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…
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Out of the Monastery, Into the World
By Alix Madrigal Though he spends more time with monks and nuns than politicians, Zen Buddhist monk and best-selling author Thich Nhat Hanh—Peace Is Every Step and the new Living Buddha, Living Christ—is no stranger to world affairs. The Vietnamese Buddhist monk forged his philosophy of "engaged Buddhism" during the war in Vietnam, and his subsequent…
Introducing Mindfulness at an HIV Charity
By Jess Stein photo courtesy of Wake Up Earlier this year, HIV charity Positively UK approached Wake Up London and asked us to facilitate some introductory mindfulness sessions at their London offices. Positively UK is a positive organisation in every sense of the word. Its aim is to provide practical…
The Computer Bridge
By Judith Bossert Step by step, Sometimes reluctantly, I walk over the bridge Between nothing and nothing at all. Among the many teachers I have had in my life, one of them has been the computer. Typing on the computer is like walking meditation, breathing with the steps of my fingers on the…
Cultivating a Relationship
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…
Learning to Speak the Truth
From a Dharma Talk by Thay Phap An June 13, 2004Upper Hamlet, Plum Village Respected Thay, respected brothers and sisters, and the whole community: Today is June 13th, 2004. We are in Dharma Cloud Temple in the Upper Hamlet. In the last two weeks, we have learned that we can depict…
Joyful Garden Sangha
Reflections about sangha building from Joyful Garden Sangha in Singapore
Healing Cancer with Mindfulness
By Chan Phap Dang photo by Valerie Brown I would like to share the practices I used to heal cancer, not with the intention to brag about my knowledge of illness, medicine, or meditation. In truth, I know little about illness and medicine. But two and half years ago, I…
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The Realization of a Dream Thich Nhat Hanh began his last Dharma talk at the Path of the Buddha retreat by speaking about the EIAB. It has been Thay’s dream to set up an Institute of Applied Buddhism in the West, and now the dream has been realized. We have…
Healing
By Patrecia Lenore Last October, at the Omega retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh, a four-year-old dream came true. In 1993 at my first retreat with Thay at Omega I was in the midst of memories of incest and deep suffering. The Dharma discussion leaders were unable to answer my questions because of their inexperience with…