At Plum Village, there are several hundred people living together like a family in a very simple way. At Plum Village, we have had the opportunity to practice together as a community. We are able to build up brotherhood and sisterhood. Although we live simply, we have a lot of joy because of the amount of understanding and compassion that we can generate. We are able to go to many countries to offer mindfulness retreats so that people may have a chance to heal, transform and to reconcile. Healing, transformation and reconciliation always happen during our retreats. That can be very nourishing.
We have invited Israelis and Palestinians to Plum Village to practice with us. When they come they bring anger, suspicion, fear and hate. But after a week or two of the practices of mindful walking, mindful breathing, mindful eating and mindful sitting, they are able to recognize their pain, embrace it and find relief. When they are initiated to the practice of deep listening, they are able to listen to others and realize that people from the other groups suffer as they do. When you know that they also suffer from violence, from hate, from fear and despair, you begin to look at them with the eyes of compassion. At that moment you suffer less and you make them suffer less. Communication becomes possible with the use of loving speech and deep listening.
The Israelis and Palestinians always come together as a group at the end of their stay in Plum Village. They always report the success of their practice. They always go back to the Middle East intending to continue the practice and invite others to join them, so that those others might suffer less and help others to suffer less too.
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This is amazing...A judge defends our heroic Chagossian colonists and their right to settle their homeland islands, which are British and will remainโฆ"
This is amazing...A judge defends our heroic Chagossian colonists and their right to settle their homeland islands, which are British and will remainโฆ"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM42NkUhSnM"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM42NkUhSnM"
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https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/the-great-state-of-alberta"
https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/the-great-state-of-alberta"
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There's the real Trumpโฆ"
There's the real Trumpโฆ"
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If they're not lying, theyโฆ"
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