Dear young friends,

Our teacher has expressed his deepest desire to help young people, touching this desire in the monastic community. We would like to reach out, understand and be with young people around the world. By creating a book, we would like to gather the experiences of being young, of growing up; to reflect, learn, understand and embrace the issues of a young person in our daily lives. Our goal is to find a practice, a way to help us feel better, be more peaceful and be happy.

Please contribute your experiences and insightpvlistening@plumvill.net

Here are some topics we have gathered:

• Friendship
• Entertainment-IPOD, Internet, Video games, TV, Movies
• Music
• School
• Relationship-family, friends, teacher, girlfriend/boyfriend
• Emotions,feelings
• Abuse
• Drugs
• Loneliness, isolation
• Fashion
• Peer Pressure
• Environment, neighborhood
• Social action/change-activism
• Death & Grief
• Suicide
• Violence-gang, family, etc.
• Privacy
• Positive/negative thinking
• Childhood trauma
• Competition
• Sex & Sexuality
• Identity
• Respect
• Dare
• Clubbin
• Dating
• Pasttime
• Backstabbing-gossip
• Betrayal
• Direction, goal, aspiration
• Practicing as a teenager

Village des Pruniers - Làng Mai - Green Mountain Center - Deer Park Monastery - Lộc Uyển
Email: PVlistening@plumvillage.org - Meyrac Loubès Bernac 47120 France