Dharma Talk: Finding Our True Home
By Thich Nhat Hanh in October 2004
March 28, 2004 – Colors of Compassion Retreat On March 28th, at the end of the three-month winter retreat, Thich Nhat Hanh and the Sangha offered a three-day retreat called Colors of Compassion, for people of color. Three hundred retreatants…
Poem: Please Call Me By My True Names
By Thich Nhat Hanh in October 2004
Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow—even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arrivingto be a bud on a Spring branch,to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,learning to sing in my new nest,to be…
Thich Nhat Hanh Returns to Vietnam!
Published in October 2004
And You Are Invited! The Vietnamese government has invited Thich Nhat Hanh to return after thirty-nine years in exile. Thay will be teaching in temples throughout the country over a four-month period. Practitioners are invited to join Thay and the…
Other articles in this issue
Letter from the Editor
To Our Readers Our teacher has said that the Dharma seal of Plum Village is I have arrived, I am home. Now, after thirty-nine years in exile, Thich Nhat Hanh…
Youth Transformation in Urban America
by Jina Jibrin I am currently working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, managing a youth leadership program for black and Latino youth from housing developments in the Roxbury,…
Trainings of the Mind in Diversity
by Larry Yang from Friends on the Path, edited by Jack Lawlor and published by Parallax Press The practice of these trainings is an opportunity to begin the journey towards…
poem: haiku for iraq
bloated stomachs growli hear them i listen lord may i become bread —maria poblet
