‘The Teachings Are Alive in Us’
Reflections on Plum Village’s twentieth anniversary BIPOC retreat
Valerie Brown
Valerie Brown is of Afro-Cuban descent and is a dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition founded by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. She is the author of Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace and the coauthor of Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation.
Finding the Juicy and Joyful in Celibacy
In an excerpt from their latest book, Healing Our Way Home, three Black Buddhist teachers talk about intimacy, sexuality, and healing.
How Meditation Teacher Valerie Brown Combines Buddhist and Quaker Practices
In a recent episode of Life As It Is, dharma teacher Valerie Brown discusses the relationship between buddhanature and the Quaker understanding of the soul.
The Lightness of Breathing
Instructions on how to breathe when you feel like crap
How to Fight Without Hating
Buddhist teacher Valerie Brown provides a lesson on skillful action and the power of love in the struggle against injustice.
Podcasts
Making Peace with Our Longing to Belong
In this episode of Life As It Is, dharma teacher Valerie Brown shares her journey through personal loss and her search for sustainable and supportive community.
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Length: 50:35
Dharma Talks
How to Fight Injustice Without Hating
Based on Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings of engaged Buddhism and the Plum Village tradition, this course offers practices to help ground ourselves amid the negativity and injustice that we face. From a peaceful center, you’ll discover…
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