Be still, and behold the jewel so precious, so bright You are like that, because I am like this. Look, and see I am in you, you are in me. We were never born, we will never die. "Be still, and behold the jewel so precious, so bright." Throughout time we…
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Poem: Conch Shell
mb28-Conch I found a conch shell on the beach.The corridors of life are permanentlyetched into it.The endless spiral implies infinity.Or nothing.Layers of time converge in a point,and then fan out like aclan of pioneers seeking theirmanifest destiny.Here someone tried to get in.There someone tried to get out.The ocean's tough love…
Prayers & Vows
To Be Expressed During the Great Requiem Ceremonies to Untie the Knots of Great Injustice By Thich Nhat Hanh Dear ones who have passed from this life, You are our fathers and mothers, our aunts and uncles, our husbands and wives, our sisters and brothers, our sons and daughters, who…
200 Eggrolls
By Tatian Greenleaf On Saturday, I started cooking 200 eggrolls at 9 p.m. planned to drop them off at the soup kitchen that would serve the homeless on Skid Row the next Friday. I finished , tired, at 3 a.m. I then drove to Von's to buy some aluminum foil trays to hold the eggrolls.…
Letters
Dear editors, Earleen Roumagoux and I are volunteering as the Wake Up Schools Coordinators here at our Plum Village office. We recently read your reply to Lennis Lyon’s letter [Summer 2015] and would like to let you know that the office team talked to Brother Phap Luu about your request. We agreed that the…
A Great Horizon
Plum Village Sangha in Thailand By Lynda Berry and Karen Hilsberg Temple Reflecting Pool, Pak Chong, Thailand; photo by Paul Davis In October 2010, Thailand welcomed the Plum Village Sangha warmly. An international delegation of about thirty-six practitioners from the U.S., England, Italy, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Germany, Canada, and Australia…
Sangha News
The European Institute of Applied Buddhism Distinguished programs of Buddhist Studies may be found at any number of universities around the world. There is, however, a crucial element missing from most, if not all of these programs: training in concrete methods for using the wealth of the Buddha’s teachings to…
Youth Transformation in Urban America
by Jina Jibrin I am currently working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, managing a youth leadership program for black and Latino youth from housing developments in the Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan communities. The Fuerza Leadership Program is a prevention-based, leadership development, and community-organizing program which allows young adults…
Choice and Dignity
By Heidi Larsen As Buddhism enters American culture, it sometimes seems self-centered and commercial. Teachings flow into practice centers, but nothing flows out. Only those of a certain income level can afford the books, tapes, retreats, and time to become "enlightened." It's refreshing, therefore, to read Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings that speak of giving and receiving;…
True Happiness
By Ian Sneath Ian and the Charnwood Sangha on a boat photo by Steve Priestly One of the senior nuns, Sister Tu Nghiem, encouraged me to take the Five Mindfulness Trainings as Master Thay's vision of a global ethic on 27th March 2014. I agreed to do it, even though…