Buddhist Wisdom from a Beloved Teacher

Welcome to the website of Joanne Friday, a beloved Dharma teacher in the Plum Village lineage of Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Available here are her Dharma talks, guided meditations and other offerings to help you along your own path to happiness, fearlessness, and peace. Please check back regularly for new offerings, and subscribe to her podcast below.

In 1993 Joanne Friday discovered that we each hold the key to the way out of our suffering — Buddhist wisdom, as taught to her by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. She knew right away that what she had learned would transform her life, and considered it the greatest gift she had ever received. In gratitude, she resolved to share it with as many people as she could. For the next three decades, Joanne built sanghas, led meditation retreats, and taught the Dharma for sanghas and groups throughout the Northeast United States and Canada.

This site is the continuation of Joanne’s desire to share what she had learned, to help us all to suffer less. It includes her unique way of teaching the Buddha’s practices, made available to us through her recorded Dharma talks, guided meditations, video presentations, and other offerings. Though Joanne passed away in 2021, her teachings continue among us, inspiring use to use the Buddha’s practices to live our most joyful, authentic lives.

SUBSCRIBE TO JOANNE’s PODCAST to listen to her Dharma talks and to automatically receive new ones as they are published. Use the Podcast link below: