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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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…
Monks & Nuns: Behind the Projections onto the Robe
Part One By Lori Zimring De Mori On a quiet summer morning in the French countryside near the village of Thenac, several hundred people sit patiently in the boxy, light-filled room which serves as Upper Hamlet’s main meditation hall in Plum Village. Children are at the front—some squirming, some with…
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,…
Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Vision: The Village Way as the Beloved Community of Engaged Buddhism
Brother Pháp Dung outlines Thầy’s aspiration and vision for residential spiritual communities as a service and refuge for society.
Nonduality and Earth Holding
Members of the Care-Taking Councils of the Earth Holder Community, the Abrazadores de la Tierra, and the Gardien.nes de la Terre share their experiences of nonduality in their daily mindful activism.
Dharma Talk: Returning Home
I have arrived.I am home,In the hereAnd the now.I feel solid. I feel free.In the ultimateI dwell. It is important for us to return home — to come back to the here and the now — and make peace with ourselves, our society, and those we love. At times we suffer…
Latvia, Russia, & Poland
By Therese Fitzgerald While at Plum Village this summer, Boris and Gallina, our Dharma friends and Reiki healers from Moscow, suggested that Arnie Kotler and I stop in Riga, Latvia, on our way to Russia to lead a mindfulness retreat for the community there. "Mindfulness practice is essential for real Reiki work, and Reiki is…
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…