Friends on the Path—Living Spiritual Communities by Thich Nhat Hanh, Compiled by Jack Lawlor Review by David Percival This book is an invaluable resource on Sangha building for beginning and advanced practitioners around the world. We are told that even the smallest Sangha nurtures and continues the living tradition of…
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Thanksgiving
By Cathy Nason I wonder if he’ll see me after coming all this way. How could I have allowed two whole years to pass without even a card, a phone call? This home seems better than the last. The women at the reception desk are warm and attractive. They call…
A Peace Treaty with the Earth
A new series of earth-touching meditations
Practicing with Mother Earth
A young sari-clad mother, a baby on her hip, stands calf deep...
Painting Spring
By Tasha Chuang “Oneness” painted by Tasha Chuang Right where you standis the valley of endless spring.—Dogen I left home at a very young age, determined to see the world and live a life of my own. My parents were heartbroken, yet nothing could stop me from setting out to…
Dharma Talk: Immediate Protection
In the 1960s, American young people marched in the streets, shouting "Make love, not war." I reflected deeply on this. What kind of love were they speaking of? Was it true love? If it were true love, it would be the opposite of war. If it were only craving, one…
Fracturing Mother Earth, Fracturing Me
By Jan Goss Monastic leading a walking meditation near the fracking site in Yorkshire, August 2017; photo by Wouter Verhoeven In May 2017, I became an activist and visited my local fracking site near Blackpool in Lancashire, four miles from my home in neighbouring Lytham. Despite local people and councillors…
Tea Meditation at Work
As I slid behind the wheel of my Toyota, I remembered the driving gatha offered by Thich Nhat Hanh, "My car and I are one. If my car goes fast, I go fast. .. . " The road down from the Mount Madonna Retreat Center, where I had just spent five days of mindfulness on a…
Letters from the Editors
photo courtesy of monastic Sangha Dear Thay, dear Sangha, After the 21-Day Retreat in Plum Village last summer, a group of European Wake Up friends gathered for their monthly sessions online. Many were inspired to study the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings. At this moment, several Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings study groups within…
Sangha News
No Worries Report from the European Institute of Applied Buddhism By Sister Annabel The European Institute of Applied Buddhism, also known as the Ashoka Institute, will celebrate its second anniversary on September 10, 2010. We are enjoying ourselves very much in Germany, where we have favorable conditions for the practice:…