Thich Nhat Hanh Archives - Bhavana Learning Group

A Wisdom Diet: Daily Reading for Clarity and Care

A colleague sends me an invitation to try a new app. Everyone’s talking about it. The instinct’s quick: sign up, log in, join the stream—don’t fall behind. Before I click accept, I pause.

What part of me is eager here? The part that wants connection? The part that fears being left out? The part that hungers for novelty, distraction, or recognition? Technology, itself, isn’t the issue—it’s how it feeds needs, sometimes at others’ expense.

So, I ask: Does this serve me? If it does, which me does it serve? The one who seeks wisdom or the one who craves noise? The one DOWNLOAD PDF

Summer Reads; Venturing East

In 1999, research and enduring questions pulled me East in study and practice. The turn of the century was for me the turn of a leaf. I kept coming across terms and concepts from the East that better described my experiences. Authors, thinkers, and mentors introduced concepts such as suffering (beyond a diagnosis), unlearning, intention, awareness, nonduality, internal states, emptiness, impermanence, attachment, letting go, commitment, compassion, wisdom, being present, being versus doing — all ideas that motivated my journey East to Buddhism.

Opening to the East

Venturing East — in study and practice — opened me to a fuller understanding of the DOWNLOAD PDF