Before I came to Plum Village I had been practicing in India with the Tibetans, a meditation called tonglen. In this practice, when you breathe in, you take all the suffering of the world on yourself and when you breathe out, you breathe out all your joy for the sake of the world. I was…
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Herstory: A Women’s History Month interview with Author Eliza Factor
Eliza Factor, Author of Strange Beauty: A Portrait of My Son In celebration of Women’s History Month, I chatted with Author Eliza Factor about the five-year anniversary of her memoir, what she and Felix have been up to, and her newest project How The Trees Saved My Life:The Orchard Campaign.…
Revisioning Our Work
By Thomas Urquhart Easter morning in the Malibu Hills. The full moon comes to rest on a distant ridge, then melts into the cliffs. We stand in a circle and watch the red peaks come alive in the first light, and the shadows retreat from the east down their flanks. The clear note of…
Heartsong
By Brother Phap Sieu photo by Robert Harrison The most common question we are asked as young monastics is, “Why did you become a monk?” I find that I often answer differently. The responses are all true but vary depending on my experiences that day, or who is asking. This…
War and Reconciliation
By Gary Gill The Veterans' Retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh last April was attended by Vietnamese, American veterans of the war, and Americans who did not serve in Vietnam. During the first few days, we were in silence together--eating, meditating, walking, listening to talks by Thay. This had the double effect of bringing our feelings…
Wake Up Schools as a Public Health Movement
Orlaith O’Sullivan articulates the vast impact that mindful teachers and students can have on public health.
Building A Unified Community
Connecting Wake Up and All-Ages Sanghas By Bryan Hindert Meditation and mixer for Wake Up and all-ages Sangha practitioners; photo by Brian Greenhouse A fellow Wake Upper shared an insight during a recent retreat’s closing circle. He was surprised to learn that some practitioners older than forty had many of…
Book Reviews
The Dragon Prince: Stories and Legends from Vietnam By Thich Nhat HanhParallax Press, 2007 Reviewed by Emily Whittle “Long ago, when earth and sky were still covered in darkness, a great bird with wings like curtains of night....” Before the end of the first sentence in The Dragon Prince, the…
Now, Do You Want to Meditate With Me?
By Annie Desmond photo by Dana Read of Firefy Photography Six years ago my husband Tim and I left our jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area to help establish MorningSun Mindfulness Center, a budding Plum Village retreat center and community nestled within the woods, lakes, and college towns of…
Listening for Poems
By Mohamed Chakmakchi Gabriel wrote this poem in Kindergarten—a year I took a sabbatical from teaching duties to spend time with him and to work on personal projects. That year was a series of joyful moments that meant the world to me as a dad. No rush, no hurry, just listening…