Tag: Family
Practicing With My Family
Q: Your blood family is in France and lives close by. Do you find ways to share the practice with them?
Sister Giác Hòa: My...
Walking Home
Walking gently
My feet are cold
But I keep my ancestors warm
In the living room of my heart
Come sit around the fireplace
We will make room.
Sorrow, please...
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...
Going to a Wake Up Parents and Children Retreat with my...
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...
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...
Right Livelihood
By Jonathan Borella
As 18-35 year olds, Right Livelihood is an especially important practice. We’re at a time when we are beginning careers, developing passions,...
Celebrating the Day of the Dead
by Wake Up Puebla (Ceo, Amai, Ana, Katie, Julian and Gwendolin)
Dear friends,
The Day of the Dead in the Mexican tradition is a time to...
Mindful Reflections from Wake Up Bangkok
Opening Up to Love by Namsai
Thai Plum Village didn’t give me happiness, peace, nor did it give me new life, new identity, nor any...
How Mindfulness Transformed My Family
By Khanh Doan
Mindfulness practice, the beautiful teaching of the Buddha, profoundly interpreted by our beloved Thay, is a miracle that helps transform many lives....
Sailing to the Other Shore
Memories of a Winter Retreat
I chose the shape of a mandala with three circles to give you a structure of my story. The frame...
Reconnecting My Family
By Monastic Sister Sinh Nghiem
As monastics we are allowed periodically to have a home visit. I wanted to have a home visit to see...
Day of Mindfulness at the USC
Plum Village monks and nuns hosted a Day of Mindfulness in Vietnamese at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on the 5th...
Q&A with Thich Nhat Hanh: Family Difficulties
Thich Nhat Hanh answers in a Q&A session during the Francophone retreat in Plum Village (4-11 April 2014) about how one can deal with family...
Connecting Generations
By Miranda van Schadewijk
The 19th of May, the usual Sangha morning in Den Haag took a slightly different turn. Inspired by the theme of...