The Five Mindfulness Trainings have their root in the Five Precepts offered by the Buddha. They have been expanded and updated so that they represent a way to bring mindfulness into every area of life. Rather than hard and fast rules, they offer us a framework to reflect on...
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The Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings
The Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings are a modern distillation of the traditional Bodhisattva precepts of Mahayana Buddhism, and were created by Thich Nhat Hanh in Saigon in 1966. Monastics and lay friends who have made a vow in a formal ceremony, to receive, study and observe these fourteen trainings are known as «Members of the Order of...
Mindfulness Apps
The Plum Village App allows us to take Plum Village with us wherever we go. We also suggest other meditation apps which can support our mindfulness practice.
The Organic Happy Farms
Plum Village has started three small, diversified, organic vegetable farms: one in the Upper Hamlet (with the monks and lay men), one in the Lower Hamlet (with the nuns and lay women) and one in the New Hamlet (with the nuns and lay women). You are a gardener, and you have...
The Mindfulness Bell
The Mindfulness Bell is a journal of the art of mindful living. It is an inspiration and teaching resource for those practicing mindfulness in daily life. Each issue features a teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh. Also included are stories and teachings by teachers and students in this lineage, based...
Healing Spring Monastery
Healing Spring Monastery (Monastère de la Source Guérissante), is a new Plum Village practice center that opened its doors in 2018. It is a charming rural refuge, located in Verdelot in the countryside east of Paris. The buildings were once a 19th Century convent.
Thay and the Sangha preparing for Lunar New Year
An update on how our Beloved Teacher is doing as we enjoy preparing for the Lunar New Year.
«Where is Thay?» A Christmas message from Plum Village
A message for our global community for the holiday season.
Thich Nhat Hanh arrives in Thailand
The Thai Plum Village Sangha is delighted that our beloved teacher was strong enough to travel to Thailand from France a week ago, arriving in the early morning on Saturday, December 10.
A Christmas update from San Francisco
Although Thay is unable to recover his speech, he continues to inspire with his spiritual vitality, his strong perseverance, and his immense will that has directed his recovery from the start.
Report on Thay’s progress in San Francisco
We are happy to be able to share that Thay is benefitting from the best of Western, Eastern, conventional, and alternative medical approaches. Thay is receiving acupuncture every day, as well as physical therapy, speech therapy, osteopathy, and neurofeedback, with the support and oversight of a phenomenal team of...
Thay has travelled to San Francisco for treatment
Thay has been able to communicate more clearly a very strong wish to intensify his recovery program. Thay is very determined to do everything possible to recover both his physical movement and speech. After many options were presented to Thay, he made a clear decision to travel to the...
Thay’s recovery continues in Plum Village
We are happy to report that Thay's health has improved greatly since he returned from hospital to his Plum Village Hermitage in early April. Every day Thay has been out in nature, enjoying the blossoms, listening to the birds and resting at the foot of a tree. Thay enjoys...
Thay emerges into wakefulness
In the last three weeks Thay has gradually emerged into wakefulness, and has his eyes open for much of the day, to the point where the doctors can now say that he is no longer in a coma. Thay is able to recognize familiar faces and is very responsive...
Thay’s survival astounds the doctors, but he remains in a coma
Thay continues to surprise the doctors with his strong vital signs and steady, peaceful breathing. They are still amazed that Thay has been able to survive and even to show small signs of progress. A few days ago, one of the doctors shared that "Thay is an enigma",...
Sister Chan Khong
Sister Chan Khong is the first fully-ordained monastic disciple of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, and the director of his humanitarian projects since the 1960’s. Born in 1938 in Ben Tre in Southern Vietnam, Sister Chan Khong began social work in the city slums as a teenager. After meeting...
Thay remains in intensive care
Thay's blood pressure and pulse are stable, he is still breathing on his own, and he is becoming increasingly peaceful. However, in recent days Thay has been sleeping more deeply and communicating less.
Happiness is Now
Thich Nhat Hanh answers questions about good and evil, life and death – and what Buddhism has to offer to the digital generation.
Lack of understanding makes us victims
La Contra’s quick-fire questions to Thich Nhat Hanh on war, peace and being a revolutionary.
Is mindfulness being corrupted by business and finance?
The Zen master discusses his advice for Google and other tech giants on being a force for good in the world.
You have the Buddha in you
An intimate interview during Thich Nhat Hanh’s last Teaching Tour of the United States.
Google seeks out wisdom of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, who’s visiting the Google campus this month, says we need to foster aimlessness rather than seeking to be number one.
The Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh on suffering, hope and good business
An interview given at the EIAB, translated from the German.
Peace and reconciliation are possible if Thai citizens and politicians renew and apply engaged Buddhism in their lives and political activities
An interview on how Buddhism can be renewed to meet the needs of modern society
How a sense of sacred can help sustainable business
Leading spiritual teacher warns that if people cannot save themselves from their own suffering, how can they be expected to worry about the plight of Mother Earth.
Becoming a Monastic
Information on joining the international monastics community either with a lifetime commitment or through the «Five-Year Program». Becoming a Monastic Creating an engaged, international monastic community present all over the world, was one of our teacher Thay’s dearest dreams. Those with a sincere aspiration to cultivate understanding and compassion...
Five-Year Monastic Training
When we train as a monastic we have the opportunity to find the root of our freedom, solidity, joy and happiness, and to help our society. When we ordain and wear the brown robe we learn to cut through our illusions and our afflictions. We learn to transform our...
Thich Nhat Hanh on the Five Mindfulness Trainings
Thich Nhat Hanh tells Andrea Miller that anyone can use the five mindfulness trainings, the Buddhist vision for a global spirituality and ethic, to lead a life of understanding and compassion.
In 100 years there may be no more humans on planet Earth (Part 2)
The acclaimed buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh talks to the Ecologist about the loss of biodiversity and why human vulnerability is not something we should despair about.
In 100 years there may be no more humans on planet Earth (Part 1)
Thich Nhat Hanh explains why you don’t need to be a Buddhist monk to give up an addiction to a high-consumption lifestyle.