by Christine Dawkins During the Vietnam War, Thich Nhat Hanh and the young members of the School of Youth for Social Service braved the mine-laden fields of the embattled countryside to bring food, clothing, building materials and medical supplies to the villagers whose homes and families had been destroyed. Later,…
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Cultivating Family Practice in the Sangha
By Michele Tedesco Two years ago, I presented the community at Plum Village a very special vase of flowers. It took me about fifteen minutes to arrange in front of the community. The whole community was breathing and smiling while I arranged these flowers. But that pot of flowers was quite different from…
Our Cosmic Body
By Thich Nhat Hanh August 24, 2014 European Institute of Applied Buddhism Thich Nhat Hanh, August 2014 photo courtesy of monastic Sangha Dear Sangha, today is the 24th of August 2014. We are on our last day of the retreat “To Understand Is to Love.” Later you will go back to France…
Dharma Talk: Taking the Hand of Suffering
Some days the sky is completely clear, without a single cloud. When we look up, we see the blue sky – very peaceful, very powerful. The blue sky is always there for us. When it rains and storms, clouds cover the sky, but we are confident the blue sky is…
Dharma Talk: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
photo by Paul Davis Dharma Talk at Stonehill College, Massachusetts August 16, 2009 Today is the last day of our five-day retreat. We will speak about the sixteen exercises proposed by the Buddha on mindful breathing. The first four exercises are about practicing with the body. The second set of…
Working Meditation
By Brandon Rennels illustration by Brother Phap Ban The first time I stepped into a monastery was the fall of 2011 at Deer Park in California. I arrived on a sunny September afternoon, and vividly remember scanning the retreat schedule on the bulletin board and seeing many practices I was…
On the Way Home (part 4)
By Sister Annabel,True Virtue Sister Annabel has been a disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh since 1986; this is the fourth installment in her autobiography. Walking and Relaxing Plum Village emphasizes two aspects of the practice that Buddha Shakyamuni taught 2,500 years ago and that the descendants of the Buddha…
The Joy of Forgiveness
Order of Interbeing member Jane Ellen Combelic shares her journey of healing her ancestral relationships through interbeing.
The Flooded Labyrinth
In No Mud No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh writes...
The Art of Transforming Suffering: Part One
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Dharma talk “The Art of Transforming Suffering” talks about signlessness and developing Right View