Organizing a Wake Up Tour By Brandon Rennels photo by Brandon Rennels A year ago I was sitting at a cafe in Ann Arbor, Michigan, enjoying breakfast with a beloved professor from university. When I was in school he taught a course entitled Psychology of Consciousness, which was my first…
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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…
Flowers in the Dark
Sister Dang Nghiem brings together her lived experience as a survivor of trauma...
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…
From Sicily with Love
Finding My Family By Name withheld by request “In Gratitude, I bow to all generations of ancestors in my blood family. I see my father and mother, whose blood, flesh, and vitality are circulating in my own veins and nourishing every cell in me. Through them I see all four…
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…
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…
My Mothers’ Hands
Order of Interbeing member Carole Moore explores the deep connection she shares with her mothers through sewing and expresses her gratitude to them.
Nutriment for the Soul
Humanure composting efforts at Deer Park Monastery, helmed by facility manager Nikolay Amirov
Book Review
No Coming, No Going by Jane Ellen Combelic Juniper Productions, 2018 Paperback, 194 pages Reviewed by Beth Howard “Love will always take us where we want to go, whether it’s love of God or love of a dog.” These words end the prologue and begin Combelic’s remarkable journey with her…