From a Dharma Talk by Thay Phap An June 13, 2004Upper Hamlet, Plum Village Respected Thay, respected brothers and sisters, and the whole community: Today is June 13th, 2004. We are in Dharma Cloud Temple in the Upper Hamlet. In the last two weeks, we have learned that we can depict…
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A Love Letter to the 1%
photo by Dale Dicks Dear Mr. and Mrs. 1%, I have heard much about you, dear Mr. and Mrs. 1%, but I am not sure if we have ever met. My name is Brother Protection and I am a six-foot-two-inch Buddhist monk with a shaved head, brown robes, and glasses.…
Peace of Mind
We can’t heal with our minds alone. Thinking can be something productive and creative, but without integrating body and mind, much of our thinking is useless and unproductive. In Peace of Mind, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us that integrating body and mind is the only way to be…
Letter from Thich Nu Chan Khong, Thich Giac Thanh, Thich Nu Chan Duc, Thich Nu Dieu Nghiem
Dear Friends, Over the years, the number of Sanghas all over the world has grown steadily, and requests for retreats addressed to Dharmacharyas at Plum Village have increased accordingly. We are happy that the practice is bringing so much joy into people's lives and we always try our best to respond to all…
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Healing My Suffering
By Caleb Cushing Until I stop breathing, learning to recognize my suffering will remain my challenge. My parents trained me to suppress. Father never mentioned his parents. Mother never mentioned that her middle-aged mother committed suicide. I was “not allowed” to “make noise.” To be “well brought-up,” I was to…
Rejoicing with the Sangha in Hanoi
By Sister Hanh Nghiem The seven-day retreat on Engaged Buddhism in Hanoi was truly wonderful. I was touched by the rooted feeling of being a community. Before the orientation, the Order of Interbeing, monks, and nuns were on stage ready to invoke the name of Avalokiteshvarya. Looking out at the…
One Drop of Color
Many times I have testified of my suffering and written at length on race...
Retreating to My Roots
By Loan To Phan I am a Vietnamese-born Australian citizen. While attending a winter retreat at Plum Village in November 2007, I got in touch with my ancestral roots on a level that over the last twenty-three years has been unacknowledged and unexplored, almost foreign. “Boi dap goc re, khai…
The Quest for the Holy Grail
This article is an excerpt from dharma talks given by Brother Phap Hai at Deer Park Monastery during 2005. Sisters and brothers, in the Chinese language they have a beautiful way of referring to a practitioner. They call practitioners “cultivators,” Cultivators of the Way. In English we tend to use…