By Jack Lawlor Dean Kaufer; Soto Zen priest and teacher Taigen Dan Leighton; and Dharma teacher Jack Lawlor of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s Chicago Chapter at the 2012 NATO Conference protest march in Chicago Many of us attracted to the teachings of the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh have an interest…
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The Joy of Practice Cannot Be Contained
By Leslie Rawls and Carl Dunlap, Jr. photo by Nyanayasha Shakya To our respected and beloved teacher, Thay Nhat Hanh, and to the stream of ancestral teachers who have preserved and transmitted the teachings, we offer an ocean of gratitude. From Carl December 5, 1988 was the coldest, darkest day…
Wake Up Dreams
Wake Up Paris; photo courtesy of Wake Up Every year they ask me to write something for the magazine La Thu Lang Mai [the annual magazine of Plum Village in Vietnamese], and every year I feel confused. What am I supposed to write? Who is the audience? These are the…
Eyes of Compassion
Jim Forest shares stories of working with and learning from Thích Nhất Hạnh in the late 1960s
Plover Mind
By Michael Petracca I unlock the plover shed, a cinder block storeroom atop a cliff overlooking the Pacific. Through the shed’s salt filmy window, the sea looks glassy under a thick batting of overcast. Rust-colored kelp undulates slowly at low tide. Pelicans glide parallel to shore, pull up abruptly, plunge,…
The Son’s Flesh Sutra
Translated by Sister Annabel Laity The Son's Flesh Sutra(Puttamamsa Sutta) Samyutta Nikaya II, 97. The discourse was heard at Savatthi. The Buddha began speaking. "Monks, there are four kinds of nourishment which maintain living beings and make possible the coming to be of living beings. "What are the four "There is the nourishment…
Happy Birthday, Charlotte! Author’s Note
As we celebrate the 10 year anniversary of beloved children's book Charlotte and the Quiet Place, author Deborah Sosin has reflections to share with readers.
Free Where I Am
By Patrick Doyle I’m currently serving my fifth year of a ten-year sentence for armed burglary. I can get out in 2016. When I got arrested in 2007, I was an angry, young, confused gang member looking at a life sentence. I didn’t care about life anymore. I was adopted…
Realizing True Education
Leaders of the international Wake Up Schools initiative offer stories of building connection and community.
The Hare in the Moon
A Traditional Buddhist Tale Retold by Teri West Once, in a far-away land, in a time long ago, in a deep forest, lived four friends. They were a jackal — which is a kind of wild dog — an otter, a monkey, and a hare. The four friends lived very…