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A War Is Never Over
The road from Hue to Dong Ha snakes through villages and countryside, bounded on each side by ankle-deep floodwaters. On this day in October 2007, the rainy season in Central Vietnam is, thankfully, coming to an end. The annual flooding has been particularly heavy this year, with more than forty…
MorningSun Mindfulness Center
photo by Bruce Nichols MorningSun is a mindfulness center and residential community committed to bringing a spiritual dimension to family life and society. With 240 acres of beautiful hills, forests, and ponds in Southern New Hampshire, MorningSun is building residential neighborhoods, a retreat center, and an organic farm and craft…
Roses and Garbage
Thích Nhất Hạnh offers a deep teaching on the futility of hate and discrimination, and on the insight of interbeing and nonduality as the way to liberation and non-fear.
Spiritual Footing for Environmentalists
By Grove Burnett Ed. note: This letter to Thich Nhat Hanh was read during the sutra recitation period following morning meditation at the March 25-30 Retreat for Environmentalists in Malibu. I have been practicing environmental law for eighteen years, representing public interest environmental organizations in five states in the Western…
Letters
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…
Closing the Door
By Mushim Ikeda-Nash On Thursday, April 11, my father, Robert Yoshizo Ikeda, died in his sleep at his home on Lake Anna in Virginia. My son Joshua and I were visiting at the time, mostly to help my mother, who is recovering from lymphoma and needs to be driven back and forth from a…
Drops of Mindful Communication
Excerpts from How To Fight By Thich Nhat Hanh illustration by Jason DeAntonis Communication with others in business often involves presenting conflicting viewpoints and working to reconcile them. Thay’s book, How to Fight, is the sixth book in the How To series that is drawn from Thay's unpublished Dharma talks…
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…
Language of the Heart
By Paul Tingen Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoingthere is a field.I'II meet you there.When the soul lies in that grass,the world is too full to talk about.Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other"doesn't make any sense. —Rumi Imagine for a moment that you're on a peace mission in another…