By Joe Holtaway Flash mob meditation in Trafalgar Square, London, March 2012; photo by Kenneth Bok I’m a member of London’s Wake Up Sangha and producer of Peace Sounds, a collection of twelve songs on the theme of peace. My friends and I made this album to bring awareness of…
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Becoming Interwoven: Sewing My Brown Jacket as the Art of Practice
An Order of Interbeing member shares about the interbeing, reverence for life, and meditation of crafting with natural materials.
Shining Light on White
By Vanna Waldron photo by Brother Bieu Hien Mindfulness practice gives us tools to face parts of ourselves, our reality, and our histories that we may otherwise push away, deny, or neglect. In this article, I explore my experience shining light on the reality of my racial privilege as a…
Poem: I Embrace the Sky
I embrace the skywhen her storms hurl me into dark cloudsI remind myself that we sharethe same matter the clouds and IYet the clouds do not know my fears, my judgments, my plansI look up and see a woman riding a billygoata cloud transforming through the skyI cannot hold on…
Wake Up Schools: Planting Good Seeds
The pandemic has asked much of teachers...
Poem: Recipe for Friendship
By Gaia Thurston-Shaine Making friends is like baking a cake—ingredients must be addedin the right proportions.Respect is the flour—without it,you could not even have a biscuit.Love is the sugar,a sweet and happy hug.As baking powderhelps a cake to rise,communication bridges gapsand helps a relationship to grow.And understanding is the eggholding…
Shooting Stars
A Children’s Well-Being Radio Show By David M. Nelson “Living your dream, not somebody else’s. Instead of reaching for the stars, be one. We are still growing. Enjoy life because it doesn’t happen twice. The hopes and dreams to be someone, to shine and go somewhere unimaginable – We are…
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Happiness Essential Mindfulness Practices By Thich Nhat Hanh Parallax Press, 2009 Softcover, 160 pages Reviewed by Janelle Combelic This book is a treasure trove of practical wisdom for longtime practitioners, beginners, anyone who is curious about the practice of mindfulness. Happiness summarizes in concise, clear chapters what Thay has been…
Generation to Generation
By Judith Toy New York People of Color Day of Mindfulness ;photo by Tasha Chuang Faces of the children I work with—victims of great violence and injustice—file through my heart during meditation. What do these children and their families need in order to heal? Only loving attention. When fifteen-year-old Dee…
Waking
By Gail Charpentier It was the third evening of the four-day meditation retreat for helping professionals led by Thay last September in upstate New York. The title of the evening program was "The Transformation of Suffering," and the speakers were part of the group of 30 Vietnam War veterans who had been participating in their…