By Lisa Pettitt Our family has been homeschooling for over five years. We had not envisioned this path for ourselves: my partner and I had professional careers, and our kids were in day care as infants. Thich Nhat Hanh says, “This is because that is, and this is not because…
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Breathing, Learning, Growing
Mindfulness with Youth in the Clinic and the Classroom A Dialogue between Meena Srinivasan, Dzung Vo, and Young Whan Choi Meena Srinivasan and Sister Jewel with students learning mindfulness Young Whan Choi: It’s a pleasure to be hosting this conversation about how to bring mindfulness practice to young people. Both…
Right Livelihood
By Thich Nhat Hanh The Eleventh of the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings: Right Livelihood Aware that great violence and injustice have been done to our environment and society, we are committed not to live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. We will do our best to select…
Retreat Among Jacarandas
By María Jiménez photo courtesy of María Jiménez The Felicidad family, originally from Mexico City, was spread out. Some of us had known each other a long time; others, however, weren’t aware of the existence of happy and enthusiastic brothers and sisters in search of someone with the same last…
Welcome Home
A Retreat for Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars 2014 Veterans Retreat. Photo courtesy of monastic Sangha On an overcast day in November 2014, they began to arrive, sometimes alone, sometimes accompanied by a parent, a partner, or a sibling. Each in his or her own way was shrouded,…
A Great Horizon
Plum Village Sangha in Thailand By Lynda Berry and Karen Hilsberg Temple Reflecting Pool, Pak Chong, Thailand; photo by Paul Davis In October 2010, Thailand welcomed the Plum Village Sangha warmly. An international delegation of about thirty-six practitioners from the U.S., England, Italy, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Germany, Canada, and Australia…
Wake Up
Young Buddhists and Non-Buddhists for a Healthy and Compassionate Society photo by Robert Harrison Nutshell Wake Up is an active global community of young mindfulness practitioners, aged 18-35, inspired by the teachings of Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh. We come together to practice mindfulness in order to…
Teaching the Whole Child
By Susan Kaiser Greenland photos by Allegra Greenland In classes with kids, I hold up a Quaker Oats box and ask, “What’s in here?” We get all sorts of answers, from Quaker Oats to lizards to spiders to candy. But we come down pretty quickly to the fact that we…
A Eulogy from Thầy’s Disciples in Diệu Trạm Nunnery
We could never have imagined being able to eat with you, to sit this close to you and to be given food by you. Thầy’s food is always both nourishing and delicious. Sitting near you, all our sorrows evaporate like mist. What remains is only peace and joy. Coming back to our quarters, we felt full, both from the food and from the love. We feel grateful to Thầy for having taught us what mindful eating is all about.
A Happy Guinea Pig
By Beverly Alexander I have had the pleasure both of owning a guinea pig and of being one. Greg Ascue, Jim Needles, and I were among the first to participate in a formal, year-long Order of Interbeing aspirant training program. As part of our commitment, we all trained and acted as Doans (meditation hall…