Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing Joanne Friday’s interview in your Winter/Spring 2013 issue. I especially appreciated Friday’s comment on suffering: “There is nothing quite like it to help us to wake up.” This reminded me of Thay’s quote from Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: “We see the nature of…
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Practicing Metta or Metta in Practice?
When I started practicing meditation, I felt drawn...
Dharma Talk: Loving the Unlovable
Dear Sangha, today is the 28th of January, 1996. We are in the Lower Hamlet (of Plum Village). It is the Winter Retreat. With us today are friends from the Lotus Bud Sangha in Australia. In France we are in the middle of winter. In Australia it is the middle…
Awareness of the Body in the Body
A Massage Therapist Practices the First Establishment of Mindfulness By Pamela Overeynder I have been a massage therapist for many years. I have practiced mindfulness for many years yet somehow it took a long time for me to realize that these are not two separate practices. In the past I did…
Vietnam Journal
When Thich Nhat Hanh left Vietnam in 1966 to teach in the United States, he told his friends that he would be back in three months. Thirty-nine years later, he has finally returned. As Thay said in the letter he wrote to the Sangha before the trip, he left as…
The Practice of “Non-Self”
Being in Touch with the Other Possibilities of Living By Brother Phap An Brother Phap An (center) with Sangha. Photo courtesy of the EIAB Friends visiting the EIAB sometimes ask me what exactly Applied Buddhism is and how it is different from other forms of Buddhism. I enjoy this inquiry very much…
Giving Sanctuary
By Julia Riley Jamie Lorri Houston with Jamie In 2010, I held a hen for the first time. I was attending an event at Animal Acres, a farmed animal sanctuary in Acton, California, when someone placed the little red bird in my arms. The hen felt so light, so delicate,…
Closest to the Heart
By Athina Rosario When the Dalai Lama was asked to address the problem of depression and suicide in the United States, he was taken back that there was a situation to consider. Embedded in Buddhism and much of Asian culture is the idea of respect, not only for others but…
Migrating into Happiness
By Robin Lee Schiff and Joost van Rens photo by David Nelson Robin: Yesterday evening we were lying on the smooth sun-warmed road that winds its way down the mountain at Deer Park Monastery, watching the moon rise over the crest of the ridge, enjoying the coolness of the evening…
Fearlessness and Togetherness
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Dharma talk features Q&As on practicing with anger and fear and navigating suffering