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Colors of Compassion — New Retreat DVD by Thich Nhat Hanh

Just a quick note, but this looks really great (assuming any of haven’t seen this already ^_-): Colors of Compassion documents the historic first retreat for people of color led by Zen Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh at Deer Park … Continue reading

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Urgent Update: Bat Nha Monastery

This fresh from Twitter and the Help Bat Nha website: URGENT – PRESS RELEASE 30.09.09 5pm (VN time) Vietnam Government reveals it hand – and turns from eviction to outright persecution It is now clear that the police and government … Continue reading

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“What are you doing?”

I wanted to share with you a passage from I Have Arrived, I Am Home.  It’s really struck a cord with me and deeply affected my daily practice.  It’s from “Awakening My Mind of Love:  Becoming a Monastic” written by … Continue reading

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Get Well Soon, Thầy

Via @thichnhathanh and plumvillage.org, comes news that Thich Nhat Hanh is recovering from a lung infection in the hospital.  All seems OK, but he’ll be in the hospital for a couple of weeks being treated with antibiotics.  For more, please … Continue reading

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Quotes

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself – if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting … Continue reading

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Wonderful Failure

There is a wonderful aspect to the mindfulness trainings: they are actually impossible to keep! To refrain from harming others? What a profound practice! We receive the Five Mindfulness Trainings knowing that by doing so we are opening up to … Continue reading

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Finished

About a week ago, I finally finished Thây Hanh’s The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching. This is a tremendously useful read – I really think that this is definitely one time that the book lives up to the title. When … Continue reading

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Chapter 25

So I’ve been taking my time with Chapter 25 of Thich Nhat Hanh’s The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching, “The Twelve Links of Interdependent Co-Arising.” Dense stuff. I absolutely savour this book – it’s definitely one to read with great … Continue reading

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Thây says …

“Enlightenment is growing all the time.”

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Best Mindfulness Book by Hanh?

In keeping with my current explorations of mindfulness in the everyday, does anyone have a favorite book on mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh? Or another book/source of Dharma that springs to mind as a favorite/something really useful? If anyone has … Continue reading

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