Thich Nhat Hanh's Blog, page 8

Peace Begins Here – 2024 Wake Up Retreat

We share photos and the collective energy of peace generated by 700 practitioners from our recent retreat for young people.

Plum Village and Our Art of Saving the Planet

In this article Brother Chân Trời Đức Niệm shares about the 7-week online course “Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet” (ZASP)

Activism as a Vehicle for Awakening

Dharma Teacher Jo-Ann Rosen offers practices for wise activism in alignment with the Engaged Buddhist path.

Summer Opening 2024

We invite you to share in moments from the Summer Opening for families. Over these three weeks, more than 2,000 lay practitioners – including 170 teenagers and 480 children came to live in simplicity, cultivating awareness, understanding, and compassion.

Negative self-perceptions and video games

Thay responds with gentleness and wisdom to heartfelt questions from young practitioners during past annual Summer Opening Retreats.

You Are Enough: Words for Teens

In this sharing for teenagers (and the “forever teens at heart”), Sister Đẳng Nghiêm shows young people how to take care of their body and mind and know their true value amidst the rapid changes of adolescence.

Family Beginning Anew

We are happy to offer you this sharing on the practice of beginning anew for families as we continue our summer opening retreat here in Plum Village France. A 'beautiful, simple yet deep' practice that has the capacity to bring joy & healing to all.

Dharma Stories For Children

As we journey through our annual Summer Opening Retreat we hope you enjoy these Dharma stories for children offered by Br. Phap Dung & Br. Pham Hanh in Upper Hamlet.

Music on Peace

A sharing from the heart exploring music as a pathway to embrace suffering, look beyond the discriminative mind and water seeds of a new world, where every note in our collective song has the conditions to bloom in safety, peace and harmony.

How to Be Engaged without Becoming Entangled

Dr. Larry Ward shares about caring for our traumatic experiences so we can fully arrive where we are needed.