The following video commemorates forty years of Thich Nhat Hanh’s French monastery Plum Village. It’s a beautiful view of how it’s changed over the years and the spread of other affiliated monasteries across the world including several in the United States.
Category: Thích Nhất Hạnh
Thich Nhat Hanh on “Right Speech”

Thich Nhat Hanh on “Right Speech”:
“Sometimes we speak clumsily and create internal knots in others. Then we say, ‘I was just telling the truth.’ It may be the truth, but if our way of speaking causes unnecessary suffering, it is not Right Speech.
The truth must be presented in ways that others can accept. Words that damage or destroy are not Right Speech.
Before you speak, understand the person you are speaking to. Consider each word carefully before you say anything, so that your speech is ‘Right’ in both form and content.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Thích Nhất Hạnh: How To Stay In The Present When It Feels Unbearable?
A Cloud Never Dies: A Thich Nhat Hanh Biographical Documentary
Please do not build a stupa by Thích Nhất Hạnh
“Please do not build a stupa (shrine) for me. Please do not put my ashes in a vase, lock me inside and limit who I am. I know this will be difficult for some of you. If you must build a stupa though, please make sure that you put a sign on it that says, ‘I am not in here.’ In addition, you can also put another sign that says, ‘I am not out there either,’ and a third sign that says, ‘If I am anywhere, it is in your mindful breathing and in your peaceful steps.’”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Zen Compassion
“When you produce a thought that is full of understanding, forgiveness, and compassion, that thought will immediately have a healing effect on both your physical and mental health and on those around you. If you think a thought that is full of judgment and anger, that thought will immediately poison your body and mind and the people around ”
~ Thích Nhất Hạnh
Thích Nhất Hạnh Faces Death With Dignity and A Lesson in Mindfulness
“Please do not build a stupa (shrine) for me. Please do not put my ashes in a vase, lock me inside and limit who I am. I know this will be difficult for some of you. If you must build a stupa though, please make sure that you put a sign on it that says, ‘I am not in here.’ In addition, you can also put another sign that says, ‘I am not out there either,’ and a third sign that says, ‘If I am anywhere, it is in your mindful breathing and in your peaceful steps.’”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh