This 120-acre residential monastery and mindfulness practice center rests peacefully in Northwest Mississippi. It is a place to rest with the present moment and to live peacefully with the faithful friend, our breathing.
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Upcoming Events
List of Events
Lunar New Year Celebration (Tết)
You are welcome to join the Magnolia Grove Monastery community for our celebrations of the Lunar New Year, or “Tết” – the most important festival in Vietnamese culture. This is one of the more unusual and joyous weeks in the Magnolia Grove calendar, centered around informal teachings based on traditional Vietnamese poetic “oracle reading”. Please note that our formal practices of sitting meditation, walking meditation and silent meals are suspended, and replaced with informal practice. Therefore this week…
Vegan Cooking Retreat
“Nothing can survive without food.” - Buddha But, how do we eat to nourish our body and mind in a beautiful and wholesome way? This is an essential question. Most of time we usually think that vegetarian dishes are simple and tasteless. But in fact, they are colorful and tasty. This cooking retreat will allow you to learn how to cook like the monastics. You will not only learn how to cook,…
Silence Retreat – Refreshing and Healing Oneself
We invite you to join us for this very special retreat, “Refreshing and Healing Oneself”. This retreat will be the first time the compiled “Silence” teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh have been offered in retreat format. And immersed in the quiet, natural beauty of the Magnolia Grove campus our practice will have ample opportunity to flourish. We spend a lot of our lives searching for happiness, running from one thing to another, worrying about the past and being anxious about…
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