By Richard Eaton Living at Manzanita Village nourishes me deeply. There is no duality between daily life and daily practice. They are the same. When I cook, it is practice. When I do carpentry, it is practice. When I walk to the shed to get a tool, it is practice. Being mindful as often…
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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…
The Leaves of One Tree
By Le Thu Thuy When we arrived, the hallway in the Claymont Court building was filled with light. It was a cold, windy, winter night and the retreatants came in wearing heavy winter jackets. We hugged each other with deep breaths and beaming smiles. At dinner time, the sound of…
Plum Village Racial Equity Sangha
Living the Legacy of Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. By Victoria Mausisa “When Charleston hit, I was so devastated … so many people around me were not as upset as me, and that upset me even more … I was filled with despair, sadness, grief ……
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…
Adventures in Mindful Moviemaking
Thich Nhat Hanh in Mindfulness: Be Happy Now. Photo courtesy of Larry Kasanoff I make movies about martial arts, science fiction, killer robots, funny cartoon characters, pretty girls—and I love it. A Washington Post article about me started this way:“… fights, explosions, mind-blowing visual effects and hot babes—this is Larry…
Walking with Ancestors
Brother Pháp Xả shares how his aspiration to end suffering is a continuation of his family’s work to save onderduikers, people hiding from the Nazi German army, in World War II.
Buddha Nature
An Exercise for Children By Terry Masters mb36-Buddha1 NOTE What the facilitator might say is in boldface. The answers in parentheses are the answers our children gave us. We know that a Buddha lives inside of each of us. Not the man who lived a long time ago, of course!…
Making Friends Out of Bullies
Compassionate Cougars; photo by Sister Man Nghiem My co-facilitator Joanna and I sat down under an arching oak tree, watching the sunset glowing on the chaparral hillside at Deer Park Monastery. It was our last meeting before the Compassionate Cougars, our children’s group, would arrive for a family retreat. There…
Remembering Jim
By Artie Fauss James Tecumseh Fauss grew up in the great San Joaquin Valley of California, where winters are cold and gray with Tule fog and summers blaze with temperatures of more than 100 degrees. His father and mother, Harold and Fern, owned a dairy farm before moving to Ceres, California. Jim learning the plumbing…