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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...

Plum Village, near Bordeaux in southwest France, is the largest international practice center in the Plum Village tradition, and the first monastic community founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) in the West. Plum Village is where Thay has realised his dream of building a Beloved Community: creating a healthy, nourishing environment...

Plum Village, France is actually composed of three separate monasteries, called “hamlets”. The hamlets are self-contained communities where the monastics and lay practitioners live, eat, practice, work and relax as a spiritual family. All three hamlets come together at least twice a week (on Thursdays and Sundays in the Spring,...

The eleven practice centers and monasteries listed below all practice in the Plum Village tradition and under the direct guidance of Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh. Our centers are open throughout the year, for short or long stays, to learn the art of mindful living. Blue Cliff Monastery, New York Nestled on 80 peaceful...

Plum Village is a Buddhist monastery, where both monastics and lay people train in the art of mindful living. The only permanent residents of our community are nuns and monks, but we offer mindfulness retreats year-round, ranging from one week to as long as three months for the Monastic...

Waking Up As we wake up in the morning and open our eyes we may like to recite the following gatha. Waking up this morning I smileknowing there are 24 brand new hours before me.I vow to live fully in each moment,and look at beings with eyes of compassion....

Thich Nhat Hanh has been a pioneer bringing mindfulness in the West since the early 1970s, developing new ways to apply ancient wisdom to the challenges of modern life. Mindfulness is a kind of energy that we generate when we bring our mind back to our body and get...

The Five Mindfulness Trainings have their root in the Five Precepts offered by the Buddha. They have been expanded and updated so that they represent a way to bring mindfulness into every area of life. Rather than hard and fast rules, they offer us a path to cultivate and...

The Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings are a modern distillation of the traditional Bodhisattva precepts of Mahayana Buddhism, and were created by Thich Nhat Hanh in Saigon in 1966. Monastics and lay friends who have made a vow in a formal ceremony, to receive, study and observe these fourteen trainings are known as “Members of the Order of...

Everyone who comes to practice is a member of the sangha. Even if we come to Plum Village for only one week, our presence and our practice can contribute to the vitality and harmony of the sangha. In society, much of our suffering comes from feeling disconnected from one...

A community of Buddhist practitioners is referred to as a “sangha”.(Sanskrit for inseparable)A sangha can include both monastics and lay practitioners. As the third jewel of Buddhism, Sanghas offer a deep well of support and wisdom. We encourage everyone to join a sangha near you, or participate in activities...

Wake Up Schools supports educators to bring the practices of mindfulness and applied ethics into their own lives so they may be happy and free, and so they may in turn share these practices with colleagues and students in their school communities. With mindfulness teachers and students can experience...

Plum Village has started three small, diversified, organic vegetable farms: one in the Upper Hamlet (with the monks and lay men), one in the Lower Hamlet (with the nuns and lay women) and one in the New Hamlet (with the nuns and lay women). You are a gardener, and you have...

De afgelopen dagen hebben we de live streams vanuit Plum Village in Frankrijk kunnen volgen, waar we hebben kunnen genieten van gezamenlijke meditaties, ceremonies, lezingen en delen. We zijn heel dankbaar voor deze manier van beoefenen en herdenken die we van Thay overgedragen hebben gekregen en die ons helpt...

Biografie in 20 pagina’s 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. Ook beschikbaar: korter verslag van Thich Nhat Hanh’s leven De redacteur geeft de volgende uitleg over namen: Thích Nhất Hạnh...

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....