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Vinh Nghiem Temple - Protecting the Spiritual Path
Taking refuge in Amitabha, maintaining mindfulness in every present moment to open the Pure Land of peace, where the light illuminates our mind. Keep the Bodhi mind firm to break through wrong views, letting afflictions fall away; recite the Buddha’s name with undisturbed one-pointedness, and the nine grades of lotus flowers manifest before us. The poem “Finding Each Other” – written twenty years ago and set to music by musician Anh Viet – is a reminder of the journey of returning to ourselves, watering the seed of the Bodhi mind, and helping others with our own experience. Walking meditation, each step “I have arrived, I am home, in the here, in the now,” makes every mindful step bloom as a lotus of peace.
The Plum Village Sangha operates in a completely democratic way with these main structures:
- The Great Precepts Council decides on the precepts and monastic practices
- The Care Taking Council serves with love
- The Dharma Teacher Council designs the curriculum and responds to invitations to teach
- The method of second body, the Dharma door of shining light, and walking meditation combined with deep listening and loving speech to support each other in transforming suffering. In the four Plum Village monasteries (Phap Van, Son Ha, Cam Lo, Tu Nghiem), more than 250 monastics and 200 lay friends have spent the winter retreat together at Deer Park Monastery (California), manifesting the spirit of harmony and collective practice.
