New Year’s Eve Dharma Talk 31 December 2005, Lower Hamlet, Plum Village Good afternoon, dear Sangha. In the teachings of Christianity and Judaism there is the Kingdom of God. In Buddhism we speak about Buddha Land, the Buddha Field. You might like to call it the Kingdom of the Buddha.…
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Reflections on the Paris Climate Conference
Plum Village monastics at Saint-Denis Basilica, Paris. Courtesy of monastic Sangha Once again a generation is called to stop, reflect, and take action for the collective, for our common home. The 2015 Paris Climate Conference was an opportunity for our human family to pause and look at the reality of…
Wedding Meditation
By T. Ambrose Desmond On August 28, 2010, surrounded by family and friends on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Annie Millar and I were married. It was an extremely moving experience for us, and a deep teaching. Upon becoming engaged, we had decided to wait a full year before…
Resurrection in the Present Moment
March 23, 2008, Cape Mountain Retreat Center, South Africa Happy Easter to everyone! Easter is the celebration of Christ’s resurrection — resurrection is coming back to life, starting over. We each have a chance to come back to life in every moment. When we come back to our breath, when…
Tender Observations
By Barry Denny The emotional intensity I experienced during one of the group discussions at the Omega Mindfulness Retreat in June 1991 stunned me at first and then led me to reflect on the nature of American Buddhism. Let me describe the incident, as well as some of the feelings and thoughts it generated.…
Wake Up International: Young Buddhists and Non-Buddhists for a Healthy & Compassionate Society
Lewis King shares about the impact that Wake Up has had on his life, and how Wake Up holds space for Engaged Buddhism and inclusiveness.
The Scent of Oranges
By Nancy Hom Note: this article comes from Spoken Like a True Buddha, a compilation of stories about mindfulness practice in everyday life, edited by Carolyn Cleveland Schena and Sharron Mendel. Death, and the notion of aging, has always hung over me like a heavy cloud. I have sought ways…
Schizophrenia and Mindfulness
By Jack Bragen Plum Village Upper Hamlet between storms; photo by David Nelson I am a self-taught meditation practitioner and I also suffer from a disease called schizophrenia. The teachings of Buddha, Thich Nhat Hanh, and others have furnished me with the basic guidelines for my meditative effort. The meditation…
Wishing You a Peaceful Heart
An Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan By Beth Howard Yesterday [May 29, 2007], I read in your online diary that you are leaving Crawford, Texas and going home to California. You wrote, “This is my resignation letter as the ‘face’ of the American anti-war movement.” There is so much energy…
Avant-Garde Dharma
For “People in Sorrow” By Karen Hilsberg and Peter Kuhn photos by Ernestine Lona On October 2, 2011, in downtown Los Angeles at the REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theater), an unusual fusion of jazz legends and the Plum Village Sangha converged. The occasion was the world premiere…