For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life By Thich Nhat Hanh Parallax Press, 2007 Softcover, 148 Pages Reviewed by Hope Lindsay All Buddhists express the precepts in some form. They are the core of our beliefs. In the tradition of our teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, the…
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Mind in a Jar
During a retreat in South Africa, for the children’s program, a mother shared an activity. She brought out a large, glass vase filled with water and set it in the middle of the circle of children. Then she set out several containers of colored sand. She explained that the vase…
Money Doesn’t Guarantee Happiness
by Rachel Tripp When I was eight years old my mother announced to me that we were doing a very unusual thing on summer vacation. She told me that we were going to Stonehill College for a week. I was very worried that it was going to involve math, but…
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Passages Married: On June 17, Lyn Coffin, True Mirror, and Paul Norton, Boundless Attentive Caring, were married in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Dharma Teacher Jack Lawlor (True Direction) performed the ceremony. The happy couple lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Community of Mindful Living Update We at the central office of Communities of Mindful Living in Berkeley, California…
Learning to Eat, Learning to Walk
By Celia Tsui Celia Tsui, her husband Sam NG, and Brother Phap An Last year, my husband and I practiced for one year in Plum Village. At the end of the Winter Retreat we went to the EIAB for six weeks before going back to Plum Village for the June retreat. It…
The Joyful Buffalo Herder
By Brother Phap Co Dear Thay, dear Sangha, This morning, I was doing walking meditation with the Sangha. I breathed in and out with every two steps, and after a while, I saw that I was becoming calm. I was able to direct my calm mind to the wondrous surroundings,…
Earth Holding Community: Inter-Activism
How our Hearts, Hands, and Global Spheres of Care Coalesce and Manifest Through Earth-Holding Actions: inspiring news from Brazil, Latin America; Chesapeake Bay, US; and Ontario, Canada–from mindful trash cleanups to legislative actions to gardening in our homes. May these offerings inspire and nourish your Earth holding aspirations and practice!
The New Case
By Tyrone Cashman The world's political leaders, nation by nation, are waking up to the fact that while the old human/political/historical issues are still serious, there is a new issue. Till now, environmental problems have hovered on the edge of the consciousness of world leaders, pushed into the political arena, they felt, by scruffily-dressed, underemployed,…
Mindfulness & Mathematics
Teaching as a Deep Learning Process During the June, 2004 Feet of the Buddha Retreat at Plum Village, a group of retreatants gathered to discuss ways of sharing mindfulness practice with young people. This prompted me to begin thinking freshly about my high school mathematics teaching. My students learn new…
Zen Noir: Mindfulness in Moviemaking
By Marc Rosenbush Zen Noir began about thirteen years ago, when I was sitting in a Japanese Zen temple in Chicago. It was about 4:30 in the morning, and I was facing a row of fellow meditators and watching their heads bob up and down as they tried not to…