A Retreat in Ireland By Caroline Dwyer photo by Sarah Dawson The realization of a long-held vision of the Irish Sangha was brought to fruition when dear Thay and fifty monastics were joyfully welcomed to Irish soil and led a four-day retreat in Killarney, County Kerry in April 2012. It…
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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…
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…
Healing the Past in the Present
By Ann Moore In a New Year’s Eve Dharma sharing session at Blue Cliff Monastery, Sister Anh Nghiem invited us to write on the phrases: “It had been,” “But then,” and “I realize.” In response to her invitation I offer the following story in three chapters: Chapter 1: It Had…
Dharma Talk: The Long Arm of the Fourfold Sangha
Dharma talk at the European Institute of Applied BuddhismJune 11, 2010 During the war, Thich Nhat Hanh was moved to find an appropriate and beneficial way to bring the teachings and practices of the Buddha directly to the real suffering of the people. In 1966, the Tiep Hien Order, or…
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…
The Art of Leadership
How to restore harmony to ourselves and our nation? In this extract from a talk just after the inauguration of Barack Obama, Thich Nhat Hanh draws parallels between a president’s task of uniting a nation and a meditator’s task of bringing their different elements into harmony. He invites us to…
Book Reviews
Ten Breaths to Happiness Touching Life in Its Fullness By Glen Schneider Foreword by Thich Nhat HanhParallax Press, 2013 Soft cover, 108 pages Reviewed by Louise Dunlap, True Silent Teaching “Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world” (Francis of Assisi). So…
What’s Now?
Dear beloved Thầy, Please allow me to open my heart and express my deepest gratitude to you—a teacher, a leader, and a legend. You have helped us learn how to be human, how to connect, how to love, how to see each other as flowers in one garden of humanity.…
Reconciling Ourselves to the Unreconcilable
Even meditation was difficult. Breathing in...