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A "Love Letter" for Our Community by Ocean Vuong — Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation

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With deep gratitude, we share this "love letter" to the Plum Village monastic and lay community by Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese American and celebrated poet and novelist. Dear monastic and lay practitioners in our Buddhist communities far and wide— In the days following Thầy’s continuati

With deep gratitude, we share this "love letter" to the Plum Village monastic and lay community by Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese American and celebrated poet and novelist. Dear monastic and lay practitioners in our Buddhist communities far and wide— In the days following Thầy’s continuation, I have been asked by various media outlets, as a Buddhist author, to speak on this momentous occurrence in our community. But I declined—for what have I to say that Thầy’s teaching has not already solidified, already made so self-evidently clear? His practice and life’s work were always to prepare us for this

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