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…
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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…
Reconciling Ourselves to the Unreconcilable
Even meditation was difficult. Breathing in...
Flowers in the Dark
Sister Dang Nghiem brings together her lived experience as a survivor of trauma...
Responding to Difficult Situations
Sister Jewel's Dharma talk on protecting ourselves from burnout and being overwhelmed so we can sustain our activism and work for change.
A Call for a Collective Awakening
Speech to UNESCO in Paris, October 7, 2006 By Thich Nhat Hanh Ten years ago, I was asked by the director of UNESCO, his Excellency Federico Mayor, to write a manual on the practice of peace and nonviolence, and I readily accepted the work. For me, writing this manual was…
Mindfulness & Mathematics
Teaching as a Deep Learning Process During the June, 2004 Feet of the Buddha Retreat at Plum Village, a group of retreatants gathered to discuss ways of sharing mindfulness practice with young people. This prompted me to begin thinking freshly about my high school mathematics teaching. My students learn new…
Revisioning Our Work
By Thomas Urquhart Easter morning in the Malibu Hills. The full moon comes to rest on a distant ridge, then melts into the cliffs. We stand in a circle and watch the red peaks come alive in the first light, and the shadows retreat from the east down their flanks. The clear note of…
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,…
Retreat Among Jacarandas
By María Jiménez photo courtesy of María Jiménez The Felicidad family, originally from Mexico City, was spread out. Some of us had known each other a long time; others, however, weren’t aware of the existence of happy and enthusiastic brothers and sisters in search of someone with the same last…