Hong-An Hisae Matsuda Dear Thay, dear Sangha, At the beginning of the year, our senior editor Brother Phap Luu and I had a nourishing discussion about how some of our international Sangha friends practiced in the midst of political impermanence. This inspired the editorial team to explore how to practice…
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Dharma Talk: Loving the Unlovable
Dear Sangha, today is the 28th of January, 1996. We are in the Lower Hamlet (of Plum Village). It is the Winter Retreat. With us today are friends from the Lotus Bud Sangha in Australia. In France we are in the middle of winter. In Australia it is the middle…
Giving Sanctuary
By Julia Riley Jamie Lorri Houston with Jamie In 2010, I held a hen for the first time. I was attending an event at Animal Acres, a farmed animal sanctuary in Acton, California, when someone placed the little red bird in my arms. The hen felt so light, so delicate,…
Engaging Together for Change
In these past six months, our human family throughout the world...
Dharma Talk: The Day I Turn Twenty
Dear Sangha, today is the 13th of December 2001. We are in the Dharma Nectar Hall, at the Lower Hamlet, during the winter retreat. The committee, working on the book for the twentieth anniversary of Plum Village has asked me to talk about the history of Plum Village so that…
Nonduality and Earth Holding
Members of the Care-Taking Councils of the Earth Holder Community, the Abrazadores de la Tierra, and the Gardien.nes de la Terre share their experiences of nonduality in their daily mindful activism.
Vietnam Journal
When Thich Nhat Hanh left Vietnam in 1966 to teach in the United States, he told his friends that he would be back in three months. Thirty-nine years later, he has finally returned. As Thay said in the letter he wrote to the Sangha before the trip, he left as…
Visiting Ven. Thich Huyen Quang
By One of His Lay Students Following is a report by an elderly Vietnamese woman who recently visited Ven. Thich Huyen Quang, Executive Director of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, currently under house arrest. This report was given to us by Ven. Thich Minh Dung, a disciple of Ven. Thich Huyen Quang. I…
Dharma Talk: Returning Home
I have arrived.I am home,In the hereAnd the now.I feel solid. I feel free.In the ultimateI dwell. It is important for us to return home — to come back to the here and the now — and make peace with ourselves, our society, and those we love. At times we suffer…
America’s Racial Karma
Senior Dharma teacher Larry Ward helps us locate seeds of racial discrimination