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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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Rains Retreat 2021: Gems of the Plum Village Tradition
Plum Village France
90 days to explore the roots of Thich Nhat Hanh’s sutra translations, teachings and practices
Peace in Oneself, Peace in the World
Stream Entering Monastery
We invite you to 3 days of practice online together with the sisters of Stream Entering Monastery in Australia.
What is happening
Sharings from the Heart
Survival Kits / Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living (Part 2)
Enjoy more mindfulness practice poems (gathas) to help you bring calm and peace into your daily life.
Recent Dharma Media
I am a cloud (Instrumental)
We would like to invite you to enjoy an instrumental version of “I am a cloud” played by Plum Village monastics.
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
Upcoming Online Events 21 items
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.
In September, the Meditation Focus is Satipatthana- 3rd Establishment of Mindfulness- Observing the Mind and the Key Sutra is Four Establishments of Mindfulness.
You may like to follow the Compassionate Ocean Sangha website or Facebook page.
You can join through this Zoom link.
Meeting ID: 981 6914 4405
Passcode: breathe
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The Discourse on Youth and Happiness
This talk, the first in our Rains Retreat, was offered by Brother Phap Huu from the New Hamlet of Plum Village, France.
Br Pháp Hữu
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The Spirit of a Rains Retreat
Brother Phap Huu introduces the 2021 Rains Retreat: Gems of the Plum Village Tradition.
Br Pháp Hữu
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
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
Dharma Media
I am a cloud (Instrumental)
We would like to invite you to enjoy an instrumental version of “I am a cloud” played by Plum Village monastics.
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.
Discover more Dharma Talks in our Library or our Listen podcast.