Oct 29, 2024

It's Meet the Monastics!

Brother Phap Dung is a Vietnamese refugee who worked as an architect in Los Angeles before finding the practice, healing his relationship with his father, and changing the course of his life.

"Now you get to choose, and it's deliberate. That is a monk. I choose to be in this intimate way with...

Oct 22, 2024

Brother Minh Luong was raised in Laguna Beach, California, and went to NYU, where he read a book that changed his life.

"I realized recently that there really is no separation between the practice and everything we do in our daily life. Either we're creating conditions for a practice space, like an internal...

Oct 22, 2024

Sister Kinh Nghiem, one of the funniest and most stylish nuns in the world, was ordained when she was only 14.

"Get rid of all of your ideas of what monastic practice is. You know, you come here, I mean, the practice is wonderful. And it's for you to come and see for yourself. But if you start getting ideas of what you...

Oct 7, 2024

From Deer Park Monastery, it's Meet the Monastics, a new podcast featuring interviews with fully ordained monks and nuns, hosted by Brother Minh An and produced by Kenley Neufeld. As monastics, the most common question asked of us is, you guessed it, why did you become a monastic?...