A Buddhist Bouquet: Selected Offerings for the Plum Village Community
by John Bell
Over the past 30 plus years, as a practitioner, OI member, and Dharma Teacher, I have had the blessing and privilege of creating guided meditations, nurturing various sanghas, offering dharma talks, publishing articles, writing stories about mindful moments, and applying our practices to the suffering of the wider world. I am pleased to share some of these offerings with you in hopes that they are helpful. I am calling it “A Buddhist Bouquet: Selected Offerings for the Plum Village Community.” Unlike my Parallax Press book, Unbroken Wholeness: Six Pathways to the Beloved Community, there is no story line or single theme to these pieces, so you can sample the links and skip around as your interest leads you. Versions of a few of the pieces were included in that book. Please feel free to use and share what is beneficial and blow the rest away with a breath of kindness. Several of the piece below appear on other pages of this website. (Not necessary, but if find value in these resources and you feel so moved, you might like to offer a contribution to Beloved Community Circles/about, a mindful action project I am helping to shepherd.) Thank you.
– with a bow, John. jbellminder@gmail.com
Mindful Stories
You, Me, and Vietnam: A Letter to Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness Practices
A Shared Moment to Moment Meditation Practice
Relational Mindfulness Practices
Beginning Anew with Mother Earth
Caring for a Specific Life Form as a Meditation Practice
Council of All Races- a Practice for White People
Beginning Anew with My White European Ancestors
Call Me By My True Names, about Racial Suffering
Sangha Building
A Six Petal Lotus Flower of Sangha Building
An Elegant Approach to Multiplying Sanghas
Someone Committed to Your Awakening
Order of Interbeing Learning Community. A Complete Guide to a 14-Month Course
Healing White Racism Listening Circles Guidebook
Dharma Talks
Mindfulness and Emotional Healing
Freedom from Separation, Connection to Our True Home
Climate Crisis as a Door of Awakening
Climate Justice Engagement: Two Perspectives, One Path ws
Inclusion and Racial Equity. OI Retreat, 2018, Blue Cliff Monastery
If You Were Not Afraid, What Would You Do for the Healing of the World?
Socially Engaged Mindfulness
A Love Letter of Sorts to the January 6th Insurrectionists
Meeting the Perfect Storm with Clarity and Joy
Developing a Mindful Approach to Climate Justice Work
YouthBuild: An Example of Socially Engaged Practice
What Went Wrong with Men That 12 Million Women Said “#MeToo”?
Ten Practice Areas for Responding to Environmental Suffering