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A community of friends inspired by the mindfulness teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh to build a healthier and more compassionate society. Please check our website for daily meditation and new courses. Live interpretation of Thay's dharma talk every Saturday 7:30am-9:00am PST.
Thich Nhat Hanh - What do you do during sitting meditation?
Thầy was asked the question of "What do you do while you sit?" by a professor from Cornell University. His answers are detailed, informative, and cover the very essential core practices drawn from the Anapanasati sutra exercises and tell us how to manage the breath and body.
This is an excerpt from the second talk of the Pháp Tập Yếu Tụng sutra, given on Dec 19, 2010 during the winter retreat at Plum Village. The original video quality of the video has a low resolution, so that's what we worked with.
This is an excerpt from the second talk of the Pháp Tập Yếu Tụng sutra, given on Dec 19, 2010 during the winter retreat at Plum Village. The original video quality of the video has a low resolution, so that's what we worked with.
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Thich Nhat Hanh on Right View and the depth of the Four Noble Truths
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This is the fifth talk in the Heart of the Buddha's teaching series over the 1993-1994 winter retreat in Plum Village. In this talk, Thay mentions the importance of Right View as right understanding of the Four Noble Truths. Right view can be from the standpoint of conventional truth or ultimate (transcendental) truth. "Nhị đế dung thông" means the two truths do not oppose but inter-embrace and...
Thich Nhat Hanh on the practice of shining light in the family
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This is a talk from the summer retreat at Plum Village on July 27, 2003. Thay shared on how we could be our own obstacle, blocking ourselves and others from being in touch with the Pure Land and we might cause hell for others. Our practice is to remove and disentangle these obstacles, clean the dust of the bright mirror and offer the gift of the Pure Land. We can create a new holiday and celebr...
Thich Nhat Hanh on his dream & how he practiced when he was first exiled
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A dharma talk on the last day of the winter retreat in 2012 before the Pavāraṇā ceremony. Thay shared about the tradition of the summer retreat from the Buddha's time. What is a kungfu period? Master Chân Không from the Vinītaruci school from Từ Sơn Temple (around 1100 CE) answered the question of what the practice was with the phrase: "Once you arrive at the cave of the immortals, you leave on...
Thich Nhat Hanh on transforming the fears in us through the Five Remembrances
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This talk in 1993 from the "30 Verses on the nature of consciousness by Vasubandhu" series expands on what Thay covered in the "Transforming our mind at the root" talk in the Heart of the Buddha's teaching series in 1994. Thay observes on how we are split inside like a ghost: we talk, think and act all day at a surface level in society and yet live another life at night with many fears. Yet the...
Thich Nhat Hanh on the 14 questions that the Buddha did not answer
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These were the questions that people had tried to ask the Buddha in the past but he refused to answer them! Thay discussed about soul, physical body, impermanence, and whether the person of 2013 receives the karma from what they've done in 2000? Excerpted from Thay's talk on Jan 13, 2013 during the winter retreat. Original Vietnamese talk at th-cam.com/video/hpN6tCDe2A8/w-d-xo.html #thichnhatha...
Gatha, kungfu and 10 bodhisatva stages - Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thay shares some morning gathas to help us wake up fresh and see everything with the eyes of compassion. We should keep a notebook to track our practice or kungfu training every day and organize our day so each moment can enlarge the love within us. We are the spring source of love energy and living with the four brahmaviharas or minds of love in our life can help us cultivate this energy. Walk...
A baby's first look, the Buddha's last look, soup of forgetfulness and renewal - Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thay witnessed a baby's awe and surprise at seeing the vast blue sky for the first time. In the last winter retreat, the Buddha shared with Ananda about how beautiful Vasali was when he looked at it with the eyes of a king elephant for the very last time before leaving the city. This deep look contained the awareness of the importance of what he saw, filling with mindfulness and knowing he woul...
Going beyond the illusion of signs, kasina method and becoming a monastic - Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thay shares about signs or outward forms (lakṣaṇa), perception (saṃjñā) and a simple exercise (10 objects in kasiṇa meditation, "biến xứ quán," "thập nhất thiết nhập") to help us go beyond the delusion of signs and seeing into the interbeing/interpenetration nature and all the ancestors. A flower is made up of non-flower elements like the rain, clouds, sunlight, time and space. Everything comes...
Br Nguyen Tinh on the 37 Aids to Awakening, kungfu checklist & Thich Nhat Hanh's last calligraphy
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Brother Nguyen Tinh shared about the practice of having a sangha service sign or sickness on the cushion when he missed out on a morning sit showed his yearning for investigation of the 5 skandhas and truly wanting to take root in the sangha and to learn and transform. This sending of mindfulness energy to the meditation hall, even if not physical present, was a beautiful monastic custom. The s...
Transforming the root of our mind 1 - Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thay talked about the 2 parts of our psyche: the shallower intellectual understanding at the surface in accordance to logic, societal norms or sangha practices and the more emotional understanding at the depth with its bleeding wounds and good qualities. For example, as a young child, we might get jealous of our newborn sibling but we understood our mother's logic of caring for the young ones a...
Transforming the root of our mind 2 - Thich Nhat Hanh
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In part 1, Thay talked about the 2 parts of our psyche: the shallower intellectual understanding at the surface in accordance to logic, societal/sangha norms and the more emotional understanding at the depth with its bleeding wounds, poisons, wisdom and strengths. We might have opposing thoughts and feelings in these two parts and live two separate lives: during the day with society and during ...
Wakeup camping trip in Sequoia 2015
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A wonderful campout self-organized by many Wakeup sanghas for young people in the Plum Village tradition. We came from different parts of California, gathered in Sequoia, sang around the camp fire, did walking meditation among the trees, went swimming, took turn cooking, meditated, recited the 5 Mindfulness trainings, enjoyed deep relaxation and watching the starry sky at night. It was a good t...
Sister Thoai Nghiem on wanting peace and having peace
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In this lively talk given on July 1st, 2020, Sister Thoai Nghiem shared about being aware of her intense fear when facing a rattlesnake at Deer Park monastery, being a gardener and the insights she got from pruning heavy fruit-laden plum trees, pulling up the weeds, and sweeping leaves. What do we have sovereign over and what is "other's business" and still hold the world with understanding and...
Thich Nhat Hanh Q & A session 1 in 2003
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During a Vietnamese retreat on April 18, 2003, there were several questions for Thay. A young girl asked what Thay's hand gesture mean and what she would need to have in her hand before becoming a nun. A man asked theoretically "What does it mean to go beyond birth and death? Is it to get rebirth in higher realm or to live each moment in mindfulness? What does it mean to live in the present mom...
Thich Nhat Hanh on the 5 contemplations before meal and the 10 realms inside us
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Thich Nhat Hanh on the 5 contemplations before meal and the 10 realms inside us
Thich Nhat Hanh on eating with leisure and freedom
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Thich Nhat Hanh on eating with leisure and freedom
Thich Nhat Hanh on Ignorance is our biggest enemy - part 1
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Thich Nhat Hanh on Ignorance is our biggest enemy - part 1
Thich Nhat Hanh on the need to love and be loved
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Thich Nhat Hanh on the need to love and be loved
Thich Nhat Hanh - Stop poisoning our mind and understanding volitional and consciousness food
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Thich Nhat Hanh - Stop poisoning our mind and understanding volitional and consciousness food
Hilarious meditation song ‘Sit up straight’
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Hilarious meditation song ‘Sit up straight’
New Year 2020-2021 retreat: Dharma teachers sharing about lamp transmission
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New Year 2020-2021 retreat: Dharma teachers sharing about lamp transmission
New Year 2020-21 retreat: An intimate conversation of native wisdom on climate change & nature
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New Year 2020-21 retreat: An intimate conversation of native wisdom on climate change & nature
Thich Nhat Hanh on things worth doing, meditation is not escape, building sangha, being a true self
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Thich Nhat Hanh on things worth doing, meditation is not escape, building sangha, being a true self
Thich Nhat Hanh on the Ugra(datta)pariprccha sutra part 1
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Thich Nhat Hanh on the Ugra(datta)pariprccha sutra part 1
Thank you for these priceless records. '93! People have kept near perfect Chronicles of his work across the board.
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Thank you for making this available to us 🙏
This flow of thought closely mimics the sermon on the mount 🥲❤️☸️☯️☦️
Very good. What a beautiful being.
This is a very beautiful talk It's so explicit and clear. I hope so much that I can learn from it and not forget every day Thank you so much for sharing this ❤ 💕
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Thank you for these wonderful translations and sharing Thay's Dharma talks. You are sustaining his dream in both historical and internal time. These talks are great gifts to the world. Peace, love and happiness to you. -- J
Thank you once more for translating and sharing these archived Dharma talks. They so much deepen our understanding of Thay's teaching of Buddha's path to understanding of ourselves, those around us, and the universe we share. Thank you for these gifts. Bless you-- John
Thank you this translation and your work in bringing these invaluable Dharma talks to us all. Bless you, be safe. --John
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Just like one star One could see has been traveling for thousands of years, finally I am here listening dear Thay ‘s teachings from 29 years ago, 4 February 1993 , which was my 30th years old birthday. I am so happy . Thank you dear Thay and the sister who translated. Thank you for sharing the valuable videos with us.
Wow, what a wonderful coincidence! The dharma is always with us.
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You're welcome
Wonderful Double Dharma from Jo-Ann ... and ... the birdsong 😊🙏😊
Thank you for the translation and making these teachings available to all of us..
Thank you for bringing this to us. Thank you translating Thay's words-- each a small gem. Peace and love to you and all those around you.
Thank you for posting these two Dharma talks and their translations. Please post others like them. They are invaluable. Peace to you and the world. --John
Thank you. I will continue to work on interpreting these talks from Thay when I have some free time.
Thank you for translating these.
Glad you enjoy the gems from Thay's teachings.
Thank you for your translations. You've helped many people...
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Thank you! 🙏 So grateful for the translation. 🪷
Thank you for following this talk from Thay.
Mille merci pour vos généreux partages des enseignements de THAY ❤️
thank you :)
İ recommand to play with x1.75 speed in my case. :)
Thank you for translation, My.
Thank you Susan :)
🙏Thank you Sangha for this video! It's beautyful to listen Thai, his impressions and very important advices. And during he was far away from his hometown long time ago for many years, he sure was a missing person for so much humans. It's was not easy too for there. Now I can stay strong in every moment. ❤️🍀🙏 for you!
I really appreciate hearing this very human side of him too and his strength and determination are inspiring. Thanks for watching.
He has about 50+ years of content in multiple languages. His words will live forever.
Yes! I totally agree with you. So many gems in the original Vietnamese languages that haven't been translated yet those. I hope we can slowly enjoy them together.
Dear Em, A lotus for you and thank you 🙏🙏🙏❤
Thank you and I look forward to your videos of our beloved teachers teachings with your english translation. 🙏🙏🙏❤
Thank you for sharing Thay’s beautiful teaching and great wisdom.
Thank you
You're welcome
Ty sooo much for the upload ❤
Thank you. I love his talks a lot too.
A lotus for you 🙏❤ Thank you again. I am so happy I found your videos and you beautiful calm voice and translation. It has helped me very much with my practice. "A Cloud Never Dies" TNH 🙏🙏🙏❤
Thank you, Alex. I enjoy letting his calm energy pass through me too when I interpret. These videos have been so helpful for my practice, so I'm happy to share them with others.
May everyone watching or listening to this receive abundant blessings and miracles i hope everyone receive what they desire. hugs from Shanthi healing music <3
Mo Phat , A Lotus for you 🙏 When I practice I am the continuation of Thay's teaching and his dream , I am living his dream mindfully in every present moment of my practice. Thank you for the continuation of Thay's teaching in these videos. Thank you for translating and your calm voice. " A Cloud Never Dies" TNH 🙏🙏🙏❤
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"A poor person in the busy city, no one comes to visit. A rich person in the deep forest still have visitors." 🌲🙏 🤲 🌼 🌲
A Lotus for you.. Thank you with much gratitude.. " A Cloud Never Dies" TNH 🙏🙏🙏❤
Thank you for the upload ❤️ Love
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoy it.
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Thank you for finding this marvelous talk, interpreting it, and the wonderful summary!
Noble Reverend, I am humbled by your present and continuation spirit. By saying that something is impermanent, aren't we really saying that impermanency is a constant? The idea of impermanence then is a held belief of the conscious mind, which is an expectation. If constancy is permanent, and impermenance is supposed to be constant. There are two constants either side of the same equation. Is this not unsatisfactory? to consider both impermanence and permanence to be both constants of the same equation? Both are eternal from the perspective of this one, but it exists outside of the universe and is part of it, not one or another. This means choice in of itself is the teaching. If choice is so it means that to the true Buddha of total no mind, the practice of discourse must always be seen to himself to be with beings more ill than even they expect. They will refer to the teaching when applying their retributions with an incomplete understanding of the operation of fundamental mechanicas. More often than not the teacher does not enjoy the disciple daring to teach, or question, in my practice the nature and the care of the manner usually speaks for itself. Every work should be complete in of itself in this way. The problem is that there is no problem, and all of the knowledge that can be obtained, without any of these laws and teachings whatsoever. For the 1000 petal flower is evidence when it becomes the 1001st. I do not think the Tao methodology that Thay applied in this discourse for me includes sub-harmonised quantum sub-structures, or even would consider it a part of taoist teachings. It's not spiritual, despite their being ample evidence, so it is ignored. It is an ignorance to ignore science, as much as it is for science to ignore spirituality. Both exist and are completely natural. Teachings are unnatural, living with no mind as the buddha uses a non linear temporal mechanics which cannot be put into a teaching, the teaching is a directive or a guide from a much higher and sophisticated power you call god, because much of this is still unknown to Tao methodology, since it involves an intellectual pursuit first for the no-mind to remedy; it's relegated to the knowledge of very few parties which would probably not do much good in revealing. There are very few priests that have solved Heisenberg uncertainty principle. If heisenberg is solvable as I have completed and state through certain certainties and uncertain uncertainties, the Reliability of eternal state and many other concepts in the Tao is false and this teaching could become potentially misleading. It lacks openness. It causes ill being in other enlightened buddha's. All discourse does. How is this passed off as a teaching? Concerning choice it means relative order only is more important than the teaching, but perhaps I am wrong, that said I speak as a scientist and a high priest. Few zen buddhists practice these concepts but I have learnt enough of the Taoist concepts to see they do not agree with eachother whatsoever. Non linear dynamics exist between the reference event and the parallel karmic retribution therefore any discourse or teaching is wrong by definition, since an act of morality or telling is involved, and to be used as a system of methodology in of itself seems fruitless because it uses variations from moment to moment of being which cannot be properly factored into the states of the discourse and the previous states of karmic ordering, therefore there is no balance to karmic retribution whatsoever. Largely because the temporal mechanics of how the universe actually operates are not properly understood or known for how a living being can live forever, since they are non independent terms, despite you falsely representing them (accidentally albeit) as independent terms, you may do damage to other enlightened beings you cannot yet comprehend, thru formless means. It is a secret, like the golden flower and it has been my observation that not all teachers understand the concept. It is important to understand that the discourse itself is not the teaching. There is no teaching. It should be destroyed all of it. Any teaching that is reinforced, is not the real religion. Nor is it the real religious experience. It is totally synthetic, as it is synthetic morality. By saying that there is only impermanency this buddha answers that this introduces the idea that impermanency is something that is to be believed. What does this cause? 300 religions. A lack of clarity often involves the teacher victimising disciplines (and disciples by extension) of terms that they are not willing to consider. In truth real zen is being able to consider all perspectives. When true buddha comes, your ill being is easy to see and it is said with a deep respect. The tao has flaws, and there is room for improvement. Masters advice continued "If you are a toaist consider that you may still have ill thinking when giving direction, if you do not you are just as ill as the other 300. IT is wrong to say that one thinking is over another thinking in any discourse, the true religious experience taught me this. The discourse itself, and the people representing the discourse are variations, proving that these principles cannot encompass them adequately. Therefore it may prevent karmic retributions the disciple or master still yet don't comprehend. Particularly if they originate from a seperate universe" Best wishes, peace, respect and love to my continuation and teacher Thay. TITIN
I read and re-read. Still could not comprehend this comment.
@@meagoodwoman It is a simple statement to say that the teaching should be destroyed. As should the very concept of karmic retribution. Does not stop teacher and student fighting about it though. And does not stop another like you coming along and joining in with their opinion. Everyone wants you to be everything but your self. They want you to be they self. This is not complex to understand, it's complex to recognise, and live. That is the trouble you are experiencing. I'm a mirror, your a teacher or disciple. One is memory, one is conscious. one is alive, other is dead. Best, Adam
I'm so happy to see this! The sister translating or reading does such a wonderful job. And it's very beautiful to see Thay younger. His good energy and good health and intelligence are such a wonderful example, and it's so heartwarming to see our teacher in the prime of his physical life.
Thank you! His energy from the 1990s is quite amazing and quite fierce! These talks in Vietnamese became the basic for the Heart of the Buddha's Teaching book. However, there were so many other talks from that series that were not in the book or they were edited down in the translation. It is our hope to make them more accessible to others.
@@sugarplumsangha3786 Very interesting! Thanks for your reply🙏 I just started reading that book. Did Thay have a sense of humor that could sometimes come across as fierce? 🙂
@@jenniferspring8741 ah he is very mischievous and great at word play with perfect comedic timing so I enjoy his jokes a lot. When he jokes, it doesn’t feel fierce though.
Thanks to you I became a vegan. Thank you so much, my beloved teacher. You will live forever in your disciples, your books, your teachings. A cloud never dies
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Vegan for Animals ... For Compassion. Plants don't feel pain but Animals do.
you don’t know that but it certainly seems so from our perspective
@@putyograsseson Animals are fed huge amount of plants. Non-Vegans cause way more suffering than Vegans.
@@CEarthling I agree, but one should still be cautious with absolutes such as "plants don’t feel pain".
Thank you for this translation, and for posting it. It is a wonderful question, but Thay’s answer feels incomplete here. Imagine if Master had died at age 25 - the thousands of Vietnamese boat people who might have perished, the millions of people around the world who would not have received his teaching and thus nourished the Buddha as new leaves on the tree of peace, and how the world would have been impoverished by this. imagine MLK not being influenced by TNH and the effect this would have had on the civil rights movement in the US. Is it appropriate for the wave to wish to become something or contribute something meaningful to the world it inhabits before it collapses back into the ocean from whence it came? Emerson said that all of human history resolves itself in the biographies of a few “stout and earnest persons”, going on to name Copernicus, Aristotle, Christ and the Buddha as some of those persons. If the Buddha had not endeavored to become enlightened and infuse the world with his enlightenment by transmitting his teachings to his disciples, imagine how impoverished we would have all been by this loss? How do we reconcile the pursuit of right livelihood with Thay’s answer here? I feel like something is missing. Perhaps it would be helpful to ask this question of his monastics to answer according to the precepts they received from him, or hear the entire talk in which this comment was given for greater context. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for your teaching 🙏
Thank you for listening to his talk and receiving his whole-hearted transmission.
Thua Kinh Thay, Thank you for the continuation of your presence.. “A Cloud Never Dies “ TNH Thank you for this beautiful video 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️
Thank you for enjoying the video. This was before the temple renovation so things might look a little bit different now but the monastics created such a welcoming atmosphere there.
Thank you for sharing this video to continue our beloved teachers teachings. The translator is wonderful. I enjoy her voice, so gentle and clear. " A Cloud Never Dies" TNH 🙏🙏🙏❤
Thank you, Alex. That means a lot to us. Our sangha has been enjoying listening to these live interpretation every week in the past year from the Heart of the Buddha's Teaching series in the 1990s, which is followed by dharma discussion. I personally learned so much from Thay's vast wisdom and kindness. I hope you will have a chance to listen to his other talks from the series that we are uploading too.
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