By Fred and Petra Hardtke Last April, we attended the retreat with Sister Jina Van Hengel. It was our first meditation retreat and we were unsure about what the weekend held in store for us. With a mixture of apprehension and curiosity, we packed our old station wagon and headed off for Heathcote. We…
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Homeschooling as Mindfulness Practice
By Lisa Pettitt Our family has been homeschooling for over five years. We had not envisioned this path for ourselves: my partner and I had professional careers, and our kids were in day care as infants. Thich Nhat Hanh says, “This is because that is, and this is not because…
Book Reviews
Zen Battles Modern Commentary on the Teachings of Master Linji By Thich Nhat Hanh Parallax Press, 2013 Softcover, 266 pages Reviewed by Judith Toy, True Door of Peace This re-issue of Nothing to Do, Nowhere to Go: Waking Up to Who You Are, originally published in 2007 by the Unified…
Listening to Nature
By Katla Hannibal The years that I have been visiting Plum Village have been very rewarding to me, in terms of taking refuge in nature. In my meditation practice I realize more and more that I am in a state where no habit energy is disturbing me. But it is amazing how easy the…
The Turning of My Wheels
By Matthew Huston Recently attending my first retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh at Stonehill College in Easston, Massachusetts, a few folks asked me how I do walking meditation, since I was disabled when I was a little over a year old and have needed to use a wheelchair since then.…
The Sound of the Bell
By Susan Hadler It’s Sunday afternoon in mid-August and still hot when I arrive at Carolyn’s for the bell training. Eric is standing at the end of the upstairs hallway, smiling and bowing, showing the way to Carolyn’s door. The first thing I see is the big bell sitting on…
Peanut Butter Love Balls
By David Viafora and Sangha Youth photo by Paul Davis During the September 2011 retreat at Deer Park Monastery, the young people offered their creativity, fun, and love to the Sangha by raising money for children in impoverished conditions around the world. Within the Children’s Program, we incorporated mindful eating…
The New Gurudharmas for Monks
Before the Sangha traveled to Vietnam, Thay wrote a code of conduct for monks with regards to nuns, to update the ancient code of conduct for nuns with regards to monks. Sister Annabel graciously wrote this commentary for the Mindfulness Bell. The Sangha of the Buddha is known as the…
What It Means to Be White
By AJ Johnston Blue Cliff Monastery; photo by Paul Davis Several years ago at a fundraiser for the East Bay Mediation Center in Oakland, California, activist Angela Davis asked Jon Kabat-Zinn, “In a racially unjust world, what good is mindfulness?” As a white woman inviting white people to look into the causes…
Dharma Talk: Make a True Home of Your Love
photo courtesy of the monastic Sangha Plum Village Upper Hamlet December 26, 2010 Every one of us is trying to find our true home. We know that our true home is inside, and with the energy of mindfulness, we can go back to our true home in the here and…