Plum Village: Mindfulness App

Centre for Applied Ethics

About this app

Looking to touch peace, calm and ease in today’s frantic and often stressful world? The Plum Village practices are an invaluable support.

Use mindfulness meditation techniques taught by a renowned Zen Buddhist Master to connect deeply with the present moment, soothe anxiety, experience more joy and happiness, and taste enlightenment.

Explore a wealth of easy-to-use guided meditations, relaxations, and talks.

The Plum Village app enables us to bring mindfulness into our life, so we can live each moment more deeply and create a happier future.

As Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh said, mindfulness allows us to be truly alive.

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Plum Village: Zen Guided Meditation App – Main Features
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• Free forever with no ads or in-app purchases
• 100+ guided meditations
• A customizable meditation timer
• A “Mindfulness Bell” to incorporate into your daily routine
• 300+ video sessions/Q&As with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and Plum Village teachers
• 15 guided meditations for children
• “Favourite” your most loved meditations to find them easily
• Download talks and meditations to the app for easy offline practice

The Plum Village app is regularly being updated with new guided meditations and talks. It is completely free to download and all of the content is available for free.

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Plum Village: Zen Guided Meditation App – Main Categories
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The Plum Village app is split into four easy-to-use categories – meditations, talks, resources, and bells of mindfulness:

Meditations

Meditation is a deep practice that helps us generate peace and calm, master our mind, develop a healthy headspace, and get deep insights into ourselves and the world around us.

Meditations include deep relaxations, guided contemplations, silent meditations, and eating meditations. Whether you have a little time or a lot, and whether you want to be on your cushion or applying mindfulness in your daily life, there are meditations to nourish, inspire, and incorporate into your daily routine.

Talks

Listen and learn from the wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh and other Plum Village meditation teachers.

Ask Thay includes hundreds of real-life questions asked to the Zen Master, like “How can we let go of anger? and “How can I stop worrying?” His answers are compassionate and infused with insight.

Dharma Talks are teachings given by Thich Nhat Hanh and others on how to bring Buddhist wisdom and mindfulness into our life. Rather than discussing theoretical concepts, they focuses on direct and clear teachings to relieve suffering and create happiness in our day to day lives. Topics include depression, PTSD, relationships, sexual abuse, fear, and dealing with strong emotions.

Resources

In Resources you can find a library of daily practices, chants, poems, and songs. These bring to life the practices taught in Plum Village monasteries around the world and offer ways to bring mindfulness into our world, wherever we are.

Bell of Mindfulness

In Plum Village monasteries bells of mindfulness chime at regular intervals. Everybody stops and takes three mindful breaths to pause from their thinking or talking, breathe, and return to their bodies. The Bell of Mindfulness allows us to have the same reminder on our phone.

We can customize the bell to chime at different time periods. Settings include:
• Start time / End time
• Chime intervals
• Bell volume
• Daily repeating schedule

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Why not give the Plum Village app a try and see how you can benefit from it? The app is a digital companion on your mindfulness journey. Created as a gift to the world, this free app contains invaluable resources to guide you towards inner peace and freedom.

Download today for free!

Ratings and reviews

this is a sweet app. I mean complaint is that it takes too long to get started you have to go through three or four screens each one taking a few seconds. I know that sounds like a silly thing to complain about with the meditation app I should learn to be more patient. My old app you simply hit go and it started.

I like this app's variety of meditations, chants, and lessons. I mostly use the talks on fear and depression and the shorter morning and evening meditations. It's easy to add the short ones onto my daily 10-15 minute practice. The app has a clear spiritual/religious grounding (Buddhism), but I don't feel like I need to be Buddhist to appreciate the lessons. In fact, I kind of like that all the meditations and teachings are grounded in a consistent point of view.

Very easy to use and helpful! Much easier than scouring YouTube for videos. The content is accessible and well organized, and the app offers a wide variety of resources. And best of all, it is completely ad and purchase free. Its a genuine offering of goodwill to humanity, in the form of an app! Thank you so much for putting this out into the world!

What's new

This small update fixes offline videos, re-ordering content languages, and other minor bugs.