Deer Park Monastery Takes Steps for Mother Earth By Laura Hunter Expressing gratitude to land ancestors during Thanksgiving Day Ancestors’ Offering, Deer Park Monastery; photo by Ron Forster BONG. BONG. Each morning when the temple bell sounds, we rise and walk silently and peacefully through the grounds of Deer Park…
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Mindfulness Garden
By Candace Henshaw-Osias photo by Candace Henshaw-Osias As a child, I was known as the “Barefoot Contessa.” You could always find me outside in the grass, climbing a tree or playing hopscotch, but always barefoot. I hated shoes! I loved the feel of the cool, wet grass, the warm cement,…
Letters
Thank you so much for sending me the Winter/Spring 2007 issue of the Bell, which had my poem “No Windows” inside. I’m in a very difficult state because my mother passed away from cancer on March 3rd. I was devastated and in shock. My mother recently had major surgery to…
A Peace Treaty with the Earth
A new series of earth-touching meditations
Letters from the Editors
photo courtesy of monastic Sangha Dear Thay, dear Sangha, After the 21-Day Retreat in Plum Village last summer, a group of European Wake Up friends gathered for their monthly sessions online. Many were inspired to study the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings. At this moment, several Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings study groups within…
Introduction of Thay
Mrs. Raisa Gorbachev, President Gorbachev, and all the wonderful and distinguished people who are here. Rigoberta Menchu in her keynote address yesterday said that there is a lot of power for good in this room. I know of no conference in the last 35 years that has brought so many extraordinary and accomplished people from…
Sangha News
No Worries Report from the European Institute of Applied Buddhism By Sister Annabel The European Institute of Applied Buddhism, also known as the Ashoka Institute, will celebrate its second anniversary on September 10, 2010. We are enjoying ourselves very much in Germany, where we have favorable conditions for the practice:…
The Dawn
By Webb Batchelor I have been very bitter for many years of my life because of serious disappointments and difficulties. For almost 60 years, it has seemed that pain, fear, and sorrow will go on forever. Yesterday I was in a wretched, miserable state of mind. I saw no escape, no relief, and what…
Mindfulness Practice Centers
In Plum Village we have meditated for more than a year on how to offer mindfulness as a nonsectarian practice that can be applied in schools, hospitals, prisons, and society at large. According to our experience, it is perfectly possible to practice mindfulness in a nonreligious, nonsectarian way investing 100% of ourselves in the present moment.…
Small Is Beautiful
Old Path Sangha Turns Ten! “Building a Sangha is very healing for the world.” - Thich Nhat Hanh On a rainy, cloudy Saturday afternoon in October 2009, friends of Old Path Sangha (OPS) gathered for a Day of Mindfulness and to reflect on a milestone: the tenth anniversary of the…