By Webb Batchelor I have been very bitter for many years of my life because of serious disappointments and difficulties. For almost 60 years, it has seemed that pain, fear, and sorrow will go on forever. Yesterday I was in a wretched, miserable state of mind. I saw no escape, no relief, and what…
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Blue Cliff Monastery: The First Steps Our new monastery does have cliffs in the mountains nearby but they are not blue, they are white. We like to practice sitting meditation there as we watch the sun rise or set. These mountains are very old, the oldest in the U.S. They…
Mindfulness Practice Centers
In Plum Village we have meditated for more than a year on how to offer mindfulness as a nonsectarian practice that can be applied in schools, hospitals, prisons, and society at large. According to our experience, it is perfectly possible to practice mindfulness in a nonreligious, nonsectarian way investing 100% of ourselves in the present moment.…
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…
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…
Inner Therapy
Two scenarios for moving through a day of psychotherapy By Ryan Niemiec Several years ago I discovered the practice of mindfulness. This radically altered how I approach my work as a psychologist at the Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute and as a behavioral health consultant. Every client who seeks treatment…
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…
I Am Remembering
Dear friends experiencing loneliness, anxiety, or fear...
Presentation on the Third Mindfulness Training
Maple Forest Monastery Family Retreat, 2005By Charles Batchelder For some of us, the Third Mindfulness Training is difficult to practice. In fact, when I received the Five Mindfulness Trainings five years ago, it was the one Mindfulness Training I considered not receiving. I think it is easy to accumulate the…
Sangha News
photo by Paul Davis Sharing the Dharma By Lorri Houston Let us take those grenades out of our hearts, our motherland, humankind. Let us stand. Let us stand, side by side. - Thich Nhat Hanh Robert could only look at the floor as he talked about harming an old and…