By Terry Masters The Buddha taught: “…I want to tell you that there is a wonderful way to be alone. It is the way of deep observation to see that the past no longer exists and the future has not yet come, and to dwell at ease in the present…
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Ask the Dharmacarya: How do you practice in your Workplace?
Chan Huy - Montreal, Canada I am back to work after a two-year sabbatical. I am an engineer, a construction project manager for a federal department in Canada. I work with a team of consultants, architects, engineers, contractors and in-house resources specialists. This team changes with each new cycle of the work project. I…
Taking Care of Our Suffering
Thich Nhat Hanh welcomed at the temple in Danang, Vietnam in 2007; photo by Cilla Brady Retreat on Buddhist Psychology Key West, Florida November 8, 1997 Dear friends, At a past winter retreat in Plum Village, everyone was given an assignment to write a love letter to their father. A…
Helping Congress Be Like a Sangha
By Scott Nance The next time a congressman or congresswoman is waiting at the airport, maybe he or she won’t be caught up thinking about his or her next meeting, or an upcoming vote on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he or she may be doing…
Dharma Talk: Liberation from Suffering
Questions and Answers with Thich Nhat Hanh Each Saturday afternoon during the September 1996 "Heart of the Buddha" retreat at Plum Village in southwestern France, the entire community gathered in the New Hamlet for a question-and-answer session with Thich Nhat Hanh. Thay responded to written questions that had been left…
A Special Section: Buddhism in Vietnam
Editor's Note: In universities throughout North America and Europe, there are many professors specializing in Buddhism in Japan, Tibet, Korea, China, Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka, India, and other countries, and there are numerous texts to support their studies. But to date, no Western scholar specializes in Vietnamese Buddhism, and there is very little written about it…
Devotion
By Nanda Currant Greg Keryk took the Fourteen Precepts in May at a ceremony in Santa Cruz. That evening, he became a member of the Order of Interbeing and received the name True Good Birth. Greg was the first person to receive his precept name via fax, and it was the first time the…
Touching the Master
By Aparna Pallavi photo by Karen Hilsberg “Go back and take care of yourself. The wounded child in you needs you. Your suffering, your blocks of pain need you. Your deepest desire needs you to acknowledge it.” Each word touched my hurting heart like a tender dewdrop. My whole…
Falling Back in Love with Mother Earth
Journalist Jo Confino interviews Thích Nhất Hạnh on how we can practice with and relate to insights arising from contemplating the Earth as our Mother.
Thay in Disguise
By Vickie MacArthur Lower Hamlet, Plum Village; photo by Vickie MacArthur In the fall of 2017, I had the opportunity to stay at Lower Hamlet in Plum Village for four weeks. This was not my first visit; I had been blessed to attend the 21-Day Retreat in both 2012 and…