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Communal Pursuit of Happiness
By Allan Hunt Badiner The third of the Five Awarenesses: We are aware that our joy, peace, freedom, and harmony are the joy, peace, freedom, and harmony of our ancestors, our children, and their children. The first thing I do when I return home is pick up my baby daughter, India, and hold her…
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…
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…
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 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…
Dharma Talk: The Power of Visualization
From talks given June 11 and June 14, 2004, at The Feet of the Buddha Retreat, Plum Village Thich Nhat Hanh In June, 2004, Thich Nhat Hanh offered teachings on the nature of consciousness at The Feet of the Buddha Retreat in Plum Village. Expounding on the material published in…
Thich Nhat Hanh in Israel
By Marjorie Markus When I first heard that Thich Nhat Hanh would be leading retreats in Israel in May 1997, I was excited and knew immediately that I wanted to go. As the time approached to commit to attending the retreat, I had some doubts and concerns, particularly about how we might be received in…
Touching the True Nature of the Earth
The Happy Farm Manager shares about his living practice of nonduality with the Earth and “others.”
We Still Have Each Other
A letter from Thích Nhất Hạnh