Order of Interbeing | Tiep Hien

Students of Thich Nhat Hanh and practicing the Plum Village Tradition

  • Who? Me? Change the World?

    And so a question: Am I a human manifestation who is conscious or, consciousness manifested as a human? Me thinks the later. From a single consciousness we humans spring, and all are one. With this awakening I see that the suffering of one is the suffering of many and that the joy of another is […]

  • Serving The Ill And Dying

    I began working as a healthcare chaplain in 2005, the same year I was ordained in the Order of Interbeing.  For those unfamiliar with the role, healthcare chaplains help patients cope with their changing lives using the patient’s own language of meaning, whether that language is religious, scientific, philosophical or based upon their life experiences.  […]

  • Bumper Sticker Practice

    Earlier this year I came up with a new mindfulness practice: bumper stickers! OK, let me explain. I like finding new and inventive ways to cultivate daily mindfulness. Being mindful means being mindful of something. And that something can be anything! Anything that allows us the opportunity to practice getting in touch and connecting with […]

  • A Road Back

    A Road Back for Lapsed Order of Interbeing Core Community Lay Members Who Wish to Renew An offering from the North American Dharma Teachers Sangha From time to time, Order of Interbeing (OI) Core Community members may fall away from their practice as brothers and sisters in the OI family. Some of these friends retain […]

  • Forty Tenets of Plum Village

    Introduction The Forty Tenets were formulated and taught by Thầy in Plum Village during the Spring Retreat 2006, the Autumn Retreat 2006 and the Winter Retreats 2006, 2007. They serve as the foundation for the Plum Village teachings and practices and for our Mindfulness Trainings, whether they are the Five of the laity, the Ten […]

  • Orlando and Beyond

    Dear sangha,  We are connecting with you at this time in order to encourage and support ways of practicing that can lead to personal and collective healing and transformation related to what is going on in the world. We wish to find ways we can be of support to each other as a community in […]

  • North American Ordination (2015 Only)

    North American Ordination (2015 Only)

    Dear Dharma Teachers, Dear Order Members, Dear Aspirants, In 2015 there will be three opportunities for aspirants from North America to be ordained into the Order of Interbeing. In order to facilitate the process, the Care-taking Council of the Dharma Teachers Sangha of North America (including both monastics and lay) have clarified the requirements, criteria, […]

  • Order Members Call to Ban Fracking in California

    Feb 7, 2015 Dear Governor Brown, We write to you today to support you to support a ban on fracking–hydraulic fracturing –in California, and to support you in your commitment to address climate change, as you stated in your inaugural: we need to take “significant amounts of carbon out of our economy.” As a Fourfold […]

  • Sexual Harassment Policy

    This is the most recent tool provided to us by the North American Dharma Teachers Harmony Committee. Here is an excerpt: “Dharma Teachers have an ethical duty to prevent harm, including harm from intentional or unintentional sexual harassment. The Care-Taking Council offers this policy to increase Dharma Teacher awareness of and sensitivity to possible sexual […]

  • Philip Seymour Hoffman and Me

    Happiness, the End of Suffering, and Recovery Forty-six. That’s not so old — young in fact. He and I are both 46, with young children, and in a long term relationship. We both got sober very young and then maintained that sobriety for many years. Mr. Hoffman made it 23-years, and I’m about to reach my 25th […]