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…
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Practicing Like a Bodhisattva
Lisa November shares about living courageously, accepting others exactly where they are, and the aspiration to act with the eyes and heart of compassion.
Dharma Talk: Take Refuge in Mother Earth
photo by Ron Forster Lower Hamlet, Plum Village November 29, 2012 Good morning, dear Sangha. We are in the Assembly of Stars Meditation Hall of the Dharma Nectar Temple, Lower Hamlet, in our winter retreat. Our society is not very healthy. Therefore, many of us are sick, and we need…
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…
Letters of Thanks
In November 1998, Plum Village sent $2,500 to Sisters Hanh Toan and Hanh Lien from Quang Nga and $10,000 to Hue, to help victims of the recent typhoons in Vietnam. These letters are in response to this aid. On December 14, 1998, after receiving Sister Hanh Toan's letter (below), Sister Chan Khong sent another $6,000, all…
Utilizing the Energy of Mindfulness to Heal the Mother Wound
Salina Khan-Fuchigami shares about bringing awareness and healing to trauma and her inner child, and forgiving her mother.
Going as a River
Reflections on Our Practice Following the announcement in November 2014 that Thich Nhat Hanh was in the hospital with a brain hemorrhage, the worldwide Sangha responded with a profound deepening of practice and an outpouring of love and energy sent to our beloved teacher. The Mindfulness Bell asked our friends to share their reflections, and…
Announcements
Veterans Vietnam Restoration Project Art James and John Baca, two Vietnam veterans who attended the 1989 retreat in Santa Barbara with Thich Nhat Hanh, have been working actively with a project to help reconcile themselves and other Vietnam veterans with the people and places of past destruction. The VVRP has…
Dreaming with My Dad
Growing closer to those we love who have already passed away By Sister Hanh Nghiem How many of us have suffering from our past, especially when it comes to relationships and how we live our life? Many people ask how we can fix mistakes or heal deep wounds we carry…
Poem: A Wild Thing
By Larry Ward The bones of our ancestors still dance At ease in the field of magic stardust An ounce of poetry from long ago The crane says, “I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A tiny bird will drop dead, frozen, from a bough of a…