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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…
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.
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…
In Love with My Heart
The year 2015 was a year of spiritual confusion in my life. I first...
Meditative Transformations
My meditative practice started while I was still in high school...
Teaching the Whole Child
By Susan Kaiser Greenland photos by Allegra Greenland In classes with kids, I hold up a Quaker Oats box and ask, “What’s in here?” We get all sorts of answers, from Quaker Oats to lizards to spiders to candy. But we come down pretty quickly to the fact that we…
Welcome Home
A Retreat for Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars 2014 Veterans Retreat. Photo courtesy of monastic Sangha On an overcast day in November 2014, they began to arrive, sometimes alone, sometimes accompanied by a parent, a partner, or a sibling. Each in his or her own way was shrouded,…
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…
Oh, My Happiness!
By Karla Johnston photo by Karla Johnston It’s the end of a lovely day, made all the lovelier by sleepily making my way to a bookshelf where nestled into a crevice sits a glass mason jar, a practice companion, labeled, “Oh, My Happiness!” Taking out a piece of scrap paper…