Stony Brook Sangha

Sharing our journey to a slow, intentional life.

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  • The Five Mindfulness Trainings

    The Five Mindfulness Trainings are based on the Five Precepts offered by the Buddha. In our Sangha we recite them every other month (alternating with the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings). Some practitioners, especially (but not limited to) those who have formally received the trainings, make an effort to recite them more…

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  • Parallel Verses

    Each year Plum Village offers a pair of parallel verses to mark Tết, the Lunar New Year.  You can download them to print by clicking this link. …

  • The Other Shore

    Today’s Dharma presentation was an excerpt from chapter 6 (“Happy Continuation”) of The Other Shore, by Thich Nhat Hanh. The portions read were pages 50…

  • Openess and Non-Attachment to Views

    Today’s Dharma presentation was pages 29 to 35 from Thich Nhat Hanh’s book Interbeing: The 14 Mindfulness Trainings of Engaged Buddhism. This section is commenteries…

  • This Week’s Presentation

    Our Dharma presentation at this past week’s sangha was an excpert from Fragrant Palm Leaves, Thích Nhất Hạnh’s journals from 1962 – 1966. If you…

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The face of a stone statue of the Buddha. Visible in the distance behind it are greens of trees and blue sky.

We are a community in the Plum Village tradition. Linda (True Path of Peace) is an ordained Order of Interbeing member. She was ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh on August 15, 2005.

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