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…
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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…
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…
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…
Handling Strong Emotions
Part Two Retreat on Buddhist Psychology Key West, Florida November 7, 1997 “Handling Strong Emotions,” Part One, was published in the Summer 2017 edition of the Mindfulness Bell. Thich Nhat Hanh and monastics on almsround. Photo by Deny Hermawan This is a song I wrote that you might like to…
The Art of Leadership
How to restore harmony to ourselves and our nation? In this extract from a talk just after the inauguration of Barack Obama, Thich Nhat Hanh draws parallels between a president’s task of uniting a nation and a meditator’s task of bringing their different elements into harmony. He invites us to…
The Last Walking Meditation
By a Young Monastic Sister from Bat Nha Monastery In September 2009, over 350 monastic disciples of Thich Nhat Hanh were violently expelled from Bat Nha (Prajna) Monastery in Vietnam’s central highlands. They took emergency refuge at Phuoc Hue temple in the nearby town of Bao Loc. Following is an…
Herstory: A Women’s History Month interview with Author Eliza Factor
Eliza Factor, Author of Strange Beauty: A Portrait of My Son In celebration of Women’s History Month, I chatted with Author Eliza Factor about the five-year anniversary of her memoir, what she and Felix have been up to, and her newest project How The Trees Saved My Life:The Orchard Campaign.…
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…