Veterans Lighting the Way Brother Phap Uyen and Paul Davis in Conversation Brother Phap Uyen and Paul Davis at Magnolia Grove Brother Phap Uyen (Brother Michael) served in the military during Desert Storm, Desert Shield. He was ordained as a monastic by Thich Nhat Hanh on May 26, 2002, with…
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Spiritual Friends
Waking Up in Community By Sister Hanh Nghiem Wake Up! Young Buddhists and non-Buddhists for a Healthy and Compassionate Society is a worldwide network of young people practicing the living art of mindfulness. It sprang from our teacher’s humble suggestion that young people should create such a movement for themselves.…
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…
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.…
Pain, Love, and Happiness
By Khanh Le Van The University of California at Santa Barbara campus was huge. "Wait till you see the gym," said my Dharma brother Arnie. Indeed, for the next five days we 1,300 retreatants would sit together in that gym for meditation and Dharma talks. A team beaded by Wendy Johnson was busy arranging the…
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the managing editor of the Mindfulness Bell
Dharma Talk: Diet for a Mindful Society
Mindfulness is the blood of our psyche. It is exactly like the blood in our body—it has the power to wash away the toxins and heal our pain, the pain in our consciousness. When we are not mindful, we ingest many poisons into our consciousness. In fact, we water the…