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.…
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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,…
Cultivating Balance
Reflections from a Retreat with Law Professionals By Leslie Rawls, Jeanne Anselmo, and Valerie Brown photo by Nicole Dunn What do you get when you bring together sixty lawyers for a weekend mindfulness retreat? LAW – Love in Action With compassion. Our June 2012 law retreat, “Cultivating Balance,” arose from…
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…
Raspberries as Spiritual Guide
By Rose Kramer The window of worldly function keeps inching downward as Parkinson's Disease follows its habitual path. "Progressing" is what it is called in the literature. Initially I often find myself hard put to apply the term "progress" to the slow but steady movement down a slippery slope. Like a refugee fleeing a war…
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.
Work as a Path
By Michaël Vassen I decided on a career in international finance. This choice came not from my heart but because I thought it was time to put aside my dreams for a fairer and more equal world, and do what I thought society and my family expected of me. However,…
Parenting, Children, and Mindfulness
A Wonderfully Rich Practice By Bud Reiter-Lavery Few of the local Sangha members have young children. I have two neighbors with children under the age of three who used to do formal sitting meditation alone or in groups, but haven’t done so since the birth of their children. Similarly, I…