Save the date! We’ll be having a very special 5-day online retreat for our international Wake Up Community, at the end of May 2021.
Wake Up is an active global community of young mindfulness practitioners, aged 18-35, inspired by the teachings of Zen Master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh. We come together to practice mindfulness in order to take care of ourselves, nourish happiness, and contribute to building a healthier and more compassionate society. We want to help our society which is overloaded with intolerance, discrimination, craving, anger and despair.
The word “budh” in Buddhism means to wake up. If you wake up to the beauties of nature, you are already a buddha. It’s not so difficult to be a buddha, just to keep up your awakening alive all day long.
And to wake up means also to wake up to the suffering in the world, and find ways to bring relief and transform. And that requires a tremendous source of energy. If you have a strong desire in you, that is the kind of energy that will help you to do these two things: to wake up to the beauties of nature and to heal yourself; and to wake up to the suffering of the world and try to help. That is the career of a buddha.
And if you have that source of strength in you, the mind of love, you are a buddha in action.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Registration will open in the new year. Please check back on this page for further information and updates.
