photo by Ron Forster Blue Cliff Monastery hosted a Sacred Justice Retreat on January 18, 2016. This is an excerpt from the retreat’s Q&A panel on mindful activism—a conversation about the challenges and successes that can come with activism and spiritual practice. Sangha members posed the following themes for the…
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Dharma Talk: Taking the Hand of Suffering
Some days the sky is completely clear, without a single cloud. When we look up, we see the blue sky – very peaceful, very powerful. The blue sky is always there for us. When it rains and storms, clouds cover the sky, but we are confident the blue sky is…
Cultivating Family Practice in the Sangha
By Michele Tedesco Two years ago, I presented the community at Plum Village a very special vase of flowers. It took me about fifteen minutes to arrange in front of the community. The whole community was breathing and smiling while I arranged these flowers. But that pot of flowers was quite different from…
Our Cosmic Body
By Thich Nhat Hanh August 24, 2014 European Institute of Applied Buddhism Thich Nhat Hanh, August 2014 photo courtesy of monastic Sangha Dear Sangha, today is the 24th of August 2014. We are on our last day of the retreat “To Understand Is to Love.” Later you will go back to France…
On the Way Home (part 4)
By Sister Annabel,True Virtue Sister Annabel has been a disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh since 1986; this is the fourth installment in her autobiography. Walking and Relaxing Plum Village emphasizes two aspects of the practice that Buddha Shakyamuni taught 2,500 years ago and that the descendants of the Buddha…
Family Sangha – A Place to Be
By Noah, Hannah, and Claudia We felt magic in the air and a deep sense of peace after our last Family Sangha meeting. Something special grew through our day together. We love having toddlers and babies stay in the room as the adults meditate and share together, while the children…
Finding Harmony in Beginning Anew
By Bethany Klug photo by Renee Burgard My husband David and I entered our relationship with a deep intention: that spiritual practice would form its foundation. We met at Sangha and our friendship grew around the trellis of mindfulness practice. When we began entertaining the notion of a long-term committed…
Ko Un — or What?
Ko Un is Korea’s foremost living poet. After immense suffering during the Korean War, he became a Buddhist monk. His first poems were published in 1958, then a few years later he returned to the secular world and became a leading activist. In 2008, he received the Griffin Trust Lifetime…
The Art of Transforming Suffering: Part One
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Dharma talk “The Art of Transforming Suffering” talks about signlessness and developing Right View
Reverence for Life
My pandemic story began on my forty-fourth birthday....