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Finding a Common Sense in Isolation
In the midst of this big stop, billions of people...
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…
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…
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…
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…
Keeping the Two Promises
By Yvonne Mazurek This summer, the Plum Village children’s program staff dedicated one afternoon each week to the Two Promises. Our sharings helped everyone think about why it was important that the children took the Two Promises in a ceremony at the end of the week. We sang songs about…
Joyful Garden Sangha
Reflections about sangha building from Joyful Garden Sangha in Singapore
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…
News from Vietnam
Compiled by Sister True Emptiness, Sister True Wonder Adornment, Steve Denney, Therese Fitzgerald, and Carole Melkonian Over the last five years, the Vietnamese government has embarked on a policy of doi moi—reforms creating a more open society, particularly economic reforms, but in other areas of life as well. During 1992, it became increasingly common to…