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Plum Village Delivers Letter for Peace to President Biden

10/19/2023

 
"Cultivating Compassion In a Time of War " retreat, Tyrol, Austria - Octorber 13, 2023
Image of Letter to President Biden, which included Meditations & Practices.
The International Plum Village Community of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh appealed to President Biden in a letter October 19, 2023.  The letter urged the US to call for peace and to support compassion for all civilians, and military as well, on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,  The letter was authored and signed by the Senior Elder monk and the Senior Elder nun of the Tradition in continuation of the peacemaking practices of Thich Nhat Hanh.  The letter includes a 2-page appeal to President Biden plus a 2-page Invitation To Sit Together for Peace.  The full 20 page communication, found here, includes meditations, practices for Peace and Dharma Talks that were given at retreats on October 13, 2023 and also an Open Letter Calling for Peace from April 2022 at the beginning of the war in Ukraine. 

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