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illustration by Brother Phap Ban Thank you for sending me a copy of your magazine. Although I am a prisoner and my funds are limited, I would at least like to offer a submission of some writings and such that I do in my spare time at my prison job…
Healing the Present, Healing the Past
By Azriel Cohen Shared at the Hiroshima Commemoration Ceremony in Plum Village, August 7, 2001. Last night, a young man from Germany at the Hiroshima Commemoration in the Upper Hamlet shared with the community how he observed anger arising within himself, when the Israeli-Palestinian group shared that the trauma of the Holocaust was still a…
Rainbow Picnic
From LGBTQIA+ Dharma sharings on a retreat, inclusivity and a safe space in a Rainbow Sangha in the UK blossomed into an online Plum Village Rainbow Sangha.
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Transformation at the Base: Fifty Verses on the Nature of Consciousness Thich Nhat Hanh Parallax Press, 2001 Introduction The twelfth-century Vietnamese Zen master Thuong Chieu, "Always Shining," said, "When we understand how our mind works, the practice becomes easy." This is a book on Buddhist psychology, offered to help us…
How I Became the Mother of a Monastic
By Elaine Solomon Elaine Solomon and Brother Phap Man “Hey, Mom. Would you like to learn how to eat mindfully?” “Yes, that sounds interesting. What do I need to do?” “Just don’t talk while we’re eating,” my son explained. “I can do that!” I replied. This, in a nutshell, was…
Letters to the Mindfulness Bell
I want to thank you for your devotion and work on The Mindfulness Bell. Following a mountain-climbing accident, I spent three years in bed, unable to walk, and five years since then healing, walking—which I am doing with great mindfulness and gratitude. I used Thich Nhat Hanh' s book, A Guide to Walking Meditation, as…
Book Reviews
How to Relax by Thich Nhat Hanh Parallax Press, 2015Paperback, 120 pages Reviewed by Brother Gary Gach, Chan Minh Dai, True Platform of Light Have you ever wanted to give someone a book by Thay but hesitated? So many choices. Well, good news: now there are five new ones to…
Making Lemonade Out of Lemons
BRUCE L. HILSBERG, Strong Commitment of the Heart and True Courageous Inspiration, passed away on March 29, 2005. He was forty-five years old. Bruce and his wife Karen met in graduate school, where they both received doctorates in clinical psychology. Bruce’s most recent employment was as Chief of Psychology at…