Our Body Doesn’t Lie a dharma talk by Lisa Gleuck Early on, I’d sit on my zafu and soar freely through space. (At least on a good day.) Lovely wordlessness: no boundaries, no worries, and no stress. The trouble was,…
Statement on Racial Justice
Statement by SnowFlower Sangha on Racial Injustice 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 victims of the confluence of racism and…
Statement on Racial Justice – Updated
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 disproportionate number of people of color in Wisconsin prisons, for over a…
SnowFlower Sun May 2021
A Guided Metta Meditation adapted from Kamala Masters by Mary Michal May I relax my heart and my body. Praise and blame, happiness and suffering, all arise and pass away in the spaciousness of metta and equanimity. Start with yourself.…
SnowFlower Sun April 2021
Growing Compassion, Attention, Presence: the 4th Mindfulness Training From a talk by Walt Keough in 2012 Loving speech and deep listening are broader, wider practices than might first appear. Practice and effort are needed just to become ready to listen…
SnowFlower Sun March 2021
Finding the Positives from a talk by Don Katz-March/April 2013 If, as the Second Mindfulness Training, “True Happiness”, tells us, “we already have more than enough conditions to be happy,” the questions becomes how do we learn to notice the…
SnowFlower Sun February 2021
SEEDS FOR A BOUNDLESS LIFE – Part 1 By Zenkei Blanche Hartman; Excerpts by Susan O’Leary “When we sit in meditation, we can see the tranquil world despite the chaos that is present in and around our lives. The seeds…
SnowFlower Sun January 2021
MY MASTER’S ROBE by Thich Nhat Hanh My monastic ordination at Tu Hieu temple was scheduled for 4:00 o’clock in the morning. The night before, after chanting practice, I saw my teacher (Master Thanh Qui, of Tu Hieu Temple) sitting…
SnowFlower Sun December 2020
Awakening Joy through the Practice of Gratitude from a talk by Mary Michal in January of 2015 I used to think that joy was a feeling that I would either experience or not, and the same with gratitude. I now…
SnowFlower Sun November 2020
Discourse on the Dharma Seal from a talk by Jim Roseberry (Spring, 2013) What is the essence of this discourse in which the Buddha identified the Dharma Seal as the Three Doors of Liberation: emptiness, signlessness, wishlessness. To answer this,…