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…
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Kid’s Stuff
By Mark Vette Sleeping bags and bodies twisted and tangled upon one another, and moonlight on the beautiful faces of children sleeping under the stars, awakes the child within me. I sit like a sentinel at meditation reflecting on the evening before, of enjoying hot chocolate and cookies while telling stories and jokes. A…
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…
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…
Mindful Living and Meditation Center
By Stefano Carboni Italian practitioners at Avalokita; photo by Stefano Carboni The realization of Avalokita center has been a Sangha work and has succeeded only because the Italian community practicing Thay’s teachings has acted collectively with joy, each committing their own skills and resources. The idea of creating a center…
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Transformation at the Base: Fifty Verses on the Nature of Consciousness Thich Nhat Hanh Parallax Press, 2001 Introduction The twelfth-century Vietnamese Zen master Thuong Chieu, "Always Shining," said, "When we understand how our mind works, the practice becomes easy." This is a book on Buddhist psychology, offered to help us…
Dharma Talk: Unified Buddhist Church – Community of Mindful Living Merger
Transcription of a Dharma Talk Given by Thich Nhat Hanh on March 2, 1999 at Plum Village Monastery, Dieulivol, France Dear Friends, it is now the beginning of March 1999, and we are in Floating Clouds Meditation Hall, New Hamlet, Plum Village. We have just completed the Transmission of the Lamp ceremony for twelve monastics.…
Letters to the Editors
Dear Editors, I am a subscriber to The Mindfulness Bell and I have thus far read three of Thich Nhat Hanh' s books (l am at present on a second reading of The Sun My Heart).l have been practicing meditation for about a year and a half, having been introduced to meditation through a…
Maple Forest Blooms
The young banana plant has two small leaves. They are the first to arrive, and nourish the plant's early stages. Then, they wither and fall, giving way to larger leaves which allow the tree to develop and bear fruit. The budding practice in Maple Forest Monastery is like those first small leaves. If we succeed…
Healing the Present, Healing the Past
By Azriel Cohen Shared at the Hiroshima Commemoration Ceremony in Plum Village, August 7, 2001. Last night, a young man from Germany at the Hiroshima Commemoration in the Upper Hamlet shared with the community how he observed anger arising within himself, when the Israeli-Palestinian group shared that the trauma of the Holocaust was still a…