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Upcoming Online Retreats
While our monasteries are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, we are offering online retreats so that you can immerse yourself in Plum Village mindfulness practice from your own home.
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Touching Reality
Plum Village France
Scientists and Meditators share a need to discover the true nature of reality. We will learn how to connect the ancient wisdom of Buddhism and the most recent discoveries in science to the questions…
Online OI Retreat: True Love in the Presence of Suffering
Blue Cliff Monastery , Deer Park Monastery , Magnolia Grove Monastery
In this retreat OI members and OI aspirants will come together to deepen our understanding, celebrate our diversity, and share the teachings that support us in cultivating true love and building the Beloved Community.
Online Educators Retreat
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Today young people face a complex, challenging future, dealing with climate crisis and social injustice. They face challenges retaining their sense of self worth amidst the forces of relentless advertising and powerful social media. As…
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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Sharings from the Heart
Updates / The Plum Village Shop starts with… Plums!
We are happy to launch an online store to allow people to buy books, bells, calligraphies and other items to support their mindfulness practice. It’s starting slowly though, by selling plums.
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Recite the 14 Mindfulness Trainings in English, Vietnamese, at Plum Village Thailand
Join the monastic Sangha at Plum Village Thailand to recite the 14 Mindfulness Trainings of the Order of Inter-being. Please click on the link five minutes before the session starts at 4:45 AM (Tuesdays local Thai time, GMT+7). Please note, there is no requirement to have received these trainings in order to join this session.
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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
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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
Experiencing The Ordinary As Extraordinary
In this Dharma talk offered on 17th January 2021, Sister Boi Nghiem (Sister True Pearl) teases apart the light and shadow constructs of ‘normality’. By looking deeply at the Vietnamese words, bình thường (normal), we can see the light elements of bình as peace (bình an), calm (bình tĩnh)…
Sr Boi Nghiem
Dharma Media
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
Discover more Dharma Talks in our Library or our Listen podcast.