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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Welcome Dharma Teachers
On October 1-4, 2021, twenty-five monastics and fourteen lay friends received Lamp Transmission to become Dharma teachers at Deer Park Monastery. As part of their ordination, each new Dharma teacher receives a transmission gatha from the senior Dharma teachers and the lineage of ancestral teachers. We asked the new lay Dharma teachers for their reflections on their gathas.
Evening Bike Ride
I’m sitting on my front porch, the slanted...
Resolution: establishing a CTC Transformation & Healing Committee
The Care-Taking Council of the North American Dharma Teachers Sangha adopted the following resolution in March, 2015, in the wake of their visit to the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, and their reflections on the collaboration between Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Martin Luther…
How I Became the Mother of a Monastic
By Elaine Solomon Elaine Solomon and Brother Phap Man “Hey, Mom. Would you like to learn how to eat mindfully?” “Yes, that sounds interesting. What do I need to do?” “Just don’t talk while we’re eating,” my son explained. “I can do that!” I replied. This, in a nutshell, was…
Letters
illustration by Brother Phap Ban Thank you for sending me a copy of your magazine. Although I am a prisoner and my funds are limited, I would at least like to offer a submission of some writings and such that I do in my spare time at my prison job…
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…
Letters to the Mindfulness Bell
I want to thank you for your devotion and work on The Mindfulness Bell. Following a mountain-climbing accident, I spent three years in bed, unable to walk, and five years since then healing, walking—which I am doing with great mindfulness and gratitude. I used Thich Nhat Hanh' s book, A Guide to Walking Meditation, as…
Best Expectations
By Allan Hunt Badiner A commentary on the second of the Five Awarenesses: "We are aware of the expectations that our ancestors, our children and their children have of us." Key to understanding the full significance of each of the Five Awarenesses is to see ourselves not as individuals, but as continuations of all…
How Can Our Babies Help Heal the World?
By Robyn Sheldon Romy made just the tiniest one-second greeting when she was born, a sweet cooing sound, and then she snuggled onto her mother’s tummy, into that soft bowl that minutes before had been a tautly stretched pregnant belly. She snuffled on her hand and gazed around the room…