Library / Dharma Talks

Sr Dieu Nghiem gives the Christmas Eve talk at Plum Village. She begins the talk by giving a history of the rains retreat during the Buddha’s time and how we have conducted the yearly rains retreat at Plum Village. In the past, the Plum Village rains retreat always encompassed...

Help us caption & translate this video! https://amara.org/v/mPfL/

Help us caption & translate this video! https://amara.org/v/k5RA/

Download the retreat booklet: Help us caption & translate this video! https://amara.org/v/jk60/

Mindfulness is the first factor of enlightenment. If that doesn’t motivate you to practice, what will? Sr Diệu Nghiêm (Jina) explains the seven factors of awakening and their relation to the five hindrances. When we look into what hindrances come up when we practice mindfulness, for example during walking...

In this opening talk of the 2017 Summer Retreat, Sr. Dieu Nghiem invited us to try the magic of uttering six mantras of love, in our own language. These began with: “Darling, I am here for you.” How often are we truly present, in body and in mind, for...

In this opening talk of the Business Retreat, Sr. Dieu Nghiem (Jina) asks the question: Who is really the boss [in our life]? Knowingly or not, we fall into habitual ways of thinking, speaking, and acting. These are influenced by the inclination of our mind, whether positive or negative....

This is the 1st part of the Dharma talk given by Sr. Jina in New Hamlet on 18th December 2016. Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/1rj5/

Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/1FA4/

Offered live by Sr. Jina (Dieu Nghiem), senior Dharma Teacher and former abbess of the Lower Hamlet of Plum Village. Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/Ha1X/

This is the third talk offered at Magnolia Grove Monastery during “The Time is Now” retreat. Sr. Dieu Nghiem shares about practice of cultivating joy and happiness in our mind, through mindfulness of the mind. Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/HIvi/

An excerpt from the New York City Public Talk on September 12, 2015 during the Miracle of Mindfulness Tour. Sr. Jina shares about our spiritual roots.

Public Talk in NYC Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/HFyC/

This Dharma Talk is the teaching given on Saturday 5th September, the final day of the 2015 Miracle of Mindfulness Retreat at Blue Cliff Monastery, New York, as part of the 2015 Miracle of Mindfulness Tour of the USA. Sr Dieu Nghiem presents the final four exercises of the...