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2025-26 Rains Retreat Opening Ceremony

On October 23, we formally opened the Plum Village Monastery Rains Retreat with the Face-to-Face Ceremony (Ceremony of Refuge) in Upper Hamlet with 249 practitioners (159 monastics and 90 lay friends), committing to practice dwelling peacefully together for 90 days.

How to Dream

In this new book How to Dream, Thich Nhat Hanh invites us to nurture the fire in our hearts — to dream deeply, and to bring those dreams into reality through mindful, compassionate action.

Walking with Thay in Hiroshima

Eighty years after Hiroshima, Sister Chân Trai Nghiêm reflects on walking through the city with Thay, and on how its deep scars can awaken a collective vow to cultivate peace for generations to come.

Photos / Wake Up Retreat 2025 ~ The Power of Love

From 9 -16 August, 2025, Plum Village hosted our annual Wake Up Retreat for young people aged 18 -35. We welcomed over 800 participants from around the world who gathered together to live simply in nature to heal and restore ourselves and to transform some of our despair, anxiety,...

Joanna Macy Tribute

With deep gratitude for the life, teachings, and continuation of Joanna Macy, we offer a selection of excerpts from World as Lover, World as Self in honor of her profound legacy. A life devoted to collective awakening, compassionate action, and service to life.

How to Transform Violence and Fear

In this article, we explore the first part of an in-depth commentary on the Discourse on Transforming Violence and Fear, which Thay offered through four Dharma talks in Vietnamese during the 2009–2010 Rains Retreat.

Love Letter to Myself

Plum Village recently hosted a "Nourishing our Roots - Young Asians in the West" retreat in which one of the workshops was the challenge of writing Love Letters to Oneself. Here two retreatants share their hearfelt letters.

Calm in the Storm & Live Podcast

In this article, we share an introductory excerpt from the new book Calm in the Storm by Br. Phap Huu and Jo Confino — a timely Zen guide for those seeking emotional stability, self-compassion, and inner peace in an anxious, perfection-driven world.

Stepping Into an Adventure

In this nourishing article, Teen Programme volunteer Géraldine M shares about her summer adventure—stepping into a garden of amazing encounters, joyful transformation, and beautifully blooming flowers.

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What is Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh January 15, 2020

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