Practicing Metta or Metta in Practice?
By Lian Beijers
Click here to read the Dutch translation
When I started practicing meditation, I felt drawn to the practice of metta or loving kindness....
Climate Crisis in Paradise
By Wouter Verhoeven
There is a placeThe closing talk of the 2016 Wake Up Retreat was a beautiful Dharma talk. Brother Phap Dang ended his...
The Light That Returns
Some time ago, I watched a silly superhero movie that had some surprising wisdom.
Darkness, the truest darkness, is not the absence of light. It...
Plum Village, A Mindfulness Village
by Ilse from Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Last Christmas, I experienced a special week in Plum Village, near Bordeaux, in the south of France. I learned...
True Love
During the international Wake Up retreat in France this past summer, one of our Dutch Wake Up friends from Nijmegen, Verena, shared about the...
Broad Bean Soup with Fresh Tarragon
Anneke's Cooking Blog
It is that time of year again... broad bean time! It makes me so happy! Last year, on one of the hottest...
Silence.
by Theo (Danique’s father from Wake Up Groningen, the Netherlands)
Around me is silence. Sounds of breathing and the smell of incense slowly disappear into the...
Connecting with my Parents During a Retreat
Many of us might know the feeling. After a Wake Up retreat finishes, you're taking your first steps into society again, often misleadingly referred...
The Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings
Last month, we published Verena's aspirations to follow the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings in her daily life and to ordain into the Order of Interbeing.
Below is her...
My Aspiration to Build a Fourfold Sangha
Verena from Wake Up Nijmegen and Wake Up Netherlands shares her aspiration letter to ordain as an Order of Interbeing member in the Netherlands.
Dear Thây,...
Chocovado Recipe
by Anneke Comello
“Chocovado”: a vegan chocolate mousse with avocado
The December holidays have been over long enough ago for me to dare to post an...
Going to a Wake Up Parents and Children Retreat with my Father
by Danique from Wake Up Groningen, the Netherlands
Friday. Sitting on my meditation pillow, I feel a nervousness in my chest. I open my eyes...
From Crisis to Transformation
In the spring of 2015, I received a sign of magic. I came across Thich Nhat Hanh’s writings and while listening to one of...
My Father and I
By Brother Pham Hanh
I still remember vividly my community as a young boy. We had to go up the stairs and into a big...
Returning Home With a Big Smile!
With a big smile on my face, I returned home after the Wake Up Netherlands Summer Retreat at the Maanhoeve farm. Rain was pouring...