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…
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Transforming Suffering into Peace & Joy
By Sheila Canal When Laurel and I realized we would need to leave Deer Park early and miss the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings recitation ceremony, our first reaction was disappointment. We had gotten to know one another over the course of the five-day Order of Interbeing Retreat [January 2007], and we…
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Training Seminar for Veterans' Workshops In September the Community of Mindful Living sponsored an Evening of Mindfulness with Maxine Hong Kingston in Berkeley to share the fruits of our three-year "Mindfulness and Writing Workshops for Veterans of War." Maxine presented ways our experiences might serve as a model for other groups wanting to integrate mindfulness…
With a Deep Bow to Natascha Bruckner
Natascha, you are a true gift to the Sangha. A big heartfelt thank you for all your kind and loving work. - Ali Razzaghipour, Australia Natascha, I have felt your love for so many years. Your total dedication and care for the Mindfulness Bell was reflected on every page, conversation,…
Being Wonderfully Together
Report from the Order of Interbeing Second International Conference "Being Wonderfully Together" was the theme for the Second International Conference of the Order of Interbeing held September 30 to October 2, 1996, at Plum Village. More than 100 core community members from Australia, New Zealand, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Canada, the…
Living Dharma
By Miriam Goldberg photo by Deny Hermawan For me, the Indonesian retreat closed with the sunrise meditation walk, Dharma talk, and formal lunch at Borobudur the day after the retreat officially ended. We walked stone pathways lined with images depicting the Buddha’s life and all the sutras. Every curve of…
Mourning My Daughter
By Janice Rubin The evening I was scheduled to facilitate our Sangha sitting, I learned that my younger daughter had committed suicide. I had planned to talk about cultivating joy, read from Thich Nhat Hanh’s 20th anniversary edition of Breathe, You Are Alive!, and do a guided meditation from The…
Fertile Ground
Indonesia Teaching Tour By Brother Phap Lai photo by Deny Hermawan Thay and the Sangha touched down in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, on September 27, 2010, having just said a wistful goodbye to our hosts in Malaysia, where we enjoyed a successful two weeks offering retreats and public talks.…
Introduction of Thay
Mrs. Raisa Gorbachev, President Gorbachev, and all the wonderful and distinguished people who are here. Rigoberta Menchu in her keynote address yesterday said that there is a lot of power for good in this room. I know of no conference in the last 35 years that has brought so many extraordinary and accomplished people from…
Handling Strong Emotions
When the seed of anger in us is touched, and when it manifests in our mental consciousness as the energy of anger, we have to be aware of it right away. First, we have to produce mindfulness to be aware that the energy of anger is coming up. That is the practice of mindfulness of anger. Breathing in, I know I am angry. Breathing out, I know that anger has manifested. You continue to follow your in-breath and out-breath, generating the energy of mindfulness to embrace your anger. You might like to do walking meditation to help you continue to generate the power of mindfulness. Breathing in, I know I am angry. Breathing out, I know I have to take good care of my anger.