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Why I Chose the Monastic Path
By Brother Chan Phap Nguyen Plum Village, 2013, photo by Robert Felker During last spring’s Francophone retreat, Thay gave Dharma talks on the theme of “recognizing the conditions of happiness in and around us,” a subject that is very important and helpful for today’s living. Thay taught that to be…
Relationship as Engaged Buddhism
By Nathaniel Vose photo by Renee Burgard Of the different forms of activism I’ve practiced in my life, the most transformative, perhaps, is the relationship activism I practice with my partner, Liz. Our partnership acts as a microcosm for our relationships with all beings. We practice to nourish not only…
Step by Step out of Despair
Parenting a Child with Special Needs By Laurel Houghton We were at home and I went to pick her up. She was blue, and her arms and legs limply dangled between my arms. I thought she was in a deep sleep. Then that she was dead. My first child, three…
Seeing My Mud
Before the pandemic hit, I quit my job...
Healing Our Brokenness
By Sister Viet Nghiem The first person with whom we need to practice Beginning Anew is ourselves. In this excerpt from the question-and-answer session at the monastic retreat in Estes Park in August 2006, Sister Viet Nghiem answers this difficult question from a lay retreatant: how can we look deeply…
The Singing Sangha
By Quyen Do In the old days, Zen masters sometimes used strong methods to help their students be mindful, to help liberate them from affliction and realize their Buddha nature. A teacher might suddenly beat or kick or shout to stun students into awakening. But Thich Nhat Hanh may be the first teacher to promote mindfulness…
Letters
Having had time to reread two books by Thich Nhat Hanh, my relationship to my immediate and extended worlds will never be the same. I have adapted several gathas from Present Moment Wonderful Moment. I am also, at his encouragement, gathering my own gathas. My cell block of more than 100 inmates is on the…
Buddhist Persecution Continues
By Stephen Denney On November 15,1993, four Buddhist monks and five laypeople were tried and sentenced in Hue, Vietnam, in connection with a May 24 demonstration in the city during which a police car carrying a monk was stopped and subsequently set afire. Thich Tri Tuu, in the car at the time it was stopped,…
The Path of Transformation
Continuing My Mom’s Dream By Brother True Communion Brother True Communion and his mom visiting Ayutthaya, Thailand My mom visited me for twenty-six days during the 2015 teaching tour of the Plum Village Sangha International Delegation to Thailand. She was extremely happy learning the practice and being surrounded by many…