Tag: Plum Village
Plum Village “L-O-V-E” Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP3Th-5ALSs
A music video called "L-O-VE" we shot with monastics and Wake Uppers all over the world right after last summer's Wake Up Earth retreat...
Let’s Play. Let’s Go with Enjoyment!
By Brother Warman
As a young people, I like to play. I lost my playfulness, but now I’ve regained my joy and playfulness. The suffering...
European Wake Up Ambassadors Week
We’re planting seeds of new communities
It’s time to wake up!
It’s time to wake up together! The European Wake Up Ambassadors had a retreat in...
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...
Wake Up Melbourne
By Jade Fersterer
Discovering Wake Up
What a happy moment this is, to reflect on the creation and building of Wake Up Melbourne. I remember the...
Present Moment, Delicious Moment!
New Hamlet, 26th June, 2017
Dear Respected Thầy
Every time we think of you, feelings of immense gratitude well up. Thank you Thầy for teaching us...
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...
I Am Everything
Plum Village Children’s Program
By Jadzia Tedeschi
A few shrieks, giggles in the background, a rolling Spanish rrr, some expressive Italian gesticulation, a fresh generation of...
Happy Farmers Change The World
By Mick McEvoy
“Happy Farmers will change the world.” So reads Thay’s calligraphy.
Farming employs over 1.3 billion people throughout the world or close to 40...
My Life-Changing Experience at the Wake Up Earth Retreat
By Wake Up Belgium friend
Dear friends.
You have given me such treasure.
I love you so.
Last summer, I discovered the wonderful world of mindfulness. It has...
Healing the Past, Transforming the Future
Written by Br. Chan Troi Duc An
Dear respected Thay, dear sisters & brothers, dear friends,
My name is Chan Troi Duc An. I am a...
Monastic Life in Plum Village
This is a letter I wrote to my family and friends and I‘m happy to share it with you, too. :)
Plum Village, May 2017
Dear...
Walk With Me premiere at the SXSW Film Festival
Elli: Nhu-Mai and I went to Austin to support the world premiere of Walk With Me, a 90-minute feature documentary made by Brother Phap...
Lower Hamlet Looking for Volunteers in Plum Village
The sisters of Lower Hamlet are currently looking for energetic and able-bodied English-speaking volunteers to help with general duties or with the English-speaking children's programme during our...