Thich Nhat Hanh's Blog, page 45

Our true home at Christmas

Please enjoy some excerpts on a teaching given by our teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on the Christmas eve of 2012, about finding our true home within.

Fruits from Coming Home

A collection of interviews of our monastic and lay brothers and sisters in Plum Village, France after the 3-month Rains Retreat in 2020.

Closing The Rains Retreat Ceremony

On the morning of December 15, 2020, the Plum Village fourfold sangha gathered at the Still Water Meditation Hall in the Upper Hamlet in France for the Pavarana ceremony to close the Rains Retreat. Following the tradition of the Buddha, each year the monastic community has three months when they focus on developing their practices

Christmas Celebration Dec 24th 2020

You are invited to join us for our Christmas celebrations on December 24th at 3:00 pm. Christmas is a precious opportunity to be together, to be touched by love, to see the beauty of the our interconnectedness, and to generate peace and joy together.

Christmas Celebration 2020

You are invited to join us for our Christmas celebrations on December 24th at 3:00 pm. Christmas is a precious opportunity to be together, to be touched by love, to see the beauty of the our interconnectedness, and to generate peace and joy together.

Upper Hamlet in the Rains Retreat 2020

Our brothers in Upper Hamlet, harvest the fruits of deep practice during the rains retreat of 2020. Please enjoy this short video of a taste of their daily lives and of their practice during the 2020 rains retreat.

The Practice and Fruits of the Rains Retreat 2020

Our brothers in Upper Hamlet, harvest the fruits of deep practice during the rains retreat of 2020. Please enjoy this short video of a taste of their daily lives and of their practice during the 2020 rains retreat.

An invitation and an ask for help

We share an important message from the Plum Village fundraising team and an invitation to join us on Christmas Eve.

Cultivate presence, stability, and clarity

We hope you will enjoy this synopsis of a teaching offered by Brother Pháp Dung during an online retreat in October of 2020.

Moments of Joy

The first full-length collection of poems from contemplative Buddhist nun Sister Jina van Hengel (also known as Sr Dieu Ngheim), each short verse radiates the energy of a single moment of awareness. Living simply and practicing deeply for many years in the French countryside, Sister Jina is one of Plum Village’s most beloved senior Dharma teachers, known for her embodiment of the teachings, her warmth of character, and her Zen poetry.