Lower Hamlet, Plum Village June 1, 2017 This is the first day of our Mindful and Compassionate Leadership Retreat for Business People. We all have come here because we want to understand or learn something about how to become a mindful and compassionate leader. Maybe this can be best expressed…
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Dwelling in the Ultimate in North Mississippi
By Steve Black “In the Ultimate I dwell,” Thay says. And turning to the child holding his right hand, he says, “Do you know what the Ultimate is?” Silence. The child looks at Thay. His head is level with Thay’s thigh. He says nothing. Thay gently repeats the question: “Do…
Letters
Many thanks for a wonderful newsletter which has given me so many precious gems of thought and being. With each issue I am challenged and uplifted. Patricia WilliamsSanta Rosa, California I'm reading For a Future To Be Possible and am, as usual, deeply moved by Thay's understanding of human life, current Western life, and…
Dharma Talk: True Happiness
Good morning, dear Sangha, today is the twenty-third of June, 2005 and we are in the Lovingkindness Temple in the New Hamlet. Happiness is a practice. We should distinguish between happiness and excitement, and even joy. Many people in the West, especially in North America, think of excitement as happiness.…
Continuing after Suicide Loss
Brother Peace reflects on losing both his parents to depression, and grief as a beautiful path of awakening.
Caring for the Forest that Cares for Us
By Victoria Rosas Peribán Forest of Interbeing participants. Photos courtesy of Forest of Interbeing The Forest of Interbeing is a cooperation between the international Wake Up movement (young people for a healthy and compassionate society) and the local conservation project DEMATAC (Defenders of the Environment of Los Tuxtlas) in the…
The Sangha Carries Everything
An Interview with Anh-Huong Nguyen Anh-Huong (front row, second from left) leads walking meditation at a Day of Mindfulness at the University of Philadelphia Anh-Huong Nguyen has been practicing mindfulness in the tradition of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh for more than thirty years. She has led mindfulness retreats in…
Letters to the Mindfulness Bell
On my drive home from the Open Way Sangha retreat at Loon Lake, Montana, I stopped in Deer Lodge to stretch and rest from the no-speed-limit limit in Montana. I pulled up nearby the prison and found myself thinking about the people inside, what sort of misdirection, difficult childhood, etc. brought them to such a…
Dharma Talk: Finding Our True Heritage
We all wish to return to a place where we truly belong, where we feel happy and at peace. Most of the time we feel lost, as though we are living in exile. People all over the world feel this way, constantly searching for an abode of happiness and peace.…
Touched by Heart Nectar
Stories from a Joyful Retreat By Lorrie Harrison A friend recently sent a description of what he imagined it was like at Plum Village: “I get a flash of it being like individual bees flowing toward an attractant. The sweet words of Thay and the lovely people and surroundings pull…