By Emily Hilsberg I am seventeen years old, and I am Jewish and Buddhist. I study mindfulness at Deer Park Monastery. I have been going to Deer Park since I was six years old. This year marks my eleventh year being a part of the Sangha. I am also involved…
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Breathing, Learning, Growing
Mindfulness with Youth in the Clinic and the Classroom A Dialogue between Meena Srinivasan, Dzung Vo, and Young Whan Choi Meena Srinivasan and Sister Jewel with students learning mindfulness Young Whan Choi: It’s a pleasure to be hosting this conversation about how to bring mindfulness practice to young people. Both…
Wake Up
Young Buddhists and Non-Buddhists for a Healthy and Compassionate Society photo by Robert Harrison Nutshell Wake Up is an active global community of young mindfulness practitioners, aged 18-35, inspired by the teachings of Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh. We come together to practice mindfulness in order to…
The Question of Overpopulation
By Brother Phap Lai Question to PV Listening Website — 15 December 2007 Teacher, One of the five precepts asks us not to kill. I am concerned about the effects of overpopulation and historical outcomes such as war. Global warming proponents indicate that the human population is to blame. Some…
Surprise Opportunity
By Fred and Petra Hardtke Last April, we attended the retreat with Sister Jina Van Hengel. It was our first meditation retreat and we were unsure about what the weekend held in store for us. With a mixture of apprehension and curiosity, we packed our old station wagon and headed off for Heathcote. We…
Dharma Talk: Cultivating Compassion, Responding to Violence
A Dharma talk offered by Thich Nhat Hanh Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, California September 13, 2001 Thich Nhat Hanh and 80 monks and nuns began the public talk with a ceremony to send the energy of peace and compassion to all those who were suffering from the events of September…
Homeschooling as Mindfulness Practice
By Lisa Pettitt Our family has been homeschooling for over five years. We had not envisioned this path for ourselves: my partner and I had professional careers, and our kids were in day care as infants. Thich Nhat Hanh says, “This is because that is, and this is not because…
Bringing Music to Your Local Community
By Charlie Shuttler Friends and monastics at Wake Up retreat, Blue Cliff Monastery, June 2018; photo by Rob Walsh In a simple, but beautiful way, music has the power to make us happy and smile. Expressing ourselves through song, sound and movement can give voice, understanding and healing to the…
Welcome Home
A Retreat for Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars 2014 Veterans Retreat. Photo courtesy of monastic Sangha On an overcast day in November 2014, they began to arrive, sometimes alone, sometimes accompanied by a parent, a partner, or a sibling. Each in his or her own way was shrouded,…
Retreat Among Jacarandas
By María Jiménez photo courtesy of María Jiménez The Felicidad family, originally from Mexico City, was spread out. Some of us had known each other a long time; others, however, weren’t aware of the existence of happy and enthusiastic brothers and sisters in search of someone with the same last…