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🎄 Inner Peace This Holiday Season: Come Home, Smile to Yourself & Be There for Others
This Dharma Talk is the ninth talk of the Rains’ Retreat 2023 Sunday Talk series and part of the week-long Christmas retreat with the title “Coming Home to Peace”. 0:27: 🕯️ Brother Phap Huu shares about the practice of mindfulness as a way to find inner peace and healing,…
Br Pháp Hữu
The Journey Through Mindfulness, Compassion and Difficult Choices
What are the roots of our personal sufferings and the pains of the world? We bring our mind home to re-examine our sufferings, to find a path.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Luminous Path: Christmas Buddhist Wisdom on Hope and Resilience
This Dharma talk was recorded in New Hamlet, Plum Village (France) on 7th December 2023. It is the seventh of our live Thursday talks of the Rains Retreat 2023 offered to our lay friend guests. 8:57: 🕯️ Sr. Trai Nghiem shares about the significance of light in various festivals…
Sr Trai Nghiem
Taking Care of Emotions with Mindfulness
This talk was recorded on the 16th November 2023 in New Hamlet, Plum Village (France). It is the fourth of our live Thursday talks of the Rains Retreat 2023 offered to our lay friend guests. 0:26: Embracing inner peace and love amidst global challenges through mindfulness and collective energy….
Sr Phượng Nghiêm
Dharma Talks from Thich Nhat Hanh View All
The Journey Through Mindfulness, Compassion and Difficult Choices
What are the roots of our personal sufferings and the pains of the world? We bring our mind home to re-examine our sufferings, to find a path.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Transcending Dualism in Ethics
1:39: 📚 The video discusses three approaches to ethics: religious, scientific, and Buddhist, with a focus on the theistic traditions of Judaism and Christianity. 14:45: ⚖️ The video discusses the importance of right view and right action in Buddhism, emphasizing the impact of thinking, speech, and action on our…
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Mind of Love (part 3) in English & Italian
This is the 3rd Dharma talk by Thay for the Italian Retreat: “The Mind of Love transforms all difficulties” in Lower Hamlet, Plum Village.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Practice of True Presence
This is the second dharma talk of the “The Mind of Love Transforms All Difficulties” retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh at the New Hamlet of Plum Village in France. The talk is given in English with consecutive translation into Italian. In this very short talk on August 29, 2014, Thay teaches…
Thich Nhat Hanh
Book Excerpts View All
Interbeing and Interpenetration
We would like to invite you to enjoy a reading from book “The Sun My Heart” by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by Br. Phap Lai.
Don’t leave your fate in the hands of others
Book excerpt from “The Sun My Heart” by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by Br. Phap Lai.
“The Sun My Heart”
We would like to invite you to enjoy a reading from book “The Sun My Heart” by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by Br. Phap Lai, Piano by Bao Tich Nguyen.
Thanh Thuy’s Apple Juice from The Sun My Heart
Book excerpt from “The Sun My Heart” by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by Br. Phap Lai.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Br Pháp Lai
Questions & Answers View All
Q&A: Finding Balance | Br. Phap Linh, Br. Phap Kha, Sr. Hoi Nghiem, Sr. Dang Nghiem
0:00 Introduction by Brother Phap Linh 3:59 How can I stay true to my values while also being useful in my work? 14:46 With repeated manifestations of racism and the rise of the extreme right in the West, how not to lose respect and become hateful towards this western…
Br Pháp Linh, Sr Hội Nghiêm, Sr Dang Nghiem
Q & A for Children: The Happiest Person in the World | Plum Village Monastics
A Q&A session with questions from children in our Summer Retreat 2022, with Sr. Hoi Nghiem, Sr. Dang Nghiem, Br. Phap Linh, and Br. Phap Kha. 0:00 Introduction by Br. Phap Linh 2:45 What is the story of the Buddhas’ hill in Upper Hamlet? 10:18 How has Plum Village…
Q&A: News, Enlightenment, & Pain | Brs Phap Huu, Bao Tang, Srs Thuan Nghiem, Hien Nghiem
0:00 Introduction by brother Phap Huu 2:50 How to deal with News? How to protect ourselves when we read the News and how to balance the negative energy created by the News? 12:55 How can the peace movement respond in a non-violent way to the invasion of Ukraine? 21:42…
Br Troi Bao Tang, Br Pháp Hữu, Sr Thuận Nghiêm, Sr Hiến Nghiêm
Songs View All
I Smile to the Stars (sung by Sister Chan Khong)
Sister Chan Khong, Live at the Royal Festival Hall, London 2012
Sutras View All
Discourse on Transforming Violence and Fear
1) Let us listen and observe to understand how, from a happy and wholesome state, people have brought society into a state of terror and violence. How have past generations acted for the situation to become like this? I want to talk to you about this suffering and tell…
Discourse on Turning the Wheel of the Dharma
This is what I have heard. At one time the World-Honored One was staying near Varanasi at Isipatana in the Deer Park. At that time the World-Honored One addressed the group of five monks, saying, “Bhikkhus, there are two extremes that a monk should avoid. What are the two?…
Anuradha Discourse
I heard these words of the Buddha one time when the Lord was staying in the gabled house in the Great Forest near the town of Vesali. At that time, the Venerable Anuradha was staying in a hermitage in the forest not far from where the Buddha was. One…
Discourse on the Eight Realizations of the Great Beings
Wholeheartedly, day and night, disciples of the Awakened One should recite and meditate on the Eight Realizations discovered by the Great Beings. The First Realization is the awareness that the world is impermanent. Political regimes are subject to fall. Things composed of the four elements are empty, containing within…
Chants View All
Chant of Praise & Aspiration
A flower held up speaks wonderfully. Its five petals have a special fragrance. The Dharma Treasure is transmitted from India and continued in the Mind-Seal school in China. May all generations of Ancestral Teachers, residing in the Nirvana of the Wonderful Mind, seated high on the precious Dharma throne,…
Listening To The Bell
“With body, speech and mind in perfect oneness, I send my heart along with the sound of this bell…” Brother Phap Linh was encouraged by Thay (Thich Nhat Hanh) to use “local material” to compose music. This piece became like a meeting of two ancient traditions of Celtic Christianity…