Four years ago, a friend and I realized that the lift we received from Sunday night Washington Mindfulness Community gatherings didn't quite get us through the week. I asked Crossings, a nearby holistic healing center where I teach mindfulness classes, if we could use their attic room on Wednesday mornings. "Yes," they responded enthusiastically. So we…
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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…
Ancient Tree, Fragrant Flower
By Sister Thoai Nghiem photo by Jitka Slomova They’re always beautiful, the good old days. Each time someone asks me about the old days, I am perplexed, saying “umm” and “ahh,” but once I start, I often run out of time. Our memories, when we touch them, vibrate as a…
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…
Nourishing a Growing Sangha
A Retreat in Ireland By Caroline Dwyer photo by Sarah Dawson The realization of a long-held vision of the Irish Sangha was brought to fruition when dear Thay and fifty monastics were joyfully welcomed to Irish soil and led a four-day retreat in Killarney, County Kerry in April 2012. It…
Media Reviews
One Buddha Is Not Enough A Story of Collective Awakening By Thich Nhat Hanh and the Monks and Nuns of Plum Village Parallax Press, 2010 Paperback, 216 pages Reviewed by Rasoul Sorkhabi In August 2009, more than nine hundred people gathered at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park,…
The German Maitreya Fonds
Helping Our Sisters and Brothers in Vietnam By Eva K. Neumaier photos courtesy of Maitreya Fonds For a period that seemed longer than it really was, we were squeezed together in a small bus, rocking along over a pothole-strewn gravel road on the way to a village near the Vietnamese…
Introducing Mindfulness at an HIV Charity
By Jess Stein photo courtesy of Wake Up Earlier this year, HIV charity Positively UK approached Wake Up London and asked us to facilitate some introductory mindfulness sessions at their London offices. Positively UK is a positive organisation in every sense of the word. Its aim is to provide practical…
Soymilk Sangha
by Susan Hadler After dinner I walk to the kitchen to check on the soymilk we’ve made today. It should be cooling by now. Later, after evening meditation we’ll put it in the refrigerator, so we can have fresh soymilk for breakfast. The clean-up crew fills the kitchen with activity…
Vietnam: From Notion to Reality
By Therese Fitzgerald As soon as Arnie and I joined Thay for a retreat in St. Petersburg, Russia, he encouraged us to join Sister Annabel for two weeks, visiting temples and other Buddhist Pilgrimage sights around Hanoi and Hue. We were hesitant at first to make such a long trip for such a short…