Tag: blue cliff monastery
750 Kilometres of Nothing to Do and Nowhere to Go
By Brother Dao Hanh
Our journey started many months before we made our first steps on the legendary Appalachian Trail. The preparation consisted of route...
Lessons Learned from Living with Monastics
By Leo Widrich
Have you ever felt like you needed a big reset of your life? Toward the middle of 2017, I found myself in...
How to Be Mindful Around Beautiful Women and Friends Who Don’t...
Brother Bo De: I’m still working with how to maintain your freedom, especially around many beautiful women.
I see that men can have this difficulty....
Organizing a Retreat with Monastics
Interview with Elli Weisbaum
Q: Can you share a bit about the recent Wake Up retreat at Blue Cliff and your experience as a member...
One Year at Blue Cliff Monastery
By Nhu-Mai Nguyen
The following is a letter that I submitted to the monastic sisters as part of my self Shining Light, which is a...
My One Year Residency at Blue Cliff Monastery
How one year at Blue Cliff Monastery opened Thien Kim's heart ten-fold
I could not possibly put one-year of experience living at Blue Cliff Monastery...
Mother Earth
by Brother Phap Man
Mother Earth
Earth Mother.
Womb.
We have never been apart for all of these ages,
and never apart for all these ages to come.
The willow...
Waking Up in the Great Lakes
Waking Up in the Great Lakes
This past fall a group of monastic and lay students of Thich Nhat Hanh offered mindfulness events in cities...
Being Ourselves is the Greatest Gift We Can Offer
On a sunny summer afternoon at Blue Cliff Monastery in New York, our Wake Up Correspondent there sat down with Nhu-Mai Nguyen, musician, meditator, massage...
Six Mantras Remix
Enjoy listening to the Six Mantras Remix from the Children's Program Skit during this past summer retreat at the Blue Cliff Monastery!
The original version...
Wake Up at Blue Cliff Monastery
This month, we'll take a look at how the Wake Up movement is developing at Blue Cliff Monastery in New York.
Sangha of the Month...
Lessons On Healing After Loss
When she left her career as a medical doctor, Sister Dang Nghiem, MD, a Zen Buddhist nun and disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh, learned...
On Becoming a Monk
An interview with the newest member of the Blue Cliff community
Brother Chan Troi Linh Quang (True Sky of Spritual Light) ordained on December 8,...
Waking Up! March 2014 In Review, In Photos
From emotional to inspirational, here are some of the Wake Up events around the world that took place this month.
Wake Up Cork and Wake...
Questions and Answers with Thay
Hey folks, here's two short segments from a Question and Answer session with Thay (questions by young people!) at Blue Cliff Monastery... Enjoy!
Part 1...