In Healing Our Way Home, join three friends, three Black women, all teachers in the Plum Village tradition founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, in intimate conversation, touching on the pain and beauty of their families of origin, relationships and loneliness, intimacy and sexuality, politics, popular culture, race, self-care and healing.

As part of our celebration of Black History Month, recognized each February in the United States and Canada, Sister Peace reflects on the friendship between Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and shares her thoughts about a statue of the two of them that was installed at Magnolia Grove Monastery in Mississippi in 2015.

Many thanks to the Midwest Moon Sangha of St. Louis, Missouri, for sharing this book study with the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation, and Dr. Larry Ward, the book’s author and co-founder of The Lotus Institute, for approving of its free distribution

January 2023 marks one year since our beloved Thay’s (Thich Nhat Hanh’s) passing. Here are events around the world to celebrate his life and his continuation in another form.

As 2022 comes to a close, we are so grateful for your being Thay’s continuation for us. We want to thank you for supporting our worldwide community through your generosity of spirit, your words of encouragement, and especially your mindfulness practice. 

Several of our monastic practice centers offer live online Dharma talks and other events for the Christmas and solar New Year holidays. We invite you to join through the links below.

With deep gratitude, we share this "love letter" to the Plum Village monastic and lay community by Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese American and celebrated poet and novelist.

On May 4, three monastics from Deer Park Monastery in Escondido, CA, joined a local memorial ceremony for the AAPI community, along with dozens of monastics and teachers from other Buddhist lineages. We spoke with Sister Kinh Nghiem about her experience attending this memorial ceremony and offering her reflections on sila, one of the six paramitas, to a diverse Buddhist audience.

An inspiring interview with Sister Dang Nghiem on how to practice deeply without being a monastic, how to practice during the pandemic, and how to become your own soulmate.

We are very happy to announce the new Plum Village parallel verses to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year – year of the Ox. These practice phrases are a poetic gift that we can print out and post around our living quarters or at work as a reminder to practice mindfulness.

A beautiful and powerful Q&A session with Thich Nhat Hanh.

For Thich Nhat Hanh’s 94th continuation day (birthday), we invited our International Plum Village community to join us in practicing walking meditation, sharing an image of your meditation along with a condition for happiness that you noticed during your meditation. We were so happy to receive hundreds of photos. Please enjoy a sample of submitted photos in this post.

Carolyn White is a member of the Cedar Society, the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation’s legacy giving program. As a children’s author, poet, and the world’s leading expert on leprechauns, she enjoys varied opportunities to water wholesome seeds in society and in herself. She has practiced in the Plum Village tradition since 1997. She lives in East Lansing, Michigan.

We remember and celebrate a dear practitioner in our community, Kathleen Harper, who passed last year. We hope you enjoy her inspiring life story.

Brother Ngo Khong (Brother Freedom) of Deer Park Monastery tells the story of how he met Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) and found his way to becoming a monk in the Plum Village tradition. Brother Ngo Khong resides at Deer Park Monastery and serves on the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation board.

Thich Nhat Hanh turns 94 this Sunday, October 11th! To celebrate his continuation day, we hope you will join our global community in practicing walking meditation.

We hope you enjoy this autumn update on Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village monastics.

Please enjoy these delightful mindfulness-inspired drawings created by children in our community.

A selection of mindfulness-inspired poems written by members of our community.