NuMundo - Thai Plum Village

About.

You are warmly invited to visit Thai Plum Village and practice with our growing international community of practice and to enjoy the wonderful energy of mindfulness. The monastery stay is for us to enjoy simple and peaceful living, and thereby nurture our own inner growth. We can take time to look deeply in order to transform both our individual difficulties and the difficulties in our society.

Our practices at Thai Plum Village help us weave mindfulness into all of our daily activities. In this way we can practice meditation throughout the day, while eating, walking, sitting, working, or enjoying a cup of tea together. Friends are invited to participate in community activities such as walking and sitting meditation as well as community work in arranging the meditation halls, cleaning bathrooms, washing pots and other simple tasks as part of the daily practice of mindfulness.

We emphasize community practice so that we can support each other, benefit from our collective energy, and learn to live together in harmony. We ask everyone to contribute to the collective energy of practice by joining in all the scheduled activities.

Thai Plum Village observes a monastic way of life year round; we ask our friends to observe our way of mindful and ethical living as expressed in the Five Mindfulness Trainings. The Five Mindfulness Trainings are the foundation of the Plum Village community, bringing happiness and meaning to all that we do. In addition to the five trainings, we also practice a vegan diet. Please do not bring non-vegan foods, alcohol, or other intoxicants to our practice center.