By Jack Lawlor After returning from this year's meeting in Plum Village, I was immersed in gratitude for the mindfulness practices we share, and for the efforts of Thay, Sister True Emptiness, and the growing community of monks and nuns. I am also in awe of the spiritual growth and maturity in the Order since…
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New Seth Family Member
By Shantum Seth We are happy to inform you of the birth of our daughter, Anamika Maitri, at dawn on the seventeenth of September, in New Delhi. She arrived exactly three and a half years after her sister Nandini was born. Anamika Maitri means “one who cannot be defined by…
Mindful Holiday Gifts
We have several new books that we are excited about, and many categories on our website to help you find the right gift for your friend, family, coworker, and yourself! We invite you to take some time to explore parallax.org, shop with intention, and give mindfully.
Dharma Talk: Armfuls of Poetry, Drops of Sunshine
A Dharma Talk on Poetry and InterbeingOffered to Social Workers from Vietnam Visiting Plum Village in May, 2002 Sunshine rides on space and poetry on sunshine.Poetry gives birth to sunshine, and sunshine to poetry. Every time we use the expression armful it is usually used to refer to an armful of hay…
Opening Our Hearts
By Marcel Geisser On the weekend of March 29-31, we had the first meeting of German-speaking Order of Interbeing members. Fourteen of us met at Haus Tao, a meditation center in Switzerland (See p. 30)—Iris Nowak, Uli Scharpf, Irmgard and Richard Buck, Steffi Holtje, Margret de Beckere, Loriana Pauli, Nel Houtman, Barbara Croci, Marcel Geisser, Bettina…
2007 Vietnam Trip
You are invited to join Thich Nhat Hanh and the monastic sangha for a journey to Vietnam. First SegmentFeb 21 to March 12 (20 days) Two days in Ho Chi Minh City, which is fairly warm, then 16 days in Bat Nha (Prajna) Monastery in the highlands, very cool but…
Honoring My Brother
By Sister Tenzin Namdrol It was acute generational family dysfunction that led my brother to alcoholism, marginality, schizoid spells, total paralysis and eventually the loss to gangrene of one leg and then of the other. We were born less than one year apart and separated at birth by sex, parents'…
A Teacher’s Lesson in Deep Listening
By Young Whan Choi My student is pregnant. I know that Mary is not alone. She has much company among thousands of high school students in the United States who get pregnant before graduation. Still, when I heard the news from another teacher, I literally sucked in air. In my…
Intersein-Zentrum
Ten Years of Practice in Community by Karl and Helga Riedl The Intersein-Zentrum, a practice and meditation center in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh, is celebrating its tenth anniversary! This means ten years of concretely and continuously building and maintaining Sangha. After living in Plum Village for more than…
Sowing Seeds of Meditation
By Cara Harzheim photos by Noel De Nardi For thirty-six years I taught in the Grammar School Ludwid-Meyn-Schule, a big high school near the River Elbe, Germany. I was one of seventy-eight teachers in this school of 1,040 students. Teaching was my greatest passion in life. The students were my…