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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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…
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…
Green Mountain Dharma Center
Dear friends, I am writing on behalf of Thay Nhat Hanh and the entire Sangha to ask for your help. In November 1997, Thay visited South Meadow Farm in Hartland, Vermont, and was very pleased with its serenity and seclusion. Located on a high plateau with long views to the east and south, the property…
In Russia with Love
By Therese Fitzgerald At the end of the September retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh in Moscow, Thay told the group, "In six months, Arnie and Therese will come back to lead another retreat." During three days of mindfulness in March, the practice of conscious breathing was wonderfully enjoyed among the sixty participants in a Moscow…
Learning How to Listen Again
By Carol Cheong Monastic sisters from Lower Hamlet walking to Upper Hamlet in Plum Village. Photo by Carol Cheong I was a little apprehensive to walk alone at 5:30 a.m. on the still dark roads from Middle Hamlet to Lower Hamlet. I switched on my torch, wrapped my scarf around…
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…
Nurturing Bodhicitta in Vietnam
I found Sister Thoai Nghiem at Lower Hamlet before the Breath of the Buddha retreat, mindfully hacking away at overgrown bushes behind the Dharma Nectar Hall. We met for this talk after the retreat, on June 25, 2006. Mindfulness Bell: You’ve spent a lot of time in Vietnam since Thây’s…
On this land
a poem about Mountain Spring Monastery
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…