By Marisela Gomez illustration by Brother Phap Ban Talk at ABC Home September 2016 Dear friends, dear Thay, I want to share about what love in action may look like, and maybe why it is necessary. This is not just for activists but for everyone who is negotiating and navigating…
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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…
Waking Up from Our Separation
By Sister Ocean (Chan Trang Hai An) Illustration by Brother Phap Ban There is a strange tendency in spiritual communities to believe in a trickle-down type of awakening. The thinking seems to follow that if we do enough sitting meditation and go on enough retreats and get a good dose…
Meditation and Healing
The first act of the meditator is to go back to his or her body as the object of mindfulness. Breath is the vehicle with which we go back to our body. The breath belongs to the body. It is a link between body and mind. As soon as you go back to your in-breath…
A Vietnam Veteran’s Story
By Vince Rogalski, Sr. I am a Vietnam combat veteran. I grew up in a strict Catholic family, the second of five children. We were poor, living in a two-bedroom house in a rough neighborhood. My father worked hard all his life; my mom was a full time wife and mother.…
Bearing Witness on Charnel Ground
By Judy Nakatomi illustration by Brother Phap Ban Thich Nhat Hanh taught me something simply beautiful: I could transform and heal inter-generational sorrow and shame. I could help my parents, my ancestors, and my children heal, and they could help me heal. But first, I needed to look deeply and honestly into the feelings in the feelings, the…
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.”
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…
We Still Have Each Other
A letter from Thích Nhất Hạnh