Thích Ñhất Hạnh - Our society must stop producing and blaming [the addicted]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- From "Touching Peace - An Evening With Thich Nhat Hanh - 1993-10-19, Berkeley, California (re-mastered version)"
Our society is organised in such a way that we produce tens of thousands of hungry ghosts everyday. They have not received love from their parents, their society, their tradition. Nobody has understood them. That is why they are very hungry of love and understanding. And they are looking for something to believe in. And hungry ghosts, even if they have a big belly like this, they have a very tiny throat, as small as a needle, it is described in the sacred text. Hungry ghosts have a throat that is as small as a needle. So even if you have a lot to offer, it is very difficult for them to absorb. Even if you have plenty of food, plenty of water, plenty of love, to offer, it is difficult for them to absorb because nobody has understood them, nobody has loved them, they suspect everything, they suspect everyone. We have helped a certain number of hungry ghosts like that. We know that it is difficult. We know that we need each other in order to help. We have to recognise our society in such a way that we stop producing more hungry ghosts. It is very important. We should practice looking deeply in order to be able to understand these hungry ghosts, and not to continue to blame them. Because they have not received any understanding, and therefore, any love.
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How simple and profound. I can't recall seeing Thay speaking like this in other videos I have watched. It´s a very forceful and clear critique of the society we live in where everyone is out for themselves.
Great teacher!
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Ive been clean for almost 8 years. I lost all my friends, it was the only way to stay clean. My problem now is im not fit for either world. The drug world will kill me, and the sober normal world doenst have the time to deal with me. I have untreated mental health, doctors and therapists havent helped. I cant make friends, i shut out my family, my wife wants to leave me because i have social problems which make it almost impossible to keep a job. Im dying spiritually and i just dont know how to hold on. I still have faith but its not enough i fear. I just want connection. I want to feel heard and not feel crazy. I am shouting into a sea of a billion voices all i can hope for is that god hears me and grants me peace. I love you guys very much because you bring peace into this world. Thank you so much and god bless you.
Hello Alexander. It sounds like you have been going through a lot. It is good that you are trying to stay positive. I would like to chat more with you sometime if you are open to that.
Spend some time in nature. Sea, forest, mountains, animals. Go to a more relaxed society. Maybe Chang Mai in Thailand...
Godspeed Alexander. I wish for your peace and happiness
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Thank you guys for the support. All I need is for you all to stay good people. That gives me hope and peace.
TNH is part of how i got clean. He is very loved and missed but his teaching lives on
Ever do true🙏Amen🙏
❤❤❤ I hear you & identify with you. Take heart, if you can.
Dear Thay. I’m not sure how many hungry ghost u have helped to heal but how ever many u have that is how many times u have saved the world
I bow to the Buddha u are 🙏🏻
Such a powerful teaching. It has been getting worse because we have less and less human interaction. 😢
Sadly that seems to be true nearly everywhere. it is critical for us to make time for people who are important to us. Thank you for sharing your insight
The hungry ghost cannot be cured with medication...thank you Thay for this teaching
What a hard hitting image- "a hungry ghost". Sad 😥. This is because "money and materialism" comes before the welfare of all living beings. Living beings/nature and the earth are number 1!!!!
That's what Mother Teresa used to talk about that a lot of the people they housed and fed were so hungry for love and compassion.
Try going to AA the big book describes exactly what your dealing with . I too felt how youve described and was so happy to realize I wasn't crazy just an addict hope it helps
chào sư ông làng MAI (DÙ)
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The society is what it is. We created that, because of wrong paths of evolution we passed. We have to bear it. There is nothing to change anymore. So relax and enjoy life.
“There is nothing to change anymore.” Please tell this to the actual families of the 12-year old daughters after they have been raped and died by suicide, “We have rapists, sorry that’s society.”(Referring to the new video of Thày’s poem “Please call me by my true names.”) Unnecessary Conditions of injustice for one are injustice to all. Not trying to argue or cause upset, just hoping to bring more of his perspective. Thanks for your comment
But wasn't Buddha a Praet?
This about tiny throuth and ......hungry ghoasts is a sheer nonsense,whoever invented it.What is thruth is thruth but this 1:10
There are the stories of hungry ghosts in the suttas (the petavatthu). It's not so farfetched to use them as an analogy of drug addiction. Dr. Gabor Mate does the same in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Close Encounters with Addiction.
@@user26912 that I agree,it has nothing to do with drugs.Another thing is that about a throat as a needle and hunger as a instriable is stupid.I don,t care who told that story,als it has nothing to do with people who ' don,t have a country,family" who are so to say socialy,isolated and lost.It is simply a nonsense,even told by Thay.Weak points of 'Thay " are 1.relationship between men and women2.naive misunderatandong of evil, and this silly infantile fable about " hungry ghoasts" It,s like pleasing or justifying its stupidity.
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me man,drug addiction in Buddhhas time,so naive
It,s just pleasing a nonsense that maybe someone misunderstood Buddhha.Hungry ghoasts is a c...
Well, Thich, could there be more love and understanding? Sure. However, during the '60s and '70s parents weren't expressing much love and understanding. The kids from that era were being raised by the generations who survived WWI, WWII, the Depression, and the Cold War. There was far more healthy and unhealthy discipline. There is little to no discipline now, and that's out of balance. And what was on TV was far more wholesome than the vile, disrespectful garbage that is being pedaled on TV, the internet, and the airwaves to our young people. The eye of that needle is much bigger. They're taking in all of it. And now they're are being confused and toxified with propaganda from the very institutions that they are taught to look to for a definition of the world. My concern is that your message (this sound byte) will be taken too literally and out of context. Watch episodes of Super Nanny, and you see parents both young and older who have zero authority over their children and no respect for the parents whatsoever. The kids are running the household and steamroller over their parents. The parents are developing future narcissists. Yes, love, listening, and understanding. Absolutely. It's also important not to throw the baby out with the bath water. Proper discipline IS necessary, and it's an integral part of the parenting job. Animals in nature discipline their young for the purpose of survival. Everyone is terrified to talk about discipline. Discipline is not a four letter word. Providing your kids with healthy discipline is kind and loving. In my opinion, it's child abuse to allow a child to be making decisions that are inappropriate to their age. Kids feel safer, protected, and are more peaceful in their minds when the adults are making age-appropriate boundaries and decisions. It's a psychological/emotional cocoon that expands as the child matures. Then, eventually, the child is an adult. There is no more parental cocoon. The adult has its own self-sustaining cocoon and the young adult leaves the nest. The rash of narcissists that are being developed today are highly toxic to their own young and to society. We are failing as a society at raising our young. The old school generations weren't right about everything, but they were right about a lot of things. Look back to them and sort out what was working. The academic and psychology community have done massive, massive amounts of damage to our young people. They aren't wrong about everything, but a lot of their blithering, destructive nonsense ought to be kicked to the curb.
Start using your own common sense, people. Think it through. You're wise enough to do this. Don't think that you're so naive that you have to listen to the academics and the misled psychologists who belong in the chair themselves to raise your children. Trust your own common sense...your intuition. I'm not saying to kick all information to the curb. Use discretion. Use your own head and sort through what makes sense and what works. Trust yourself and make decisions. You'll be right sometimes and you'll be wrong sometimes. No evading that. Your parenting is the single most important job you will ever do. Balance, balance, balance.