at the Great Ordination CeremonyDeer Park, CaliforniaFebruary 13, 2004 Respected Thay, respected Venerables, brothers and sisters and friends, I offer Greeting to this House, greetings to the people and to the ancestors of this House. Greetings to the land, the mountains, the rivers, and the sea. Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena…
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Book Reviews
Good Citizens Creating Enlightened Society By Thich Nhat Hanh Parallax Press, 2012 Softcover, 129 pages Reviewed by Karen Hilsberg and Alex Cline At the age of eighty-six, our teacher Thich Nhat Hanh continues to actively teach around the world and to publish several new books each year. His latest offering,…
“Sponsoring Hungry Families”
The word "sponsor" comes from the Latin word...
Mindful Eating
By Patrecia Lenore Like all the Mindfulness Trainings, the fifth one on mindful consumption-has been a process for me. In my younger years, I drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes. In my early thirties, I gave up smoking, and sometime in my forties, I discovered that alcohol increased the symptoms of my illness, fibromyalgia, so I…
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…
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…
Book Reviews
This Tender Place The Story of a Wetland Year By Laurie Lawlor University of Wisconsin Press, 2005 Hardcover, 166 pages, $26.95 Reviewed by Janice Rubin In a volume of fewer than 200 pages, Laurie Lawlor, author of thirty-three books for children and adults, writes the story of a love affair…
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…
Love in Action with the Police
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…