Thich Nhat Hanh to Visit India and Israel Thich Nhat Hanh will be traveling through India in February and March. For information about joining all or part of this journey, please contact Shantum Seth, tel/fax: (91) 11-852-1520, email: shantum@artisan.unv.ernet.in. In May, Thay will lead two weekend retreats at Kibbutz Harel and give public…
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Buddha, Ananda, & Katrina
By Sid Kemp In early September my wife, Kris, spent six days in the Superdome in New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina passed overhead. From early Monday through early Saturday, I had no news from her. I have been a Buddhist practitioner for twenty-five years, and a member of the Order…
No Down Under, No Up Over
By Therese Fitzgerald Arnie Kotler and I arrived in Sydney, Australia, on January 2. When I awoke the next morning at seven, it was already warm. It was summer for sure and nothing would ever be quite the same again. The sun still set in the west and rose in the east, but it…
Becoming a Better Health-Care Provider
By Marilyn Tran illustration by Brother Phap Ban I remember being a fourth-year intern as a naturopathic medical student and seeing my own patients for the first time. No doubt, it was an intimidating experience—if not for others, definitely for me. Of course, the school did their best to make…
Environmental Interbeing
By Thich Nhat Hanh Although we human beings are animals, a part of nature, we single ourselves out from nature, thinking of other animals and living beings as "nature" and acting as if we are not a part of it. Then we ask ourselves, "How should we deal with nature?" The answer is we…
Monastic Practice Centers
The nine practice centers and monasteries listed below all practice in the Plum Village tradition and under the direct guidance of the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh. Our centers are open throughout the year, for short or long stays, to learn the art of mindful living. Blue Cliff Monastery, New YorkDeer Park Monastery, CaliforniaEuropean Institute of…
Happy Rooting!
For some of us Christmas brings up happy memories, for others it brings up either painful ones or no memories at all. Christmas, in and of itself, is neither pleasant nor painful. If we can really see that our perception of Christmas is often based on how we've experienced it in…
Making Friends with Time
By Tracy Sarriugarte and Peggy Rowe Smell the Roses People from a planet without flowers wouldthink we must be mad with joy the whole time tohave such things about us.—Iris Murdoch Beauty from nature is one of my favorite touchstones and it comes in all forms and shapes and sizes-trees, flowers, clouds, and…
Youth Transformation in Urban America
by Jina Jibrin I am currently working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, managing a youth leadership program for black and Latino youth from housing developments in the Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan communities. The Fuerza Leadership Program is a prevention-based, leadership development, and community-organizing program which allows young adults…
Cultivating Balance
Reflections from a Retreat with Law Professionals By Leslie Rawls, Jeanne Anselmo, and Valerie Brown photo by Nicole Dunn What do you get when you bring together sixty lawyers for a weekend mindfulness retreat? LAW – Love in Action With compassion. Our June 2012 law retreat, “Cultivating Balance,” arose from…