Need help urgently. About 100 policemen are at Bat Nha Monastery right now. Three of our older brothers have been taken away, brother Phap Hoi, Phap Tu, and Phap Sy, and nowhere to been seen. The other monastic brothers and sisters have been forced outside in the rain and probably will be shipped away soon. It is a sad moment, one that we knew might come. Please get the word out to our friends throughout the world. Let us send our energy of peace and support to our Bat Nha brothers and sisters. If any of you who can take initiative to help directly and concretely, we definitely need it now. Please spread the news, especially to anyone who might be in Vietnam right now.

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In Plum Village we have come together as a fourfold sangha to send the energy of peace and  understanding to all those involved in the events at Bat Nha Monastery.

This is a sad moment, one that we knew might come. Thich Nhat Hanh's teaching is to have peace in every step and we are practicing that teaching now, joining our brothers and sisters of Bat Nha Monastery.

Friends can help:

• by sending the energy of peace to all those involved, and especially to our young monastics.
• by contacting your government officials, asking them to express their concern to the President of Vietnam