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.…
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Dharma in the Deep South
Reflections on the Roots Retreat Close-up etching of children enslaved by the Haydel family, Wall of Honor memorial, Whitney Plantation.Photo by Edissa Nicolás-Huntsman Some journeys take us out into the world, anchoring us in history; others bring us back to ourselves, connecting us with our past. The Mindful Peacebuilding Roots…
World Beat Sangha Soup
Sangha Strengthening Weekend Retreat By Phuong Ai La and Nhu Quynh La photos by Ron Forster At Deer Park Monastery in May 2009, a new Dharma door opened for the World Beat Sangha from San Diego, California. Originally some of us had the simple wish to gather for days of…
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…
The Young Will Lead Us
By Denise Nguyen Mini-Order of Interbeing members ordained in 1990; photo courtesy of Sam Bu Like many people across the United States, I’ve been inspired by the bravery and eloquence of our young generation in galvanizing our country to fight for sensible gun control laws after the tragic Marjory Stoneman…
The Helping Hand
Brother Phap Dung (pronounced FAP YUNG) gave the children’s Dharma talk before Sister Annabel spoke during the Colorado retreat, 24 August 2007. I enjoy my life very much as a monk. I live with my brothers and sisters at Deer Park Monastery in California. We live together as a family.…
Peace Is Every Step
The Path of Mindfulness at the Presidential Inauguration By James Figetakis The morning was cold. The anticipation was high. The crowds were intense. After nearly two years of a historical campaign that became an unprecedented social movement, the day had arrived for the Inauguration of our forty-fourth President, Barack Hussein…
Notes on Breathing
By Linda Buckley Many times indigenous languages give us another way of thinking about meaning. The Hawai'ian word for breath is ha. I have often wondered how aloha could mean hello, good-bye, and I love you, but literally, it means "I give you my breath." It is an offering of my life force. What a powerful…
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,…
Forgiveness Is the Path
By Ankit Rao photo by Phillip Fenty “I don’t think this is working.” My life was turned upside down by these few words. My girlfriend of five years, the person I had bought a house with not more than a year before, and the person I wanted to spend the…