Students of Thich Nhat Hanh and practicing the Plum Village Tradition
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The Fertile Soil of Ireland
Setting my feet on the Path of the 14 Mindfulness Trainings standing on the fertile soil of Ireland. Winter storm, Into the sea, Snow dissolves silently. In the Plum Village tradition there are wonderful, mindful paths of practice laid out for lay people. These are the Two Promises for children, the 5 Mindfulness Trainings for […]
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Order of Interbeing Aspirant Application
After announcing your intention of aspiration, as per the Charter of the Order of Interbeing, the form linked below implement the Aspirancy process. An Aspirant to the Core Community of the Order of Interbeing (OI) is on the Bodhisattva path. Bodhisattvas appreciate the help of all teachers and mentors. To promote consistency in mentoring and […]
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Mentoring Qualifications
Mentor qualification in our sangha has a long history of experimentation and evolution. We have arrived at a point where we can now bring all this experimentation and evolution together into a coherent and comprehensive system. Our basic goal in mentoring has always been to to support each other in deepening our practice and strengthening […]
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Pre-Aspirant Checklist
During the past two years, the Dharma Teachers Sangha of North America has been working diligently to produce a more formal application process for Order of Interbeing aspirants. The work is completed (approved 11/07/2012) and the information will be distributed to dharma teachers in the coming month. In managing this web site, a very common question that […]
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Words from a Young OI Member
I was 28 years old when I joined the Order of Interbeing in 2007. I didn’t feel ready at the time to join the OI ranks of brown jackets and not much has changed for me in that regard, I still don’t feel qualified 5 years later, whatever qualified means. And on retreats I still […]
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Being Thây
What are the times when we need to be Thây? How often do we find ourselves in situations for which having Thây Nhat Hanh present with us would be very helpful – situations in which the only Thây present is the Thây within us? Our SammaSankappa Sangha (California Medical Facility State Prison) was approaching its […]
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Gatha for putting on the Brown Jacket
Special thanks to Brian Kimmel for the words that allowed this gatha to manifest Putting on the half robe of the Order, the true colors of my heart shine through. Feeling the fabric against my skin, I connect to our ancestors, who diligently and whole-heartedly worked to bring the teachings into the world. May […]
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Revised Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings – FINAL
Our Teacher released a final revised version of the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings in April 2012 and can be used for both transmissions and recitations. A few edits were made in the last 6-weeks and any previously distributed revision should be discarded and the versions below should be used in their place. They are made available here […]
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Learning from Ordination
The newly ordained order members have been asked to share their ordination experience, and I am happy to do so. But in reality the experience was much less about me than about those around me. My experience was about the Deer Park staff family with whom I worked during the late summer. It was about my blood family […]
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Still Ripening Sangha
Practicing still ripening…in the Circle Garden; in the small meditation hall of Solidity Hamlet; outside the Solidity dining hall, under the Pepper tree; outside the Clarity dining hall. In July 2010, when I formally declared my aspirancy, one of the intentions that I set was to practice regularly with the Still Ripening Sangha at Deer […]