Sublime

Non-fear, the insight that there’s no birth and no death, is the greatest gift given to us by the practice of looking deeply.

And just in case we doubt our ability to join this noble assembly, the Buddha tells us this teaching cannot be heard, believed, or practiced by those who do not share the bodhisattva’s resolve to liberate all beings.

At night when I lie down on my bed box, I give rise to the thought that I may not wake up the next day. I’m forty-five years old and, as I review my day, I know that I have done my best to live mindfully, to be kind in my thoughts, speech, and bodily actions. I forgive my own unskillfulness. So if I don’t wake up tomorrow, I can accept it. Then I s

Thay has always shared with us that one of the distinguishing features of the Dharma at Plum Village is learning how to arrive at our destination in every moment.

There is something simple about me, and the monastic practice allows me to be happily simple.