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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…
A new documentary film created to mark the one-year anniversary of the passing of the Vietnamese Buddhist monk and founder of the Engaged Buddhism movement,…
A Dharma talk by Dr. Larry Ward January 2023 marks one year since the passing of our beloved teacher, Thay, Thich Nhat Hanh. Around the…
On Wednesday, February 1, from 7:00 PM 8:30 p.m., The Lotus Institute will be hosting a special event celebrating Têt through the cherished practice of…

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.