studying at the Glasgow School of Art. From our transatlantic calls, I knew he was in trouble with drugs. I arranged to visit him. At the airport I scarcely recognized him in his multicoloured hairstyle. He met me with a warm hug and a big smile. At his…
Report from Jerusalem
By Yacov Granot Learning of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1996, Michael Rosenbush invited Thich Nhat Hanh to Israel to plant seeds of healing. Thay agreed and in May 1997 led two short retreats and gave Dharma talks in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Following his visit, several new Sanghas began, and…