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…
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Letters to the Editors
Dear Editors, I am a subscriber to The Mindfulness Bell and I have thus far read three of Thich Nhat Hanh' s books (l am at present on a second reading of The Sun My Heart).l have been practicing meditation for about a year and a half, having been introduced to meditation through a…
A Call for a Collective Awakening
Speech to UNESCO in Paris, October 7, 2006 By Thich Nhat Hanh Ten years ago, I was asked by the director of UNESCO, his Excellency Federico Mayor, to write a manual on the practice of peace and nonviolence, and I readily accepted the work. For me, writing this manual was…
Kid’s Stuff
By Mark Vette Sleeping bags and bodies twisted and tangled upon one another, and moonlight on the beautiful faces of children sleeping under the stars, awakes the child within me. I sit like a sentinel at meditation reflecting on the evening before, of enjoying hot chocolate and cookies while telling stories and jokes. A…
Please Help to Support Our Two Monasteries in Vietnam
Plum Village 7th August, 2005 Dear friends, Today, from Plum Village, Thay has ordained ninety-one monastics. Eighty-four of them were ordained via the Internet at Tu Hieu Temple, where Thay grew up as a novice, and Prajna Temple in the Highlands of Vietnam, where many of you joined Thay during…
Continuing the Path of the Buddha
By Brother Chan Phap Nguyen Left to right: Brother Phap Chung, Brother Phap Nguyen, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Chan Khong, Brother Phap Huu, in Indonesia; photo courtesy of monastic Sangha The Plum Village Mindfulness Practice Center was established in 1982. Over the years, practice centers have been founded around the…
The Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha in U.S. Prisons
By Bill Menza Resources for Prison Sangha Building Buddhist Peace Fellowship Prison Resource Guides for PrisonersFree Buddhist books and other publicationsDharma/spiritual correspondence courses and pen pal programsNewsletters that focus on prisoners’ rights and criminal justiceResources for prisoners with childrenLegal Aid resourcesPost-release resources Prison Dharma Network Sitting Inside: Buddhist Practice in…
Forgiveness Is the Path
By Ankit Rao photo by Phillip Fenty “I don’t think this is working.” My life was turned upside down by these few words. My girlfriend of five years, the person I had bought a house with not more than a year before, and the person I wanted to spend the…
The Happy Farm
Mid-February 2020, I made the long and slow journey by boat from Cork....
Breathe!
Before I came to Plum Village I had been practicing in India with the Tibetans, a meditation called tonglen. In this practice, when you breathe in, you take all the suffering of the world on yourself and when you breathe out, you breathe out all your joy for the sake of the world. I was…