Old Path Sangha Turns Ten! “Building a Sangha is very healing for the world.” - Thich Nhat Hanh On a rainy, cloudy Saturday afternoon in October 2009, friends of Old Path Sangha (OPS) gathered for a Day of Mindfulness and to reflect on a milestone: the tenth anniversary of the…
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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…
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A Taste of Plum Village: Practice as a Family Charlottesville, Virginia, June 16-21, 1995 During this five-day family retreat, we will practice mindfulness with our children and share energy, experience, inspiration and resources with each other. Teenagers are especially invited. Many members of the core community will be participating. The retreat will take place…
Resting in Love with the Earth
Eight-month-old baby Ysabel breathes quietly as she lies here sleeping...
Releasing Regret
By Patricia Webb photo by Bonnie Wiesner Last summer my husband, David McCleskey, was diagnosed with liver cancer. Forty days from his diagnosis, he made his passage. He died in the arms of our Sangha. In fact, the Sangha was sitting in our house sending David a loving kindness meditation…
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…
Be Still
The Mindful Christian By Diane Strausser We all know the importance of words. Relationships are built with them. Our important teachers use words that help us structure our lives and we carry those words in our minds as we go about the business of living. Despite the fact that I…
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…
Simply Being Present
I use the exercises in The Miracle of Mindfulness daily and have recently begun to use the gathas in Present Moment, Wonderful Moment. Reading these books has had some interesting effects on my everyday life. Recently, I helped instruct a dear friend in how to make leather purses for his…
The Hands of the Bodhisattvas
By Sister Hy Nghiem photo by Jitka Slamova Dear Thay, dear Brothers, dear Sisters, and dear Sangha, Today is February 19, 2012, and we are in our final week of the winter retreat here at Magnolia Grove Monastery. Today we continue our investigation of the Fifth and Sixth Mindfulness Trainings…