Order of Interbeing member Carole Moore explores the deep connection she shares with her mothers through sewing and expresses her gratitude to them.
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Reader Feedback What joy to receive in my mailbox today the new Mindfulness Bell! The cover is gorgeous, with a glimpse of the stained-glass window that is shown on the back cover. It makes me very happy to stay in touch with the international sangha in this way. Marie-Anne Tattevin…
Listening for Poems
By Mohamed Chakmakchi Gabriel wrote this poem in Kindergarten—a year I took a sabbatical from teaching duties to spend time with him and to work on personal projects. That year was a series of joyful moments that meant the world to me as a dad. No rush, no hurry, just listening…
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…
Healing the Past in the Present
By Ann Moore In a New Year’s Eve Dharma sharing session at Blue Cliff Monastery, Sister Anh Nghiem invited us to write on the phrases: “It had been,” “But then,” and “I realize.” In response to her invitation I offer the following story in three chapters: Chapter 1: It Had…
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…
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
Ten Breaths to Happiness Touching Life in Its Fullness By Glen Schneider Foreword by Thich Nhat HanhParallax Press, 2013 Soft cover, 108 pages Reviewed by Louise Dunlap, True Silent Teaching “Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world” (Francis of Assisi). So…
Dharma Talk: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth
photo by Fe Langdon March 18, 2012 Plum Village There is a big vacuum inside of us, so we look for things outside us to fill up the vacuum. We think that new and exciting things will work, but they do not seem to have an effect. Good morning, dear…
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…