By Paula Green The Buddha was once asked by a disciple, "Would it be true to say that a part of our training is for the development of love and compassion?" The Buddha replied, "No, it would not be true to say this. It would be true to say that…
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Flood News
Dear friends, thanks to your generosity, we received $512,000 through March 12, to help the victims of last fall's flooding in Vietnam. Our monks in the Tu Hieu Institute, where Thay was a novice, were able to bring urgent relief to 97,850 families in desperate situations in Thua Thien, Quang Tri, Quang Nam. Quang Ngai, and…
Practicing Mindful Consumption Together
Thay offers a Dharma talk on touching the positive, refreshing, healing elements in life.
I Love Technology
photo by Fe Langdon By Kenley Neufeld I love technology. I value technology. I embrace technology. These three statements may have been the first step to my finding more equanimity in my relationship to technology. To name it, say what it means to me, and see clearly the central role…
Book Reviews
The Novice A Story of True Love By Thich Nhat Hanh HarperCollins, 2011 Hardcover, 160 pages Reviewed by Chau Yoder Edited by Lyn Fine and Natascha Bruckner I felt really touched by the new English version of The Novice: A Story of True Love. When I read this story of…
May All Children Live as Children
By Michele Benzamin-Masuda It was another weekly visit to Central Juvenile Hall in downtown Los Angeles. Mr. Russell was showing us the Special Lock Down Unit. He opened a door and I walked into one of the solitary confinement rooms. A solid door with a peephole closed behind me. A camera sat behind a protective screen above…
Peacemaking as Healing
By Gene Knudsen-Hoffman In the stillness is the place from which action comes that heals. In October 1990, I traveled to Tunisia to talk with Yasser Arafat and other top PLO leaders. I then went to Israel to speak with Israeli peace activists as part of a four-person entourage from the Fellowship of…
The Word for Today
By Patrick Smith illustration by Brother Phap Ban Years, quarters, months, days, or hours: depending on our professional duties, most of us dance within these time frames during the course of any given work day. With so many tasks to do, ideas to implement, situations to contemplate, and relationships to…
From Grief to Gaia
Erica Shane Hamilton shares about healing the heartbreak of losing her friend, climate activist Wynn Bruce, and understanding his self-immolation as compassionate action.
The Healing Hearts Project
By Monastics of the EIAB photos courtesy of the EIAB With immense joy and gratitude, we held the formal inauguration of the renovated Ashoka Institute of the European Institute of Applied Buddhism (EIAB) in August 2012, in Waldbröl, Germany. The EIAB was established as a non-profit organization under German law on November 5,…