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This 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.

This 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.

This 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.

This 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.

This 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.

This 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.

This 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.

This 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!

This 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.

This 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.

This 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.

This 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.

This 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.