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Happiness Is Not an Individual Matter
By Mathilde Pieneman One morning I was walking with Peter, a thirteen-year-old boy when a man on a bike rode past us. Peter pointed his fingers like a gun at the man. "Why did you do that?" I asked him. He replied, "Just because." I explained to Peter that this simple, unfriendly gesture might have…
A Happy Guinea Pig
By Beverly Alexander I have had the pleasure both of owning a guinea pig and of being one. Greg Ascue, Jim Needles, and I were among the first to participate in a formal, year-long Order of Interbeing aspirant training program. As part of our commitment, we all trained and acted as Doans (meditation hall…
Communal Pursuit of Happiness
By Allan Hunt Badiner The third of the Five Awarenesses: We are aware that our joy, peace, freedom, and harmony are the joy, peace, freedom, and harmony of our ancestors, our children, and their children. The first thing I do when I return home is pick up my baby daughter, India, and hold her…
Pain, Love, and Happiness
By Khanh Le Van The University of California at Santa Barbara campus was huge. "Wait till you see the gym," said my Dharma brother Arnie. Indeed, for the next five days we 1,300 retreatants would sit together in that gym for meditation and Dharma talks. A team beaded by Wendy Johnson was busy arranging the…
The Path of Happiness: The Mindfulness Trainings
The Five Mindfulness Trainings represent the Buddhist vision for a global spirituality and ethic. They are a concrete expression of the Buddha’s teachings on the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path, the path of right understanding and true love, leading to healing, transformation, and happiness for ourselves and…
Happiness Is a Dry Tea Towel
By Terri West I am writing on a Plum Village-ish morning. I was up before 5:00 a.m., though it was my partner's snoring that woke me, rather than the celestial sound of the great bell in Lower Hamlet. I tried to practice "Listen, Listen. This wonderful sound brings me back to my true home," which…
Mindfulness in the Garden (2025)
This 2025 edition of Mindfulness in the Garden is available as a beautiful paperback or ebook. It features a new afterword by Mick McEvoy, manager of Plum Village Happy Farm in France. Mindfulness in the Garden offers simple mindfulness verses (gathas) composed to connect the mind and body and to…
Mindfulness Born Peace and Happiness
A Way of Well-Being By Chan Phap Kham Plum Village Hong Kong (PVHK) was established in November 2008 as a religious, educational, and charitable organization with the official name The Plum Village Foundation Hong Kong Ltd. In February 2009, we opened the At Ease Mindfulness Practice Center in a small…
Happy Farmers Change the World
Calligraphies are a “bell of mindfulness” for the viewer, reminding us to arrive in the here and now, and touch the wonders of life.