I had a pretty uneventful early childhood. I grew up on a farm with loving parents. I quarreled a lot with my two brothers, and, when I was six, I had a little sister that I cherished a lot (and still do). However, when I turned nine or ten, I started feeling strange.…
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Rebuilding Health, Part 1
Thích Nhất Hạnh teaches us to stop running and find healing, peace, joy, and happiness in our breathing and our walking. When we practice mindfulness, every practice should be the healing itself. Suppose you are practicing mindful breathing. You think that the breathing will bring healing, but you have to…
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…
Right in the Middle of It
Travel and Practice in Southeast Asia By David Percival Travel is a part of us. From the poorest Southeast Asian villagers who travel their countries by boat, minivan, and battered bus, to Western jetsetters, travel is in our blood. Yet, these last few years I have experienced a lot…
This Freedom
Dharma teacher Richard Brady reflects on how Lamp Transmission supported his healing and growth in freedom to share mindfulness with others in person and in his writing.
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…
Nourishing & Protecting Our Baby Sangha
Fierce Compassion Sangha was born of diverse causes and conditions...
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…
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,…
Book Reviews
mb38-BookReviews1 Journeying East: Conversations on Aging and Dying By Victoria Jean Dimidjian Parallax Press, 2004 Reviewed by Lois Schlegel For as long as I can remember I have been afraid of death. Even as a child I wrestled with this unknown. At night, when the house was quiet I lay…