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Taking Refuge in the Sangha
By Sister Trang Uu Bat Sister Trang Uu Bat during the 2018 Adelaide retreat, Australia Recently, I had the good fortune to tour Australia where our Sangha offered retreats. I appreciate how easy it is to stay focused on the Dharma and practice when immersed in the flow of the…
Heart to Heart
Heart to Heart is a new section of the Mindfulness Bell — for you to express your thoughts and share your practice on a given topic. In this issue we focus on the Second Mindfulness Training (of the Five). For the Autumn 2007 issue, we invite you to write on…
To Enjoy the Craic
Receiving Spiritual Practice in Ireland By Paul Lavender As I stepped off the plane and into Dublin on a wet and windy April Tuesday to hear Thay’s public talk, “Cooling the Flames,” I was somewhat curious how a teetotal pacifist Buddhist monk would be received in a hard-drinking, strongly Christian…
Happy with Myself
Reflections on a Teen Retreat By Emma Carey The nonprofit Peace in Schools (peaceinschools.org) launched the United States’ first for-credit mindfulness course in a high school in 2014. This semester-long Mindful Studies class helps teens develop compassion, calm, emotional resilience, and self-awareness. At a time when many teens struggle with…
Here Is the Pure Land. The Pure Land Is Here.
One day, Queen Vaidehi asked the Buddha, "Is the place with no suffering very far away?" The Buddha replied, "No, it is not far away." And then the Buddha taught the queen how to touch the land of Great Happiness in her own heart and in her own mind. We talk about "the Pure Land." In…
Sowing Sangha Seeds
By Judith Toy A Sangha Sprout My husband Philip Toy and I first began inviting folks to sit with us in Black Mountain, North Carolina, in 1999, in a room in our cottage that could barely hold four cushions. Today, eight years later, our sangha’s twenty-by-thirty-foot Dharma hall has been…
From Warriors to Peaceful Warriors
Veterans Lighting the Way Brother Phap Uyen and Paul Davis in Conversation Brother Phap Uyen and Paul Davis at Magnolia Grove Brother Phap Uyen (Brother Michael) served in the military during Desert Storm, Desert Shield. He was ordained as a monastic by Thich Nhat Hanh on May 26, 2002, with…
Be Mindful in Daily Life
Photo by Renee Burgard Mindfulness is the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment. It is the continuous practice of touching life deeply in every moment of daily life. To be mindful is to be truly alive, present, and at one with those around you and with…
Where Is the Observer?
By Svein Myreng When I was a student, almost thirty years ago, I went through a time of despair. Meeting scientifid and existentialist thinking wiped out the religious belief I once had. I found myself in a meaningless universe of dead matter, where consciousness and life seemed to be just…