By Brandon Rennels For the past few years I have had the immense pleasure of serving as a Wake Up Coordinator. What exactly is a Wake Up Coordinator? The way I describe it is as follows: There are hundreds of amazing young adults all over the world who are practicing…
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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…
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,…
Falling in Love with the Earth
Blue Cliff 2014, photo by Margaret Alexander Thich Nhat Hanh wrote the following statement in response to a request from the United Nations Climate Change Chief, Christiana Figueres, for the UN “Thought Leadership Series.” The series offers spiritual perspectives in preparation for the Paris climate talks in December 2015. Christiana…
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…
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…
Letters to the Mindfulness Bell
I received The Mindfulness Bell today and immediately read Leslie Rawls's beautiful tribute to her dad and the 11-year-old girl inside her. Thank you for sharing it. Stories like this help all of us to deepen our understanding of the Dharma. The story was a reminder to me that wisdom is not about escape, but rather…
Growing in Mindfulness
By Sandro M. DuBois For the last five weeks, I have tried to be mindful of one of the precepts daily for one week, trying to keep the broad idea in my mind and to realize how it might affect everything that I was doing throughout that day. I wish I could say that…