Meditation Group St George Art and Music Thich Nhat Hanh
[UPDATE: adds tributes and links to memorial schedule]
The community of Plum Village has announced the death of the internationally beloved and revered teacher and engaged Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh at Tu Hieu Temple in Hue, Vietnam. Thay, as the Vietnamese Zen master was known affectionately to his followers, is reported to have passed away at midnight on 22 January at the age of 95.
In a notice published on the Plum Village website, the monks and nuns of Plum Village in southwestern France shared:
With a deep mindful breath, nosotros announce the passing of our dearest teacher, Thay Nhat Hanh, at 00:00hrs on January 22, 2022 at Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam, at the age of 95.
Thay has been the about boggling instructor, whose peace, tender pity, and bright wisdom has touched the lives of millions. Whether nosotros have encountered him on retreats, at public talks, or through his books and online teachings–or simply through the story of his incredible life–nosotros tin can see that Thay has been a true bodhisattva, an immense force for peace and healing in the world. Thay has been a revolutionary, a renewer of Buddhism, never diluting and ever digging deep into the roots of Buddhism to bring out its authentic radiance.
Thay has opened up a beautiful path of Engaged and Applied Buddhism for all of us: the path of the Five Mindfulness Trainings and the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings of the Guild of Interbeing. As Thay would say, "Because we take seen the path, we accept nada more than to fear." Nosotros know our direction in life, we know what to do, and what not to exercise to salve suffering in ourselves, in others, and in the globe; and nosotros know the art of stopping, looking securely, and generating truthful joy and happiness.
Now is a moment to come up back to our mindful breathing and walking, to generate the free energy of peace, compassion, and gratitude to offer our beloved Teacher. It is a moment to have refuge in our spiritual friends, our local sanghas and community, and each other.
We invite yous to join our global community online, as we commemorate Thay'southward life and legacy with five days of do and ceremonies broadcast LIVE from Hue, Vietnam and Plum Village, France, starting on Sabbatum January 22nd. There will as well exist ceremonies hosted in Deer Park Monastery, California, and other practice centers in our tradition. Please reach out to your local exercise center or sangha for more information.
Let us each resolve to do our all-time over the coming days to generate the energy of mindfulness, peace, and compassion, to send to our beloved Instructor.
Over the coming hours on the Plum Hamlet website, nosotros will publish some inspirational chants, texts, and mindfulness exercise resources, to support you to come up together with your local sangha to generate a collective energy of mindfulness and pity, and create your ain ceremony or session in tribute to our Instructor. As Thay has ever taught, nothing is more than important than alliance and sisterhood, and nosotros all know the ability of collective energy.
To bring together united states of america in this time of collective exercise over the coming days, please sign up to our international email list for more updates: https://bit.ly/3fJx7pd
With honey, trust, and togetherness,
The Monks and Nuns of Plum Village, France
A river memorials flowed in from around the world as the countless people whose live accept been touched past the words and deeds of this agent of peace and liberation and a pioneer of Buddhism in the West were moved to offering personal tributes. The renowned Korean Seon (Zen) master and fellow engaged Buddhist Ven. Pomnyun Sunim published a touching bulletin that expressed the sadness felt by millions:
As ane who has always had great respect for Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, I am deeply saddened by the news of his passing. I would have liked him to stay with us a little longer for those who are suffering in this earth.
Born in Vietnam during the French colonial rule, he experienced the Vietnam War and witnessed the atrocities of mass killing and devastation, which led to a refugee crunch in Vietnam.
Despite all the arduousness and danger, he did not hesitate to sacrifice himself in realizing social justice based on the spirit of peace and reconciliation. Furthermore, he spread his philosophy of peace and reconciliation beyond Vietnam to the unabridged world.
He led a peace motion based on nonviolence and compassion.We, the practitioners effectually the world, regardless of nationality, ideology, and faith, vow to continue the nonviolent peace motility yous have led. Please entrust usa with the task. May y'all rest in eternal peace!
I accept refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.
From Ladakh in northern India, the renowned spiritual leader and socially engaged Buddhist monk Ven. Bhikkhu Sanghasena observed of Thay:
He was some time called as the Dalai Lama of the w. He was a poet, educationist, and peace activist, lover of gardens and natures and prolific writer and author of many books. His books written lucidly and beautifully have become famous worldwide and to be institute in the all the globe major libraries. . . .
Though he was born and brought upwards in the Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist tradition, his teachings of meditation basically remained based on the famous Mahasatipatthana Sutta fond in PALI TIPITAKA. His pop meditation retreat "the fine art of mindful living" attracted huge numbers of seekers of truth and lovers of peace. . . .
With the passing away of this slap-up enlightened Master, one of the brightest lights of Buddha Dhamma will be missed. However his teachings and legacy will continue forever through his wonderful books teachings on social media. The globe lost ane of the most beautiful flowers of humanity!
I am one among millions who got benefits from his incredible teachings. I personally will miss this peachy flower of Dhamma.
And both His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness the Karmapa also offered public letters expressing heartfelt tributes. The Dalai Lama stated:
I am saddened to learn that my friend and spiritual brother Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh has died. I offering my condolences to his followers in Vietnam and around the earth.
In his peaceful opposition to the Vietnam war, his support for Martin Luther King and about of all his dedication to sharing with others not only how mindfulness and compassion contribute to inner peace, but besides how individuals cultivating peace of mind contributes to genuine world peace, the Venerable lived a truly meaningful life.
I accept no doubtfulness the best manner we tin pay tribute to him is to continue his work to promote peace in the world.
Born Nguyen Xuan Bao in central Vietnam on 11 Oct 1926, Thay was an influential Zen teacher, poet, and the author of more than 100 books translated into over 40 languages, including the bestsellingThe Miracle of Mindfulness, Peace is Every Step, and How to Love. As an unwavering advocate for peace, he was influential in the anti-war movement, encouraging not-violent protests during the American state of war in Vietnam. Before leaving Vietnam, Thay spearheaded a movement by Buddhists in the south calling for a negotiated terminate to the bloody conflict. In 1967, Thay was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize past the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who told the Nobel committee: "I do not personally know of anyone more than worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize than this gentle Buddhist monk from Vietnam." (Plum Hamlet)
Thay went on to establish the Gild of Interbeing and the Unified Buddhist Church, and in 1982 formed the Plum Village Buddhist Eye near Bordeaux in southwestern French republic with Sister Chan Khong. Establishing a greatly deep legacy of teachings, writings, and public works spanning decades, Thay became a central effigy in the manual of Buddhism to the West and in marrying an authentic Zen tradition and lineage with a progressive approach to issues such as social activism, peace advocacy, science versus faith, and religion versus spirituality.
Often known as "the father of mindfulness" who sowed the seeds of the modern mindfulness motility, Thay taught many of today's leading mindfulness teachers, and developed healing methodologies that have been incorporated into mainstream clinical psychology to care for depression, feet, and stress.
Thay was hospitalized in France in November 2014, following a severe brain hemorrhage. In April 2015, afterward months of rehabilitation, he returned to his Plum Village monastic community, where attendants from the monastery and visiting medical professionals continued to assist his recovery. In July of the aforementioned twelvemonth, Thay was flown to San Francisco to undergo a more than intensive rehabilitation plan, and in September 2015, Thay spoke his outset words since his stroke. The following January, he was allowed to render to Plum Village, where he remained under the intendance of the members of his community.
In December 2016, two months afterwards his 90th birthday, Thay communicated a clear and determined wish to travel from France to Thailand in order to be closer to his homeland. In Baronial 2017, Thay made his first visit to Vietnam in more than a decade, spending several days in Da Nang earlier visiting his hometown in nearby Hue and paying respects at his ancestral shrine and his lineage'south root temple, Tu Hieu, of which he remained the abbot. Thay spent the remainder of his life at Tu Hieu Temple in the loving care of his closest followers until his passing on 22 Jan.
Memorial Schedule for Thich Nhat Hanh
Worldwide Memorial Services
Plum Hamlet on YouTube
One of Thay's senior monastic disciples, Brother Chan Phap Dung, recalled a powerful teaching shared by Thay before he became sick, in which he instructed his community not to build a traditional memorial stupa for his remains later on his death:
"Please exercise not build a stupa for me. Please exercise not put my ashes in a vase, lock me inside and limit who I am. I know this will be hard for some of you. If you lot must build a stupa though, delight brand sure that y'all put a sign on it that says, 'I am non in here.' In addition, you can also put some other sign that says, 'I am not out there either,' and a third sign that says, 'If I am anywhere, it is in your mindful animate and in your peaceful steps.'"
(Plum Village)
Thay's work and legacy are connected past the International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism, a global grassroots network comprising more than 1,000 local mindfulness groups, dozens of meditation centers, and 10 monasteries in the US, Europe, and Asia, equally well every bit countless followers and practitioners effectually the world.
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Thich Nhat Hanh, eleven.10.1926–22.01.2022 (Plum Hamlet)
Thich Nhat Hanh: live blog (Plum Hamlet)
Memorial Schedule for Thich Nhat Hanh (Plum Village)
Worldwide Memorial Services (Plum Village)
Plum Village (YouTube)
Thich Nhat Hanh memorial practice resources (Plum Village)
Thich Nhat Hanh's full biography (Plum Hamlet)
The essential teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh (Plum Hamlet)
Free mindfulness app with guided meditations past Thich Nhat Hanh (Plum Village)
The Way Out is In official Plum Village podcast (Plum Village)
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