By Larry Kasanoff Larry and Thay When I’m in conversations about current events with people who feel angry, frustrated, and powerless and say, “Well, I can’t do anything about them,” I know I can do something because Thay taught me a simple message: “Peace in yourself, Peace in the world.”…
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Evening Bike Ride
I’m sitting on my front porch, the slanted...
Tahanan Is Home
Reflections from a Social Worker in the Philippines Relief goods arrive in Iloilo, Philippines, 2014; photo by Chaya Ocampo Go For what is my heart yearning? In the winter of 2017, I remember holding a pen in one hand, and in the other a card with a ripe yellow mango…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tributes to Jim
Dear Jim, We were contemporaries, close to the same age, survivors of the Vietnam era, and coordinators of our respective Sanghas, so you will probably appreciate the line from the James Taylor song that has been running through my head: "Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone." I opened The Mindfulness Bell…
Mind in a Jar
During a retreat in South Africa, for the children’s program, a mother shared an activity. She brought out a large, glass vase filled with water and set it in the middle of the circle of children. Then she set out several containers of colored sand. She explained that the vase…