A Report from the Delegation, Winter, 2001 A delegation of ten monastics from Plum Village, Green Mountain Dharma Center and Deer Park Monastery visited Vietnam this past spring. During the trip we were fortunate to spend time with both the social workers and the recipients of the Touching and Helping program. There are thirty-two…
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Awakening and Deepening White Awareness
The murder of George Floyd and systemic inequalities revealed...
Sangha Building in Hanoi
I am living in Hanoi. Am I dreaming? How has this happened? The answers can, as always, be found in the teachings. This is because that is. Manifestation occurs when conditions are sufficient. The understanding of the answers, however, is found in life, and mine has definitely taken some unexpected…
Dharma Talk: The Eightfold Path
The Noble Eightfold Path is made up of Right View, Right Speech, Right Livelihood, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration, Right Thought, Right Action and Right Effort. Right View is the insight that we have within us of the reality of life. Our insight, understanding, wisdom, knowledge, happiness, and the happiness of…
Dharma Talk: Five Wonderful Precepts
When we think about peace, we usually think about the absence of war
Building a Healthy Sangha #20 Winter 1997 By Jack Lawlor If we reflect on the life story of the Buddha, we see that the Buddha sank deep and broad roots in community, both before and after his enlightenment. His success at Sangha building was phenomenal. He brought together people from every level of a…
To Continue Beautifully
Sangha, Loss, and the Creative Process: An Interview with Susanne Olbrich By Philip Toy Susanne Olbrich Into the nebulous, ongoing mystery of life I welcome, as if through an open door, the continuing spirit of the one I have loved. – Martha Whitmore Hickman During our summer 2010 pilgrimage to…
Giving is Receiving
During an afternoon of walking meditation in a beautiful park in California, I paused beneath a broad-leaved tree with a massive trunk and breathed and smiled. I remembered other parks in another town where people can be found beneath the trees; sleeping people, ragamuffin people, homeless people. I realized that…
Practicing as a Couple
By Brendan Sillifant My search I have had a deep affinity with the practice of mindfulness since I was a teenager. I had come across it in a variety of forms from different sources. From the Buddhist traditions of Thailand, Japan and Tibet, and from modern self-help psychology also. As a young man I…
How to Instantly Drop Feelings of Shyness, Loneliness, & Separateness
A Dharma Lamp Talk Plum Village November 13, 2004by Annabelle Zinser Often it is specific, concrete suggestions for practice that help us most in our process of transformation. In this section, practitioners, both experienced and beginner, share ways to incorporate a deeper awareness of mindfulness into our daily lives. We…