Dharma Talks / Embracing Suffering – The Chant Namo Avalokiteshvaraya

This talk was given at Deer Park Monastery at the start of the annual 90-Day Retreat.

Br Phap Dung teaches on community living and reverence in our life and in our practice. Br Phap Dung encourages us to give 100% of our being to the practice, much like a newly ordained novice. The Plum Village community is a community of resistance, a radical, non-violent, 2,500...

Br. Minh Hy invites us to connect to great ancestral teachers who played a very important role in Thầy’s journey of renewing Buddhism. Inspired by their example, we can improve and refine our own practice, with faith and perseverance. We can make their practice come to life as we...

Sister Thuận Nghiêm (Sister Harmony) takes us along her life-long journey of transforming her way of thinking and speaking with the practice. She shares many true stories about the importance of checking our perceptions and speaking more humbly and lovingly. The impact of our speech is immediate and wide....

“Do not abandon your aspiration too early!” Through her own experience of fearlessness, hope, compassion, anger, and despair during the war in Vietnam, Sr. Chân Không shares how she transformed unwholesome seeds through mindfulness practices in our Plum Village tradition. Touching on difficult topics such as suicide, alcoholism and...