An Interview with Didier DanthoisBy Barbara Casey during the Hand of the Buddha Retreat in Plum Village in June 2002 Barbara: Didier, how did you create and develop the idea of sacred clowning? Didier: For me the “sacred” added to clowning is a way to celebrate the eternal quality of…
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Who Is The Boss?
Lower Hamlet, Plum Village June 1, 2017 This is the first day of our Mindful and Compassionate Leadership Retreat for Business People. We all have come here because we want to understand or learn something about how to become a mindful and compassionate leader. Maybe this can be best expressed…
Dharma Talk: The Day I Turn Twenty
Dear Sangha, today is the 13th of December 2001. We are in the Dharma Nectar Hall, at the Lower Hamlet, during the winter retreat. The committee, working on the book for the twentieth anniversary of Plum Village has asked me to talk about the history of Plum Village so that…
Deep Ecology
The World We Are By Felipe Viveros, Miranda van Schadewijk, and Bas Bruggeman photos courtesy of Felipe Viveros Look at the flower. Could it possibly exist without the rain, the sun, the soil, the gardener, the minerals or even without your consciousness? It could not exist if only one of…
Education for the Ecological Crisis
A webinar excerpt with Brother Pháp Dung, Bhante Bhikku Buddharakkita, and (Genla) Lobsang Phuntsok, edited by Orlaith O’Sullivan
A Frolic Down the Path of the Buddha
A Buddhist retreat at Plum Village is unlike any other Buddhist retreat (as far as I know). There’s relatively little sitting meditation, which surprises and disappoints some folks. But there are lots of other forms of meditation — in fact the practice of mindfulness means meditating twenty-four hours a day,…
The Path of Transformation
Continuing My Mom’s Dream By Brother True Communion Brother True Communion and his mom visiting Ayutthaya, Thailand My mom visited me for twenty-six days during the 2015 teaching tour of the Plum Village Sangha International Delegation to Thailand. She was extremely happy learning the practice and being surrounded by many…
The Ultimate Dimension
A Practice with Dying and Death By Haven Tobias photo by Grace Sanchez Some friends and I joined in a practice to write about death and dying.* When we shared what we had written, we learned that the following drama was everybody’s worst-case scenario. I am in a nursing home…
Dharma Talk: Be a Real Human Being
I love the smells here. They’re old, been around a long time. I can feel the ancient presence of the native peoples, in the rocks and in the mountains, in the trees and in the river. It makes me very happy to be here in this space. Compassion is very…
Growth in Wake Up Nijmegen
By Manon Wetzels and Reinier de Nooij Nijmegen Snagha The seed for Wake Up Nijmegen germinated during a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh in Papendal, the Netherlands, in the spring of 2009. In a gathering of young people at the retreat, there was fertile soil, plenty of Dharma rain, and…