By Julia Travers illustration by Julia Travers A friend shared a beautiful story of interbeing in this Facebook post: An anthropologist proposed a game to the kids in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids that whoever got there first…
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Going Home to Nature to Shift the Climate Narrative
Salina Khan-Fuchigami shares how mindfulness radically changed her understanding and approach as an environmental educator, from watering the seeds of fear and despair to cultivating reverence for nature and life.
On the Way Home
By Sister Annabel, True Virtue In response to a request from her teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Annabel is writing about her life. Thay suggested that her story be serialized in the Mindfulness Bell and then put together in a book. In this first installment, when the story begins she…
Support for a Palestinian Peace Activist
The Israeli Sangha wishes to raise funds for Issa Souf and his wife and four children to go to Plum Village this summer. The Israeli Sangha has interviewed him, and the interview can be read in full on the Mindfulness Bell website along with the details of how you can…
Meditation at Juvenile Hall
By Soren Gordhamer It took eight months to begin meditation classes at the local Juvenile Hall-seven months of talking about it and one month of letters, phone calls, and meetings with the director. The director was not sure the kids would go for it. He said if we expected them to sit down, cross…
Giving a Talk
By Joseph Emet I have just come back from a five-day Dharma Teachers’ retreat at Blue Cliff Monastery. There I heard a lot of talks, and also many pleas for finding ways of helping new members of the Order of Interbeing to be more effective in Sangha building, and in…
Love in Our Generation
By Jenny Hamp photo by Elli Weisbaum and Rob Walsh In April 2011, I asked a Brooklyn Sangha friend how to get in touch with New York Wake Up. The next week I found out I was organizing it. My friend had volunteered me to help a young adult from…
Using Mindfulness to Rewire the Brain
How the Insights of Neuroscience Can Aid Our Practice By Paul Tingen photo by Paul Davis Around twenty-five years ago, neuroscience went through a dramatic change in perspective that had profound implications for mindfulness practitioners, and that can greatly deepen our understanding of our practice and the teachings of Thich Nhat…
Fidelity
What does healthy intimacy look like? How we do we keep the energy and passion alive in long-term relationships? What practices can help us forgive our partner when he or she has hurt us? How can we get a new relationship off to a strong and stable start? What do…
Retreat at Plum Village
By Cameron Barnett Over the summer I went to a Buddhist retreat in Plum Village, France. Plum Village is a community of Buddhist monks and nuns located about an hour and a half from Bordeaux. The head of this community is a man named Thich Nhat Hanh. He is a…