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DonateIn this intimate and spontaneous Dharma talk offered at Deer Park Monastery in 2025, a monastic elder returns from Plum Village and reflects deeply on the meaning of “freedom” in the practice. Through gentle humor, personal memories, and sincere reflection, she explores how we can be imprisoned by our emotions, perceptions, and inherited notions—and how mindfulness, spiritual friendship, and ethical training can lead us toward liberation.
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The talk also includes a moving Q&A about helping family members caught in suffering, and closes with the soundscape of coyotes and meditation bells—reminding us of the sacred presence of nature and the rhythm of practice.
From time to time we offer multi-week courses related to mindfulness, the teachings and life of Thich Nhat Hanh, and a variety of similar subjects. Please see our schedule of upcoming courses.
Take the Deer Park Monastery and Plum Village community with you wherever you go. The Plum Village app is designed to cultivate mindfulness, compassion, and joy through guided meditations, deep relaxations, practice poems, bells of mindfulness, and other practices — all through a mobile device.
