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Welcome Letter: Community in Times of Division
Brother Pháp Lưu invites us to resist forces of division and introduces this new issue.
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…
Making up Songs
Do you ever make up songs? Sometimes when we write the words to a song we don’t have music for it, so we use the music from another song that we already know. In English we have a very old song called “Greensleeves,” but the words are not inspiring. The…
Book Reviews
How to Relax by Thich Nhat Hanh Parallax Press, 2015Paperback, 120 pages Reviewed by Brother Gary Gach, Chan Minh Dai, True Platform of Light Have you ever wanted to give someone a book by Thay but hesitated? So many choices. Well, good news: now there are five new ones to…
Wake Up
Young Buddhists and Non-Buddhists for a Healthy and Compassionate Society photo by Robert Harrison Nutshell Wake Up is an active global community of young mindfulness practitioners, aged 18-35, inspired by the teachings of Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh. We come together to practice mindfulness in order to…
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…
Media Reviews
One Buddha Is Not Enough A Story of Collective Awakening By Thich Nhat Hanh and the Monks and Nuns of Plum Village Parallax Press, 2010 Paperback, 216 pages Reviewed by Rasoul Sorkhabi In August 2009, more than nine hundred people gathered at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park,…
Making Lemonade Out of Lemons
BRUCE L. HILSBERG, Strong Commitment of the Heart and True Courageous Inspiration, passed away on March 29, 2005. He was forty-five years old. Bruce and his wife Karen met in graduate school, where they both received doctorates in clinical psychology. Bruce’s most recent employment was as Chief of Psychology at…
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…