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Days of Mindfulness

You are welcome to join us for Days of Mindfulness. These days offer a small taste of Plum Village mindfulness practice. If you are travelling from further afield, we recommend that you stay with us for at least a weeklong retreat, so you can have a complete introduction to...

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Met een diepe, aandachtige ademhaling kondigen we aan dat op 22 januari 2022 Thay, Zen Meester Thich Nhat Hanh, vredig is heengegaan in de Từ Hiếu Tempel in Huế, Vietnam, op 95 jarige leeftijd. Herdenk zijn leven en nalatenschap met ons online in een week van beoefening en ceremonies....

Het heengaan van zuster Lan Nghiem

Lieve spirituele familie, Met grote spijt maken we bekend dat onze lieve Nederlandse zuster, zuster Lan Nghiem vredig is overleden op 69-jarige leeftijd, op 1 december 2020 in Lower Hamlet, Plum Village, Frankrijk. Medio 2020 werd bij haar de diagnose kanker in een vergevorderd stadium gesteld en de laatste...

Practicalities

Arrival and departure Arrival and departure days vary depending on the season. Please arrive before 6pm so you do not miss the first orientation at 7:30pm. To co-create the calm and stable energy of our retreats, please arrive only on the specified Arrival Day. Departure time is between 7am-12 noon on Departure...

Thay’s 92nd Birthday

As we celebrate Thay’s 92nd continuation day on 11th October, we'd like to take this opportunity to share with you how our beloved Teacher has been doing in Thailand.

Sister Chan Khong on Thich Nhat Hanh: He’s Getting Stronger Every Day

Sister Chan Khong brings us up to date on Thich Nhat Hanh’s health and the future of his teachings and community (https://www.lionsroar.com/thich-nhat-hanh-getting-stronger-every-day/). Photo by Paul Davis   Melvin McLeod: Following his stroke three years ago, Thich Nhat Hanh is now resting and recovering at Plum Village in Thailand. How...

Reconciliation

Reconciliation offers specific practices designed to bring healing and release for people suffering from childhood trauma. It focuses on the theme of handling our emotions and healing our relationships, as well as meditations and exercises to acknowledge and transform the hurt that many of us experienced as children. The book...

A Pebble for Your Pocket

Drawn from Thich Nhat Hanh’s Dharma talks given to children people, A Pebble for Your Pocket presents the basic teachings of the Buddha in accessible and modern language. The book is written in a highly accessible style that doesn’t rely on lot of jargon or difficult vocabulary requiring breaks...

Thay’s recovery continues in Plum Village

We are happy to report that Thay's health has improved greatly since he returned from hospital to his Plum Village Hermitage in early April. Every day Thay has been out in nature, enjoying the blossoms, listening to the birds and resting at the foot of a tree. Thay enjoys...

Connecting to Our Root Teacher, the Buddha

Thay wrote this letter in autumn 2014, as his health was weakening. He teaches us how to keep our practice authentic and alive, and see the Buddha not as a God, but as our very own "root teacher", our soul-mate.

Sister Chan Khong

Sister Chan Khong is the first fully-ordained monastic disciple of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, and the director of his humanitarian projects since the 1960’s. Born in 1938 in Ben Tre in Southern Vietnam, Sister Chan Khong began social work in the city slums as a teenager. After meeting...

Sangha Building: our noblest career

In this teaching just before his stroke, Thay emphasises that no studies, ceremonies, or personal enlightenments are more noble than the practice of sangha-building and nurturing collective awakening.

Sample Schedule

A retreat at Plum Village is an opportunity to experience the art of mindful living. We do everything in a spirit of meditation, whether it is walking to the bathroom, washing the dishes, or listening deeply to the sound of the bell. The daily schedule in Plum Village varies...

Bat Nha: The Indestructible Seed of Awakening

Fragrant Source Inner Monastery The last days of 2009 To my Bat Nha children, I know that in these moments, you have to disperse to many places, and you cannot live together to practice as a monastic community anymore, but I trust that my letter will still reach you....

Bat Nha: Magical Sound of the Sitar

Thay is continuing to write a letter to you from the hermitage Thach Lang in Blue Cliff Monastery. It is October 13th, 2009. Thay just came back from New York. In New York, Thay and the Sangha guided two days of practice for over 2000 American practitioners in the...

Bat Nha: Diamond Body

Blue Cliff, October 7th, 2009 To my Bat Nha Children, I write “my Bat Nha children” and not “my children in Bat Nha” as I had done before, because even though you are not living in Bat Nha anymore, you continue to carry the name of the Bat Nha...

A Young Monastic’s Dream

My dear students, near and far, In the Daily Chanting book, there is a chant that I really liked when I was a novice. The prose of this piece is very beautiful, and its content has a great capacity to nourish the aspiration of monastics. Every time the novice...

Thay Misses The Sangha

Dear Friends and Co-practitioners at the Retreat One Buddha is Not Enough, Estes Park, CO. My dear friends, I am writing to you from the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. I know the Sangha has manifested today in Estes Park. I miss the Reterat. I miss the beautiful setting...

I am Home

Velcrow Ripper reports on Thich Nhat Hanh’s historic return to Vietnam, where tens of thousands gathered with him to revive Buddhist practice and to heal the wounds of war.

The Art of Prayer

Upon the publication of his book, “The Energy of Prayer”, Thich Nhat Hanh was asked by Publishers Weekly to answer ten questions about his teachings on prayer.

Update over Thầy in Huế, September 2020

Update, dinsdag 6 oktober: We zijn blij te kunnen bevestigen dat de gezondheid van Thay op dit moment stabiel blijft, dankzij de liefde en de zorg van zijn medisch team en de kloosterlingen. Er is geen onmiddellijke reden tot bezorgdheid. De oudere broeders die vanuit de internationale centra van...

Nothing To It

In Nothing To It, Brother Phap Hai who is an Australian-born senior monk in the Plum Village Tradition, brings his characteristic warmth and humour to explore the many different gates to transformation offered by Buddhism. A gate is a teaching, practice, or way of looking at things. Each gate is...

Het levensverhaal van Thich Nhat Hanh

Zen Meester Thich Nhat Hanh is een wereldwijde spirituele leider, dichter en vredesactivist, bekend om zijn krachtige leerstellingen en populaire geschriften over mindfulness en vrede. Een zachte, bescheiden monnik, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. noemde hem “een apostel van vrede en geweldloosheid” toen hij hem nomineerde voor de Nobelprijs...

Video

Please enjoy talks given by Thich Nhat Hanh and senior Plum Village Dharma Teachers. You can currently find Plum Village talks on our YouTube channel and on the Plum Village app while we work on an improved experience on our website.

Becoming a Monastic

Information on joining the international monastics community either with a lifetime commitment or through the “Five-Year Program”. Becoming a Monastic Creating an engaged, international monastic community present all over the world, was one of our teacher Thay’s dearest dreams.  Those with a sincere aspiration to cultivate understanding and compassion...

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What is Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh January 15, 2020

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