Recent Blog Posts
A collection of recent entries in the blogs on the Deer Park website.
- With Mindfulness We Smile
- a video with sharings by friends during the World We Become Retreat at Deer Park, July 21-25
- Cultivating Awakened Culture
- What is awakening and awakened culture?
- Welcoming the Iron Tiger at Deer Park
- - written by Brother Soren Kisiel, True Land of Serenity - “Imagine Thanksgiving, New Year’s, Easter, Christmas and your birthday all happening at once,” Abbott Thay Phap Dung told us, “In Vietnam, that’s Tet, the lunar new year.”
- Love & Understanding Program in Vietnam
- This is the recent sharing from our friends working for the Love & Understanding Program.
- Joyfully Together: A Day of Mindful Living
- Professional 32-minute video sharing the experience of a day at Deer Park Monastery.
- Let the Light Shine up Your Life
- Brother Phap Ho's reflections on going back to Plum Village for the Daffodils Great Ordination Ceremony, January 12-19, 2010.
- Wake Up: The Music of Community
- The Wake Up Song recorded by Joe Reilly, Melina Bondy and the Plum Village Sangha on Thursday, January 28th, 2010, in the Dharma Nectar Hall of Lower Hamlet, Plum Village, France. This article provides a link to download the song.
- the 38 Blessings MahaMangala Sutta
- last Sunday brother Phap Hai gave a Dharma Talk on the 38 blessings
- Giving Thanks!
- Thank you! What a wonderful thing to think and say. Thanksgiving is coming up... Let's start practice today, so that when Thanksgiving Day is here we are prepared and already in grateful mode.
- Summer Camps at Deer Park
- Chill out, Zen in - for teens; Nurturing our Beloved Family - for children, teens, parents and grandparents
- Chill Out, Zen In - Teen Camp 2009
- practice & fun - teens, monastics and lay staff together as brothers and sisters
- Wake Up Retreat Opens
- The first Wake Up Retreat at Deer Park, for young people aged 20-35, began on Wednesday night. Friends from all over the country descended upon the hidden valley in the afternoon, for dinner, some games, and orientation. This morning as the sun rose over the fog-laden mountains, we enjoyed walking meditation down to the big hall, where Sister Lang Nghiem led us in a guided meditation on the breath.
- Napas Masuk, Napas Keluar - Breathing In, Breathing Out
- 4 day retreat in Indonesia
- Fourteen Verses on Meditation
- practicing meditations two wings: stopping & deep looking with joy and creativity
- Breathing in, Breathing out - a week in Las Vegas
- practicing in harmony - wherever we are - Brother Phap Ho reports from a week of practice in Las Vegas
- Photos of Monastics
- We've recently assembled photo galleries of the monks and nuns currently in residence at Deer Park. Follow the links below to see the slideshow.
- Arriving in Delhi, Retreat in Dehradun
- Thay and the International Plum Village Sangha have arrived in India for a tour or more than one month. This week the trip began with a welcome in Delhi, followed by a train ride to Dehradun for the first retreat on Mindfulness in Education at the Doon School.
- A Week in Rio
- This past week included a meeting with teenage boys in a military sports training center, two public talks, and a meeting with the combined local sanghas.
- Footsteps on Ipanema
- Brothers Phap Hai and Phap Luu have begun a three-week teaching tour in Brazil. Here they share about the first few days in Rio de Janeiro, where the Dharma has been quietly blossoming amidst a number of local Sanghas.
- New Website and Blog for Deer Park
- An area where practitioners in the Deer Park Sangha can post their experiences of integrating the practice of mindfulness into their daily lives.
