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.…
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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…
War, Conflict, and Healing in Belfast
By Bridgeen Rea This talk was presented at the Vesak Conference in Hanoi in May 2008. I first went to Plum Village for a week of the summer retreat in July 2005. Sitting with Thay and the Sangha around the lotus pond in Upper Hamlet—following my first-ever walking meditation—had a…
The Listening Project
By Herb Walters To seek the light in all, whether foe or friend, is a challenge that calls us to do what might be unpopular—to care about someone who hurts others. It is a challenge to listen to those who disagree with us or oppose us. The Listening Project of the Rural Southern Voice…
Reconciling Ourselves to the Unreconcilable
Even meditation was difficult. Breathing in...
Learning how to physically and emotionally declutter
Author of Heal Your Living Youheum Son In celebration of the release of Heal Your Living, author Youheum Son sat down to answer some questions around what inspired her to write Heal Your Living, why mental decluttering is just as important as physical decluttering, and what she hopes readers will…
Peace Talking
By Kim Redemer I left my home in Thailand to come live in California 17 years ago. Although I consider myself to be quite Americanized, I still have plenty of cross-cultural clashes. One afternoon I was browsing in a beautiful flower shop. The entire store was packed with freshly cut flowers, and it looked…
Flowers in the Dark
Sister Dang Nghiem brings together her lived experience as a survivor of trauma...
War and Reconciliation
By Gary Gill The Veterans' Retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh last April was attended by Vietnamese, American veterans of the war, and Americans who did not serve in Vietnam. During the first few days, we were in silence together--eating, meditating, walking, listening to talks by Thay. This had the double effect of bringing our feelings…
Seeing My Christian Connection
By Stephen Denney After traveling abroad, I was not sure how to respond when my friends told me it must have been very exciting. I enjoyed the week I spent at Plum Village, the day I spent with Jim and Nancy Forest and their family in Holland, and the ferry ride across the English…