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DonateBy Sister Chuyên Nghiêm
Live your life fully
green and fresh as a leaf,
Embrace truth without striving,
even when facing fierce storms
that pass through the forests.
Remember to stay calm and free,
in the midst of life’s current.
Be grateful for the wondrous gift of life,
carefree, open-hearted, and generous.
Find your peace in the Dharma,
planting seeds of goodness
yielding sweet fruit everywhere.
Human life is unlimited;
see innumerable lives beyond
what we can measure.
No one can be certain what lies ahead
on the road of a hundred years.
Find peace as easeful as breathing,
step forward with lightness.
The Buddha resides within you
and in everything around you.
Compassion is like holy scripture—
not just a wish, but an ever-present truth.
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.
