Plum Village Resources
Plum Village, near Bordeaux in southwest France, is the largest international practice center in the Plum Village tradition, and the first monastic community founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) in the West.
There are many resources available through Plum Village that help enhance our practice. Below are some of the resources. Find more on the Plum Village web site: The Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
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Plum Village has a number of recorded chants, including important practice chants such as The Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore (The Heart Sutra), The Three Refuges, and The Discourse on Love. You can find these recordings on the Plum Village site here: Dharma Media Type: Chants | Plum Village
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Plum Village has a free mobile app that allows you to access all the Plum Village resource on the go. This page also provides links to other useful apps, such as mindfulness bell apps and the Headspace app:
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You can find several Plum Village-sponsored podcasts on all the main podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts.
The Way Out Is In is a series of conversations featuring Brother Phap Huu, Thay’s long time attendant and the current abbot of Upper Hamlet in Plum Village, and Jo Cofino, a long time supporter of Plum Village and member of the board of the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation. Through the more than 100 episodes of this podcast, the co-hosts cover a wide range of topics that “help us to transcend our fear and anger so that we can be more engaged in the world in a way that develops love and compassion.”
The Plum Village web site also has a Meet the Monastics podcast that feature conversations with monastics discussion their individual spiritual journeys and a Dharma Talks podcast that allows you to listen to all the recent Dharma talks in the Plum Village tradition.
Plum Village podcasts can be found here or on your favorite podcast streaming platform:
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Living Gems represents years of work by the Plum Village community to bring together the largest collection of Thay’s teachings in one platform. The site is easily searchable and content can be filtered by type, duration, date, and language. This immense catalog of Thay’s wisdom includes teachings never before published and highlights the answers Thay provided to practitioners seeking his guidance during the Question & Answer sessions in live retreats. The site also features curated collections that bring together Thay’s teachings on single topics. You can begin exploring the wealth of Thay’s teachings here:
Living Gems — All of Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings | Plum Village
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Plum Village has a collection of over 500 Dharma talks by various Plum Village monastics. You can filter the videos by monastic or event and the database is also searchable.
Dharma Media Type: Dharma Talks | Plum Village
Plum Village also has a site dedicated to Questions and Answers posed to the Plum Village monastics during live retreats. These too can be filtered by monastic and event.
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The Mindfulness Bell is a journal of the art of mindful living. It is an inspiration and teaching resource for those practicing mindfulness in daily life. Each issue features a teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh. Also included are stories and teachings by teachers and students in this lineage, based on the author’s direct experience of transformation through the practice of mindfulness. Instead of giving academic or intellectual views, the teachings emphasize simple and successful ways to transform the difficulties and limitations in our lives so that each day becomes an experience of peace, happiness, and freedom. You can subscribe to The Mindfulness Bell here:
The Mindfulness Bell: journal of Thich Nhat Hanh's community