Serving Happy Farm and Plum Village
December 6, 2018 in New Hamlet
Q: Why did you stay for three years in Plum
Village? Did you know in the beginning you’d stay that...
Food and Cooking in Plum Village
Wake Upper Marek from Poland is a passionate cook and currently serves the Sangha in Plum Village as the kitchen coordinator in Son Ha, one of the monks’ residences. In this interview, he shares practices to bring mindfulness into the kitchen and a diet that serves ourselves as well as our planet.
Building a Community in Jerusalem
4th April 2019
Chen
from Wake Up Jerusalem attended the 2019 Wake Up Ambassadors Retreat in Plum
Village. In this interview, she shares about her experience...
Lessons Learned from Living with Monastics
By Leo Widrich
Have you ever felt like you needed a big reset of your life? Toward the middle of 2017, I found myself in...
Building a Unified Community
Connecting Wake Up and All-Ages Sanghas
By Bryan Hindert
A fellow Wake Upper shared an insight during a recent retreat closing circle. He was surprised to...
Bells in the Heart of London
By Josie Ng
What happens when we invite a bell into a hall filled with chatty Londoners lounging on couches and sitting with their laptops?...
Order of Interbeing Transmission
Q: Thank you, Katharina and Alex, for your willingness to be interviewed about the Order of Interbeing (OI). We’re here during the 21-Day Retreat...
Making the “Happy Farmers” Movie
A Director’s Confession
During the summer of 2016, I came to Plum Village Happy Farm during the Wake Up retreat for the third time, and...
Pilgrim’s Diary in India: Bodhgaya
By Tuong-Vi
"There are four places, the sight of which will arouse strong emotions in those with faith. Here the Tathagatha was born. Here the...
Lower Hamlet Happy Farm
The Lower Hamlet Happy Farm brings ecological farming and the Plum Village mindfulness practice together. A team of five long-term friends works on this...
Mindful Eating, Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, today
Deep looking, this corn connects
Painful histories
Slow mindful eating
Corn plants descended, growing from
Kindness, exploited
Giving thanks today
On stolen land, borrowed time,
Our inheritance.
Tell the whole story
So...
Refugee Trees
Refuge Tree is one of the earliest recordings from the Plum Village community recorded in the mid-2000s with songs in English and French...
“Before” Album Music
By Joe Holtaway
I've been in love with songwriting for as long as I remember. Some chords, a melody and some words; a sharing from...
Being Myself in a Challenging Learning Environment
By Jadzia Tedeschi
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Today, we had an extraordinary half-day of classes. You know, to supplement our learning.
8:00 History: “Good morning! Let’s begin...
A Plum Village Meditation Centre in Sydney
By Jay Larbalestier
Recently, I had the privilege to spend some time at the new Plum Village affiliated meditation centre in Canoelands, New South Wales. The...