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.
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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…
The Practice of Subtracting
Learning to Let Go of Material Possessions By David Percival My mail today brought another pile of catalogs including the latest shiny, slick catalog of expensive Buddhist items. Everything I need is here: huge Buddhist statues, including one for my garden for only $998, the tea sets, the bells and…
Practice Right Now
Photo by Brandy Sacks Each moment of daily life is an opportunity to arrive in the present moment. Gathas are short verses that we can recite during daily activities to help us return to the present moment and dwell in mindfulness. As exercises in both meditation and poetry, gathas are…
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…
Breathe!
Before I came to Plum Village I had been practicing in India with the Tibetans, a meditation called tonglen. In this practice, when you breathe in, you take all the suffering of the world on yourself and when you breathe out, you breathe out all your joy for the sake of the world. I was…
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…
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…
From Selfness to Cellness
Dharma teacher Jo-ann Rosen offers insights on seeing the practice through a neuroscientific and trauma-sensitive lens, and on being a cell in a Sangha body.
Earth Holding Community: Inter-Activism
How our Hearts, Hands, and Global Spheres of Care Coalesce and Manifest Through Earth-Holding Actions: inspiring news from Brazil, Latin America; Chesapeake Bay, US; and Ontario, Canada–from mindful trash cleanups to legislative actions to gardening in our homes. May these offerings inspire and nourish your Earth holding aspirations and practice!