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Veterans of War and Peace
By Ted Sexauer How did we get into this? For the four-plus years that we of the Veteran Writers' Workshop have been meeting, our mentor, the noted writer Maxine Hong Kingston, has gently insisted that she has not only been instructing us in writing, and in listening, but also, ultimately, in how to lead such…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
Reconciling Ourselves to the Unreconcilable
Even meditation was difficult. Breathing in...
The Happy Farm
Mid-February 2020, I made the long and slow journey by boat from Cork....
This Difficult Thing of Being Human
We all long for someone to offer us unconditional love and support. But what if that person is us? The practice of mindful self-compassion creates the space we need so that observation, acceptance, and real love can enter, no matter how judgmental or disconnected we may feel. It sounds like…
Being Together
In Israel and Palestine Excerpts from a journal By Sister Steadiness Walking Peace in Yanoun June 15, 2003 At the village of Yanoun (an Arab village in the Occupied Territories, West Bank) we met with the mayor and a council member under an olive tree. There had been several attacks…