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(Class #17) The Third Noble Truth can be called the truth of happiness.
Dear friends, In tonight’s class Thay Phap Luu will discuss the 17th tenet. The 17th Tenet “The Third Noble Truth can be called the truth of happiness.” This class is based on a book written by our teacher called “Làng Mai nhìn núi Thứu” or “Plum Village Looks at...
(Class #16) The Four Noble Truths: Conditioned and Unconditioned
Dear friends, In tonight’s class Thay Phap Luu will discuss the 16th tenet. The 16th Tenet “The Four Noble Truths are all conditioned. The Four Noble Truths are all unconditioned.” This class is based on a book written by our teacher called “Làng Mai nhìn núi Thứu” or “Plum...
(Class #15) Recognizing Conditions of Happiness
Dear friends, In tonight’s class Thay Phap Luu will discuss the 15th tenet. In addition, Thay responds to questions that have come in over the past months we have been doing the class. The 15th Tenet “The awareness of suffering helps us recognize the existing conditions of happiness and...
(Class #14) Mindfulness, Concentration and Insight Include Each Other
Dear friends, In tonight’s class Thay Phap Luu will discuss the 14th tenet: “Mindfulness, concentration and insight include each other. All three have the capacity to bring joy, happiness and liberation.” This class is based on a book written by our teacher called “Làng Mai nhìn núi Thứu” or...
(Class #13) Right Diligence
Dear friends, In tonight’s class Thay Phap Luu will discuss the 13th tenet: “Right diligence is mindfulness trainings (morality, Śīla) and therefore is also mindfulness.” This class is based on a book written by our teacher called “Làng Mai nhìn núi Thứu” or “Plum Village Looks at Vulture’s Peak”...
(Class #12) Precepts are Mindfulness
Dear friends, In tonight’s class Thay Phap Luu will discuss the 12th tenet: “Precepts are mindfulness. (Śīla is smṛti). Precepts and mindful manners are concrete expressions of mindfulness.” This class is based on a book written by our teacher called “Làng Mai nhìn núi Thứu” or “Plum Village Looks...
(Class #10) The Basic Concentrations (Samādhi): Impermanence, No-Self, and Nirvāṇa
Dear friends, In tonight’s class Thay Phap Luu will discuss the 10th tenet: “The basic concentrations (samādhi) are the concentrations on impermanence, no-self, and Nirvāṇa.” This class is based on a book written by our teacher called “Làng Mai nhìn núi Thứu” or “Plum Village Looks at Vulture’s Peak”...
(Class #11) Mindfulness, Concentration, and Insight
Dear friends, In tonight’s class Thay Phap Luu will discuss the 11th tenet: “Mindfulness, concentration and insight are the essential practices that give rise to liberation.” This class is based on a book written by our teacher called “Làng Mai nhìn núi Thứu” or “Plum Village Looks at Vulture’s...
(Class #9) The Three Dharma Seals Are Impermanence, Non-Self and Nirvana
Dear friends, In tonight’s class Thay Phap Luu will discuss the 9th tenet: “The Three Dharma Seals are: impermanence, non-self and nirvāṇa. We can uphold Four Dharma Seals or Five Dharma Seals with one condition: that they include nirvāṇa.” This class is based on a book written by our...
(Class #8) The Concentrations on Emptiness, Signlessness and Aimlessness Help Us to Touch Nirvana
Dear friends, In tonight’s class Thay Phap Luu further discussed the 7th tenet (“Not born means nirvāṇa and it is awakening to the truth of the deathless, the no-coming and no-going, the not the same and not different, the not being and not non-being.”) in light of Nagarjuna’s “Middle...
(Class #7) Not Born Means Nirvana and It Is Awakening to the Truth of the Deathless
Dear friends, In tonight’s class Thay Phap Luu will discuss the 7th tenet: “Not born means nirvāṇa and it is awakening to the truth of the deathless, the no-coming and no-going, the not the same and not different, the not being and not non-being.” This class is based on...
(Class #6) Nirvana Is Not a Phenomenon, but the True Nature of All Phenomena
Dear friends, In tonight’s class Thay Phap Luu will discuss the 6th tenet: “Nirvāṇa is not a phenomenon, but the true nature of all phenomena.” This class is based on a book written by our teacher called “Làng Mai nhìn núi Thứu” or “Plum Village Looks at Vulture’s Peak”...
(Class #5) It Is Possible to Touch Nirvana in the Present Moment
Dear friends, Welcome to a weekly class from Deer Park Monastery on the topic “The 40 Tenets of Plum Village”. This class will take place live on Wednesday nights and will be available to watch on-demand afterwards. This class is based on a book written by our teacher called...
(Class #4) Nirvana Is Nirvana: There Does Not Need to Be a Nirvana With Residue or Without Residue
Dear friends, Welcome to a new weekly class from Deer Park Monastery on the topic “The 40 Tenets of Plum Village”. This class will take place live on Wednesday nights and will be available to watch on-demand afterwards. This class is based on a book written by our teacher...
(Class #3) Nirvana Is the Absence of Ignorance and Afflictions, Not the Absence of the Aggregates
Dear friends, Welcome to a new weekly class from Deer Park Monastery on the topic “The 40 Tenets of Plum Village”. This class will take place live on Wednesday nights and will be available to watch on-demand afterwards. This class is based on a book written by our teacher...
(Class #2) In the Ultimate Dimension, Every Dharma Is an Unconditioned Dharma
Dear friends, Welcome to a new weekly class from Deer Park Monastery on the topic “The 40 Tenets of Plum Village”. This class will take place live on Wednesday nights and will be available to watch on-demand afterwards. This class is based on a book written by our teacher...
(Class #1) Space Is Not an Unconditioned Dharma: It Manifests With Time, Matter and Consciousness
Dear friends, Welcome to a new weekly class from Deer Park Monastery on the topic “The 40 Tenets of Plum Village”. This class will take place live on Wednesday nights and will be available to watch on-demand afterwards. This class is based on a book written by our teacher...
Beyond Words: The Power of Presence (Episode #33)
Welcome to episode 33 of The Way Out Is In: The Zen Art of Living, a podcast series mirroring Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s deep teachings of Buddhist philosophy: a simple yet profound methodology for dealing with our suffering, and for creating more happiness and joy in our lives....
A Photo Slideshow
A beautiful collection of photographs of Plum Village from the 1980s to the present day.
Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness & Plum Village practice (40 Years Retreat #4)
In this fourth Dharma talk of our 40 Years Retreat, “Now We Have a Path: We Have Nothing More to Fear”, Brother Phap Linh shares how we can recognize trauma in ourselves and those around us, as well as how we can care for it and help it to...
“How to be Happy as a River”: The Second Dharma Seal of Plum Village (40 Years Retreat #3)
Have you ever felt a sense of deep belonging to a group with a shared aspiration and way of living? Did you feel safe enough to entrust yourself in that group and flow together in the same direction? How can we “go as a river” in a way that...
“Arrived, Home”: The First Plum Village Dharma Seal (40 Years Retreat #2)
Br. Phap Huu offers his experiences and insights on practicing “I have arrived, I am home”, the First Seal of Plum Village practice. He shares poignant moments by Thay’s side for us to have a taste of Thay’s great wisdom and love. 0:00 Chanting: May the Day be Well...
Sentarse en Paz: Retiro Mindfulness en Español
Join the monastics at Deer Park Monastery, California for a Spanish-Speaking Retreat at the end of July.
“Finding My Path in Life”
Experience a week of monastic life in Lower Hamlet
(women only)
Learn how to still the mind and hear our deepest calling.
Day 13, June 16, 2022 – 5 Mindfulness Trainings Transmission, a Be-In and Farewell
On the last day of the retreat, a five mindfulness trainings transmission was conducted in each hamlet. Dharma sharing families celebrated under the stars at a Be-In in Upper Hamlet and farewells were said as the two week retreat ‘Celebrating the 40 Years of Plum Village’ drew to a...
Transmission of the 14 Mindfulness Training and an Evening Music Meditation (Day 11 continued – June 14, 2022)
In the afternoon, we transmitted the 14 Mindfulness trainings to over 50 lay and monastic members of the community. We welcome these new members into the Order of Interbeing! We were treated to an evening of music, readings, poetry and song, to round up a rich day.
Falling Back in Love with Mother Earth: In Conversation with Thich Nhat Hahn (Episode #32)
Welcome to episode 32 of The Way Out Is In: The Zen Art of Living, a podcast series mirroring Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s deep teachings of Buddhist philosophy: a simple yet profound methodology for dealing with our suffering, and for creating more happiness and joy in our lives. ...
Scattering Thay’s Ashes in Lower Hamlet, Day 11 (June 14, 2022)
Lower Hamlet held a walking meditation to scatter our teacher’s ashes in the Poplar Grove on June 14, 2022. Thay has led many peaceful walking meditations on those paths in the past, and it was a special way to be in his presence and in his footsteps that day.
“Now We Have a Path”: Plum Village Dharma Seals (40 Years Retreat #1)
Do you feel you have found a path that helps you to live with freedom, and without fear? How can we learn to see such a path clearly in every moment, and develop a confidence in it that is unshakeable? In this retreat we celebrate 40 Years of Plum...