Being mindful of the body is a profound—though often overlooked—opportunity to deepen our meditation and develop our insight.
Thich Nhat Hanh: I Am Home
Thich Nhat Hanh’s historic return to Vietnam, where tens of thousands gathered with him to revive Buddhist practice and to heal the wounds of war.
Grandmother Mind
Photo by Lori Semprevio.Parents must attend to the nuts and bolts of their children’s care. But grandmothers, says Susan Moon, can pay attention to the continuity of everything in the background—water, air, stories, and love.
Ishmael Beah’s Long Way Back
Ishmael Beah’s best-selling memoir, A Long Way Gone, tells the terrible story of his life as a child soldier in war-torn Sierra Leone.
Buddhism’s Young Turks
Review of books by young, rebellious Buddhists.
Physician, Know Thyself
Review of How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
Books in Brief September 2007
Books reviewed in September 2007.
Politics of a Still Mind
Perry Garfinkel offers an appreciation of the deep personal realization behind Thich Nhat Hanh’s philosophy of Engaged Buddhism.
Meeting the Chinese in St. Paul: Rhino Hits the Midwest
A season devoted to the koans of the ancient Chinese Masters gave Natalie Goldberg a taste for the stripped-down, naked truth of things.
This Silence is Called Great Joy: A Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
A teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh on the truth beyond our usual truths.