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Acknowledgments

I’D PARTICULARLY LIKE to thank the man identified here as Josef for giving me generous and free permission to write about my experience at Plum Village: “We’ll know it’s only your opinion,” he assured me. I’ve quoted extensively from my notes on Thich N’hat Hanh’s dharma talks, in hopes that they might be as valuable to others as they were, and are, to me: I’m grateful for the privilege of having been there, while others could not be, and feel a responsibility to pass on what I recorded. However, the best source of information on Thay’s teaching remains his own vast and accessible series of books, beginning with The Miracle of Mindfulness, most of them published by Parallax Press.

I’m grateful, also, to my sister Peg Plumbo, my friend Robin Fox, my children, Jude and Julian O’Reilley, and my colleague Bob Miller for reading early versions of the manuscript and offering helpful suggestions. Without Bob’s astute and sensitive emendations, in particular, I would be even more afraid than I am to let this book out of my sight. Thank you, dear friend, for so many years of patient, loving counsel.

I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of grants from the Bush Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the University of St. Thomas, which helped me to live and record the story that’s told here.