Being Truly Present for a Temper Tantrum By Yvonne Mazurek A sleeping baby during the 21-Day Retreat, Plum Village, 2018; photo courtesy of monastic Sangha During the 2017-2018 winter retreat, some of the neighbors joined twenty long-term volunteers in Upper Hamlet, Plum Village, for weekly classes dedicated to the Buddha’s…
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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 Guided Meditation for Listening Deeply
One morning when I woke up in Green Mountain Dharma Center I remembered a dream I had had which made me feel ill at ease. In that dream l had a serious difficulty with a sister, but in waking life I did not feel I had a difficulty with that…
The Path: To Sink or Swim
By Lily Pond At our Sangha meeting one Tuesday night, the Dharma teacher spoke of loving kindness. I nodded and nodded as she spoke. I had spent years reaching the same conclusions: that loving kindness, gentle friendship, and the way of the heart are all that bring joy and rest to our spirits. And on…
Wake Up Schools: The Joy of Community
By Orla O’Sullivan photo by Richard Brady “Building a Sangha is a very basic practice. If you have a deep aspiration, or a dream to realize, you cannot do it without a community. That is why building a community is very important.” Thich Nhat Hanh spoke these words during a…
Dharma Talk: True Presence
Thich Nhat Hanh's Dharma talk on being truly present for our loved ones, the Four Mantras of True Love, and loving kindness meditation
On the Way Home (part 5)
By Sister Annabel, True Virtue Life on the Farm in England I grew up in a part of England near the West Coast that enjoyed the effects of the Gulf Stream. Although temperatures did fall below freezing sometimes and even snow fell, it was not cold like New England is.…
On Dharma Discussions
Dharma discussions are a fundamental part of Sangha gatherings, retreats, and Plum Village life. At their best they embody qualities of group meditation, enabling us to enter a place of quiet in which we can stop and listen deeply to ourselves and each other. They are opportunities for us to deepen our understanding of the…
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the managing editor of the Mindfulness Bell
The Long Walk from War to Peace
By Larry Calloway Thich Nhat Hanh’s return to Vietnam in May for several retreats followed by a United Nations conference was a triumph for his “engaged Buddhism.” Not only was his global influence evident at the conference, but he and four hundred retreat participants (most of us Westerners) were warmly…