Before I came to Plum Village I had been practicing in India with the Tibetans, a meditation called tonglen. In this practice, when you breathe in, you take all the suffering of the world on yourself and when you breathe out, you breathe out all your joy for the sake of the world. I was…
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Wake Up Schools as a Public Health Movement
Orlaith O’Sullivan articulates the vast impact that mindful teachers and students can have on public health.
Listening for Poems
By Mohamed Chakmakchi Gabriel wrote this poem in Kindergarten—a year I took a sabbatical from teaching duties to spend time with him and to work on personal projects. That year was a series of joyful moments that meant the world to me as a dad. No rush, no hurry, just listening…
Heartsong
By Brother Phap Sieu photo by Robert Harrison The most common question we are asked as young monastics is, “Why did you become a monk?” I find that I often answer differently. The responses are all true but vary depending on my experiences that day, or who is asking. This…
Now, Do You Want to Meditate With Me?
By Annie Desmond photo by Dana Read of Firefy Photography Six years ago my husband Tim and I left our jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area to help establish MorningSun Mindfulness Center, a budding Plum Village retreat center and community nestled within the woods, lakes, and college towns of…
Book Reviews
The Dragon Prince: Stories and Legends from Vietnam By Thich Nhat HanhParallax Press, 2007 Reviewed by Emily Whittle “Long ago, when earth and sky were still covered in darkness, a great bird with wings like curtains of night....” Before the end of the first sentence in The Dragon Prince, the…
War, Conflict, and Healing in Belfast
By Bridgeen Rea This talk was presented at the Vesak Conference in Hanoi in May 2008. I first went to Plum Village for a week of the summer retreat in July 2005. Sitting with Thay and the Sangha around the lotus pond in Upper Hamlet—following my first-ever walking meditation—had a…
Learning how to physically and emotionally declutter
Author of Heal Your Living Youheum Son In celebration of the release of Heal Your Living, author Youheum Son sat down to answer some questions around what inspired her to write Heal Your Living, why mental decluttering is just as important as physical decluttering, and what she hopes readers will…
Ordination by Scorpion
By Harriet Kimble Wrye It’s 2:00 a.m. at Deer Park Monastery, and later today, Thich Nhat Hanh will ordain me as a lay member of the Order of Interbeing. I’m lying wide awake on my bunk, not yet sure if I’ll make it. More specifically, not sure if I’ll be…
Peace Talking
By Kim Redemer I left my home in Thailand to come live in California 17 years ago. Although I consider myself to be quite Americanized, I still have plenty of cross-cultural clashes. One afternoon I was browsing in a beautiful flower shop. The entire store was packed with freshly cut flowers, and it looked…