By Pamela Overeynder Members of Plum Blossom Sangha of Austin helped organize and participated in a public walking meditation on December 10, 2000, International Human Rights Day. The event, "Precious Steps for Peace," was sponsored by the Hill Country Chapter of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. It was held to raise awareness about the international land mine crisis and…
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Letters From The Editors
This past winter we have been standing on the brink of war. All of us have, in one way or many ways, practiced mindfulness to help the USA not to fall into that abyss of immeasurable and unnecessary suffering and drag many other countries into it with her. Many of…
Understanding and Love
The Spirit of the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings By the Venerable Thich Phuoc Tinh Sister Chan Khong. Photo by Tasha Chuang Dear community, today is the last day of the Vietnamese retreat. There was a Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings transmission ceremony yesterday. Most of the people here are practitioners who have already…
One Rock Star is Not Enough
By Angelina Chin I came back from the Colorado retreat totally transformed. Before the trip to Colorado I’d read several of Thay’s books but had never been to a retreat or practiced with his Sangha before. Nor had I ever met Thay in person. To be honest, when I arrived…
Transforming Ecological Grief and Burnout
Karen Price shares her experience with a powerful insight of nonduality: “I am part of the Earth and she is part of me.”
Teasing
A story retold by Terry Masters Brother Chan Huy sits on the little stand Steven built for him for our weekend retreat. There are more than sixty adults in the meditation hall and six children, ages two years old to fourteen years old. “Please come here,” Chan Huy motions to…
Happy Advocates Will Heal the World
Volunteer gardeners, Wisconsin, photos by Heather Lyn Mann By Heather Lyn Mann “After years of working in conservation and running large programmes that attempted to halt destruction, I find myself in despair about the hopelessness of the task ahead, the lack of care, the ineffectiveness, and the failure. For the…
New Trainings for a New Generation
This new version of the Five Mindfulness Trainings has been developed by Thay and the Plum Village Sangha in a series of Dharma talks followed by Dharma discussions during the three-month winter retreat, the week-long French retreat, and the three-week June retreat, in 2008 and 2009 in Plum Village. The…
Grand Visit to a Small Country
Thây in the NetherlandsIn the spring of this year Thây came with a delegation of 30 monastics from Plum Village for a ten-day visit to the Netherlands. Both the public talk, ‘Peace Is Every Step’, in The Hague and the five-day retreat in Oosterbeek near Arnhem were sold out. Many…
A Handful of Rice
The Thich Nhat Hanh Continuation Fund By Elizabeth Hospodarsky Minolta DSC “Don’t worry if you feel you can only do one tiny good thing in one small corner of the cosmos. Just be a Buddha body in that one place.” — Thich Nhat Hanh From the time the Buddha began…