By Bethany Klug photo by Renee Burgard My husband David and I entered our relationship with a deep intention: that spiritual practice would form its foundation. We met at Sangha and our friendship grew around the trellis of mindfulness practice. When we began entertaining the notion of a long-term committed…
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Ko Un — or What?
Ko Un is Korea’s foremost living poet. After immense suffering during the Korean War, he became a Buddhist monk. His first poems were published in 1958, then a few years later he returned to the secular world and became a leading activist. In 2008, he received the Griffin Trust Lifetime…
Reverence for Life
My pandemic story began on my forty-fourth birthday....
Family Sangha – A Place to Be
By Noah, Hannah, and Claudia We felt magic in the air and a deep sense of peace after our last Family Sangha meeting. Something special grew through our day together. We love having toddlers and babies stay in the room as the adults meditate and share together, while the children…
The Six Concords
The Buddha taught Six Concords to help his disciples have happiness in their daily life together. Concord is the basis of a Sanghakaya. The first is the Concord of "bodily action." A Sangha lives together like a family. Our actions affect all those with whom we live, so our actions…
Dharma Talk: The Path of Awakening
Often we have the feeling that there is nothing good, beautiful, or true inside us. We feel incomplete, so we wear cosmetics and other adornments, or even undergo cosmetic surgery in order to compensate. When we do these things, we feel we are somehow being deceptive, but we cannot stop.…
Sacred Justice and Mindful Activism
photo by Ron Forster Blue Cliff Monastery hosted a Sacred Justice Retreat on January 18, 2016. This is an excerpt from the retreat’s Q&A panel on mindful activism—a conversation about the challenges and successes that can come with activism and spiritual practice. Sangha members posed the following themes for the…
The Art of Transforming Suffering: Part One
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Dharma talk “The Art of Transforming Suffering” talks about signlessness and developing Right View
On the Way Home (part 4)
By Sister Annabel,True Virtue Sister Annabel has been a disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh since 1986; this is the fourth installment in her autobiography. Walking and Relaxing Plum Village emphasizes two aspects of the practice that Buddha Shakyamuni taught 2,500 years ago and that the descendants of the Buddha…
Right Diligence
By Sister Chan Dieu Nghiem Sister Dieu Nghiem during the Great Ordination Ceremony, Lower Hamlet, Plum Village, 2019; photo courtesy of monastic Sangha Lower Hamlet, Plum Village October 28, 2018 Dear Respected Thay, dear brothers and sisters, dear friends, good morning. Today is Sunday the 28th of October, and we…