This short teaching about embracing loneliness is part of a talk Thay gave on the 13th of December 2012, during the winter retreat in Plum Village. Loneliness has been a constant presence in our lives during these restrictive pandemic times, and Thay’s teachings on this topic should provide much needed comfort and understanding. [This transcript […]
This is a letter from Brother Phap Dung, republished with permission from the Deer Park website. Dear Friends on the Path, I hope you enjoy this digital painting. It was inspired by Thầy’s account of a dream he once had in which he was a music student who had to perform in front of a […]
In this short teaching from the Plum Village App, Thich Nhat Hanh talks about true love, sensual desire, and different levels of intimacy. [The transcript below is edited for readability.] Sensual pleasures and sexual desire are not love – but our society is organized in such a way that these things have become most important. […]
One of numerous gifts that Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) has given us is a practice called ‘Changing the CDs’. With it, he asks us to replace a negative mental formation in our mind with a positive one, just like we change a CD when bad music is playing. Being someone from the CD era, I […]
In this short teaching from the Plum Village App, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh talks about how to deal with strong or difficult emotions like anger, worry, or fear, and how to acknowledge and transform them. This is an excerpt from a Dharma talk that took place in August 2013 during an Art of Suffering […]
During a Dharma talk in December 2020, Brother Phap Linh answered practitioners’ questions regarding a guided meditation on the Plum Village App about embracing our feelings (‘Breathing in, I feel alive; breathing out, I feel joy to be alive. Feeling alive. Feeling joy’). While this guided meditation promises joy, it can sometimes lead to feelings […]
