By Eve Heidtmann Global warming is hard to face. The challenge is so great and I feel so small. I tried denial but found I just couldn’t keep it up for long. Finally I decided I had to take hold of some part of the problem and do something. The…
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mb38-BookReviews1 Journeying East: Conversations on Aging and Dying By Victoria Jean Dimidjian Parallax Press, 2004 Reviewed by Lois Schlegel For as long as I can remember I have been afraid of death. Even as a child I wrestled with this unknown. At night, when the house was quiet I lay…
Spanning a Bridge
For Love to Deepen During Thich Nhat Hanh’s trip to Vietnam in early 2007, several Great Requiem Ceremonies were held, to help heal the wounds of war. Here, Sister Dang Nghiem continues her recollections of those powerful events and the deep transformation she experienced. (See part one of her article…
Journey as a Writer
Upper Hamlet, Plum Village. Photo by Mercia Moseley When I first went to Blue Cliff Monastery in New York, I was in both a personal and professional crisis. Indeed, the two felt inextricable. I was a writer and had finished a memoir about becoming a mother. But in the process…
Love in Our Generation
By Jenny Hamp photo by Elli Weisbaum and Rob Walsh In April 2011, I asked a Brooklyn Sangha friend how to get in touch with New York Wake Up. The next week I found out I was organizing it. My friend had volunteered me to help a young adult from…
Joyful Garden Sangha
Reflections about sangha building from Joyful Garden Sangha in Singapore
Healing the Present, Healing the Past
By Azriel Cohen Shared at the Hiroshima Commemoration Ceremony in Plum Village, August 7, 2001. Last night, a young man from Germany at the Hiroshima Commemoration in the Upper Hamlet shared with the community how he observed anger arising within himself, when the Israeli-Palestinian group shared that the trauma of the Holocaust was still a…
Entering the Stream Down Under
By Ettianne Anshin I practice with seveerral Sydney Sanghas and have visited Nhap Luu (Entering the Stream) Monastery three times in the last eighteen months. This monastery is a two-hour drive from Melbourne and twelve hours ffrroom Sydney, Australia. Since their arrival two years ago, the original three monastics—Sisters Thuan…
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the managing editor of the Mindfulness Bell
Dharma Talk: Unified Buddhist Church – Community of Mindful Living Merger
Transcription of a Dharma Talk Given by Thich Nhat Hanh on March 2, 1999 at Plum Village Monastery, Dieulivol, France Dear Friends, it is now the beginning of March 1999, and we are in Floating Clouds Meditation Hall, New Hamlet, Plum Village. We have just completed the Transmission of the Lamp ceremony for twelve monastics.…