By Connie Nash For years, I’ve been hearing and reading about parents –– mostly struggling mothers and other family members –– talk about their beloved children or loved ones who have ended up behind bars. There are all kinds of reasons given for the arrests and imprisonments along with, in…
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How to Be Engaged without Becoming Entangled
In this Dharma talk, Dr. Larry Ward shares about caring for our traumatic experiences so we can fully arrive where we are needed.
Healing Trees
By Vaughn Lovejoy My work with TreeUtah, a nonprofit tree planting organization, allows me to work with inner city schools, neighborhood projects, and ecological restoration projects. I came to this job out of concern for the natural world. Though it, my heart has opened to the beautiful, young children living amidst poverty, violence, alcoholism, drug addiction,…
Being with Dying
By Joan Halifax On a windy afternoon, I stood with John and his other family members atop a mesa in New Mexico. John handed his wife the ashes of their eldest son, Patrick, who had died of AIDS. Wordless, she received them and offered some to the wind. We each did the same, in…
The Five Precepts Are the Whole of the Dharma
By Christopher Reed When we think about freedom we often think about freedom from certain things. We are more familiar with restriction than we are with permission. There are of course many reasons for this, both culturally and personally. What it means is that when we first encounter the precepts…
Mini-Bodhi Fruits
In many of Thay's Dharma talks, he reminds us that we can taste mini-bodhi fruits by practicing awareness. They are a sort of instant effect, a switch from forgetfulness to buddhahood, just like when we switch the television channel. We don't have to wait for the great enlightenment to know…
Letter from the Editor
Dear Thay, dear Sangha,Last summer, after the 21-Day Retreat: Vulture Peak Gathering in PlumVillage, Sister Annabel Laity suggested that the Mindfulness Bell offer teachingsand stories from the retreat for those who weren’t able to attend. In this issue, several practitioners share wonderful moments of awakening they experienced at the retreat.…
Supporting the Jewel of Sangha
By Margaret O’Keefe As a volunteer for the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation, I have been blessed to see how small drops of water can create an ocean. The Deer Park Nunnery project is close to my heart. For donors to this project, I thought it would be a nice incentive…
Healing The Inner Child
By Ian Prattis We prefer not to remember the sufferings of child hood, so we bury them and hide from looking deeply into their causes. Yet we have to find a way to reach the hurt child and make her safe. Although we may now be adults, there is also…
How to Be Your Own Soulmate
An interview with Sister Dang Nghiem about true love