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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Unconditional Acceptance
An Interview with Joanne Friday Joanne Friday with members of Rhode Island Community of Mindfulness; photos courtesy of Joanne Friday Joanne Friday is a Dharma teacher in the Order of Interbeing. In 2003, she received authority to teach from Thich Nhat Hanh, her teacher for twenty years. Joanne leads meditation…
Dharma Talk: Finding Our True Home
March 28, 2004 – Colors of Compassion Retreat On March 28th, at the end of the three-month winter retreat, Thich Nhat Hanh and the Sangha offered a three-day retreat called Colors of Compassion, for people of color. Three hundred retreatants gathered to practice mindfulness, listen to teachings, and share with…
My Retreat
By Anneke Brinkerink Three days before the retreat with Thay in Amsterdam last October, I went to the mailbox on my bicycle for the last mailing of retreat information. On the ride home, a driver did not notice me on my bicycle, and there was an accident. My head hit his windshield. I woke…
Intersein-Zentrum
Impressions, Experiences, and Interviews By David Viafora and Vanessa Ixil Chavez Loucky Intersein lay practice center; photo by David Viafora “We need to establish retreat centers where we can go from time to time to renew ourselves. The features of the landscape, the buildings, and even the sound of the…
Heart to Heart
In each issue of the Mindfulness Bell readers take on a different topic, writing in short essays about their personal experience and their practice. The Fourth Mindfulness Training Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful speech and the inability to listen to others, I am committed to cultivating loving speech…
The Light at the Tip of the Candle
I was deeply touched recently by a book called At Hell’s Gate: A Soldier’s Journey from War to Peace. The author, Claude Anshin Thomas, describes in detail the suffering he has experienced as a Vietnam veteran [see below]. The description of his suffering made me look more deeply into the…
Coincidences, Histories, and the Monastic Life in the EIAB Waldbröl
By Axel Denecke photos courtesy of the EIAB Through mere coincidence I came across the history of Waldbröl and the former Kraft durch Freude (KdF) Hotel, which is now the EIAB (European Institute of Applied Buddhism). In search of material about the period of National Socialism in the university library, I came across a…
Fierce Compassion
By Cheri Maples Cheri Maples received the Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh and became a Dharma teacher on January 9, 2008 at Plum Village. Here is part of the Dharma talk she gave to the Sangha that day. Since I was very young, I have had a passion for…
Busynessless
Brother Phap Dung's Dharma talk about the practice of not being busy to young adults