By Richard Gilman From the age of six, I knew that I would design computers. My whole life has been about science, math, and statistics. I only wrote to put a few words between the formulas, postulates, and theorems, so they would flow better. Arts and literature were not for me. But, something happened…
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Peace, Understanding, and Compassion
An Urban Retreat for People of Color Copyright 2010 New York People of Color Day of Mindfulness; photo by Tasha Chuang “The value of a person is not his race or caste, but the value of his thinking, speaking, and acting. We are noble not because of our race, but…
Being with the Children
By Shantum Seth One day in Bodhgaya Thay said why don't we organize the children in the village where Sujata and Svasti used to live. We could have tea meditation there together. I met two kids, one about thirteen or fourteen years old and asked them to get all the children together. I worked…
New Moment of the Heart
By Claudia Baker photo by Renee Burgard On April 9, 2005, I spoke for the first time to the son I gave up for adoption in July of 1970. I was nineteen years old when he was born. The last time I saw him, he was being carried out of…
Crayfish in a Lotus Pond
By Lowie van Liere photos by Lowie van Liere Many participants were shocked during the Path of the Buddha retreat when they saw Upper Hamlet’s lotus pond. They had hoped to see beautiful flowering lotuses but instead observed turbid water. All lotus plants had vanished. The pond had been invaded…
Vietnam: From Notion to Reality
By Therese Fitzgerald As soon as Arnie and I joined Thay for a retreat in St. Petersburg, Russia, he encouraged us to join Sister Annabel for two weeks, visiting temples and other Buddhist Pilgrimage sights around Hanoi and Hue. We were hesitant at first to make such a long trip for such a short…
Reflections on the First Awareness
By Allan Hunt Badiner "This is what you can say tomorrow, and every full moon," Thich Nhat Hanh told us as he smiled and handed us a slip of paper in the dining hall of the pilgrim's hostel in Sarnath, India, in November 1988. "These are the Five Awarenesses." Later that night, my bride-to-be…
Book Reviews
A Handful of Quiet Happiness in our Pebbles By Thich Nhat Hanh Blossom Books, 2012 Hardcover, 62 pages Reviewed by Elle Snow Many years ago, on a meditation retreat in Santa Barbara, Thay and some children created Pebble Meditation. Like so many of Thay’s teachings, Pebble Meditation is both simple…
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…
Prison Mindfulness
By Mair Honan A few years ago, the word "prison" arose repeatedly in my meditation. I thought it referred to an internal prison and laughed when the words "Thomaston prison" arose one day. Thomaston is a nearby state prison. I had no conscious desire to enter the prison and no experience in prison work. But,…