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Vegan Mac and Cheese

Ingredients (for 2 persons) 600 ml unsweetened soy milk 1 tablespoon flour 1 tablespoon vegan butter 2 tablespoons tapioca powder 1 broccoli salt & pepper 200 grams of uncooked pasta of your choice 6 tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes (optional ) Recipe Boil a pot of lightly salted water for the broccoli. Cut the florets from

Testimonials from the online Summer Retreats

France – Translated from FrenchDear Thay, dear brothers, dear sisters,Despite fear and world events, this moment of confinement is for me a grace, the opportunity to stop completely and take care of my internal world. For many years I have benefited from the practice of the Plum Village and today I feel that I carry

Interview with Sister Chân Không during Covid time

Nowadays, we would probably call Sister Chân Không a social activist. An encounter, in the middle of the Covid-19 crisis, between Buddha News and a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist nun who for 60 years has been campaigning for social and spiritual change. When you were very young, you worked to help the poorest in the shanty

“Love is The Way” online retreat

Here are some photos of various activities of the “Love is The Way” online retreat on 7th-9th August. Let us recall some memorable moments during these three days. You can enjoy more photos from Plum Village here.

Dealing with Difficult Relationships

In the latest in our "Ask a Zen Master" series our teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh answers three questions about how to wisely be with difficult relationships.

How to deal with illness and death?

To continue our series on Pandemic Practice, we would like to offer this excerpt from a recent interview with Sr Annabel Chân Đức on the topic of dealing with illness.

The Evening Chant

At Plum Village monasteries around the world, we recite this chant directly before our period of silent sitting medtiation in the evening. You can find more Plum Village chants here.

Plum Village in Plum Season

In this season, we harvest plum fruit from our garden every year. We make plum jam by ourselves. The lay friends can taste the handmade plum jam every breakfast while they are here with us. We also have dried plum, the profit from selling it will be offered to children in the poor country. You

Learning to Hug

Our teacher, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, explains how he combined practices from the East and from the West to create "Hugging Meditation".

What Can White People Do?

Sister Tam Muoi (aka Sr. Samadhi) recounts her personal journey with the practice of White Awareness. White people, do something. But what? Please allow me to share some of the journey I’ve been on for the past five years, initially with the aspiration to create more diversity in our Sangha, but soon realizing that there