How Can I Control my Temper?
Published in October 2016
Child’s question: How can I control my temper?Once we’re aware of our anger, we can be gentle with it. Don’t try to control your anger. As soon as you try to control it, this may start a fight between you…
Accompaniment
By Lyn Fine in October 2016
Card from Whitney Plantation. Photo by Lyn Fine Francis Doby. I read the name on the card I received as I entered the Whitney Plantation near New Orleans on the first day of our Mindful Peacebuilding Roots Retreat. Here I…
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Dharma in the Deep South
By Edissa Nicolás-Huntsman in October 2016
Reflections on the Roots Retreat Close-up etching of children enslaved by the Haydel family, Wall of Honor memorial, Whitney Plantation.Photo by Edissa Nicolás-Huntsman Some journeys take us out into the world, anchoring us in history; others bring us back to…
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Letters
It was wonderful to read “What We Eat and Animal Rights” by Annabelle Zinser [#71, Winter/Spring 2016]. I am a long-time advocate for the protection of greyhounds exploited and frequently…
Listening for Poems
By Mohamed Chakmakchi Gabriel wrote this poem in Kindergarten—a year I took a sabbatical from teaching duties to spend time with him and to work on personal projects. That year was…
Living Harmlessly in the World
On Honoring the First Precept to Not Take Life By Hunter Liguore I began my exploration of the Buddha’s First Precept, to not take life, with the thought that this…