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.
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Political Harmony
By Mitchell Thomashow As breath is to meditation, listening and speaking are to politics. It is through ordinary discussion that our ideas, opinions, and interests are expressed. Throughout the day, we have countless opportunities for political discourse in which people speak and listen to us. These exchanges, seemingly mundane, have the potential to engender understanding or…
A Biography of Thay Giac Thanh
In Loving Memory of Thay Giac ThanhJune 9, 1947 - October 15, 2001 That you are a real gentleman is known by everyone The work of a true practitioner has been accomplished When you stupa has just been raised on the hillside The sound of children's laughter will already be…
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PassagesMarried: John Balaam, True Original Mountain, and Charito Sanchez were married in Waipio Valley, Hawai'i on January 1, 2000. Ordained: A warm welcome to new Order members, Virginia Bollero, Sheila Klein, Judy Weaver, Karen Zampalia, Chau Yoder, Peter Hawkins, and Bethany Freshnock. One Hundredth Monastic: During the Winter Retreat in Plum Village, sixteen new monastics were ordained—the sixteen "cherry trees."…
Tapestry of Prayer
By Susan Murphy Since 1982, I have been practicing Buddhist meditation and Christian contemplative prayer. Both have been very meaningful in my own spiritual formation, and I have come to recognize both traditions as my spiritual roots. This integration has deepened so that they have truly become one fabric, one tapestry. For me, contemplative prayer…
The Plum Village Sangha in India
Autumn 2008 The Plum Village delegation arrived in New Delhi on 24 September 2008, and the next day the delegation met with some Indian journalists. The Ahimsa Trust, organizers of Thay’s tour of India, had arranged for the press conference at the French Embassy. During this meeting the French ambassador,…
Book Reviews
Ten Breaths to Happiness Touching Life in Its Fullness By Glen Schneider Foreword by Thich Nhat HanhParallax Press, 2013 Soft cover, 108 pages Reviewed by Louise Dunlap, True Silent Teaching “Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world” (Francis of Assisi). So…
Bodhisattvas in the Subway
By Peggy Rowe Ward On Thay’s 2003 author tour of South Korea, one of the stops was to the city of Daegu. Before we arrived, a man had started a fire in a crowded subway that contributed to the death of over 130 people and the wounding of 140 men,…
The Helping Hand
Brother Phap Dung (pronounced FAP YUNG) gave the children’s Dharma talk before Sister Annabel spoke during the Colorado retreat, 24 August 2007. I enjoy my life very much as a monk. I live with my brothers and sisters at Deer Park Monastery in California. We live together as a family.…
The Art of Leadership
How to restore harmony to ourselves and our nation? In this extract from a talk just after the inauguration of Barack Obama, Thich Nhat Hanh draws parallels between a president’s task of uniting a nation and a meditator’s task of bringing their different elements into harmony. He invites us to…