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…
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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…
Sangha News
photo by Jitka Slamova The Revised Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings Introduction by Sister Annabel, True Virtue Since the ten wholesome practices were devised by the Buddha for the Fourfold Sangha, the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings have been growing and evolving. The Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings, first written by Thay Thich Nhat Hanh in 1966…
Making Space
To Hear Others on Their Own Terms By Yenkuei Chuang “Mom, you never listen. This is what ruins my whole seventh grade year!” My twelve-year-old daughter was upset because I hadn’t picked up the library books she had requested, and therefore she was unable to complete her homework. After she…
Walking the Talk
Peaceful Relations at the Parliament of the World’s Religions By Clare Sartori At the 1993 Parliament of the World’s Religions (PWR) in Chicago, I first heard Thich Nhat Hanh ask, “What is our capacity to enjoy peace?” Seventeen years later, I continue to ask the question of myself, my clients,…
Airplane Dharma: No Birth , No Death
By Christian Bergmann We flew one night with the Sangha from Hue to Hanoi. Half the airplane was filled with monastics and lay Sangha. Over an hour into the flight we were told that bad weather conditions were preventing us from landing in Hanoi. Now we were heading for Haiphong,…
Remembering Greg
By Grace Sanchez I first met Greg Keryk at the 1993 retreat held with Thay at Camp Swig in Northern California. He was hearty, strong, and straightforward. After the retreat, we attended Sangha meetings in Santa Cruz. Gradually, the meetings stopped happening, and I didn't see Greg until two years later. We met again in…
Wake Up – Bhutan and India Tour Report
By Miranda van Schadewijk New friends in Thimpu, Bhutan, after youth workshop hosted by Gross National Happiness Centre; photo by Robert Walsh Stop, breathe, smile. That’s what we learn in Plum Village and on retreats all over the world led by monastic students of Thich Nhat Hanh. This simple yet…