Thich Nhat Hanh's dream of an online monastery is becoming a reality: join Plum Village monastics for virtual weekend retreats streamed live from Plum Village, France. Deepen your mindfulness and concentration, interact with the monastics, and connect to our international community.
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Online “Understanding the Mind” Neuroscience Retreat
Our first big online retreat, sharing, learning and practicing with scientists and lay friends. You can enjoy more photos from Plum Village here
Creating Gathas – Mindfulness at Play
Gathas are short practice poems, that help us bring mindfulness, concentration, and insight to daily activities. Sister Giac An offers a selection of Gathas created recenlty in the Lower Hamlet Sutra class.
A Message from Sister Chan Khong
A special message from Sister Chan Khong
What Can We Take From This Moment?
Brother Phap Huu reflects on how we can use this time of global suffering as a moment of transformation. He suggests letting go, treasuring our loved ones, and refocusing our care for the planet.
Invoking the Buddha and Bodhisattvas’ names
We would like to invite you to listen to this chant and cultivate your nature of awakening. “Bodhisattvas are awakened beings. We also have our nature of awakening, no less than they, but we have to train ourselves. One way is to practice invoking the names of four great...
Invoking the Bodhisattvas’ Names
We invoke your name, Avalokiteshvara. We aspire to learn your way of listening in order to help relieve the suffering in the world. You know how to listen in order to understand. We invoke your name in order to practice listening with all our attention and openheartedness. We will...
The Art of Awakened Living
Can we re-imagine a new future? How can we be a sustainable human? In this retreat we will train in mindfulness and concentration to transform habits, heal relationships, and reclaim freedom.
Engaging Together for Change: An Invitation
A lens through which to view and contemplate as we act and participate in the collective awakening in our communities. (Letter from Thay Phap Dung.)
Be Nourished by Mother Nature at Plum Village
We would like to invite you to refresh yourself with the miracles of life and Thay’s poem, “Morning of Peace” which is quoted in the photo captions. You can enjoy more photos from Plum Village here.
“Wake Up” in Your Living Room
There have been lots of adaptations due to COVID-19 and Plum Village has been no exception. Sister Sinh Nghiêm explains how the planned retreat for organisers and facilitators of Plum Village's young adult communities moved online.
Love is the Way
Break free from the illusion of separateness and find a compass to navigate the troubled waters of our time. Discover what love in action can look like, for ourselves, our families, our communities and Mother Earth.
Recommendation & Alone Again (poem & song)
This poem was written by Thich Nhat Hanh during the Vietnam war. His life and the lives of his students were at risk on a daily basis. Yet this poem encourages insight, compassion and forgiveness. We also offer a recording of the song based on the poem.
Join us for special online events this summer
We invite you to come together, to strengthen our collective energy, and deepen our training in the energy of mindfulness. Plum Village will be offering four online retreats this summer, so you can connect to the monastics and so we can learn from each other’s insights and experiences.
Skillful Action for a Path Forward
As part of our series on Racial Justice, we interview US-based Dharma Teacher Valerie Brown. Valerie offers us insight into how we can keep love alive in our hearts as we fight discrimination and injustice and points to some of the concrete actions we can take to make change.
Please Call Me by My True Names (song & poem)
We invite you to listen to Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) read one of his most famous poems. It reflects a deep insight into how we cannot separate ourselves from the world around us, even those who do harm. We also offer a recording of the song based on the...
How to practice when the fires of grief are burning
Our Senior Dharma Teacher Larry Ward offers a message on how to practice with the trauma and anger of this time.
Openness in the face of fanaticism and intolerance
In this extract from the newly published 4th edition of Interbeing, Thich Nhat Hanh offers a commentary on the first of the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings of Engaged Buddhism. This training reminds us to guard against discriminative and dualistic thinking and to avoid becoming bound by any ideology.
The Raft: Plum Village in your inbox
Created by the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation, Plum Village Monastery, Parallax Press, and the Plum Village App team, The Raft is a special weekly series during the pandemic, assembled to nourish and inspire your individual and collective mindfulness practice. Why The Raft? The Buddha compared his teachings to a...
Breathing In, Breathing Out
This classic Plum Village song helps us to enjoy our breathing. When you breathe and visualize a flower, a dewdrop, a mountain, Mother Earth and their qualities like freshness, solidity, spaciousness, you also nourish those elements inside of you.
Working joyfully (photos)
We would like to invite you to enjoy photos of joyful working time with the monastic community. In Plum Village, we prefer to see work as a chance to practice meditation and call it mindful service.
Handling Fear and Discrimination
Brother Phap Huu explains why stopping can be hard and unexpected emotions can surface when we are forced to stay still. He offers insight into how we can respond to our fears as we navigate between lockdown and returning to everyday life. Also, he provides guidance on what to...
On Anger, Sadness and Regrets (video)
Anger, sadness and regrets can all be doorways to peace and beauty, not only for ourselves, but for the people around us, the people of our past and also for those who will come after us.
Being an Island Unto Myself
In Plum Village, we use practice songs to help us cultivate joy and remember to be mindful. This song helps us to remember that we can take refuge in ourselves by using our breathing to come back to a place of calm and stability.
Can we Love and Trust Ourselves? (Video)
Love and trust in ourselves form the basis of a healthy relationship with our inner landscape. Please enjoy three answers that our teacher gives on how we can love and trust ourselves and how to have a 'good' day.
The Budda’s Birthday Vesak Celebration 2020
We invite you to enjoy the Plum Village celebrations of Vesak Day 2020. Traditionally, the monastics organize Vesak celebrations together in one hamlet along with many guests. This year we celebrated it in three hamlets separately due to Covid-19. Vesak is a chance for us to express our respect...
Breathe – A Meditation Journal
Parallax Press has recently released a simple notebook with a Zen aesthetic. This meditative journal features selected excerpts and quotes from Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh’s most-loved teachings, prayers, and poems.