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Vegan Spring Quiche Recipe
Anneke’s Cooking Blog
A little while ago, I was asked by the Dutch Buddhist magazine ‘Boeddhistisch Dagblad’ to become a regular contributor for their cooking...
To Inspire and Get Inspired
Last Fall, we travelled from the Sangha in Groningen, the Netherlands, to an old monastery for the Wake Up Sangha-Building weekend retreat. The monastery...
The Importance of Sangha Friends
Atta, one of the participants from last year's Wake Up Easter Retreat, shares with us his insights into Sanghahood, or “why good friends are always...
Trust in the Sangha
Anneke has been a regular in Wake Up Nijmegen, her hometown in the Netherlands for two years. She got into the practice through a...
Meditating For the Benefit of Another
The bell rings. With legs in lotus posture, twenty young people are sitting on meditation cushions in a circle. A Buddha statue, half the size of...
What is Actually This Thing Called Meditation?
By Maarten Hunink
And what does it have to do with tomato soup?
That’s what I was wondering after staying in Plum Village for two weeks, and with...
Growth in Wake Up Nijmegen
by Manon Wetzels and Reinier de Nooij
The seed for Wake Up Nijmegen germinated during a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh in Papendal, the Netherlands,...
New Year’s Eve in Plum Village
How does it feel to spend a morning in Upper Hamlet, Plum Village with the monastic and lay community on the last day of...
Wake Up Netherlands: Caring for Me, Caring for You Retreat
From Wednesday evening July 2nd until Sunday afternoon July 6th we will gather at the lovely Maanhoeve at the Dutch countryside for our annual...
Waking Up! May 2014 In Review
Here are many Wake Up events and retreats around the world that took place this month.
AFRICA
Following the success of the monastics' tour in Botswana and...
Sangha-Building: Wake Up Groningen
by Nadine Spigt
Actually it feels like there hasn't been so much compost for us, just a lot of flowers that needed some time before...