Sister Chan Khong on Interbeing, Service, and Our Little Wars

In September I drove to Magnolia Grove Monastery in Batesville, Mississippi, to spend a day at a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh and Zen Buddhist monks and nuns both from this monastery and mindfulness meditation practice center and from Plum Village in France. In many ways this felt long in coming. Years earlier — maybe…

Sister Chan Khong on Wanting to Be Beautiful

“I think that it is the nature of everyone to want to be beautiful. Everyone tries to be beautiful, even the tree, even the flower, even the leaf. We all try to be beautiful. Unfortunately, sometimes we try to be beautiful in our ugly way, and we make people suffer. We make people suffer — the…