Dzung Vo interviews Dharma teacher Richard Brady about his book of stories on mindfulness, education, and touching our bodhicitta.
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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 Teacher Looking for His Disciple
I have been looking for you, my child, Since the time when rivers and mountains still lay in obscurity. I was looking for you When you were still in a deep sleep Although the conch had many times echoed in the ten directions. Without leaving our ancient mountain, I looked…
Maple Forest Update
Twelve monks and twelve nuns are now residing in Vermont for the Winter Retreat. We are also expanding our guest facilities. The Winter Retreat is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your practice and understanding of the Dharma. It began November 15 and will continue until February 18. The daily schedule includes sitting and walking meditation, working…
Outside In, Inside Out
Separation to Inclusion Reflection along El Camino de Santiago, Spain; photo by Valerie Brown I was born in South Africa during apartheid, with African and Indian heritage in a lineage of slavery and indentured labour. I grew up in a segregated Indian area to a family who lived in a…
No Mud, No Lotus
The intimate connection between suffering and happiness
Race: A Dharma Door
ARISE Sangha offers the Race: A Dharma Door (RADD) training. Love in action interwoven with interbeing, the program used the Four Noble Truths as the framework to invite us into a discussion of race as a Dharma door for greater understanding and less suffering.
I Love You, Mama Bea
By Lee Klinger Lesser Mama Bea was my daddy's mother and my grandma. When she got sick, the doctors said they thought she was going to die. So she left her home in Florida, and came to live in our house in California. My mommy and daddy said we were going to take care of…
Carts & Koans
By John Beaudry I was standing on a narrow sidewalk, bent over, putting a small bandage on a cut my sandal keeps making in the top of my right foot. The bus that would take us the remaining distance to the island and the temple had not arrived yet. So…