Thich Nhat Hanh's Blog, page 38

Join us for a Rose Ceremony – Celebrating our Parents

What do our parents mean to us? Can we see our parents’ presence in ourselves today? What role has their love, their presence, and their absence played in our lives? Join us for a Rose Ceremony, 8 Aug, 3pm, live streamed from Plum Village.

Join us for a Rose Ceremony

What do our parents mean to us? Can we see our parents’ presence in ourselves today? What role has their love, their presence, and their absence played in our lives? Join us for a Rose Ceremony, 8 Aug, 3pm, live streamed from Plum Village.

Tangerine of Mindfulness

This is a story that Siddhartha Gautama, popularly known as the Buddha, told the first time to children when he had just founded a Great Way, the Path of Awareness. Please enjoy an excerpt of it from the book Old Path White Cloud. Siddhartha quietly gestured for the children to sit back up and he

Plum Village in the past week

The sangha life is very vivid with many activities that the monastic brothers, sisters and lay friends enjoy. During the past week, there was a Siksamana precept transmission, a new staircase built by monastic brothers and an online mindfulness day for families of the monks and nuns. We would like to share with you some nice photos

The Miraculous Leaves

In this letter to children from 1987, Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) recounts a story about really appreciating the beauty in natural objects like leaves and pebbles.

Mindfulness Practices for Children

During a typical summer, Plum Village hosts hundreds of families that come with their children to practice mindfulness. We invite you to enjoy a selection of Plum Village practices created especially for children.

Online Retreats in May & June 2021

In May and June, Plum Village had three online retreats with a lot of joy, happiness and transformation. Thanks to the wholesome collective energy of all the Plum Village monastics and retreatants; The Art of Inner Healing, Wake Up Earth and the Science retreat: Touching Reality brought us together to cultivate more understanding and compassion.Let’s

Learning to Love My Suffering

Brother Pham Hanh shares his personal story of healing burnout and trauma.

At the Foot of the Mountain – the Long-term Lay Retreat 2021

Lily Tolat offers us an account of the recent retreat for lay long term residents of Plum Village, France.

Joyfully working together

In Plum Village, France, we have three hamlets – Upper Hamlet for brothers, Lower Hamlet and New Hamlet for sisters. Each hamlet is beautiful and spacious. In order to keep the hamlet beautiful and tidy, we gather once a month at a hamlet for a day community work where we help our siblings to clean