From a talk given in the New Hamlet, Plum Village. Dear Mahasangha, good afternoon. Today is the 9th of December in the year 2001. It seems that the object of mind and the subject are not separate. I could think that I am the subject and Plum Village is the object of my…
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Building a Healthy Sangha #20 Winter 1997 By Jack Lawlor If we reflect on the life story of the Buddha, we see that the Buddha sank deep and broad roots in community, both before and after his enlightenment. His success at Sangha building was phenomenal. He brought together people from every level of a…
To Continue Beautifully
Sangha, Loss, and the Creative Process: An Interview with Susanne Olbrich By Philip Toy Susanne Olbrich Into the nebulous, ongoing mystery of life I welcome, as if through an open door, the continuing spirit of the one I have loved. – Martha Whitmore Hickman During our summer 2010 pilgrimage to…
Social Work in Vietnam
A Report from the Delegation, Winter, 2001 A delegation of ten monastics from Plum Village, Green Mountain Dharma Center and Deer Park Monastery visited Vietnam this past spring. During the trip we were fortunate to spend time with both the social workers and the recipients of the Touching and Helping program. There are thirty-two…
Dharma Talk: The Eightfold Path
The Noble Eightfold Path is made up of Right View, Right Speech, Right Livelihood, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration, Right Thought, Right Action and Right Effort. Right View is the insight that we have within us of the reality of life. Our insight, understanding, wisdom, knowledge, happiness, and the happiness of…
Sharing the secrets for a Mindful Family Circle
Author of The Mindful Family Guidebook Renda Dionne Madrigal, PhD I was excited to chat with clinical psychologist and UCLA-certified mindfulness facilitator Renda Dionne Madrigal. Below she shares some of her favorite mindful family activities, her inspiration for writing, and the impact creating a mindful family unit can have on…
Practicing as a Couple
By Brendan Sillifant My search I have had a deep affinity with the practice of mindfulness since I was a teenager. I had come across it in a variety of forms from different sources. From the Buddhist traditions of Thailand, Japan and Tibet, and from modern self-help psychology also. As a young man I…
How to Instantly Drop Feelings of Shyness, Loneliness, & Separateness
A Dharma Lamp Talk Plum Village November 13, 2004by Annabelle Zinser Often it is specific, concrete suggestions for practice that help us most in our process of transformation. In this section, practitioners, both experienced and beginner, share ways to incorporate a deeper awareness of mindfulness into our daily lives. We…
Dharma Talk: Five Wonderful Precepts
When we think about peace, we usually think about the absence of war
Walking for Peace in Paris
By Christian Bonnin On Saturday, October 21, 2006, Thich Nhat Hanh and the monks and nuns of Plum Village traveled to Paris. Some of them spent the day seeing the sights of the city, guided by members of the Paris Sangha. That evening Thây gave a public talk at the…