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Soymilk Sangha
by Susan Hadler After dinner I walk to the kitchen to check on the soymilk we’ve made today. It should be cooling by now. Later, after evening meditation we’ll put it in the refrigerator, so we can have fresh soymilk for breakfast. The clean-up crew fills the kitchen with activity…
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…
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…
Peace in Yourself, Peace in the World
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.”…
Learning to Eat, Learning to Walk
By Celia Tsui Celia Tsui, her husband Sam NG, and Brother Phap An Last year, my husband and I practiced for one year in Plum Village. At the end of the Winter Retreat we went to the EIAB for six weeks before going back to Plum Village for the June retreat. It…
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…
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…
On the Fifth Mindfulness Training
Nourishment and Healing By Nguyen Khoa Duc (Tam Thuong Son) Nguyen Khoa Duc, center, front row, with his Sangha; photo by Brother Chan Tri Her words punctured the still air and rippled through what had been a very calm Dharma discussion. She said repeatedly to the Dharma group, “There is…