By Joanne Friday photo by Kirk Jude Bauer With all of the hatred, anger, and violence manifesting in our world, we’re all looking deeply at how to engage effectively so that we can be of some help. I’d like to offer a recent experience to add to the possibilities. I’m…
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The Gift of Plum
By Emily White One day, Ocean looked at Sky and thought, “I love Sky so much that I must give him a gift!” So Ocean took some of her water and made a present. She made Sky a cloud. Sky was thrilled. He loved his beautiful cloud so much that…
Redwood Sangha
By Wendy Johnson Many years ago Thich Nhat Hanh walked through the filtered light of the redwood trees in Muir Woods National Monument and reminded us that West Coast Dharma students were practicing in the protection of a true "Redwood Sangha." Just as the stately sugar maple of eastern Canada gives color and form to…
Mindfulness in Marriage
By Lynda Bidlake and Lewis BrightHeart Headrick photo by Renee Burgard I join my husband for a late lunch in a local restaurant. The waitress comes back again and again to refill our water glasses, even though we’ve only sipped. At our booth by the window, we are softly reading…
Plenty of Mud, Many Lotuses
At a time when we need our Sangha more than ever...
A Day of Mindfulness at San Quentin
By Caleb Cushing A decade ago, on the infamous exercise yard of San Quentin State Prison, an inmate sat upright by himself along the fence. A few close friends approached and asked what he was doing. He said he was practicing Zen meditation, and they sat down with him. All…
Woulda Coulda Shoulda
A Lot of Suffering By Brother Pham Hanh Be-In during Monastic Day on Thay’s 92th Continuation Day, Upper Hamlet, Plum Village, 2018; photo courtesy of monastic Sangha As I sat in front of my tent and the sun was slowly rising, I looked at a spider web reflecting the sunshine.…
Writing in Community
During 1993, I have had one of the most gratifying years of my life working with the Community of Mindful Living giving writing workshops to war veterans. We called each day we gathered a Day of Mindfulness. We introduced ourselves by telling about our lives as veterans and as writers. After this, I…
Being Peace in the Balkans
I have been mesmerized. Through the Falklands and the Gulf, sitting in England in front of the TV set, the passive command center of those two wards, I protested this diet of media scrutiny. Nonetheless, I too became addicted to the news, with all its conditioning us to the notions of good and bad,…
Teaching of the Mountains
By Eileen Kiera photo by Eileen Kiera At my home in Mountain Lamp Community, I often practice walking meditation as the sun comes up over the mountains across the valley. When I walk, I don’t think about where I am going or wonder what the next step is going to…