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…
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Continuing the Path of the Buddha
By Brother Chan Phap Nguyen Left to right: Brother Phap Chung, Brother Phap Nguyen, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Chan Khong, Brother Phap Huu, in Indonesia; photo courtesy of monastic Sangha The Plum Village Mindfulness Practice Center was established in 1982. Over the years, practice centers have been founded around the…
Book Reviews
For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life By Thich Nhat Hanh Parallax Press, 2007 Softcover, 148 Pages Reviewed by Hope Lindsay All Buddhists express the precepts in some form. They are the core of our beliefs. In the tradition of our teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, the…
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…
Nutriment for the Soul
Humanure composting efforts at Deer Park Monastery, helmed by facility manager Nikolay Amirov
The Friend of the Desert
Existential and curiously hypnotic, Pablo d'Ors evokes the sharp stylized prose of Bolaño, Bernhard, and DeLillo in this strange tale of one man's repeated forays into the desert, and the ultimate silence it contains. "Thanks to the back cover of a book I knew that there lived in Brno a…
Now, Do You Want to Meditate With Me?
By Annie Desmond photo by Dana Read of Firefy Photography Six years ago my husband Tim and I left our jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area to help establish MorningSun Mindfulness Center, a budding Plum Village retreat center and community nestled within the woods, lakes, and college towns of…
Brothers in the Beloved Community
“A Letter across the Divide” It is important to first understand the significant barriers—religious, political, and social—that lay between Thích Nhất Hạnh and Martin Luther King Jr., before we can understand how the successful bridging of this gap highlights the precious quality of their friendship. From today’s standpoint, these barriers…
Florida Community of Mindfulness
Fruits of the Seeds of Thay’s Transmission By Angela Parrish Monastics from Blue Cliff Monastery and Magnolia Grove Monastery leading the consecration ceremony for the new retreat hall, Great Cloud Refuge, 2016; photo by Alex Lerner It is summer of 1994 in Plum Village, France. Thay speaks as he transmits…
Please Help to Support Our Two Monasteries in Vietnam
Plum Village 7th August, 2005 Dear friends, Today, from Plum Village, Thay has ordained ninety-one monastics. Eighty-four of them were ordained via the Internet at Tu Hieu Temple, where Thay grew up as a novice, and Prajna Temple in the Highlands of Vietnam, where many of you joined Thay during…