It's no random accident I found this teaching today. I'm very grateful for this. Thank you. I feel deeply touched by Thay's words. Partly because I lost a son to suicide, and he was suffering with schizophrenia for many years beforehand. Something in this teaching has brought some acceptance, peace and understanding.
My only child also has this dreadful illness and has been locked in hospital for over 14 of the last 20 years. Each release period brings hope and then neglect and re admission. His suffering is dreadful and I often wished him dead. Is that wrong?
He said of the stupa to be erected to honour his ashes, "do not look for me in this stupa, do not look for me outside it; i can be found in your mindful breathing, and your mindful walking"
Karma. (Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Winter Retreat of 2008) In Buddhism we speak of karma as the threefold aspect of action; thinking, speaking and acting. When we produce a thought, that thought can change us and can change the world in a good way or in a bad way. If it is right thought, if that thought is produced in line with right thinking, then it will have a healing, nourishing effect on our body and on the world. Just by producing right thinking you can change the world. You can make the world a better place to live, or you can transform the world into hell. That is karma, action; this is not something abstract. For example, the economic crisis is born from our thinking. There is a lot of craving and fear, and the value of the dollar, of the euro is largely created by the mind. Everything comes from the mind. That is why thinking is action and speaking is action. Speaking can release tension and reconcile, or speaking can break relationships. Speaking can destroy someone’s hope and cause that person to commit suicide. Physical action is also energy. There is individual karma that has an effect on everyone. Everything that happened to you happened to the world. You produce that thought, you are affected by that thought, and the world is also affected by that thought. There is also collective karma. During this twenty-one-day retreat, the friendship, the joy, the healing, the transformation is the work of everyone. Each one of us contributes through our practice, through our insight, through our speech. In Buddhism, we do not believe in a God that arranges everything, but we don’t believe in coincidence either. We believe that the fate of the planet depends on our karma, on our action. It does not depend on a God, it does not depend on chance, it depends on our true action. Karma is the dynamic force that underlies everything. I think that scientists will have no difficulty accepting this. Man is present in all things and all things are present in man. Man just arrived yesterday in the history of life on earth. Looking into a human being, we can see our non-human elements, namely our animal ancestors, our vegetable ancestors, and our mineral ancestors. In our past life we were a cloud, and we were a rock. Even in this moment, we continue to be a cloud, we continue to be a rock. There is a mountain in us, do you see? There are many clouds in us, do you see? In a former time, we were fish, we were birds, we were reptiles. And our ancestors are fully present in us, in the here, in the now. We continue as a reptile. We have many reactions that belong to the reptile species. We want to say that we are created by a God in his image. But in fact, we have many ancestors. When a fish swims happily in the water, it is very proud of its talent for swimming. And a fish has the right to say that God must be the most wonderful swimmer in the world. And a rose can say, “God is the most beautiful rose in the world, because he has created me like this.” If you are a mathematician, you tend to think God must be the best mathematician in the world. Your notions of God are anthropocentric. If you are a gay person, you may think that God is the best gay person in the world. Why not? The fish has that right, the rose has that right, so we all inter-are. We continue our ancestors in us now. We are human, but we are at the same time a rock, a cloud, a rabbit, a rose, a gay, a lesbian. We are everything. Let us not discriminate or push away anything, because we are everything. Everything is in us. That’s the right view. If we see that everything is in man and man is in everything, we know that to preserve other species is to preserve ourselves. That is deep ecology, that is interbeing. That is the teaching of the Diamond Sutra. A good Buddhist should be an ecologist, trying her best to preserve the environment, because to preserve the environment is to preserve yourself. Man contains the whole cosmos. On the phenomenal level there seem to be birth, death, being and non-being, but ontologically, these notions cannot be applied to reality. Birth and death are just notions. The true nature of a cloud is the nature of no birth and no death. The scientist Lavoisier says that nothing is born, nothing dies. He agrees completely with this teaching. A cloud manifests as a cloud. There is no birth of a cloud, because before being a cloud, the cloud has been the tree, the ocean, the heat generated by the sun. To appear as a cloud is only a moment of continuation. And when a cloud becomes a river, that is not death, that is also a continuation. We know that there is a way to continue beautifully, and that is to take care of our three aspects of karma - thinking, speaking and acting. Being and non-being are more wrong views. Non-being is a wrong view, but being is also a wrong view. The absolute reality transcends both being and non-being. Before you are born, you did not belong to the realm of non-being, because from non-being, you cannot pass into being. And when you die, you cannot pass from being into non-being. It’s impossible. To be, or not to be - both are wrong views. To inter-be is better. The dynamic consciousness is called karma energy. Karma energy is not abstract. It determines our state of being, whether we are happy or unhappy. Whether you continue beautifully or not so beautifully depends on karma. It’s possible to take care of our action so that we don’t suffer much now and we will continue to do better in the future. There is the hope, the joy.
bth992002 I'm born a Catholic but Buddhism makes perfect sense for everyday consciousness. For eg people like Hitler or dictators who lead by greed and fear... Humans are super intelligent but observing animals they are more enlightened than us! For every human being who has free will it is a choice just like happiness. Cheers
Julia L from what I got from the teacher, I think we need compassion and kindness to forgive ourselves so then we can forgive others. By doing that we will be able to transform anger into something nice. Like a good thought for the person who hurt us o that we did hurt. After that, a good chat with that person, always on the compassion path; explain my pain and listen to theirs. Also, always with kindness. Teach them how to be compassionate and be kind to others. I think that's what the master is trying to say. Correct me if I'm wrong.-
Julia L, many of the video clips of Thich Nhat Hanh and the worldwide Plum Village community can be viewed with subtitles if you click on link given under the video. The freedom or free will I find is based on mindfulness of the present moment, because it is only in the present that I can live and act. Having a practice that allows me to stop and look deeply at what brings joy and what brings sorrow, and the practice of the 5 Mindfulness Trainings, give me a chance to choose more freely in the present moment. I wish you a beautiful day.
bth992002 I still don't understand the possibility of no-self and individual karma. If we are all one, how can there be individual karma? If there is not individual karma, why bother? Nothing really matters right?
Children may have part of their parents' karma but those gave their control of that away when they created new life. Your life is not about getting the approval of others, it is your life to live it the way you want.
I agree with you. I think it is nice to think that you are a continuation of your parents and ancestors. But the thought that EVERYTHING you do affects your parents is dangerous in my opinion. That could hold people back from being their real self.
@@micah5898 nothing wrong with his view. His perspective comes from duality, he/she is defending his right to individuality. Nothing wrong about that, but if you listen closely to what Thai says, he points the way towards non duality, hence why our friend advised our other friend to listen once again closely.
Nick Shutler It is very big , it need lot of exploration. You can read Sutta of Buddha , there you find more explanation about ,karma and how it work . Actually our life base on Karma , we won’t be born if we do not have karma . If u have no karma mean , you reach nirvana , it mean , no birth , then no death , so no birth mean , no suffering . Read about Chathurarya sathya on google , you will find real knowledge about karma and how it really work .
You can think about your parents , take a picture of their younger age and now , see the difference. So we all have same process which recognised as every bound to be decay .
Outside of cause and effect in the physical world, karma is a mental context. Like watching two Blind Men describe an elephant. When one is awake to the prison their mind has created for them, they become the masters of karma, rather than a slave to it.
Two humble thoughts.. 1. This is profound and reminds me of Buddha and the lotus flower being used to compare with four types of human beings and their ability to understand. Maybe this explains why some comments here seem to evidence that some people cannot grasp, resist or don't even try to contemplate through meditation what he is teaching/saying. 2. So many thumbs down is proof alone that we all have different Karma... AND that there are many overly critical and I'll-willed people in this world.
the problem with the wording he used to explain non self "your body is the property of your parents " is there are many parents who see their children in the way thst "they are my property it is my right to harm them". Hopefully the people listening understand
@@DarkMoonDroid i think "your body is the property of your parents" is talking about our energetic/karmic self, as opposed to (though linked with) our physical self. it does not mean we are disposable and under our parent's will. it means we should practice/make choices good for us (which also, in turn, is the people/energetic forms/energy we inherit/represent, carry in ourselves, reincarnate) though, those things can be interchanged/effected by one another. ultimately my understanding of this is that when we help ourselves learn and grow, etc. it also helps the people (or "people") inside us, as well as outside of us, as they are essentially one in the same. i hope this helps make sense of things.
The same goes for the parents... they don't have specific rights of ownership towards their child, in that their child also has his/ her karma from other places, and belongs to the universe. No one owns anyone... It's more expansive than that. And a parent's behaviour also has it's karmic consequences. For example, an overcontrolling parent may lose their child as soon as the child is able to leave home. A reminder that life cannot be owned, a painful lesson.
Each and every Plum Village video, has large amounts of people suffering in the audience, from sneezes and coughs. This is no accident. I believe there is something deeply wrong with the ventilation system in those gathering halls.
This subject is genuinely approached with a great, enlivening humour that alleviates the seriousness karma was so often dressed in :) Thank you, Thay, for making things lose their heavy weight!
I think so too . It’s a different culture and thousands of years of by westerners wrap eastern philosophy in a western bow and market it as enlightenment. It’s too complex to get it like a monk .
You do not need to be a monk to nun to change your karma- just being good being skilful and compassionate for yourself and others is changing your karma. Karma is not something you get rid of as it is not inherently negative
Put succuntly our carmas are not the same,but also not diferente.and also carmas are collective and individual at the same time Just like transcending the pairs of opposites.i became enlighted just by realizang the removal of pairs of opposites.before that i was tormented by the limites of time,fear of death,and heavy melancholy. I am everlasting thankfull to thay Next step is nirvana.
There is a sense in which the individual is ontological subordinate to the collective. The universe in its totality imposes the local constraints that cause any particle anywhere to appear and behave as it does. Since the particles create the things of the world, and the indivudal living things are a function and expression of this process, all things are ultimately tied into the universal Being that is the universe in its totality; and those special objects - humans, are able to experience the transcendental basis of things while simultaneously enacting meanings that derive from the matrix of interactions generated by particles in spacetime. Indeed, the is a trinity of the transcendental atemporal, the spatiotemporal fabric which interlinks all things , and the subjective temporal.
"The universe in it's totality imposes" ... "The particles create" ... "that derive" ... What is cause and what is effect? This is because that is and that is because this is. The individual imposes itself on the totality of universe, because of his perceptions the universe actually comes into being. We can see these things from many different valid perspectives.
@@DodoStek the individuals perceptions are structured ontogenetically. We were born as infants, and have been conditioned to orient our socioaffective responses to the meanings of the body la Guage and vocal tones of others. The individual is very much embedded and reacting. It is passive before the styles of stimuli it encounters and is helpless before the goodness or badness of others. The moods we end up evolving are therefore consequences of the cultural dynamics that we happened to have been exposed to from conception onwards. Playing games with causal ordering like asking what is cause and what is effect is therefore dishonest. For example, I am very much responding, being affected, by what you have written. Having read what you've written, I am as an effect being placed into a particular emotional condition. I am the cause of this response? Besides being regulated by an already existing sense of conceptual coherence, I am of course set to relate to matters in certain ways. But my response is nevertheless temporally posterior to your statements, which makes your statement about what is cause and what is effect essentially unreasonable.
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Karma is more to everyone existed , not less or differences... Is why deadlocks of everyday decisions... When (time, history)t = (time, history)y + Error (time, history) Error = 0.....
Now that Thich Nhat Hanh is deceased, who in today's world compares to him? Names please. Even Kobe and Lebron succeded into the place of Michael Jordan
I got into an argument with a friend to day over why everyone should get vaccinated. This really puts that in perspective. Anyone who refuses it on the grounds of individual rights fails to see how it weakens our collective immune system.
If you are already fully vaccinated, why should you care if others are not? You are protected, right? Fact is, you are NOT and that is why you are concerned. Many of my friends and relatives had gotten Covid yet they were FULLY vaccinated. Yeah but their symptoms are milder, you say? Nope, not true. They all were sick for about 14 days. I got Covid and am NOT vaccinated at all. I was sick for 14 days too - same severity. So why get vaccinated? Doesn't help at all. Not only that, a small number of people actually died from blood clots as a result of the vaccine. Some became infertile because blood clotted their organ down there and they are now infertile. These are DOCUMENTED facts, not hearsay. That is why ultimately, the decision to vaccinate must be given to the individual. If the government cannot guarantee effectiveness nor safety FOR EVERYONE, then that must be the case.
@@andyhughes1776 No. What is documented is that severe cases (hospitalizations and deaths) are overwhelming represented by unvacinnated. That's across the board in all countries that share their medical data. Sorry you are putting yourself and your community at risk based on bad information. I understand your fear of the consequences of the vaccine, given how expedited they were. But collectively society is trying to find a solution that will get the world back on track and lower the burden on health care systems. The vaccine, so far, has been the best solution.
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keep doing "maithee meditation " basic - May all living beings be well and happy ! " / keep chanting qualities of triple gems Ex:- " Lord Budhdha discovered the truth without assistance of anyone " Do good things only , helping animals , people , Budhist monks and temples 🙏🙏🙏
'You' said, 'I don't know what action it is,' interesting, so... this 'I' 'you' referred to... is this the 'NoSelf?' The answer is, No Self, No Problem. There is no self, whether the delusion of the 'I' is used or not.
Yes ,he is right , the karma is action of individual, put it this way , one person constantly stealing , misbehaving of sexually , and just think he kill a human , and other person , alcoholic and misbehave, and always kill animals and hurt animals , just for example , so these two characters Karma will be different form in their life cycle , because one has killed a human , so he has committed much more sins , so his collective karma will be different than other person , that’s how the karma can be different from one to another . Actually I gave a simple answer , it is very complex and difficult subject to understand karma in easy way .. Our Buddha has been able to see himself where people go after death , I mean , person can reborn according their karmic effect , it can be in an animal womb , or human womb , or as a god , or in nire ( hell ) . There are two more places , but I can’t remember them . So Buddha has developed to see himself where people go after death , he said few time to his disciple Ánanda thero and others when they fancies to know when the Buddha was there . That’s why Buddha said , if you did not stick to Dhamma and practice good deeds , you can go to nire, hell and you will spend there thousands of years , so , he realised the danger that humans can face , that’s why he said , please follow Dhamma and arrange your life at least to reborn as human or be a god in there world , then you can do more and more merits in those lives and collect enough merits to attain nirvana and end of birth , end of birth is the last thing you must contemplate to achieve , then no more risks to your life . But if you born in animal womb , then you have no chances to earn merits to collect to attain nirvana , because animals are hardly can collect merits because they have no brain to listen Dhamma in their life , but if you born as a human , you have more chances to listen Dhamma and stick for it . That’s why Buddha explained very well what we as humans must do .
It needs to be put into question if its right to stictly speak of indivdual karma, since you as an isolated identity is a wrong view of yourself already. There is nothing one can do to not effect the world sorrounding yourself and likewise the world that interacts with you, even if you would sit for 20 years in a cave. So indivdual karma is also collective karma and cannot really be seperated from one another. Just as water cannot be seperated from a tree. We speak of a tree, but forget all the other things for it to even exist, which is the entire universe. (Sun (warmth and light), Water, Earth and so on.) That is why there is really no "other" and no indivdual karma. It is always one and from the same source.
@@SaithMasu12 interesting... but, why we have different forms, and animals too, trees, clouds, etc.? Why we have differents bodys, colors, ideas, familys? Why every animal, every flower? Is really interesting, because I agree with what you say, but, I always wondered about the difference, the materialité, the division visible in the union. You know?
@@lauralunaazul Imagine being an apple on an apple tree. You can compare yourself to other apples on that tree. Big ones, small ones, foul ones etc...But in reality you are the entire tree, because an apple tree consists also of apples. Now you see differences, but also always be the "one" entire thing. Same with you as a human being. There are "others" if it is viewed from the standpoint of a human being. But if it is seen from that of totality, you understand that everthing else is also yourself.
Dear friend, this is an older recording done by volunteers on less professional devices :) We shared it despite these technical shortcoming hoping the message overcomes the audio glitches :) We'll ask around and see if anything can be done about the audio quality. 🙏
@@plumvillageonline One of the few times I'm grateful I'm hard of hearing. I keep the sound off and just read the captions. Thank you for the captions they were well done.
I am not sure about karma or sin or god or gods or heaven or hell or humans. All things seems to be of imagination, belief, a dream or temporary state of some kind...changeable, without certainty, without concrete definition or truth.
X-Files For the hostile alien vampires (greed) to comprehend earthling human beings (love)...is like giant black holes in space trying to comprehend the stars (light and warmth) that they suck out of heaven (joy, beauty and harmony).
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There is much that is beautiful about this teaching, but all teachings need to be aware of who the student is. This teaching could be very easily misunderstood and harmful for sexual abuse survivors, people who have been enslaved, and others. No human is the property of anyone else. I think that Thay would agree, but I'm not sure he was fully aware of who might be listening to his teachings and how his words could be misconstrued in this talk.
The coughers are only inside to you when you place them inside your mind. When you place your attention to what you would like to attend to, the unwanted distractions will be outside of your mind and cease to be distractions to you.
Wish that person with the incessant coughing would go outside and stop interrupting his talk....very distracting and annoying. Some people have NO manners at all...... ignorant. Good talk.....the parts I could hear.
It's very disrespectful to say suicide is am offence, it's easy to sit and judge in a dualistic way when someone has overwhelming suffering the cannot cope with it, very patronizing indeed, easy to look on and say this, try saying this to a 15 yr old girl being bullied and see how intellect and philosophy helps, its easy to say this from an observers comfort zone and make decision for that, but it's a different story entirely in reality .. this is comfortable middle class zen teaching, very poor. imo and experience. It's not a game, or a study, it's what it is for the person. very shallow to judge like that, shows limit.
I disagree. I don't think it is said to shame anyone. It is just fact that if someone commits suicide, their family will suffer, their friends will suffer, it is a butterfly effect, although the victim here may not see this. An unskilled mind will be prone to suffering -- suicide is the result of someone battling their suffering and losing, much like someone with cancer. We do not need to be angry at them or cast blame on them to point out the way their suffering extends to others.
Comfortable Zen middle class 😂🤣. Do you know how much this man has been velified by both parties of his own birth country by refusing to take either side and choose peace instead?
I mostly agree with you. I think that as wise as he is and as much as I respect Thich That Hahn, he fails to consider the fact that most of those who choose suicide are experiencing an immense amount of suffering, of various types, and they have likely already tried all they can to improve their health or their situation and have come up empty handed. It is simply wired into the human brain to avoid suffering, and when the suffering becomes absolutely unbearable, suicide becomes a possible choice of the individual. This does not change the fact of course that others will inevitably be negatively affected by the suicide, but it is important to consider all angles of the situation.
Karma is just and real .that's why when I see a child with leukemia I punch them in the face beacase they were obviously that dispicable that deserve a terminal desease the deserve even more suffering.If they acted like better human beings they would be as content as murderous drug lords on there yatchs surrounded by bikini models
If one sees a blind man and laughs or has no compassion and chooses not to put oneself in the blind man’s shoe; one experiences life completely blind to the mystery and sanctity of life. Maybe much suffering is in the ancestral lineage and one chooses not to open the heart. Maybe one chooses to live in the past and not recognize the person in front of them is to teach them compassion. Maybe it easier to be a drug lord, be involved in human trafficking and live out ancestral scars then it is to wake up and heal. Maybe it’s easier to waste this life, remain spiritually bankrupt, and continue the karma of inhumanity towards humanity.
Jesus has paid the price for all the karma folks on the cross of Calvary. So the only thing you need to do is to believe in Him with all ur heart and obey His Comandments of Living God and love ur neighbours.
It's no random accident I found this teaching today. I'm very grateful for this. Thank you. I feel deeply touched by Thay's words. Partly because I lost a son to suicide, and he was suffering with schizophrenia for many years beforehand. Something in this teaching has brought some acceptance, peace and understanding.
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My only child also has this dreadful illness and has been locked in hospital for over 14 of the last 20 years. Each release period brings hope and then neglect and re admission. His suffering is dreadful and I often wished him dead. Is that wrong?
@@mrscpc1918 I can feel your pain. Sending my love to you and your son.
sending you love! don’t forget you can never be alone when the love of the universe surrounds you!
Dear Thay: you will be so much missed down here...Thank you for your smile, your love, your peace, your wisdom, your being...❤🙏
Following the compass in compassion keeps Thay alive in our hearts ❤
He said of the stupa to be erected to honour his ashes, "do not look for me in this stupa, do not look for me outside it; i can be found in your mindful breathing, and your mindful walking"
Love Thay's sense of humor, gentleness, and patience...
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Karma. (Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Winter Retreat of 2008)
In Buddhism we speak of karma as the threefold aspect of action; thinking, speaking and acting. When we produce a thought, that thought can change us and can change the world in a good way or in a bad way. If it is right thought, if that thought is produced in line with right thinking, then it will have a healing, nourishing effect on our body and on the world. Just by producing right thinking you can change the world. You can make the world a better place to live, or you can transform the world into hell. That is karma, action; this is not something abstract. For example, the economic crisis is born from our thinking. There is a lot of craving and fear, and the value of the dollar, of the euro is largely created by the mind. Everything comes from the mind. That is why thinking is action and speaking is action. Speaking can release tension and reconcile, or speaking can break relationships. Speaking can destroy someone’s hope and cause that person to commit suicide. Physical action is also energy.
There is individual karma that has an effect on everyone. Everything that happened to you happened to the world. You produce that thought, you are affected by that thought, and the world is also affected by that thought. There is also collective karma. During this twenty-one-day retreat, the friendship, the joy, the healing, the transformation is the work of everyone. Each one of us contributes through our practice, through our insight, through our speech. In Buddhism, we do not believe in a God that arranges everything, but we don’t believe in coincidence either. We believe that the fate of the planet depends on our karma, on our action. It does not depend on a God, it does not depend on chance, it depends on our true action. Karma is the dynamic force that underlies everything. I think that scientists will have no difficulty accepting this.
Man is present in all things and all things are present in man. Man just arrived yesterday in the history of life on earth. Looking into a human being, we can see our non-human elements, namely our animal ancestors, our vegetable ancestors, and our mineral ancestors. In our past life we were a cloud, and we were a rock. Even in this moment, we continue to be a cloud, we continue to be a rock. There is a mountain in us, do you see? There are many clouds in us, do you see?
In a former time, we were fish, we were birds, we were reptiles. And our ancestors are fully present in us, in the here, in the now. We continue as a reptile. We have many reactions that belong to the reptile species. We want to say that we are created by a God in his image. But in fact, we have many ancestors. When a fish swims happily in the water, it is very proud of its talent for swimming. And a fish has the right to say that God must be the most wonderful swimmer in the world. And a rose can say, “God is the most beautiful rose in the world, because he has created me like this.” If you are a mathematician, you tend to think God must be the best mathematician in the world. Your notions of God are anthropocentric. If you are a gay person, you may think that God is the best gay person in the world. Why not? The fish has that right, the rose has that right, so we all inter-are. We continue our ancestors in us now. We are human, but we are at the same time a rock, a cloud, a rabbit, a rose, a gay, a lesbian. We are everything. Let us not discriminate or push away anything, because we are everything. Everything is in us. That’s the right view.
If we see that everything is in man and man is in everything, we know that to preserve other species is to preserve ourselves. That is deep ecology, that is interbeing. That is the teaching of the Diamond Sutra. A good Buddhist should be an ecologist, trying her best to preserve the environment, because to preserve the environment is to preserve yourself. Man contains the whole cosmos.
On the phenomenal level there seem to be birth, death, being and non-being, but ontologically, these notions cannot be applied to reality. Birth and death are just notions. The true nature of a cloud is the nature of no birth and no death. The scientist Lavoisier says that nothing is born, nothing dies. He agrees completely with this teaching. A cloud manifests as a cloud. There is no birth of a cloud, because before being a cloud, the cloud has been the tree, the ocean, the heat generated by the sun. To appear as a cloud is only a moment of continuation. And when a cloud becomes a river, that is not death, that is also a continuation. We know that there is a way to continue beautifully, and that is to take care of our three aspects of karma - thinking, speaking and acting.
Being and non-being are more wrong views. Non-being is a wrong view, but being is also a wrong view. The absolute reality transcends both being and non-being. Before you are born, you did not belong to the realm of non-being, because from non-being, you cannot pass into being. And when you die, you cannot pass from being into non-being. It’s impossible. To be, or not to be - both are wrong views. To inter-be is better.
The dynamic consciousness is called karma energy. Karma energy is not abstract. It determines our state of being, whether we are happy or unhappy. Whether you continue beautifully or not so beautifully depends on karma. It’s possible to take care of our action so that we don’t suffer much now and we will continue to do better in the future. There is the hope, the joy.
bth992002
I'm born a Catholic but Buddhism makes perfect sense for everyday consciousness.
For eg people like Hitler or dictators who lead by greed and fear...
Humans are super intelligent but observing animals they are more enlightened than us!
For every human being who has free will it is a choice just like happiness.
Cheers
Julia L from what I got from the teacher, I think we need compassion and kindness to forgive ourselves so then we can forgive others. By doing that we will be able to transform anger into something nice. Like a good thought for the person who hurt us o that we did hurt. After that, a good chat with that person, always on the compassion path; explain my pain and listen to theirs. Also, always with kindness. Teach them how to be compassionate and be kind to others.
I think that's what the master is trying to say. Correct me if I'm wrong.-
Julia L, many of the video clips of Thich Nhat Hanh and the worldwide Plum Village community can be viewed with subtitles if you click on link given under the video.
The freedom or free will I find is based on mindfulness of the present moment, because it is only in the present that I can live and act. Having a practice that allows me to stop and look deeply at what brings joy and what brings sorrow, and the practice of the 5 Mindfulness Trainings, give me a chance to choose more freely in the present moment.
I wish you a beautiful day.
bth992002 :) 🙏😍😉😊
bth992002 I still don't understand the possibility of no-self and individual karma. If we are all one, how can there be individual karma? If there is not individual karma, why bother? Nothing really matters right?
“Greatest accomplishment in spirit is when one is not trapped in a fool answer”
As a Hue person, it was so lovely to hear his Hue accent when he said his name :)
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From 0:50 to 1:25 it’s a really epic moment in a Q&A session. And I mean from both parts.
Each time I listen to him..the truth helps me immensely...I can then affect others in a better way....like wave
"Are you sure ?" One more reason why we love Master Hanh. His writing brought me back to Christ.
Amen
Certainty is biggest man's enemy
His writing brought me back to Christ too.❤
Dear Thay: you will be so much missed down here...Thank you for your smile, your love, your peace your being...❤🙏
Children may have part of their parents' karma but those gave their control of that away when they created new life. Your life is not about getting the approval of others, it is your life to live it the way you want.
Friend I think you need to listen again. All the best.
@@sharedaccount1639 what do you think is wrong with his view?
I agree with you. I think it is nice to think that you are a continuation of your parents and ancestors. But the thought that EVERYTHING you do affects your parents is dangerous in my opinion. That could hold people back from being their real self.
If you read Thich Nhat Hanh’s books, he teaches to listen to the Buddha, but dont get stuck in the words. Only practice can give you the answer
@@micah5898 nothing wrong with his view. His perspective comes from duality, he/she is defending his right to individuality. Nothing wrong about that, but if you listen closely to what Thai says, he points the way towards non duality, hence why our friend advised our other friend to listen once again closely.
Beautiful perspective! Thay's words and manner bring me so much peace. So grateful for him. Thank you for posting.
So deep and clear and true is Thay in what we are allowed to continue 🙏🥰☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️🌿🌼🌿🌼🌈🌈🌈
Karma is an interesting topic, i used to think i knew what karma was then i started to wake up.. it is much bigger than I could ever have imagined :)
Nick Shutler
buddhasutra.com/files/angulimala_sutta.htm
This is the Angulimala he was said now
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It is very big , it need lot of exploration. You can read Sutta of Buddha , there you find more explanation about ,karma and how it work . Actually our life base on Karma , we won’t be born if we do not have karma . If u have no karma mean , you reach nirvana , it mean , no birth , then no death , so no birth mean , no suffering . Read about Chathurarya sathya on google , you will find real knowledge about karma and how it really work .
You can think about your parents , take a picture of their younger age and now , see the difference. So we all have same process which recognised as every bound to be decay .
Outside of cause and effect in the physical world, karma is a mental context. Like watching two Blind Men describe an elephant. When one is awake to the prison their mind has created for them, they become the masters of karma, rather than a slave to it.
No mind outside Cause and Effect... your delusion of working of cause and Effect create your Mind
Thank you so much for existing Thay! 💖✨🙏🏻
Two humble thoughts..
1. This is profound and reminds me of Buddha and the lotus flower being used to compare with four types of human beings and their ability to understand. Maybe this explains why some comments here seem to evidence that some people cannot grasp, resist or don't even try to contemplate through meditation what he is teaching/saying.
2. So many thumbs down is proof alone that we all have different Karma... AND that there are many overly critical and I'll-willed people in this world.
What were the four types of humans?
He has amazing books! Very wonderful, thank you.
Do you know which books which he talks about us being flowers in the garden of society etc?
the problem with the wording he used to explain non self "your body is the property of your parents " is there are many parents who see their children in the way thst "they are my property it is my right to harm them". Hopefully the people listening understand
I don't.
Can you help me understand?
@@DarkMoonDroid i think "your body is the property of your parents" is talking about our energetic/karmic self, as opposed to (though linked with) our physical self. it does not mean we are disposable and under our parent's will. it means we should practice/make choices good for us (which also, in turn, is the people/energetic forms/energy we inherit/represent, carry in ourselves, reincarnate) though, those things can be interchanged/effected by one another. ultimately my understanding of this is that when we help ourselves learn and grow, etc. it also helps the people (or "people") inside us, as well as outside of us, as they are essentially one in the same. i hope this helps make sense of things.
The same goes for the parents... they don't have specific rights of ownership towards their child, in that their child also has his/ her karma from other places, and belongs to the universe. No one owns anyone... It's more expansive than that. And a parent's behaviour also has it's karmic consequences. For example, an overcontrolling parent may lose their child as soon as the child is able to leave home. A reminder that life cannot be owned, a painful lesson.
感謝！意會您的信息，我想到我正是這樣錯誤的媽媽。阿彌陀佛！
Thank you Thay 🙏
Each and every Plum Village video, has large amounts of people suffering in the audience, from sneezes and coughs. This is no accident. I believe there is something deeply wrong with the ventilation system in those gathering halls.
Love you Thay 💐🙏❤
This subject is genuinely approached with a great, enlivening humour that alleviates the seriousness karma was so often dressed in :) Thank you, Thay, for making things lose their heavy weight!
Wow!! What a treasure.
I love this channel 💜
so it is nearly impossible for us to get rid of karma, right?
becoming a monk or nun is only the way to change or update karma?
I think so too . It’s a different culture and thousands of years of by westerners wrap eastern philosophy in a western bow and market it as enlightenment. It’s too complex to get it like a monk .
You do not need to be a monk to nun to change your karma- just being good being skilful and compassionate for yourself and others is changing your karma. Karma is not something you get rid of as it is not inherently negative
You don't need to be a monk. But you need to think about the effects of your actions. You reap what you sow don't you?
Keep Supporting person or animal you like , supporting Budhist monks and temples , keep chanting qualities of triple gems should be recommended 🙏🙏🙏
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मंगलमय धम्म संध्या
Karma is neither good nor bad . It is a loop of actions which make up our lives.
Gracias Thay.
Karma is on of five things that one should not keep thinking in depth unnecessarily according to Budhism 🙏🙏🙏
Love that bell! 🛎 Enjoy the response to the question!
Nhờ bạn nào dịch ra tiếng Việt giúp không ạ. Xem như làm phước để người Việt đc tiếp thu giáo lý Bụt từ Thầy
bạn có cần translation nữa ko? :)
Hiện giờ đã có vietsub rồi đó bạn.
Lol. I love Teacher. He’s no square. I trust his wisdom, though. 🙏🏻
Put succuntly our carmas are not the same,but also not diferente.and also carmas are collective and individual at the same time
Just like transcending the pairs of opposites.i became enlighted just by realizang the removal of pairs of opposites.before that i was tormented by the limites of time,fear of death,and heavy melancholy. I am everlasting thankfull to thay
Next step is nirvana.
Guruji I want see you. When will you come to India
Every one gets a decent microphone but the speaker . 😞
We are just a continuation of our parents can we break free of our parents karma?
Karma gathered by parents are seperate and different from ours. Keep doing good things (Keep helping people and animals ) can recommend 🙏🙏🙏
There is a sense in which the individual is ontological subordinate to the collective. The universe in its totality imposes the local constraints that cause any particle anywhere to appear and behave as it does. Since the particles create the things of the world, and the indivudal living things are a function and expression of this process, all things are ultimately tied into the universal Being that is the universe in its totality; and those special objects - humans, are able to experience the transcendental basis of things while simultaneously enacting meanings that derive from the matrix of interactions generated by particles in spacetime. Indeed, the is a trinity of the transcendental atemporal, the spatiotemporal fabric which interlinks all things , and the subjective temporal.
"The universe in it's totality imposes" ... "The particles create" ... "that derive" ... What is cause and what is effect? This is because that is and that is because this is. The individual imposes itself on the totality of universe, because of his perceptions the universe actually comes into being. We can see these things from many different valid perspectives.
@@DodoStek the individuals perceptions are structured ontogenetically. We were born as infants, and have been conditioned to orient our socioaffective responses to the meanings of the body la Guage and vocal tones of others. The individual is very much embedded and reacting. It is passive before the styles of stimuli it encounters and is helpless before the goodness or badness of others. The moods we end up evolving are therefore consequences of the cultural dynamics that we happened to have been exposed to from conception onwards. Playing games with causal ordering like asking what is cause and what is effect is therefore dishonest. For example, I am very much responding, being affected, by what you have written. Having read what you've written, I am as an effect being placed into a particular emotional condition. I am the cause of this response? Besides being regulated by an already existing sense of conceptual coherence, I am of course set to relate to matters in certain ways. But my response is nevertheless temporally posterior to your statements, which makes your statement about what is cause and what is effect essentially unreasonable.
Uauuuuu, incrivel, estou muito fascinada por esse SER tão sutil em seus ensinamentos sobre o mistério, meu Pai, quanta facilidade, simplicidade para expressar o mistério para todos nós 😱😱😱❤❤❤❤☯️ que lindo isso, sei que fascinar não seria adequado, mas... me perdoem, no mru momento, me permito ficar em êxtase, meu Deus, que riqueza de conteúdo, que tudo ❤☯️❤🦋🦅🌴🌻⚘🌷🌳🐙🐳🌴🐋😊🙏❤☯️❤🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Thank you. 💕💕💕
Karma is a thorny subject. Very difficult to say what is karma and what is not . Only the Buddha saw karma at work .
Agree
Fantastic Master!😘😘😘
Karma is more to everyone existed , not less or differences...
Is why deadlocks of everyday decisions...
When (time, history)t = (time, history)y + Error (time, history)
Error = 0.....
Why karma appears when we are happy or when we have to do something with good intention?
I can hear an example of Kant's categorical imperative in Thays teaching about suicide
Now that Thich Nhat Hanh is deceased, who in today's world compares to him?
Names please. Even Kobe and Lebron succeded into the place of Michael Jordan
I got into an argument with a friend to day over why everyone should get vaccinated. This really puts that in perspective. Anyone who refuses it on the grounds of individual rights fails to see how it weakens our collective immune system.
If you are already fully vaccinated, why should you care if others are not? You are protected, right?
Fact is, you are NOT and that is why you are concerned.
Many of my friends and relatives had gotten Covid yet they were FULLY vaccinated.
Yeah but their symptoms are milder, you say?
Nope, not true.
They all were sick for about 14 days.
I got Covid and am NOT vaccinated at all.
I was sick for 14 days too - same severity.
So why get vaccinated? Doesn't help at all.
Not only that, a small number of people actually died from blood clots as a result of the vaccine.
Some became infertile because blood clotted their organ down there and they are now infertile.
These are DOCUMENTED facts, not hearsay.
That is why ultimately, the decision to vaccinate must be given to the individual.
If the government cannot guarantee effectiveness nor safety FOR EVERYONE, then that must be the case.
@@andyhughes1776 No. What is documented is that severe cases (hospitalizations and deaths) are overwhelming represented by unvacinnated. That's across the board in all countries that share their medical data. Sorry you are putting yourself and your community at risk based on bad information. I understand your fear of the consequences of the vaccine, given how expedited they were. But collectively society is trying to find a solution that will get the world back on track and lower the burden on health care systems. The vaccine, so far, has been the best solution.
Patterns in time and space
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reflect on the notion - transcend - dispose- we cannot hardly the group have to - cuicide - offense- grumble- nautical suffering- ancestor- strictly - suppose - optic nerves- i bus driver - apparel
phản ánh về khái niệm - siêu việt - vứt bỏ - chúng ta khó có thể nhóm phải - giết người - phạm tội - càu nhàu - đau khổ - tổ tiên - nghiêm túc - giả sử - thần kinh quang - tài xế xe buýt - may mặc
१रकू्ूीीिीूी्ुि मरररवरवव१कलतसडसवरौर२ीुररिरिीररीकीरीकी०८५५२२गौततु. ह्राहग
I wonder how I can overcome a fear of
being harmed.
keep doing "maithee meditation " basic - May all living beings be well and happy ! " / keep chanting qualities of triple gems Ex:- " Lord Budhdha discovered the truth without assistance of anyone " Do good things only , helping animals , people , Budhist monks and temples 🙏🙏🙏
'You' said, 'I don't know what action it is,' interesting, so... this 'I' 'you' referred to... is this the 'NoSelf?' The answer is, No Self, No Problem. There is no self, whether the delusion of the 'I' is used or not.
Queria ver legendado em Português Brasil!
Vá nas configurações do vídeo e coloque a legenda. Fiz aqui e esta funcionando.
Yes ,he is right , the karma is action of individual, put it this way , one person constantly stealing , misbehaving of sexually , and just think he kill a human , and other person , alcoholic and misbehave, and always kill animals and hurt animals , just for example , so these two characters Karma will be different form in their life cycle , because one has killed a human , so he has committed much more sins , so his collective karma will be different than other person , that’s how the karma can be different from one to another . Actually I gave a simple answer , it is very complex and difficult subject to understand karma in easy way ..
Our Buddha has been able to see himself where people go after death , I mean , person can reborn according their karmic effect , it can be in an animal womb , or human womb , or as a god , or in nire ( hell ) . There are two more places , but I can’t remember them . So Buddha has developed to see himself where people go after death , he said few time to his disciple Ánanda thero and others when they fancies to know when the Buddha was there . That’s why Buddha said , if you did not stick to Dhamma and practice good deeds , you can go to nire, hell and you will spend there thousands of years , so , he realised the danger that humans can face , that’s why he said , please follow Dhamma and arrange your life at least to reborn as human or be a god in there world , then you can do more and more merits in those lives and collect enough merits to attain nirvana and end of birth , end of birth is the last thing you must contemplate to achieve , then no more risks to your life . But if you born in animal womb , then you have no chances to earn merits to collect to attain nirvana , because animals are hardly can collect merits because they have no brain to listen Dhamma in their life , but if you born as a human , you have more chances to listen Dhamma and stick for it . That’s why Buddha explained very well what we as humans must do .
I think he was asking about the karma from "other lifes" or something like that?
It needs to be put into question if its right to stictly speak of indivdual karma, since you as an isolated identity is a wrong view of yourself already. There is nothing one can do to not effect the world sorrounding yourself and likewise the world that interacts with you, even if you would sit for 20 years in a cave. So indivdual karma is also collective karma and cannot really be seperated from one another. Just as water cannot be seperated from a tree. We speak of a tree, but forget all the other things for it to even exist, which is the entire universe. (Sun (warmth and light), Water, Earth and so on.)
That is why there is really no "other" and no indivdual karma. It is always one and from the same source.
@@SaithMasu12 interesting... but, why we have different forms, and animals too, trees, clouds, etc.? Why we have differents bodys, colors, ideas, familys? Why every animal, every flower?
Is really interesting, because I agree with what you say, but, I always wondered about the difference, the materialité, the division visible in the union. You know?
@@lauralunaazul Imagine being an apple on an apple tree.
You can compare yourself to other apples on that tree. Big ones, small ones, foul ones etc...But in reality you are the entire tree, because an apple tree consists also of apples.
Now you see differences, but also always be the "one" entire thing.
Same with you as a human being. There are "others" if it is viewed from the standpoint of a human being. But if it is seen from that of totality, you understand that everthing else is also yourself.
Is that a comedy show and Thich Nath Hanh was actually a comedian?
5:40
What is in the one is in the whole.
Can someone possibly fix the audio and repost this? Its seems a little disrespectful to have this dreadful echo throughout.
Dear friend, this is an older recording done by volunteers on less professional devices :) We shared it despite these technical shortcoming hoping the message overcomes the audio glitches :) We'll ask around and see if anything can be done about the audio quality. 🙏
@@plumvillageonline One of the few times I'm grateful I'm hard of hearing. I keep the sound off and just read the captions. Thank you for the captions they were well done.
If only everyone wasn’t coughing and spluttering.
They got bad karma 😹
Why did people burst out laughing? Even Thich didn't think his own remark was funny.
Very clever monk. Wish burmese monks be that way.
Thich Nhat what your Karma can do for you, but what you can do for your Karma....
Wonderful person💕💕💕💕
I am not sure about karma or sin or god or gods or heaven or hell or humans. All things seems to be of imagination, belief, a dream or temporary state of some kind...changeable, without certainty, without concrete definition or truth.
There are proofs for reincarnation and law of karma in books and on internet 🙏🙏🙏
they love this guy in France.
Thay is so sassy here lol
X-Files
For the hostile alien vampires (greed) to comprehend earthling human beings (love)...is like giant black holes in space trying to comprehend the stars (light and warmth) that they suck out of heaven (joy, beauty and harmony).
Im an alien
Told bro we
You can't take the corn out the kernel 🥺🌽 thank you ♥️
Good master
why karma not sure karma is action one karma action cause fruit corn kernal seed plant of corn a continue space collective individual notion pair of opposite young i want to do what ever i want wrong view act collect 600 people in retreate 3 weeks let go release pair of opposite affect all of us for the world not different remove Kimball Barrett
karma means action cause and effect one from the other corn continuation collective karma make a big step father freedom this my own body body is collective bad individual leave the burden individual any nothing is not lost collective able Kimball Barrett
Zen Dharma of Non Seperation
Not all parents, not all fathers nor all mothers unfortunately want their children and some push their children to suicide, when they are very young.
karma means action cause fruit corn no self time space collective karma big step opposite my body anything no harm property part nerves optic eyes not optic karma individual collective spend time good individual release pair of opposite right view Kimball Barrett
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There is much that is beautiful about this teaching, but all teachings need to be aware of who the student is. This teaching could be very easily misunderstood and harmful for sexual abuse survivors, people who have been enslaved, and others. No human is the property of anyone else. I think that Thay would agree, but I'm not sure he was fully aware of who might be listening to his teachings and how his words could be misconstrued in this talk.
The COUGHERS!!! WOW go outside! This is really hard to hear with the echo effect but the COUGHERS are heard perfectly uugghh. 😰
Breathe in, breathe out :) You can use the coughers to train yourself to concentrate even better!
The coughers are only inside to you when you place them inside your mind. When you place your attention to what you would like to attend to, the unwanted distractions will be outside of your mind and cease to be distractions to you.
This body is the property of your father? I find that statement problematic to say the least....
they are not special, they simply think more for reality not actuality
God Forgives Suicide
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Wish that person with the incessant coughing would go outside and stop interrupting his talk....very distracting and annoying. Some people have NO manners at all...... ignorant. Good talk.....the parts I could hear.
Sounds like Corona was already around. 😁
Every damn video there are tons of ppl coughing haha
Thank you master for sharing your knowledge
Tpy
He really embarrassed him
It's very disrespectful to say suicide is am offence, it's easy to sit and judge in a dualistic way when someone has overwhelming suffering the cannot cope with it, very patronizing indeed, easy to look on and say this, try saying this to a 15 yr old girl being bullied and see how intellect and philosophy helps, its easy to say this from an observers comfort zone and make decision for that, but it's a different story entirely in reality .. this is comfortable middle class zen teaching, very poor. imo and experience. It's not a game, or a study, it's what it is for the person. very shallow to judge like that, shows limit.
I disagree. I don't think it is said to shame anyone. It is just fact that if someone commits suicide, their family will suffer, their friends will suffer, it is a butterfly effect, although the victim here may not see this. An unskilled mind will be prone to suffering -- suicide is the result of someone battling their suffering and losing, much like someone with cancer. We do not need to be angry at them or cast blame on them to point out the way their suffering extends to others.
Comfortable Zen middle class 😂🤣. Do you know how much this man has been velified by both parties of his own birth country by refusing to take either side and choose peace instead?
I mostly agree with you. I think that as wise as he is and as much as I respect Thich That Hahn, he fails to consider the fact that most of those who choose suicide are experiencing an immense amount of suffering, of various types, and they have likely already tried all they can to improve their health or their situation and have come up empty handed. It is simply wired into the human brain to avoid suffering, and when the suffering becomes absolutely unbearable, suicide becomes a possible choice of the individual. This does not change the fact of course that others will inevitably be negatively affected by the suicide, but it is important to consider all angles of the situation.
Do away with Evil and purify the mind . No need to worry about karma after that
By the way, nice name, now 'you' have defined 'yourself' and closed off the physical awareness, not a big help on Exoplanets.
wow.
The person who was responsible for recording this talk clearly had some bad karma.
Haha
"felled"
Karma is just and real .that's why when I see a child with leukemia I punch them in the face beacase they were obviously that dispicable that deserve a terminal desease the deserve even more suffering.If they acted like better human beings they would be as content as murderous drug lords on there yatchs surrounded by bikini models
Very edgy.
Even I don't understand how karma works but I believe the old saying,..as you sow so shall you reap.
Lol what a twat
If one sees a blind man and laughs or has no compassion and chooses not to put oneself in the blind man’s shoe; one experiences life completely blind to the mystery and sanctity of life.
Maybe much suffering is in the ancestral lineage and one chooses not to open the heart. Maybe one chooses to live in the past and not recognize the person in front of them is to teach them compassion. Maybe it easier to be a drug lord, be involved in human trafficking and live out ancestral scars then it is to wake up and heal.
Maybe it’s easier to waste this life, remain spiritually bankrupt, and continue the karma of inhumanity towards humanity.
If died with anger afterlife can be a serpent , snake 🙏🙏🙏
Wtf is he saying
Maybe he says that opposites and differences are just an illusion. Your karma is my karma. 🤔
LOL
Everyone is not doing the same merits and sins . Each and every one of us have accumulated karma differently 🙏🙏🙏
This is CRAP!! Can’t even hear the dude with all the coughing
Jesus has paid the price for all the karma folks on the cross of Calvary. So the only thing you need to do is to believe in Him with all ur heart and obey His Comandments of Living God and love ur neighbours.