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This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Thay's Dharma talk on the Eightfold Path, mindfulness of breath and feelings, experiences of mindfulness in nature, sharings from young people, 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 offers a wonderful collection of stories, photos, activities, and resources on teaching and learning. These stories show us how we might bring mindful practices not just to schools, but also to our families, friends, and co-workers—the people we teach every day with our actions, our words, our presence. Instead of a Dharma talk from Thay, in this issue we include his essay, Bat Nha: A Koan. Thay shines a penetrating light on the coercion and violence that happened at Prajna Temple in Vietnam.

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: practical tools that renew and enliven love—hugging meditation, shared sitting practice, Beginning Anew, metta, and mindfulness; journey to Borobudur, Yojakarta, Plum Village Thailand, and Nhap Luu Monastery in southern Australia; Thich Nhat Hanh gently guides us to work with our perception of reality and the three doors of liberation—emptiness, signlessness, and aimlessness.

This 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.

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. Featuring: Thich Nhat Hanh’s deep teaching on the interconnectedness of all things, including body and mind, past and present, object and subject of perception; the Two Promises to help children develop understanding and compassion; practice poems for healing racial and social inequity; stories from the "Roots Retreat" to sites related to slavery in New Orleans; ways to practice reverence for life; insights on what it means to be an Order of Interbeing member.

This 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!

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. 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. 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: 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. 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.

This 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.

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.