Engaged Buddhism

SnowFlower Sun March 2024 From a Dharma talk by Celeste Robins Non-striving is a Buddhist concept. In The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thay tells us: “There is no need ...

SnowFlower Sun July 2024 From a Dharma talk by Susan Schwaab I’d like to start with a quote from an interview with our teacher Thay: “Engaged Buddhism” is ...

Update on Statement by SnowFlower Sangha on Racial Injustice For many SnowFlower members, Thich Nhat Hanh’s Engaged Buddhism is what drew them to this sangha. Aware of the ...

SnowFlower Sun As a sangha practicing in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, SnowFlower Sangha mourns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless other ...

Meet MOSES (Madison Organizing in Strength, Equality and Solidarity) It’s been wonderful to have so many new SnowFlower participants in the last two years! This article is to ...

First Steps on the Journey How SnowFlower Sangha began is discussed in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Friends on the Path, a book that is actually a compilation of essays ...

by Karuna Namenwirth From the windows of the speeding train on the way to Plum Village in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, there were miles and miles ...

We can't breathe! In Buddhist meditation, our breathing is essential. Anapana, meditation on the breath, was the Buddha's first meditation instruction and the basis for all further meditative ...

The Coming Home Project (CHP) offers programs that serve incarcerated individuals or persons recently released from prison.  SnowFlower members volunteering in CHP frequently become deeply committed to this ...

by Curt Pawlisch In her book, Oceans of Insight, Heather Mann describes how SnowFlower's Earth Holders Project began in early 2013 in response to heedless and rapacious mining, both ...