Sister Ocean

Sister Ocean

Sister Ocean is a Canadian nun ordained in the Vietnamese Zen tradition. She lives in the United States, and writes for Buddhistdoor Global about mindfulness practice in daily life. Mindful Living is discontinued but you can continue reading the column articles below.

Healing Means Being Whole

Visiting family in Toronto this week, the news has been dominated by the story of a popular radio show host accused of ongoing harassment and violence

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Look for a Butterfly

Some years after my grandmother died, my mother went to see a psychic to “talk” to her mother. The only thing that I know of

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It’s all About Me…?

Editor’s note: Sister Ocean is a Canadian nun ordained in the Vietnamese Zen tradition. She practices in France and blogs about mindfulness practice in daily

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Making Change

Editor’s note: Sister Ocean is a Canadian nun ordained in the Vietnamese Zen tradition. She practices in France and blogs about mindfulness practice in daily

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Doing Metta on the Road

The first time I heard of metta, the cultivation of loving-kindness taught by the Buddha, was at my first meditation retreat in Ladakh, India. It was

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