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…
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Breathing, Learning, Growing
Mindfulness with Youth in the Clinic and the Classroom A Dialogue between Meena Srinivasan, Dzung Vo, and Young Whan Choi Meena Srinivasan and Sister Jewel with students learning mindfulness Young Whan Choi: It’s a pleasure to be hosting this conversation about how to bring mindfulness practice to young people. Both…
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…
Tapestry of Prayer
By Susan Murphy Since 1982, I have been practicing Buddhist meditation and Christian contemplative prayer. Both have been very meaningful in my own spiritual formation, and I have come to recognize both traditions as my spiritual roots. This integration has deepened so that they have truly become one fabric, one tapestry. For me, contemplative prayer…
In Love with My Heart
The year 2015 was a year of spiritual confusion in my life. I first...
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,…
The Community as a Refuge
You Are Not Alone Laughing with the tangerine in Chile, photo courtesy of monastic Sangha This article shares about the supportive and enriching experience of the Chilean Community of Mindfulness, the Sangha Juntos como un río (Together Flowing Like a River), and the virtual Sangha Mudita (Joy) that arose during…
Healing in Vietnam
In early 2007 Thich Nhat Hanh led a ninety-day pilgrimage to Vietnam. Fifty monks and nuns from the monasteries in the U.S. and France accompanied him, along with a hundred lay Westerners, in each of four three-week segments. On this second historic visit to his homeland, Thay was also accompanied…
A Happy Guinea Pig
By Beverly Alexander I have had the pleasure both of owning a guinea pig and of being one. Greg Ascue, Jim Needles, and I were among the first to participate in a formal, year-long Order of Interbeing aspirant training program. As part of our commitment, we all trained and acted as Doans (meditation hall…
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…