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How to Smile is Like a Revolutionary Cry
Brother Pháp Lưu reflects on How to Smile, a new compilation of simple, refreshing meditations from Thích Nhất Hạnh to give us inspiration and tools for transforming our suffering and cultivating happiness.
Gone but Not Gone
By Micaela Goldschmidt Something is coming from somewhere. Not exactly a sound but a sense. There is a presence coming closer. Yet, the fish do not feel it; they swim comfortably, just below the surface of the lake. It is a red-tailed hawk, a master of the sky, a predator.…
Meditative Transformations
My meditative practice started while I was still in high school...
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…
Sangha News
photo courtesy of monastic Sangha Joyfully Together in Viet Nam In Spring 2015, we will offer mobile retreats for small groups of mindfulness practitioners in Viet Nam. Travel from Saigon in the south, to Hue and Hoi An in the center, to Hanoi and Yen Tu Mountain in the north.…
Transforming Conflict
Since 1985, I have been associated with the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program sponsored by Educators for Social Responsibility. In this context, I have enjoyed introducing teachers and students in New York City public schools to the practices of awareness of breathing, stopping and breathing while listening to the beautiful sound of the bell of mindfulness, and…
The Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha in U.S. Prisons
By Bill Menza Resources for Prison Sangha Building Buddhist Peace Fellowship Prison Resource Guides for PrisonersFree Buddhist books and other publicationsDharma/spiritual correspondence courses and pen pal programsNewsletters that focus on prisoners’ rights and criminal justiceResources for prisoners with childrenLegal Aid resourcesPost-release resources Prison Dharma Network Sitting Inside: Buddhist Practice in…
Prison Sangha
By Therese Fitzgerald The chaplain said, "You know, it is unprecedented in the North CarolIna prison system to have a Buddhist ceremony." We were on the phone trying to rearrange a Five Mindfulness Trainings ceremony for Sam DuBois an inmate at Harnett Correctional Institution. Charlotte Sangha member Bob Repoley had spent weeks arranging for a dozen…
Ordination by Scorpion
By Harriet Kimble Wrye It’s 2:00 a.m. at Deer Park Monastery, and later today, Thich Nhat Hanh will ordain me as a lay member of the Order of Interbeing. I’m lying wide awake on my bunk, not yet sure if I’ll make it. More specifically, not sure if I’ll be…