I’ve been doing more reading on mindfulness and three models that it is used in- Acceptance Commitment Therapy which I’m going to do a short course on, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Stress Reduction Therapy. I also bought a book The Mindful Way through Depression which complements what I was taught by Thich Nhat Hanh. [...]

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I have been dreaming of going back to Vietnam recently, always to return to temples. The most recent dream had a Buddhist nun talking to me saying that the answers to my questions lay within. This had a pretty deep and profound impact on me.I have been reading the latest Thich Nhat Hanh book titled [...]

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The saddest thing happened the other day. my friend huu tran’s baby passed away suddenly. his wife lucy is having trouble accepting it, during the funeral she sang to the baby’s body and asked us to wake Vin up because he wasn’t listening to mummy anymore.This is a poem for Vin
Small clamped fistLike a budded [...]

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