Welcome to the Blue Cliff Monastery website! We hope you can join us for a day of mindfulness or an overnight Seasonal Retreat or themed retreat.
Most Thursdays and Sundays are days of mindfulness. Please check the Schedule of Events page of our website for more information on days of mindfulness.
Do you want to come for a weekend visit? Or a week or two? For information on overnight stays or Seasonal Retreats, please visit our website page, About Our Retreats.
Blue Cliff Monastery Road Tour Brings Dharma to Northeast U.S
Arrived
the plum village band
Sometimes you don’t know
Which way you should go
Sometimes you can’t see
Who you’re meant to be
Every time the sun rises
Every time the moonlight shines
3-month Winter Retreat, Nov 8 to Feb 9
The 3-month Winter Retreat is a wonderful way to deepen your personal practice of mindfulness in the context of community. The emphasis is on practicing as a community as we live, practice, study, and serve. For more info…….
Featured Video
A sharing on practices in difficult time by Br. Pháp Khôi
Plum Village offers these parallel verses for Tet (the Lunar New Year), to usher in the Year of the Dragon in 2024. Click here for more information on the practice of the parallel verses.
October 19, 2023
An Open Letter to The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
President of the United States
from the International Plum Village Community
of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
For more information and an invitation to sit together in peace, click here….
Click here for resources…..
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE - On Sat Sep 21, Plum Village sanghas in Israel will be offering a Peace Walk in Israel 5 pm Israeli time. Please join Blue Cliff Monastery on Zoom for a simultaneous session of sitting meditation, chanting, and walking meditation (10 am - 12:30 pm ET) so that together we may generate the energies of understanding, peace, and compassion to help embrace and transform the suffering of violence and war. Our presence and practice are concrete ways we can continue to support our siblings in Israel and Palestine, in Ukraine, Sudan, and those in all war-torn lands worldwide.
L i g h t a C a n d l e - a poem about embracing and bearing witness to suffering with collective care and compassion, contributed by our Sangha friend, Judy Myerson.
Embrace Sangha
Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness
in the Plum Village Tradition
BIPOC Meditation Sangha
A Weekly Gathering for People of Color
A Mindful Earth Justice Initiative in the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism
Featured Audios
The link below is the Qigong Meditation Channel where Br. Man Tue will post more Qigong videos. Be sure to try the five minute qigong hand massage. Some qigong can be done from sitting in a chair. There are new qigong videos being added each month. Br. Man Tue (Br. Insight) resides at Deer Park Monastery in Escondido, CA.