Who Is That Person Who Can Stay Calm?
A book I have enjoyed is Happiness by Thich Nhat Hanh. I’ve liked it so much I give it to friends for their happiness! In the book, Thầy shares various gathas, verses one recites to…
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Writing Meditation: A Course Inspired by the Work of Thich Nhat Hanh
“Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child–our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” “I…
How To Replace Your Smart Phone
One morning at Café Osage She told me all about it How she had been so enthralled Totally mesmerized by her Smart Phone It was her life-line Her axis mundi It increased her efficiency It…
When People Leave Town
“All that is dear to me and everyone that I love Are of the nature to change There is no way to escape being separated from them”* Dear Bella Levenshteyn Ultimately, I’m glad when people…
Friday Meditation
Chris and I began by sharing about last night with Sara Rendell. Then, after meditation and a reading on Dipa Ma, we drew mindfulness cards from Thich Nhat Hanh. Mine read: “There are thousands of…
January 1997 Notes on Thây’s “Cultivating the Mind of Love”
Thich Nhat Hanh. Cultivating the Mind of Love: The Practice of Looking Deeply in the Mayahana Buddhist Tradition. “The best way to touch the Buddha — not to look for a person, a non-person, a…
Beautiful
6:00 a.m. Already 88 degrees Dear Bella In Spiritual Practice class yesterday I asked the students to make a list Of their ordinary daily activities They took a few minutes And came up with a…
Insertion
Wherever you have refugees, you have vultures who feed off them. –Kuan Ying, quoted in Lady Borton, Sensing the Enemy: An American Woman among the Boat People of Vietnam [101] Three worlds collide in this…
Saigon, U.S.A (Plus C’est la Même Chose)
…what Americans need to face is that these horrors are in fact being perpetrated with American assent, by a government kept in power solely by American military might, by men paid for by American dollars,…
Mark Chmiel is Made of Non-Mark Chmiel Elements
Thich Nhat Hanh teaches out of the Buddhist tradition: There is no separate self capable of existing on its own One thing is connected to so much else The sheet of paper is made of…