Practice Resources

In this section you will find links to some core texts and practices in the Plum Village tradition

Training

The Five Mindfulness Trainings

The Five Mindfulness Trainings (5MTs) represent the Buddhist vision for a global spirituality and ethic. Anyone can take the 5MTs during a special ceremony.

Discourse

Discourse on the Full Awareness of Breathing

The "Full Awareness of Breathing" is a means of practicing the "Four Establishments of Mindfulness"

Teaching

The Heart Sutra - New Translation

The Heart Sutra is a condensed teaching which says that ultimately everything is empty of a separate self, "Form is emptiness and emptiness is form".

Discourse

Discourse on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness

This describes the four methods of mindfulness: mindfulness of the body, feelings, the mind and the object of the mind.

Discourse

Discourse on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone

One of the earliest teachings of the Buddha.

Commentary

Thay's Commentary on the new translation of the Heart Sutra

In 2014 Thay retranslated the Heart Sutra and produced this commentary which explains the new translation.