Hong-An Hisae Matsuda Dear Thay, dear Sangha, At the beginning of the year, our senior editor Brother Phap Luu and I had a nourishing discussion about how some of our international Sangha friends practiced in the midst of political impermanence. This inspired the editorial team to explore how to practice…
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How Can You Stand Being a Nurse?
By Cheryl Barnes-Neff, RN Fourth Mindfulness Training of the Order of Interbeing:Aware that looking deeply at the nature of suffering can help us develop compassion and find ways out of suffering, we are determined not to avoid or close our eyes before suffering. We are committed to finding ways, including…
Fragrance of Tea Flowers
Before she became a nun, Sister Dang Nghiem was a physician in the United States. She has been at Prajna Temple (Bat Nha) near Bao Loc since September and she wrote this letter to Thay on December 12, 2005. Beloved Thay, I have wanted to write to you several times.…
Heart to Heart
In each issue of the Mindfulness Bell readers take on a different topic, writing in short essays about their personal experience and their practice. The Fourth Mindfulness Training Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful speech and the inability to listen to others, I am committed to cultivating loving speech…
Listening Deeply
Public Office as a Dharma Door By Pam Costain photo by Bruce Nichols As an elected member of a school board, I regularly make difficult decisions that affect thousands of children’s lives. While all public officials make tough choices, none are quite so personal as those made by school boards.…
Mindfulness Educates
Interview with Katherine Weare Katherine Weare Katherine Weare is Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter and Southampton in the United Kingdom. Her long-term career has been in education, developing approaches to promoting well-being and addressing mental health problems. She is known internationally for her teaching, writing, public speaking, research,…
A Proposal to Listen – For Peace and Security
Offered by Listen For Peace, A Grassroots Organization Inspired by Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh's Teachings on Compassionate Listening The Proposal In light of the intensifying conflicts around the planet, and before another war is declared, we call upon the United States and the world community to pause. As one humanity,…
Book Reviews
The Energy of PrayerHow to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice By Thich Nhat HanhParallax Press, 2006155 pages Reviewed by Judith Toy When Thich Nhat Hanh tells us, “You are a cloud,” this sounds very poetic. What he means is that our bodies contain cloud elements, a fact that science cannot dispute.…
Secrets and Silence
By Claude An Shin Thomas Susan Smith was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for drowning her two children. She is eligible for parole in what, thirty years? Susan's father committed suicide when she was a child. Susan's mother remarried and her husband, Susan's stepfather, sexually abused her when she was…
My Ocean Mind
Dr. Ashley Mack shares how Thầy’s teachings bring freedom to the challenges of raising foster kids in a LGBTQIA+ family facing intergenerational trauma and depression.