This is an excerpt of a talk at the Sandy Beach Hotel in Da Nang on April 10, 2007. Thay spoke in Vietnamese to an audience of intellectuals and answered some fascinating questions from the audience. Most of us think that happiness is made of fame, power, money. Every one…
Search results for “is nothing something”
1445 Results
Nourishing & Protecting Our Baby Sangha
Fierce Compassion Sangha was born of diverse causes and conditions...
Dinner Makes a Difference
By Eve Heidtmann Global warming is hard to face. The challenge is so great and I feel so small. I tried denial but found I just couldn’t keep it up for long. Finally I decided I had to take hold of some part of the problem and do something. The…
Spanning a Bridge
For Love to Deepen During Thich Nhat Hanh’s trip to Vietnam in early 2007, several Great Requiem Ceremonies were held, to help heal the wounds of war. Here, Sister Dang Nghiem continues her recollections of those powerful events and the deep transformation she experienced. (See part one of her article…
Supporting the Troops
By Patrick McMahon Recently I was startled to find on the door of the classroom down the hall from me a poster of the American flag, with the slogan, "We Support Our Troops in the Middle East" I thought of the bumper slicker on my car, "Support Our Troops: Bring…
Cheeze Sisters Make a Really Beneficial Change
By Laura Hunter Laura Hunter photo by Ron Forster It all got real when our Really Beneficial Sangha in Escondido, California, decided to have more fun. We settled on movie night—wouldn’t that be great! Our Sangha brother Herb Zapata (our spirit guide of compassionate eating) suggested Cowspiracy for our first…
Compassion Is the Energy that Protects
By Brother Chan Phap Lai Thay’s offering, Bat Nha: A Koan, is intended to nourish our collective bodhicitta—the mind of love. Thay has contributed his deep insight and invites us all to read, contemplate and practice in order to come to our own insight—the kind of insight that can show…
The New Case
By Tyrone Cashman The world's political leaders, nation by nation, are waking up to the fact that while the old human/political/historical issues are still serious, there is a new issue. Till now, environmental problems have hovered on the edge of the consciousness of world leaders, pushed into the political arena, they felt, by scruffily-dressed, underemployed,…
Announcements
Passages Married: On June 17, Lyn Coffin, True Mirror, and Paul Norton, Boundless Attentive Caring, were married in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Dharma Teacher Jack Lawlor (True Direction) performed the ceremony. The happy couple lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Community of Mindful Living Update We at the central office of Communities of Mindful Living in Berkeley, California…
Thriving Together
Research over the last few decades reveals that our social fabric is unraveling as rates of isolation and loneliness continue to rise, climate crises intensify, and an individualistic worldview prevails. Is there another way to live? Where can we turn for guidance and hope in the face of such challenges?