Learning to Die Each Day
A Plum Village nun reflects on how remembering our mortality can help awaken us to the beauty of each moment.
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.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Openings, Podcasts
Healing Within
An excerpt of a conversation between Sister Dang Nghiem and Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen
Verses of Transformation
Sister Dang Nghiem’s latest book brings together over three decades of her poetry, charting her journey from grief and trauma to insight and compassion.
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk, Teachings
How to Be Your Own Soulmate
Using Thich Nhat Hanh’s Three Powers to heal our relationship with ourselves
TeachingsMagazine | In Brief, Teachings
Suffering Is Fertile Soil
A brief teaching from a Buddhist nun in the Plum Village tradition
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.
Podcasts
Transforming Grief into Wisdom
Sister Dang Nghiem explores how poetry, together with mindfulness, can offer not just a description of suffering but a way out of it.
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