Photos / Rose ceremony 2021
On 8 August 2021, the Rose Ceremony was organized at Plum Village in France. The tradition of wearing roses to remember the kindness and love of our parents started in Plum Village during the Summer Retreat in 1983.
Articles
Sangha Building / Pilgrimage of gratitude – A Tour of Our Neighbors
Three monastic brothers from Plum Village Monastery in France undertook a pilgrimage to visit Sanghas on foot.
Happy Farm of Lower Hamlet is Recruiting for 2022
We are looking for a new team for the “Happy Farm” of Lower Hamlet for the year 2022! The Happy Farm is a place where we grow food for the community and practice mindfulness together. The Happy Farm is a regenerative agriculture and permaculture project. We explore what it...
Join us for a Rose Ceremony – A Celebration of our Parents
What do our parents mean to us? Can we see our parents’ presence in ourselves today? What role has their love, their presence, and their absence played in our lives? Join us for a Rose Ceremony, 8 Aug, 3pm, live streamed from Plum Village.
Looking Deeply / Tangerine of Mindfulness
This is a story that Siddhartha Gautama, popularly known as the Buddha, told the first time to children when he had just founded a Great Way, the Path of Awareness. Please enjoy an excerpt of it from the book Old Path White Cloud. Siddhartha quietly gestured for the children...
Photos / Plum Village in the past week
Sangha life is very vivid with many activities. During the past week, there was a Sikshamana precept transmission, a path renovated by monastic brothers and an online mindfulness day for families of monastics. We would like to share with you some photos of these events. Sikshamana Transmission Ceremony In Buddhist tradition,...
Looking Deeply / The Miraculous Leaves
In this letter to children from 1987, Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) recounts a story about really appreciating the beauty in natural objects like leaves and pebbles.
Practices for Children , Survival Kits / Mindfulness Practices for Children
During a typical summer, Plum Village hosts hundreds of families that come with their children to practice mindfulness. We invite you to enjoy a selection of Plum Village practices created especially for children.
Photos / Online Retreats in May & June 2021
In May and June, Plum Village had three online retreats with a lot of joy, happiness and transformation.
Learning to Love My Suffering
Brother Pham Hanh shares his personal story of healing burnout and trauma.
Retreats / At the Foot of the Mountain – the Long-term Lay Retreat 2021
Lily Tolat offers us an account of the recent retreat for lay long term residents of Plum Village, France.
Photos / Joyfully working together
In Plum Village, France, we have three hamlets – Upper Hamlet for brothers, Lower Hamlet and New Hamlet for sisters. Each hamlet is beautiful and spacious. In order to keep the hamlet beautiful and tidy, we gather once a month at a hamlet for a day community work where...
How To / Begin Anew
Beginning Anew is a key Plum Village practice for maintaining healthy relationships and healing difficult relationships. We are happy to offer you a short video explaining Beginning Anew.
Survival Kits / Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living
We offer you some short verses or gathas to print at home to support your mindfulness practice.
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.
“Thanh Thuy’s Apple Juice” – Reading from “The Sun My Heart”
We would like to invite you to listen to “Thanh Thuy’s Apple juice”, a lovely story written by Thich Nhat Hanh in the book “The Sun My Heart”. This reading can be like a friend that is there for you as you are on the bus or subway, when...
Retreats / “Action from the Heart”: A Diary
Action From The Heart was a Plum Village online retreat for activists which took place in February this year. Andrew Rock, who attended the retreat, keeps a diary of events and shares his highlights with us.
Songs / Singing with young people – Wake Up Earth retreat 2021
Let us enjoy the singing meditation offered by Plum Village sisters and brother in the Wake Up Earth retreat in May 2021. We hope the energy of joy in singing nourishes the young people and also helps you in practicing mindful singing. Go to Plum Village songs here.
Photos / Sharing with India
On 26 May, 2021 Plum Village community celebrated Vesak day with the various Plum Village sanghas in India and the Ahimsa Foundation (an organization founded to represent our teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and his practice communities in India). Due to the serious state of COVID-19 in India, people in India...
Updates from India – Celebrating Vesak in a Time of Suffering
On this evening we had a chance to hear firsthand the suffering that many have endured during the pandemic and watch it unfold into an evening of gratitude and joy of being alive in the present moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh on... / Peace between Palestinians and Israelis
At a 2003 retreat in Plum Village for Palestinians and Israelis, Thich Nhat Hanh offered insights into the situation in the Middle East based on Buddhist teachings as well as his own experience of war in Vietnam.
Photos / Vesak Day 2021
On the 26 of May, Plum Village centers around the world organized ceremonies to celebrate Vesak day. On this day we commemorate the birth of Prince Siddhartha, his enlightenment when he became known as Gautama Buddha, and his death known as parinirvana.
Thich Nhat Hanh on... / The Mind as a Gardener
In this extract from Understanding Our Mind, Thich Nhat Hanh explains how our "Mind Conciousness" acts as a gardener to cultivate postive or negatives states of mind.
The Divided Brain: A dialogue with Dr Iain McGilchrist
During the 2020 Online Retreat, Understanding the Mind, Brother Phap Linh and Dr. Liam Kavanagh hosted a disucssion with psychaitrist and writer Dr. Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary, whose work focuses on the divide between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
Mindfulness – Walking with Jesus and Buddha by Sister Annabel
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book 'Mindfulness - Walking with Jesus and Buddha' by Sr Anabel Laity (also known as Sr Chan Duc).
Photos / The first online 14 Mindfulness Trainings Transmission Ceremony
For the first time in Plum Village history the 14 Mindfulness Trainings Transmission ceremony was held online on the 2nd of May in the year 2021.
Sangha Building / Tending the Fire
Brother Phap Bieu reflects on how a Plum Village community or Sangha can continue to keep our spiritual tradition alive, stay true to the essence of the teachings and also be adaptable and flexible to the needs of the times.
Photos / Francophone Retreat
The francophone retreat, organized every year for over 20 years, has always been an opportunity to bring together the lay francophone community in a warm and joyful atmosphere. Last year, for the first time in 20 years, Plum Village was unable to hold this annual “family reunion”. At the end...
Happy Farms / Reverence for the land
An interview with Mick Mc Evoy, manager of the Upper Hamlet Happy Farm, about the challenges of bringing mindfulness to farming, the magic of growing your own food and future plans for ecological healing through rewilding.
Updates / Thich Nhat Hanh’s Books and Calligraphies on show in Vietnam
In March and April of 2021, there were two exhibitions of Thich Nhat Hanh’s books and calligraphies in Ho Chi Minh City and Ha Noi Vietnam.