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Upcoming Retreats
Below you can find our upcoming in-person and online retreats hosted by Plum Village monasteries around the world. Please note, that Plum Village Monastery, France remains physically closed to visitors due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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How to Grieve
Plum Village France
How can we find meaning, peace, and orientation for our lives in times of change? Whether it’s our personal journey of grieving, or our grieving for the losses sustained by our planet Earth, in…
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Maison de l’Inspir , Healing Spring Monastery
We invite you to 4 days of practice online together with the monks of Healing Spring Monastery and the nuns of La Maison de l’Inspir.
What is happening
Sharings from the Heart
Photos / 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…
Recent Dharma Media
The Firefly and the Monk (story for children)
This is a story about the meeting between a monk and a firefly in Deer Park, California.
Br Pham Hanh
“The Sun My Heart”
We would like to invite you to enjoy a reading from book “The Sun My Heart” by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by Br. Phap Lai, Piano by Bao Tich Nguyen.
Upcoming Online Events 28 items
The 40 Tenets of Plum Village in English, at Deer Park Monastery
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Welcome to a new weekly class from Deer Park Monastery on the topic “The 40 Tenets of Plum Village”. This class is offered by Br Phap Luu (Br Stream) and will take place live on Wednesday nights at 19:30 PST. It will also be available to watch afterwards on the Deer Park Monastery Youtube channel. This class is based on a book written by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh called “Làng Mai nhìn núi Thứu” or “Plum Village Looks at Vulture’s Peak” (an English translation is currently in progress but not yet available). The book describes the essential characteristics of Plum Village practice and teachings. For an English translation of the tenets themselves, follow this link: https://orderofinterbeing.org/2016/07…
Daily sitting meditation with sisters at Maison de l’inspir in English, French, Vietnamese, at Maison de l’Inspir
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You are welcome to join our sisters at Maison de l’Inspir in Paris in their daily practices of sitting meditation (45′) and touching the Earth (in French).
Practice sessions with Br Phap Hai and the Compassionate Ocean Sangha in English, at Mountain Spring Monastery
Join Br Phap Hai and the Compassionate Ocean Sangha in Sydney, Australia for sessions of sitting meditation and other practices including sutra recitation, sutra class, Touching the Earth, Dharma sharing, Be-in, Mindfulness Trainings recitation, or a collective questions and answers session. You may like to follow the Compassionate Ocean Sangha’s Facebook page.
You can join through this Zoom link.
Meeting ID: 981 6914 4405 Passcode: breathe
Practice sessions with Br Phap Hai and the Compassionate Ocean Sangha in English, at Mountain Spring Monastery
Join Br Phap Hai and the Compassionate Ocean Sangha in Sydney, Australia for sessions of sitting meditation and other practices including sutra recitation, sutra class, Touching the Earth, Dharma sharing, Be-in, Mindfulness Trainings recitation, or a collective questions and answers session. You may like to follow the Compassionate Ocean Sangha’s Facebook page.
You can join through this Zoom link.
Meeting ID: 981 6914 4405 Passcode: breathe
Weekly online meditation practice with Magnolia Grove Monastery Brothers and Sisters in English, at Magnolia Grove Monastery
You are invited to join us on Zoom for our weekly online meditation practice session.
The program will be as follows (subject to change), starting at 16:00CST:
– 5′ introduction
– 15′ guided meditation,
– 30′ Dharma talk
– 45′ Questions and Answers
Newcomers welcome. No previous experience with meditation required.
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://plumvillage.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtduqgpj4vH9eJOnZMvwMbpHLuF75-Pt2P
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. We look forward to seeing you there!
What to Wear
Please wear casual and modest clothing that is comfortable for sitting (i.e. long sleeve shirt (shirt covering shoulders), long pants (below the knees), loose fitting clothes…).
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An Offering of the Heart: Transmission, Continuation, Aspiration
What are we made of? What do we transmit to the future, and to the world? How do we connect to our ancestors, understand them, and see how we continue them? How can we practice, so that our practice is an “offering of the heart”? Sister Đào Nghiêm offers…
Sr Đào Nghiêm
Dharma Talks View All
Cultivating Kindness, Building Community
What does it feel like to receive kindness, from a loved one or even a stranger? What does it mean to have kindness in our own heart, and to be a true friend to ourselves and others? How can we cultivate these qualities, to help build a kind community…
Br Pháp Hữu
The Art of Letting Go
How do we let go? Why can the process of letting to be so painful? With reference to his own experiences with his family as well as Peter Pan and Groundhog Day, Brother Ngộ Không guides us in using the 5 Remeberances to find freedom. The meditation he mentions…
Br Ngo Khong
The Birds are Still Singing
As we come in touch with the newly blooming flowers and the rising bird-song of Spring, Sr. Từ Nghiêm guides us in inquiring: how may we offer Spring cleaning and renewal to our body, and to our mind? In this warm and image-rich talk, our elder sister shares practical…
Sr Từ Nghiêm
“A la Carte” Dharma Talk
A talk from 7 March based on questions that people have sent in. Offered for Mountain Spring Monastery in Australia and the Compassionate Ocean Sangha: www.mountainspringmonastery.org, www.compassionateoceansangha.org. You can support this podcast at https://dana.plumvillage.org/
Br Pháp Hải
Dharma Media
The Firefly and the Monk (story for children)
This is a story about the meeting between a monk and a firefly in Deer Park, California.
Br Pham Hanh
“The Sun My Heart”
We would like to invite you to enjoy a reading from book “The Sun My Heart” by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by Br. Phap Lai, Piano by Bao Tich Nguyen.
I have arrived, I am home (Instrumental)
We would like to invite you to enjoy an instrumental version of “I have arrived, I am home” played by Plum Village monastics.
Thanh Thuy’s Apple Juice from The Sun My Heart
Book excerpt from “The Sun My Heart” by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by Br. Phap Lai.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Br Pháp Lai
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