TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk, Teachings
How to Be Your Own Soulmate
Using Thich Nhat Hanh’s Three Powers to heal our relationship with ourselves
Sister Dang Nghiem
Sister Dang Nghiem earned a medical degree from the University of California–San Francisco and later left her practice as a doctor to live at Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village, where she was ordained as a nun in 2000. She is the author of the memoir Healing: A Woman’s Journey from Doctor to Nun (2010) and Mindfulness as Medicine: A Story of Healing and Spirit (2015). Her latest book is Flowers in the Dark, a guidebook to healing trauma with mindfulness practice.
TeachingsMagazine | In Brief, Teachings
Suffering Is Fertile Soil
A brief teaching from a Buddhist nun in the Plum Village tradition
Meditation Meditation Month 2021
Rehearsing Suffering
Those of us who have survived trauma are frequently troubled by intrusive thinking. But we can learn to practice thinking in a nurturing way.
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