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The Mindfulness Bell: Autumn 2011, issue 58
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue is full of questions and answers: Thay and monastics respond to inquiries about protecting life, creating peaceful relationships, and managing our feelings of superiority and inferiority; Sister Trai Nghiem, lay Dharma teacher Eileen Kiera, and musician Susanne Olbrich offer insights and guidance for being with illness and loss; Sangha friends share the joy, fear, determination, and insight that accompanied them across the threshold to receive the Five Mindfulness Trainings; the birth of the Asian Institute of Applied Buddhism; Thay’s proposal for bringing mindfulness into schools.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Autumn 2012, issue 61
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this special issue, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Plum Village and honor our beloved teachers. We bow deeply to Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Chan Khong, Sister Annabel, and the many monastics and lay teachers who uphold the practice with joy, love, and wisdom. This collection of stories shows how our teachers make the way clearer by walking ahead of us, holding up the torch of awakening, illuminating the path of practice.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Winter/Spring 2013, issue 62
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. Thay tells us that our true home is always available, right here within us. As we see in this issue of the Mindfulness Bell, we share this understanding of home with friends across the globe. This issue takes us to Bhutan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia—and in each place, we find friends whose lives are lit up with mindfulness. Their stories transport us outward to new territory, and inward to our growing compassion as we walk the path together.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Winter/Spring 2016, issue 71
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. Featuring: Thich Nhat Hanh’s potent teaching about the freedom obtained when we stop searching and live happily in the here and now; “Understanding and Love: The Spirit of the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings,” by a well-loved teacher, Venerable Thich Phuoc Tinh, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Order of Interbeing; useful guidance on how to build community from Sister Annabel; teachings for children; delightful insights from young people; deep looking into what we eat and the rights of animals.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Summer 2017, issue 75
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. Featuring: Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings on handling strong emotions, mindfulness-based intentional communities, Caring for the Forest That Cares for Us, Brother Phap Luu sharing about Happy Teachers Change the World, an excerpt from Letter to a Young Teacher by Thich Nhat Hanh, Tree in a Storm practice with teaching notes
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The Mindfulness Bell: Autumn 2018, issue 79
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. Guest edited by David Viafora, an Order of Interbeing member and part of the Mindfulness Bell caretaking council, this issue is infused with reflections about nourishing our Sangha. In “Practicing Mindful Consumption Together,” Thich Nhat Hanh focuses on young people’s practice, mindful journalism, and nourishing our joy and happiness.
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Inside the Flame
The Joy of Treasuring What You Already Have
View this bookInside the Flame invites readers to unplug their computers, cell phones, and televisions and plunge back into overlooked nooks and crannies of everyday experience. We've lost touch with the richness...
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No Mud No Lotus
Printed calligraphy from Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookCalligraphies are a “bell of mindfulness” for the viewer, reminding us to arrive in the here and now, and touch the wonders of life.
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I Know You Are There And I Am Very Happy
Printed calligraphy from Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookCalligraphies are a “bell of mindfulness” for the viewer, reminding us to arrive in the here and now, and touch the wonders of life.
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Go As A River
Printed calligraphy from Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookCalligraphies are a “bell of mindfulness” for the viewer, reminding us to arrive in the here and now, and touch the wonders of life.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Spring 1991, issue 4
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thich Nhat Hanh on nonviolence and a peaceful heart is offered in this vein and essays on the same topic, the Spring 1991 retreats with Thay, daily practice, legacies of the Vietnam War, Sangha news, and more.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Summer 1994, issue 11
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. Mindfulness in the workplace is the theme of this issue, including Thay's reflections on the art of living mindfully and others' insights into the realms of business, medicine, and education. Also included are responses about cultural and spiritual roots, and several articles about ways that meditation has helped readers deal with trauma.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Autumn 1994, issue 12
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: a Dharma talk by Thay on the transformation of suffering; practicing with Right View and Right Livelihood; Jim Forest, Lisa Boken, and Father Mark Matthews explore mindfulness practice in light of Christian teachings; practicing in relationships; photographs of the social work in Vietnam, from sisters from Hue.
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The Mindfulness Bell: September-December 1997, issue 20
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. Building a healthy Sangha takes work and persistence. Articles from Dharma teacher Jack Lawlor and the New York Community of Mindfulness provide insights to help those starting and maintaining a Sangha. This issue also includes some Sangha news and a Sangha profile.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Winter 2000, issue 25
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue contains important updates from Thich Nhat Hanh about unfolding events, an account of the trip to China, experiences and teachings in the practice of meditation, reports from some retreats, and more.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Summer 2003, issue 34
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thich Nhat Hanh offers spiritual reflections on war and peace; practicing peace in times of war; singing meditation and chanting; walking meditation; practices for children; and many more offerings from the heart.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Fall/Winter 2003, issue 35
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thay’s teachings to US Congress members; Thay leads us through the practice of compassion in the Lotus Sutra; a story with haiku from two writer/environmentalists; a guided tour to war torn Israel; senior nun Sister Jina offers many concrete ways to deepen our daily practice; the story of a mindfulness psychotherapy clinic and ways to practice with our bodies and with pain; and many other fruits of practice from Sangha members throughout the world.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Summer 2005, issue 39
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue highlights Thich Nhat Hanh's return to Vietnam after thirty-nine years of exile: Thay speaks to Communist Party officials in Hanoi; a letter from Thay to the Sangha members going to Vietnam; a photo journal. Also in this issue, Dharma teachers Lamp Transmission, Shining the Light practice, offerings from young people, and much more.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Autumn 2006, issue 43
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thich Nhat Hanh on the Sutra on Mindful Breathing; the Sangha in Vietnam; offerings from children; practicing with the Mindfulness Trainings, and more!
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The Mindfulness Bell: Summer 2008, issue 48
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Dharma talks "The Way to Well-Being" by Sister Annabel and Thich Nhat Hanh on Tibet; the aftermath of war; healing and transformation; the gift of non-fear; update language for the Five Contemplations; offerings from children; and more!
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The Mindfulness Bell: Summer 2013, issue 63
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thich Nhat Hanh generously gives us a guide for the radical surrender and gentle openness of the mutual trust of Earth and us; tools to help us realize and honor our interdependence with the Earth; a ceremony for opening ourselves to the beauty, suffering, and capacity for healing in the Earth (our body); the Earth Peace Treaty gives us a chance to commit to steps that will lighten our ecological footprint; the Wake-Up movement in Bhutan, India, and the UK; London’s “Sit in Peace” event.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Autumn 2013, issue 64
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue shares potent examples of how people have creatively transformed their suffering with Lyme disease, schizophrenia, abuse, the trauma of war, and their own anger; wonderful essays about the continuation of Buddhism in the young generation, as well as travel and cross-cultural exchange; Thich Nhat Hanh’s Dharma talk, “To Make Reconciliation Possible,” gives us keys for working with the suffering caused by difficult relationships between individuals, ethnic groups, and nations.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Winter/Spring 2014, issue 65
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Q&A session with Thich Nhat Hanh fearlessly welcoming of any kind of suffering in order to transform it; Thich Nhat Hanh’s calligraphy exhibit in NYC; Anh-Huong Nguyen encourages us to embrace our pain and to lean into the Sangha for support; young practitioners in the Wake Up movement share what it’s like to rely on the Sangha and be transformed by the collective energy of awakening; stories of ever-deepening gratitude and compassion.
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You Have Enough
Printed calligraphy from Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookCalligraphies are a “bell of mindfulness” for the viewer, reminding us to arrive in the here and now, and touch the wonders of life.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Summer 2002, issue 31
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This special issue celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Plum Village in France and of the Plum Village style of mindfulness practice throughout the world. This issue introduces a few of the thousands of people who have given themselves to this way of living and have been transformed in the process.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Winter 1994, issue 10
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue, Thich Nhat Hanh encourages us to become deeply rooted in our spiritual and blood families so we can enter the present moment fully, with strength and ease. The experiential pieces that follow describe the challenges of being present with difficult states of mind, family members, and neighbors, and in the midst of war, poverty, and oppression.
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The Mindfulness Bell: May-August 1997, issue 19
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: our Sangha siblings in New Zealand and Australia; voices in India and England reflecting on Thich Nhat Hanh's journeys there; Thich Nhat Hanh's clear and compassionate guidance in untangling ourselves from perceptions that can cause suffering; mindfulness practice in prison; practical guidance on facilitating Dharma discussion.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Fall 1998, issue 22
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue, practitioners share their experiences of bringing mindfulness into schools, prisons, and hospitals; to impoverished people; and to the Earth herself.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Summer 2000, issue 26
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue, writers share how the warmth and light of practice transformed difficulties and opened doors of compassion and understanding.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Fall 2000, issue 27
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thich Nhat Hanh on how to take the hand of suffering when it arises, and gives us an exercise to help expand our ability to deal with difficult times; practice in difficult circumstances; daily practices; the Discourse on Absolute Truth; family practice; and much more.
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The Mindfulness Bell: Winter 2001/2002, issue 30
A journal of the art of mindful living in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
View this bookThis issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue contains a special section with some of Thay's responses to 9/11, including his Dharma talk on September 13, and stories of practitioners who were with Thay during that time. This issue also contains a biography of Thay Giac Thanh and a section on practicing mindfulness in the workplace.