By Ricky Ingredients 20-24 cookies (any small chocolate cookie with a vanilla or chocolate icing in the middle, such as Oreo, Chocolate Crème, or Double Fudge)1 Hershey Bar (plain or with almonds)Chocolate syrup Preparation Separate the icing from the middle of the cookies and put it in a small bowl.…
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Cherishing Each Day
By Howard Weamer In 1992 my wife and I began raising Yeti, our first Canine Companion puppy. These dogs assist physically challenged companions by learning specialized skills like turning lights on and off, fetching objects by name, alerting the person to sounds in their home, etc. Our job was to present CCI with an 18-month-old…
Painting Spring
By Tasha Chuang “Oneness” painted by Tasha Chuang Right where you standis the valley of endless spring.—Dogen I left home at a very young age, determined to see the world and live a life of my own. My parents were heartbroken, yet nothing could stop me from setting out to…
Fracturing Mother Earth, Fracturing Me
By Jan Goss Monastic leading a walking meditation near the fracking site in Yorkshire, August 2017; photo by Wouter Verhoeven In May 2017, I became an activist and visited my local fracking site near Blackpool in Lancashire, four miles from my home in neighbouring Lytham. Despite local people and councillors…
Bringing the Tool Kit of our Practice to the Office
By Ron Forster illustration by Brother Phap Ban Look with loving kindness, a gatha I said to myself daily, came to mind as I walked from the parking lot to my office at Hewlett-Packard. It was Monday morning in April 2004. I felt the ease of having been at Deer…
Being Home
By Susan O’Leary Ours is an old house in the heart of a midwestern American city. This is where we daily breathe (not always in mindfulness), where we daily walk, where we daily sit. This is where our practice starts in the morning and ends at night. We do not…
Dharma Talk: The Art of Living
Many years ago, a young man named Jim Forest asked me to teach him about the practice of mindfulness. But when I offered him some tangerines, he continued telling me about the many projects he was involved in — his work for peace, social justice, and so on. He was…
Steps of Peace
Dharma Teacher Uli Pfeifer-Schaupp shares his practice in a former German concentration camp.
Poem: Rain Retreat
The squish-squish of rain in sandals in the mud;the silence of rain;the glistening drops on pine needlesand on the tips of noses;the earth's fragrance before rain, during rain,during more rain, after rain;the mouth-wide tongue out taste of rain;the taste and crunch of rain in lettuce;the cool of rain, the smooth…
The Perfect Sangha: New Zealand
By Shalom The bell calls clear and time across the courtyard. Voices from the Dharma discussion groups fall softly back into the silent container of the native bush, hills, and a translucent blue sky. Only the chirrup of thousands of midsummer cicadas remains. We breathe softly, filled with the sharings…