Existential and curiously hypnotic, Pablo d'Ors evokes the sharp stylized prose of Bolaño, Bernhard, and DeLillo in this strange tale of one man's repeated forays into the desert, and the ultimate silence it contains. "Thanks to the back cover of a book I knew that there lived in Brno a…
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Manzanita Village Magic
By Richard Eaton Living at Manzanita Village nourishes me deeply. There is no duality between daily life and daily practice. They are the same. When I cook, it is practice. When I do carpentry, it is practice. When I walk to the shed to get a tool, it is practice. Being mindful as often…
On the Way Home
By Eileen Kiera In the early years of Plum Village there were only two hamlets—Upper Hamlet at Thenac and Lower Hamlet at Meyrac. The hamlets were open for visitors one month each summer from mid-July to mid-August. A few dozen Westerners from all over Europe and North America stayed in…
Adventures in Mindful Moviemaking
Thich Nhat Hanh in Mindfulness: Be Happy Now. Photo courtesy of Larry Kasanoff I make movies about martial arts, science fiction, killer robots, funny cartoon characters, pretty girls—and I love it. A Washington Post article about me started this way:“… fights, explosions, mind-blowing visual effects and hot babes—this is Larry…
Dharma Talk: Take Refuge in Mother Earth
photo by Ron Forster Lower Hamlet, Plum Village November 29, 2012 Good morning, dear Sangha. We are in the Assembly of Stars Meditation Hall of the Dharma Nectar Temple, Lower Hamlet, in our winter retreat. Our society is not very healthy. Therefore, many of us are sick, and we need…
Beginning Anew in Mexico
In the early 1990s, the impoverished people of Chiapas State revolted against the Mexican government. Initially, the battles were widely reported. The war has now faded from the public eye, but the fighting and suffering are escalating with paramilitary takeovers of communities, massacres, looting, rape, and this spring, widespread fires. Despair penetrates the people as deeply…
Being Wonderfully Together
Report from the Order of Interbeing Second International Conference "Being Wonderfully Together" was the theme for the Second International Conference of the Order of Interbeing held September 30 to October 2, 1996, at Plum Village. More than 100 core community members from Australia, New Zealand, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Canada, the…
Work as a Path
By Michaël Vassen I decided on a career in international finance. This choice came not from my heart but because I thought it was time to put aside my dreams for a fairer and more equal world, and do what I thought society and my family expected of me. However,…
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Training Seminar for Veterans' Workshops In September the Community of Mindful Living sponsored an Evening of Mindfulness with Maxine Hong Kingston in Berkeley to share the fruits of our three-year "Mindfulness and Writing Workshops for Veterans of War." Maxine presented ways our experiences might serve as a model for other groups wanting to integrate mindfulness…
Remembering Jim
By Artie Fauss James Tecumseh Fauss grew up in the great San Joaquin Valley of California, where winters are cold and gray with Tule fog and summers blaze with temperatures of more than 100 degrees. His father and mother, Harold and Fern, owned a dairy farm before moving to Ceres, California. Jim learning the plumbing…