Dear Sangha, today is the 13th of December 2001. We are in the Dharma Nectar Hall, at the Lower Hamlet, during the winter retreat. The committee, working on the book for the twentieth anniversary of Plum Village has asked me to talk about the history of Plum Village so that…
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Engaging Together for Change
In these past six months, our human family throughout the world...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Living Love
Questions and Answers with Thich Nhat Hanh Plum Village July 26, 2009 Thich Nhat Hanh at Deer Park Monastery. Photo by David Nelson If you look around, you’ll see four pine trees that were planted by Thay twenty-eight years ago. At that time we were already thinking of using this…