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…
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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…
Sangha Building in Hanoi
I am living in Hanoi. Am I dreaming? How has this happened? The answers can, as always, be found in the teachings. This is because that is. Manifestation occurs when conditions are sufficient. The understanding of the answers, however, is found in life, and mine has definitely taken some unexpected…
Being the Practice
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…
A Harmonious World Begins in the Mind
Plum Village Delegation Travels to Buddhist Forum in China In April 2006, four of us, Brother Phap Ân, myself, Sister Giac Nghiem (Soeur Elizabeth) and Sister Tung Nghiem (Sister Pine), had the honor and privilege to travel to China for the First World Buddhist Forum. When we arrived at Hangzhou,…
Book Club: The World We Have – A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology
You’re invited to a series of book club discussions on Thích Nhất Hạnh's book The World We Have – A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology. Understanding the impermanence of all things can offer the inner peace necessary to act skillfully and to use our collective wisdom and capability to restore…
Dharma Talk: Five Wonderful Precepts
When we think about peace, we usually think about the absence of war
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…
Dharma Talk: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
photo by Paul Davis Dharma Talk at Stonehill College, Massachusetts August 16, 2009 Today is the last day of our five-day retreat. We will speak about the sixteen exercises proposed by the Buddha on mindful breathing. The first four exercises are about practicing with the body. The second set of…