Text of the Nonsectarian Ceremony Mindful sitting in silence: twelve minutes. Those who wish to receive the trainings sit facing the brothers and sisters who have come to support them. Spokesperson: Noble community, let us celebrate our togetherness by singing two times, “I have arrived, I am home.” Now let…
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Tribute to Jeanie Chilcote
Jeanie Chilcote. Source of Serenity. Sister True Natural Peace. Devoted Dharma student of Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh. Received precepts from Jack Lawlor. Ordained into the Order by Eileen Kiera on behalf of Thich Nhat Hanh. Enrolled tribal member. Daughter, wife, mother, friend. Thursday she was driving around running errands. Friday morning said she was going to…
Lay Residential Sangha
By Bruce Kantner In about the Summer 1999 Mindfulness Bell, my wife I wrote about the Sangha-ecovillage that my wife and I are working to start on our farm in southern New Hampshire. We propose to adopt a co-housing model combined with our nonprofit Geocommons center for interbeing studies. Our goal is to deepen our learning and practice…
Breathfully Taking Care
By Therese Fitzgerald After months of zazen practice at San Francisco Zen Center, I asked my teacher Richard Baker-roshi, "Do I really have to count my breath?" "Yes," he responded with unmistakable solemnity. I had friends who managed to count hundreds of breaths forwards and backwards, and others who described staying home just enjoying their breathing in…
Dharma Talk: Sitting in the Wind of Spring
Here is the first Dharma talk that Thich Nhat Hanh gave on his recent tour of Vietnam, at Phap Van Temple in Ho Chi Minh City on February 22, 2007. This excerpt presents the last part of the talk, including questions from the audience and Thay’s answers. Later in this…
A Treasure Vase
By Wendy Johnson The ancient forests of the maritime Pacific Northwest are the last remaining forests of the temperate zone on the North American continent. The redwood trees here once covered more than two million acres; now less than four percent of the old-growth redwoods remain. Redwoods are the tallest living creatures on earth.…
I Go as a Sangha Body
By Lucette Hindin Lucette dressed as an angel in a mall; photo by Gary Easterbrook Between mid 2016 and early 2017, I worked as a volunteer with 350.org, an international environmental group that encourages institutions to divest from fossil fuels. I led the Earth Guardians Otautahi1 project, which involved creating…
Pain and Reconciliation
Anonymous Last month I had a big gift. I realized that as a child under massively abusive and insane circumstances, I often "mistook the assignment." Did you ever get the homework wrong, do the wrong page in grade school? Well, I realized the same thing happened. For years I agonized over my own "cowardice and…
Inappropriate Misconduct
By Hannah Mountainside in Alaska; photo by Hannah The feeling came to me on an overnight bus between Milwaukee and Detroit during the fall of 2017. After living and working on a small farm in rural Wisconsin, I logged onto Facebook for the first time in over a week. I…
The Freedom of True Love
By Keri R. Hakan I believe that freedom can be found in true love. My husband and I dated for about ten years and then were married for eight. He passed on in July 2010 from pancreatic cancer. In our eighteen years together, we taught each other a great deal…