Looking for some resources to help with your practice?
Below you will find PDF downloads and links to other sanghas, practice centers, and helpful resources.
Handouts often used at our gatherings:
Dharma Sharing Instructions
Earth Holding Practices from Deer Park Monastery
Eating Meditation Instructions
The Five Contemplations (Four versions on one page)
The Five Contemplations (Folds into a card for your table)
The Five Mindfulness Trainings
The Five Mindfulness Trainings Recitation Ceremony
The Five Mindfulness Training Transmission Ceremony
The Five Mindfulness Trainings – Application to Receive Transmission
The Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings
The Heart Sutra
Guide to a Mindfulness Retreat
Mindful Movements
Mindful Movements with Pictures
Selected Gathas (mindfulness verses)
Sitting Meditation Instructions
Songs of the Sangha
The Three Refuges (recited at the close of our gatherings)
Walking Meditation Instructions
Area Sanghas & US Plum Village Tradition Practice Centers
Honey Locust Sangha – Our sister sangha in Omaha, NE
Blue Cliff Monastery – Our practice center in upstate New York
Compassionate Dharma Cloud Monastery – Our practice center in Colorado
Deer Park Monastery – Our practice center in Southern California
Magnolia Grove Monastery – Our practice center in Mississippi
Plum Village – Our practice center in Southern France and the home in exile of Zen Master Thích Nhât Hanh
Please check the Plum Village website for practice centers outside the United States.
Online Resources
The Mindfulness Bell – A Journal of Plum Village
Parallax Press – Publisher of Thich Nhat Hanh’s books in English
Deer Park Dharma Cast – dharma talks from Thây and Deer Park dharma teachers.
Vimeo Videos – More dharma Talks
Plum Village Online Monastery – Even more dharma talks
Plum Village App – Loaded with guided meditations, deep relaxations, practice poems, bells of mindfulness and other practices to bring Plum Village to your home.