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In this Dharma Talk, Brother Phap Lai shares his experience and insights on the different Buddhist teachings on power. First, Brother Phap Lai looks at the teaching on the Three Powers: Love, Understanding, and Cutting Through Afflictions. How can we have the power to love ourselves? Can we begin...
Book excerpt from “The Sun My Heart” by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by Br. Phap Lai.
How do we let go? Why can the process of letting to be so painful? With reference to his own experiences with his family as well as Peter Pan and Groundhog Day, Brother Ngộ Không guides us in using the 5 Remeberances to find freedom. The meditation he mentions...
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...
