By Sheila Canal “Aware that sexual desire is not love and that sexual relations motivated by craving cannot dissipate the feeling of loneliness but will create more suffering, frustration and isolation, we are determined not to engage in sexual relations without mutual understanding, love and a deep long-term commitment made…
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Letter from the Editor
Letter from the managing editor of the Mindfulness Bell
Heart to Heart
Heart to Heart is a new section of the Mindfulness Bell — for you to express your thoughts and share your practice on a given topic. In this issue we focus on the Second Mindfulness Training (of the Five). For the Autumn 2007 issue, we invite you to write on…
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…
Ping and Bong
Over New Year's, my wife and I spent five days away, alone with each other. We had just come through a time of intense strain, and we had been arguing a lot. In our retreat, we blended silence and meditation with time to talk things through. That time gave birth…
Peace, Love, and Happiness
Thich Nhat Hanh shares a message about climate disruption
Opening the Joyful Path
Brother Pháp Dung teaches us to cultivate our good seeds, community, and freedom.
My Path as a Mindful Educator
photos courtesy of the monastic Sangha “Sentient beings are numberless. I vow to awaken them.” This is the first of the four great bodhisattva vows of Mahayana Buddhism. Whether or not we aspire to be bodhisattvas, once we embark on the Buddhist path we realize that we are practicing not…
Turning Durians into True Love
By Sister Hai An (Sister Ocean) I recently had the opportunity to move to Blue Cliff Monastery in New York from Plum Village. The transition was filled with joy in getting to know a new community and being back in North America. It was also filled with sorrow over the…
Sailing at the Earth’s Tempo
photo by Heather Lyn Mann Ship’s Log: October 15, 2008, 14:10—Atlantic Ocean just outside Port Everglades, Florida “That’s it! When in doubt, let it out,” coaches Peter, the nautical salesman who helped us secure two crisp, new sails for our vessel. Husband Dave and I spent the past year, when…