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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 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: how mindfulness, kindness, and Sangha building can nourish us through the uncertain terrain of loss; transforming busyness and distraction into mindfulness at home and at work; the Estes Park, Colorado retreat 2009—the first large retreat conducted by monastics without Thay’s physical presence; the young monastics who were forcibly removed from Bat Nha Monastery in September 2009; Maitreya Fonds, a German organization enriching children’s education in Vietnam.

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. In this issue: "The Three Spiritual Powers," a Dharma talk by Thich Nhat Hanh; the Sangha in Vietnam; practices for mindful living; practices for children; and more!

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: the history of Engaged Buddhism; celebrating Vesak in Vietnam; mindful Christianity; joyful art of the heart; and much more!

This 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.

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.

This 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.

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thich Nhat Hanh's Dharma talk, "Our Environment: Touching the Gift of Life" and his letter on global warming; the practice of Beginning Anew; solidarity with the monks of Burma; practicing with Mother Earth; Dharma discussion guidelines.

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: at the Path of the Buddha retreat, Thay focuses on global ethics; an updated version of the Five Mindfulness Trainings; Sangha building in prisons; a Dharma talk on fierce compassion by Cheri Maples; healing the past; mindful eating.

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Together We Are One” skillfully shows us how to grow our understanding and stop the cycle of suffering; Sister Jewel frames her two visits to prisons with a lovely teaching on self-forgiveness that is not just for inmates; practitioners share about their rocky roads to the beautiful vista of forgiveness.

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.