Valerie Brown is a Buddhist-Quaker dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. She is the coauthor of Healing Our Way Home.
Valerie Brown is a Buddhist-Quaker dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. She is the coauthor of Healing Our Way Home.
Valerie Brown on the importance of taking care of ourselves, while taking care of others.
For Valerie Brown, her garden is a teacher of the dharma. In every bloom she sees impermanence, nonself, and nirvana.
Avoid pat expressions, says Valerie Brown. What a grieving person needs is loving presence.
Valerie Brown returns to gardening to recover her broken spirit, and discovers what really grows in a garden is love.
Satya Robyn, Harry Um, and Valerie Brown discuss the "positive" and "negative" focuses of Buddhist practice.