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Working and Playing in Brotherly Love
The Still Water Meditation Hall will be inaugurated on a grand scale after the completion of the landscape garden, with invitations extended to Paris, Waldbröl, and Thay Nguyen Hai, along with a ceremony to express gratitude to the current abbot; next is the grand project of the European Institute of Applied Buddhism, expected to be completed in five years with 400–500 rooms, a large meditation hall, and the World Dharma Propagation Congress, inviting about 300 Dharma teachers from China, Japan, Tibet, Vietnam, and other countries to participate in ten days of conference followed by ten days of visiting Plum Village, with vegetarian cuisine from Europe, Vietnam, and Thailand.
Building brotherhood is considered the main practice: from laying bamboo floors, paving bricks on the paths, to building the online temple and compiling the Complete Vinaya to record experiences in organizing retreats and weekly mindfulness practice, working while maintaining happiness, like insight manifesting with each brick laid—at ease, flowing like a river.
For the technological future, there is a proposal to design a compact iKeeper device, worn on the wrist, with physiological sensors, facial recognition camera, GPS, solar charging, reminders for sitting meditation, walking meditation, rest breaks, regulating emotions (anger, fear, stress), preventing drowsiness while driving, identity recognition, monitoring eating habits, and functions for monastics such as a “second body” to remind walking in pairs.
