Thich Nhat Hanh's Blog, page 59

Greetings from Healing Spring Monastery (by Br. Phap Lieu)

Thank you, dear friends, Healing Spring Monastery, only 90 km from Paris, opened on the 13th of October, 2018. In the year since then, we have experienced many joys and the inevitable challenges that come with renovating a home. It has been a wonderful time, and we are deeply indebted to you and the many

The ordination of the Gingko Family

The five women and six men, from France, The Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Finland, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Taiwan, together with their relatives, friends, and the whole fourfold community, crowded into the meditation hall of the Upper Hamlet, on October 17, 2019 to celebrate a wonderful day as they embark on this path of healing, transformation, and

Plum Village in the Middle East

Plum Village is dedicated to creating an environment in which healing, understanding, happiness, and peace can blossom and grow. The brothers and sisters of Plum Village have a particular interest in listening to the people of the Middle East and sharing mindful practices with them. As part of this aspiration, in March 2019 Brother Phap

Rains retreat : 4 participants share their experiences

The tradition of an annual 90-day retreat  dates back to the Buddha’s time. Then, monks and nuns spent most of the year traveling from village to village  to teach the Dharma. During the rainy season, travelling was difficult, and they would assemble as a community to study and practice the Dharma, under the Buddha’s guidance.

Reverence is the Nature of our Monastic Vow

Our elder brother, Br Phap Dung, reflects on the role of monasticism in the light of today's society and current ecological crisis.

Today, We See Clearly that There is a Beautiful Path

The newly ordained novices of the Ginko family are interviewed about their lives before and after ordination.

The Happy Farm Experience Week – A week of mindful farming at Plum Village, Lower Hamlet

Happy Farms in Plum Village are a radical experiment in organic farming, community living and mindfulness in action. There are a total of three Happy Farms in Plum Village, one in Upper Hamlet, one in Lower Hamlet and one in New Hamlet. The lay practitioners who volunteer for one year to work on a Happy

True Peace Work

Please enjoy this new anthology of writings from Thich Nhat Hanh, The Dalai Lama, Joanna Macy and many others on how buddhist teachings can help with some of the most pressing issues we are facing today.

How do I look?

This beautiful new design of the Plum Village website went live on Wednesday 9th October 2019. We hope you like it. We’ve taken the color style of Thay’s calligraphies (black ink on white paper) as well as distinctive Plum Village tones (the yellow of sunflowers & our sanghati robes; the brown of the monastic clothes

The New Issue of the Mindfulness Bell: The Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings, Part 2

AUTUMN 2019 ISSUE 82, AVAILABLE EARLY OCTOBER Guest edited by UK Dharma teacher Teri West, this issue shares the fruits of our practice with several of the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings. Bodhisattvas: In a Dharma talk, Thich Nhat Hanh tells us about practicing the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings and what it means to be an Order of