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Together We Are One: A Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh at Deer Park Monastery
Updated: 2011-10-13 03:57:57
Description: This very special Dharma Talk by Thay is offered by the wonderful Plum Village Monastery Online.  We encourage you to visit http://pvom.org/ for more of these wonderful teachings. Here is an excerpt from the website. "This is the final...more...

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Teen Retreat: How to be Your Own Best Friend--A Dharma Talk by Thay Phap Ho
Updated: 2011-08-19 20:40:00
Description: Dear Community Every year in summer,  Deer Park Monastery hosts a 5-day Teen Camp. The teens camp out, sleeping in tents, gathering around a camp fire in the morning, play and practice.  This year was a wonderful experience for over 50 teen...more...

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Finding the Teacher Within Us: A Dharma Talk by Sister Huong Nghiem
Updated: 2011-06-24 02:40:35
Description: Dear Friends Today's talk is from the annual Meditation and Education Retreat at Deer Park Monastery.  Dharma teacher Sister Huong Nghiem shares insights about the practice and offers beautiful teachings for the group of students and educators g...more...

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Discourse on Loving Kindness: A Dharma Talk by Thay Phap Hai
Updated: 2011-04-26 03:15:02
Description: Dear Friends, We are happy today to bring you a wonderful dharma talk on the Discourse on Loving-Kindness by Thay Phap Hai.  In this talk, Thay Phap Hai guides us in a deep introduction not only on the text, but also how to use it in our daily l...more...

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The Art of Practice – A New Year’s Talk from Venerable Thich Phuoc Tinh
Updated: 2011-04-12 02:59:00
Description: Dear friends, The Deer Park Podcast team hopes you enjoyed the Course on the 14 Verses of Meditation. Now, we are happy to resume our schedule of offering talks from Days of Mindfulness at Deer Park. Thich Phuoc Tinh, known to the Sangha as the Vener...more...

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Verse 14 of 14 on Meditation: Supported by the Sangha Body
Updated: 2011-03-24 03:49:24
Description: Dear Friends After 14 weeks, we have come to our last verse.  We hope you have enjoyed this course.  We hope you will offer your thoughts and comments, especially how this course has helped deepen your practice.   Verse 14 Supported b...more...

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Verse 13 of 14 on Meditation: Not discriminating between the practice offered by the Tathagata and that of the ancestral teachers
Updated: 2011-03-12 17:27:45
Description: Verse 13   Not Discriminating Between the practice offered by the Tathagata and that of the ancestral teachers, the Four Noble Truths perfectly interwoven should serve as the foundation of an authentic transmission.   Thay Phap Hai offers a...more...

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Verse 12 of 14 on Meditation: The Mahayana sutras and teachings open many fresh, wide gateways
Updated: 2011-03-08 00:09:37
Description: Dear Friends Sorry for the long delay in posting this class.  Our podcast limits were exceeded but we should be able to post more now. Enjoy bathing in the stream! Verse 12 The Mahayana sutras and teachings open many fresh, wide gateways allowin...more...

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Verse 11 of 14 on Meditation: The basic meditation sutras
Updated: 2011-02-17 04:35:03
Description: Hi Friends Here is Verse 11 The basic meditation sutras, such as the Full Awareness of Breathing and the Four Establishments of Mindfulness, show us step by step, how to transform the body and the mind. We are encouraged to focus on one set of 4...more...

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Verse 10 of 14 on Meditation: Nirvana is non-attainment
Updated: 2011-02-09 03:43:00
Description: Dear Friends We are so happy and thankful to Thay Phap Hai for this beautiful teaching.  The readings are also a wonderful reminder how much all of us non-monastics owe Anathapindika.  He is the one who, on his deathbed, shared with the san...more...

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Verse 9 of 14 on Meditation: Emptiness, signlessness, and aimlessness
Updated: 2011-01-31 04:30:47
Description: Dear Virtual Study Group We apologize for the delay in posting.  We are only able to upload 250 MB a month so when we exceed our limit we have to wait a bit.  We hope you will understand as the podcast is run on donations and volunteer tim...more...

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Verse 8 of 14 verses on meditation: Impermanence is one with nonself
Updated: 2011-01-14 01:23:00
Description: Dear Friends Tonight, we are introduced to the concepts that can, with practice, become our reality.  Thay Phap Hai reminds us that intellectual understanding is not one with wisdom and that whatever we learn we always have to ask 'how does this...more...

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Verse 7 of the 14 Verses on Meditation: To dwell in the present moment
Updated: 2011-01-08 06:07:00
Description: Dear Thay, Dear Sangha Tonight's teaching is on the 7th Verse.  Thay Phap Ho shares that we can be aware that our happiness depends on my mindful attitude and not external conditions.  We review the 4 recollections and we are encouraged to...more...

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Verse 6 of the 14 Verses on Meditation: Looking Deeply into the Heart of Reality
Updated: 2010-12-31 19:51:37
Description: Dear Friends on the Path, Here is the teaching on Verse 6. Verse 6 Looking deeply into the heart of reality to see the true nature of things, practicing vipashyana enables me to let go of everything I am searching for, my desires, and my fears. Our ...more...

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Verse 5 of the 14 Verses on Meditation (Stopping and Deep Looking): To calm, to relax the body and mind
Updated: 2010-12-20 02:35:00
Description: Dear Friends Tonight's wonderful class provides many insights into why we meditate and how we can better be masters of our own practice.  Here is the link for the materials http://www.deerparkmonastery.org/teachings/fourteen-verses-on-medit...more...

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Verse 4 of the 14 Verses on Meditation (Stopping and Deep Looking): My breathing and my steps
Updated: 2010-12-13 03:49:58
Description: Dear Classmates on the Path Tonight's transmission is on the 4th Verse.  We begin the podcast after those present in the class all shared how our practice was progressing with each other.  Maybe you, too, would like to reflect how your prac...more...

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Verse 3 of the 14 Verses on Meditation: The Practice of Vipashyana is to Look Deeply
Updated: 2010-12-06 02:20:47
Description: Dear Friends Here is Sister Su Co Bich Nghiem's beautiful transmission on Verse 3. Third Verse: The practice of Vipashyana is to Look Deeply into the nature of the five skandas so that I may develop understanding and transform suffering.   In th...more...

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Verse 2 of the 14 Verses on Meditation: Stopping means to be still
Updated: 2010-11-29 02:45:11
Description: Dear Friends What a great fortune to have been born a human, to be in harmony with others, and to have a chance to take this wonderful course!  The second session is offered to us by Thay Phap Hai and is rich with insights into our beautiful pra...more...

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Verse 1 Course on Meditation- Stopping and Looking Deeply Class 1-- Just as a Bird Has Two Wings
Updated: 2010-11-22 05:53:00
Description: Dear Friends The 3-month Winter Rains Retreat began today at Deer Park.  Also, today this course on the Fourteen Verses on Meditation course held its first class.  A group of around 30 people have joined together to be taught by Thay Phap H...more...

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RavenKip Dharma Talk from Thay Phap Dung
Updated: 2010-10-25 00:21:58
Description: Dear friends, Brother Phap Dung, the Abbott of Deer Park Monastery, here offers a wonderfully casual talk with the children at this summer's Family Retreat. From Pokemon to Deer Park's ravens to an introduction to inviting the bell to sound, Brother...more...

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Taking Care, A Dharma Talk for parents from Thay Phap Dung
Updated: 2010-09-08 02:11:00
Description: Dear friends, Thich Nhat Hahn shows us very clearly that while we practice for our own transformation, it is just as important to practice for our relationships with those we love. In this dharma talk Bother Phap Dung, the Abbott of Deer Park, e...more...

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Children's Podcast: A Dharma Talk for Children from Brother Phap Ho
Updated: 2010-08-29 20:07:05
Description: Dear friends, In this playful dharma talk given to the children at this summer's family retreat, Brother Phap Ho shares a story of a frontier boy learning the ways of the local Native American tribe and the lessons of diligence. Learning, he reminds...more...

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Gatha Practice: A Dharma talk of Sister Huong Nghiem
Updated: 2010-06-25 05:13:00
Description: Waking up this morning I smile 24 brand new hours are before me I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion Dear Friends Gathas are short verses to recite in the routine moments of our lives - waking up i...more...

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Bells of Mindfulness
Updated: 2010-05-21 16:49:00
Description: Sister Dang Nghiem shows us the proper way to invite the sound of the bell. She also teaches us how to cultivate that peacefulness when we hear noises that might otherwise cause stress.Lay practitioner Patrick Burke made the video.  A higher res...more...

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Sister Dang Nghiem on Inviting the Bell
Updated: 2010-05-21 16:34:00
Description: This is the full audio version of the Bells of Mindfulness video....more...

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Starting a Fire: A Dharma Talk from The Venerable Phuoc Tinh
Updated: 2010-03-23 15:38:00
Description:   Dear Friends Thich Phuoc Tinh, known to the Sangha as The Venerable, here offers a wonderfully direct talk to encourage us forward in our practice. He reminds us that if we stop practicing when we are feeling good, we are like a person rubbing...more...

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VIDEO PODCAST Meet our Practitioners: J.C. Earle's Garden Practice
Updated: 2010-02-26 00:46:00
Description: Dear Friends, We hope you will enjoy this short interview with a local Deer Park practitioner.   J.C. Earle practices with the Compassionate Heart Sangha in Los Angeles, and he's a frequent visitor to Deer Park.  In this video, J.C. di...more...

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Wake Up!
Updated: 2010-01-29 17:57:00
Description: Dear Friends, Last night at the Dharma Nectar Hall of Lower Hamlet in Plum Village, lay and monastic practitioners from around the world gathered to concentrate our energy into a new song which could represent the Wake Up movement. Thanks to the good...more...

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Question and Answer Session from the Mindfulness and Education Retreat
Updated: 2010-01-25 06:10:00
Description: Dear Friends, Often at the end of retreats at Deer Park, a panel of Monks and Nuns will offer a question and answer session with the retreat’s participants. These sessions are always a precious opportunity for the retreat participants to seek guida...more...

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Elements of Practice: Stopping, a Dharma Talk from Phap Ho
Updated: 2009-12-17 00:42:00
Description: Dear Friends,  In our next focus on the Elements of Practice we look at the first of two basic practices of the dharma: stopping and looking deeply.  In this dharma talk, Brother Phap Ho guides us in Stopping – coming to rest in the prese...more...

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The Three Brains, a Dharma Talk by Sister Dang Nghiem
Updated: 2009-11-12 03:08:00
Description: Dear Friends, In this dharma talk Sister Dang Nghiem explores neurologist Paul MacLean’s idea that our brains actually consist of three brains layered by evolution atop one another – the reptilian brain, the mammalian brain, and the intellectual ...more...

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SOS from Bat Nha Monastery
Updated: 2009-09-27 14:40:00
Description: Dear Friends,The situation at Bat Nha Monastery has reached an apex in the past 24 hours. One hundred policemen have shown up at Bat Nha Monastery. Three of our brothers, Phap Hoi, Phap Tu and Phap Sy have been taken and have not been seen. The rest ...more...

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Are you really there?-- a Dharma Talk by Sister Tue Nghiem
Updated: 2009-08-14 16:02:00
Description: Dear Friends Our practice is to learn to listen to the innate wisdom that is inside of us, instead of the voices of judgment and expectation that battle for our attention.  In this dharma talk, through sharing of very personal stories of care-ta...more...

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A Dharmacast for Kids of all Ages: Songs of Joe Reilly
Updated: 2009-07-29 01:57:00
Description: Dear Friends In this out-of-the-ordinary edition of the Deer Park dharmacast, we would like to share two songs by singer/songwriter Joe Reilly.  Joe, a practitioner in the Plum village tradition, is a face commonly seen visiting Deer Park when h...more...

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The Beloved Community
Updated: 2009-06-11 05:08:00
Description: Dear Friends,The 21-Day Retreat is now underway in Plum Village. Thay offered this talk to the newly arrived retreatants, beginning with a sharing on his meetings with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and continuing on to discuss how we can support Presi...more...

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Listening to the Wave, A Dharma Talk from Sister Dang Nghiem
Updated: 2009-05-29 16:11:00
Description: Dear Friends, We often experience our emotions like waves, crashing on the shore.  But a wave’s beginning can be miles away, or thousands of feet underwater.  The same is true for our emotions.  In this talk, Sister Dang Nghiem shows...more...

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Skillful Means: A Dharma Talk from Sister Huong Nghiem
Updated: 2009-04-12 02:11:00
Description: Dear Friends,  This Dharma talk is the final talk of Deer Park’s Heart of the Winter Retreat, a time of intensive study and practice for the monastics. To bring this three-month time of retreat to a close, Sister Huong Nghiem, or Sister True F...more...

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Living Deeply: A Dharma Talk from Thich Phước Tịnh
Updated: 2009-02-27 20:13:00
Description: Dear Friends Thích Phước Tịnh, known to the Sangha as the Venerable, here offers a wonderful and direct talk on living deeply as a human being, going inward to find deep meaning in your life, and so transcending happiness and suffering, fortune...more...

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Appropriateness by Thay Phap Hai
Updated: 2009-02-07 22:13:00
Description: Dear Friends, Deer Park has been alive with energy these past weeks with the monks, nuns, and visitors joyfully celebrating Tet, the lunar New Year. Celebrations included thrilling dragon dances, and the making of hundreds of traditional earth-cakes....more...

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Self-Renewal and Setting our Intentions for the New Year
Updated: 2009-01-13 05:47:00
Description: Happy New Year! Today’s podcast was the result of a wonderful experiment at Deer Park.  Zen Teacher Thay Phap Hai and two Order of Interbeing members, Karen Hilsberg and Kenley Neufeld, shared a dharma talk on self-renewal.  These wonderf...more...

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Winter Retreat Talk on Openness with Thay Phap Dung
Updated: 2008-11-19 15:48:00
Description: Dear Friends The annual Winter Retreat opened very joyfully at Deer Park on November 15.  From requests in past year's Winter Retreats for more structured study during these three months, the community has planned a number of courses for monasti...more...

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Recitation of the 14 Mindfulness Trainings
Updated: 2008-11-12 03:20:00
Description: Hello everyone Dharma teachers Thay Phap Ho and Sister Dang Nghiem offer a recitation of the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings of the Order of Interbeing.  Thich Nhat Hanh says in this book, Interbeing, “If we practice these trainings deeply enou...more...

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Be True, Be Beautiful: 2008 Teen Retreat with Thay Phap Dung and Sister Dang Nghiem
Updated: 2008-09-30 02:57:00
Description: Dear Young Friends On September 19, 2008, the Wake Up movement for young Buddhists and non-Buddhists for a healthy and compassionate society was announced.  Wake Up is a community of young Dharma practitioners who want to help their society...more...

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Elements of Practice: Sitting Meditation with Thay Phap Hai (Part 1)
Updated: 2008-08-28 23:59:00
Description: Dear Friends. Today we are happy to share a new kind of offering with you.  We are initiating a series of podcasts called the “Elements of Practice”.   We are so fortunate to have our first offering in this series from Th...more...

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Leaving Behind: A Talk from the Winter Retreat
Updated: 2008-07-22 15:35:00
Description: Greetings Friends Here is an excerpt from one of Thay’s talks focusing on some lessons for beginning practitioners.  For example, the practice of leaving behind can bring great happiness.  He also discusses skillful ways to relate to...more...

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Dharma Teacher Larry Ward at the Vesak Conference in Vietnam
Updated: 2008-06-29 14:54:00
Description: Dear Friends This month we offer a wonderful sharing from Dharma teacher Larry Ward at the UN Vesak conference in Vietnam.  “The question is not what may I do to be saved, but rather, what must we do to be saved.  And by ‘we’ I mean t...more...

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Beginning Anew with Thay Phap An and Sr. Dang Nghiem
Updated: 2008-05-12 03:18:00
Description: Dear Friends The practice of Beginning Anew is the deep teaching offered by Dharma teachers Sr. Dang Nghiem and Br. Phap An.  It is a wonderful practice that can help heal relationships and improve communication and understanding—the foundatio...more...

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2007 Fall College Retreat Question and Answer: Part 2
Updated: 2008-04-10 15:26:00
Description: Dear Friends We hope you are enjoying the beautiful spring.  Here is Part 2 of the 2007 Question and Answer from our College Retreat at Deer Park Monastery.  Dharma teachers offer their insights on many subjects including the impacts of soc...more...

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2007 Fall College Retreat Question and Answer: Part 1
Updated: 2008-02-28 05:23:00
Description: Dear Friends, This month we offer the first of a two part Question and Answer session held during our most recent College Retreat.  Several monastic Dharma Teachers share their insights in response to questions from our college students.  ...more...

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Earth Peace Treaty Commitment Sheet
Updated: 2007-10-21 02:46:00
Description: Dear friends, please download and read over this sheet, which we have been distributing at many of our retreats during this past tour. It lists actions we can take in our daily lives to reduce our impact on our ecosystems and the planet. If you like,...more...

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Our Environment: Touching Our Gift of Life
Updated: 2007-10-19 22:35:00
Description: This week we offer you a talk that Thay gave in Denver, Colorado on August 29th, 2007 during this summer's tour. It was entitled "Our Environment: Touching Our Gift of Life," and in it Thay looks deeply at our present situation as human beings on the...more...

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Talk at Hong Kong University
Updated: 2007-05-24 05:50:00
Description: The two-and-a-half month trip to Vietnam this year has finished with success. Thay and the Sangha have continued on for ten days of retreats and days of mindfulness in Hong Kong, and we now are in Chiang Mai, Thailand for a five-day retreat. This wee...more...

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Talk at the Melia Hotel, Hanoi
Updated: 2007-05-10 16:23:00
Description: This talk was offered by Thay to foreigners living in Hanoi on April 25, 2007. Included are questions and answers from the audience, and a reading of the letter that Thay offered to the people of Vietnam as part of the three reconciliation ceremonies...more...

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Talk for Intellectuals in Da Nang
Updated: 2007-04-21 06:30:00
Description: This week we offer a talk for intellectuals and others given at the Sandy Beach Hotel in Da Nang. The quality of the recording is not great due to background noise, but it is intelligible, and the talk is worth the trouble. A number of questions are ...more...

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Talk from Hue Reconciliation Ceremony
Updated: 2007-04-15 06:21:00
Description: This week we offer a talk from the first day of the Three Day Reconciliation Ceremony in Hue at Dieu De Temple. The ceremony was the second one on this trip, after the one in Vinh Nghiem Temple, TP Ho Chi Minh. Loved ones of people of all nationaliti...more...

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Tour of the Root Temple
Updated: 2007-04-04 10:57:00
Description: This week Sister Dang Nghiem follows Thay on a tour of the Tu Hieu Temple, where he trained as a novice. The tour begins across the road from the temple, at the Bodhi Stupa in a pine forest, and continues down to the old showering well before heading...more...

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Interview with the Abbot of Prajna Temple
Updated: 2007-03-22 08:22:00
Description: This week we offer an interview with the Venerable Thay Duc Nghi, the founder and abbot of Prajna Temple in Bao Loc, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam. Thay Duc Nghi offered Prajna Temple as a place where young monks and nuns could practice according t...more...

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Questions and Answers at Prajna Temple
Updated: 2007-03-09 05:00:00
Description: Greetings from Bat Nha (Prajna) Temple near Bao Loc in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam. Thay and the Sangha arrived here over a week ago and, after a three day trip to Da Lat where Thay lived and taught as a young Dharma Teacher, offered a retreat for lay...more...

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Dharma Talk from Vinh Nghiem
Updated: 2007-03-04 15:52:00
Description: Now we are two weeks into Thay's second trip back to Vietnam. The delegation has left TP Ho Chi Minh for Prajna Temple in Bao Loc, about five hours northeast of the city. After a three day visit to Da Lat we are back at Prajna for the Lay Practition...more...

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Mindfulness and Healing in Vietnam
Updated: 2007-02-23 19:58:00
Description: This week we offer the first of Thay's talks in this year's trip to Vietnam. This talk was given at the Phap Van Temple in TP Ho Chi Minh on Feb. 22, 2007 to an audience of lay and monastic practitioners. The translation into English was done by Sist...more...

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Beginner's Mind
Updated: 2007-02-12 06:27:00
Description: This week Thay offers a teaching on how to maintain beginner's mind even when we are years into the practice. Also, how do the precepts support our practice?On Feb 18 we plan to leave for a three month trip in Vietnam, Hong Kong and Thailand. We will...more...

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Q&A Session - January
Updated: 2007-01-30 07:21:00
Description: Welcome to this month's question and answer session on the Deer Park Dharmacast. Sister Dang Nghiem (photo) and Sister Hanh Nghiem answer questions that have been sent in over the past few weeks. How do we practice with jealousy? What distinguishes T...more...

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Energy and Ecology at Deer Park
Updated: 2007-01-16 23:04:00
Description: This week we invite you to listen to an evening of sharing which took place during the second night of the Order of Interbeing Retreat this past week at Deer Park Monastery. Monastics and lay friends share about the current situation of energy consum...more...

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New Year Aspiration
Updated: 2007-01-05 17:31:00
Description: This week's offering is the talk given by our teacher in Plum Village on New Year's Eve. Thay encourages us to make a deep aspiration for the New Year, and to put it into practice.Please write to us and tell us your aspiration to practice here in the...more...

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Lamp Transmission - Diana Petech
Updated: 2006-12-23 21:38:00
Description: This holiday week we offer you the audio from one of the Dharma Teacher Lamp Transmissions during the recent Beauty and Well-Being Great Ordination Ceremony in Plum Village, France. Four lay dharma teachers from Italy were chosen to receive the lamp ...more...

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Discourse on Love
Updated: 2006-12-13 22:00:00
Description: This week we offer a chant recorded by Sister The Nghiem of Green Mountain Dharma Center: Discourse on Love. This chant is a common one in the Pali tradition of Theravadan Buddhists. The English translation was done by our teacher Thich Nhat Hanh wit...more...

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Five Mindfulness Trainings Recitation
Updated: 2006-12-07 04:16:00
Description: Dear Friends, This week we offer the recitation of the Five Mindfulness Trainings that was offered by Thay Phap Lai this past Sunday. Please use this in your own practice of these trainings week to week. Smile....more...

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Crossing Over to the Other Shore
Updated: 2006-11-30 02:06:00
Description: Dear Friends,This week we share a dharma talk that our teacher Thay gave in Plum Village on October 29, 2006, shortly before the recent U.S. elections.  It offers a deep view into both the nature of our current world situation and the nature of ...more...

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Q&A Session - November
Updated: 2006-11-22 03:17:00
Description: Dear Friends,This week we have our monthly question and answer session with two monks recently arrived from Plum Village, Thay Phap Lai and Thay Phap Thanh (right.) Sister Susan also joins us to answer a number of questions sent to us via e-mail in t...more...

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College Retreat 2006 - Orientation
Updated: 2006-11-15 03:24:00
Description: Dear Friends,This week we offer the orientation given on the first night of the recent Retreat for College Students at Deer Park. Sister Thuan Nghiem (Harmony, right) and Brother Phap Luu (Stream) cover the basic practices of mindful breathing, sitti...more...

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Is Meditation Cool? - College Retreat Fall 2006
Updated: 2006-11-07 08:02:00
Description: Dear Friends,This week we publish one of the talks from our recent college retreat. Our abbot Thay Phap Dung speaks about his own path of practice, and what it means to bring meditation into our lives. Brother Phap Huu hosts.May you be well....more...

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Introduction to Walking Meditation
Updated: 2006-11-01 06:45:00
Description: Dear Friends,This week's edition of the Dharmacast includes an introduction to the practice of walking meditation offered by Sister Chau Nghiem (Jewel) and a session of evening chanting led by Br. Phap Khoi. Br. Phap De hosts this Halloween broadcast...more...

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Question and Answer Session - October
Updated: 2006-10-22 05:51:00
Description: Dear Friends,This week we are happy to share with you a question and answer session that we participated in this past Thursday afternoon in the Ocean of Peace Meditation Hall here at Deer Park. Brother Stream hosts, and Thay Abbot Brother Phap Dung (...more...

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Monastic Interview: Thay Phap Dang
Updated: 2006-10-15 05:41:00
Description: This week Brother Stream interviews Thay Phap Dang, a Dharma Teacher and the Abbot of Maple Forest Monastery in Vermont. Thay Phap Dang was invited by the Deer Park Sangha along with Thay Vo Ngai to support us during the recent Vietnamese Retreat. He...more...

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Two Sutras on Mindful Breathing
Updated: 2006-10-10 03:58:00
Description: This week Brother Phap Luu offers readings of two sutras on mindful breathing translated from Chinese by our teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh. These sutras were the main texts used during the 21-day retreat this past June entitled "The Breath of the Bud...more...

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True Power: A Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh Part II
Updated: 2006-10-03 07:37:00
Description: In this talk from Plum Village on 01 Oct 2006, Thay investigates the true nature of power in the light of the Buddha's teaching, and he describes how we may realize this power in our present-day lives. Also: what are the powers of a true teacher? ...more...

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True Power: A Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh Part I
Updated: 2006-10-03 07:35:00
Description: A two part release, in this talk from Plum Village on 01 Oct 2006, Thay investigates the true nature of power in the light of the Buddha's teaching, and he describes how we may realize this power in our present-day lives. Also: what are the powers of...more...

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Tree Meditation
Updated: 2006-10-01 15:40:00
Description: Tree Meditation is the title of a song from the album Refuge Tree.  Please enjoy, the whole album can be purchased at the Unified Buddhist Church Gateway.  To find more information about the singer please visit Joe Reilly's webpage.We have ...more...

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Soul of Gratitude: Retreat for People of Color Part III
Updated: 2006-09-25 04:47:00
Description: Another gift from the hidden mountains of Escondido, CA. This time we can enjoy a talk from Sister Chau Nghiem (Jewel) which she gave on the first full day of the POC Retreat.I was surprised by words of thanks I recieved this past weekend.  It g...more...

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Happiness is Here and Now
Updated: 2006-09-17 23:14:00
Description: A little treat for the e-community.  Laura Hunter, a regular at DP loves this song and I thought it would be a nice gift.  If you have attended a retreat hosted by the Plum Village Sangha then you should be familar with this song.  For...more...

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Soul of Gratitude: Retreat for People of Color Part II
Updated: 2006-09-17 22:44:00
Description: Did we keep you waiting?  Here is the 2nd installment of the Soul of Gratitude retreat: the practice of Touching the Earth. Brother Larry Ward gives the introduction, and he is joined in the readings by Brother Phap Khoi (right), Sister Chau Ngh...more...

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Soul of Gratitude: Retreat for People of Color Part I
Updated: 2006-09-10 04:22:00
Description: It has only been a week since our first DPCast but it feels as though Deer Park has been apart of my life forever.  We have had some wonderful feedback from the e-community and we have read every word!  Thank you so much for such encouragin...more...

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Saturday Evening Guided Meditation and Chanting
Updated: 2006-09-04 15:25:00
Description: This is our first attempt, please give us feedback so we can improve upon what we offer to you and the e-community. Brother Phap Luu chants the morning chant, and Brother Phap De (right) offers a guided meditation.In our first dpcast you'll find some...more...

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