Tag: mindfulness
How Wake Up San Diego Started
It was similar to how Homer Simpson got his job at the power plant - by showing up the first day it opened. I...
Lessons On Healing After Loss
When she left her career as a medical doctor, Sister Dang Nghiem, MD, a Zen Buddhist nun and disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh, learned...
Reforestation in Los Tuxtlas, Mexico
My name is Christoph and I’m from Austria. I studied geography with special focus on sustainable development. I came to Mexico in the Tuxtlas...
Waking Up at the EIAB
by Friso Woudstra
16-18 May 2014
Every year the Wake Up Nijmegen Sangha has a weekend retreat at the Thich Nhat Hanh monestary in Waldbröl, Germany....
How to Live Deeply in Your Heart
Thich Nhat Hanh answers in a Q&A session during the Francophone retreat in Plum Village (4-11 April 2014) about how to live deeply in your...
The Importance of a Supportive, Loving Community
My name is Stuart Watson. I come from Edinburgh in Scotland and I’ve been living in Upper Hamlet in Plum Village for over 6...
Discovering Yourself
By Gijs Van den Broeck
Reflections on a Long Term Retreat in Plum Village
Everything Flows
Heraclitus
Knowing yourself is Enlightenment
Lao Tzu
When I was still a student, not...
How Can We Maintain Our Mindfulness Practice?
Thich Nhat Hanh answers in a Q&A session during the French retreat in Plum Village (4-11 April) about how to maintain our mindfulness practice...
A Young Buddhist
By Friso Woudstra
Born in a land without war, a land without parents who have suffered from war. Freedom is just normal to us. Even more,...
Beyond Words
By Gijs Van den Broeck
An Impression of Plum Village
You do not only, to reach the place
have to leave home, but also out of ways...
From Plum Village to the Institute of Technology Tallaght
by Sister Bernadette Purcell
As Chaplain in the College, I see the link between Contemplation, Meditation and Mindfulness. Meditation and mindfulness are a core part...
What is Mindfulness?
On 15 February 2014, Wake Up Belfast shared about mindfulness with The Thread, a News and Events video blog for Belfast in Northern Ireland.
The producer commented,...
Less is More – Tasting Abundance During Lent
By Leni Cellini
In case you did not notice, Lent fasting has been going on for a while. Just as in 2012 and 2013, I...
Replanting A “Forest of Interbeing”: Spiritual Community As Food
Several months ago, four young friends living in three different countries embarked on a journey together to replant a deforested rainforest in the...
On Becoming a Monk
An interview with the newest member of the Blue Cliff community
Brother Chan Troi Linh Quang (True Sky of Spritual Light) ordained on December 8,...