Befriend your Strong Emotions - with Sister Dang Nghiem
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- All human beings experience strong emotions, like sadness, anger, insecurity, jealousy, self-doubt, regret, yearning, etc. We all have them, but as a child we don't necessarily learn how to deal with strong emotions. Not at home, nor in school. While we do learn how to read, write and calculate, our inner world remains as untrodden territory. Our strong emotions, however, have a major impact on our lives.
That is why Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village community consider understanding our strong emotions to be one of the most fundamental practices. Understanding our emotions is essential to understanding ourselves. By befriending our emotions, we befriend ourselves, or as Sister Dang Nghiem says: we become soulmates to ourselves.
In this personal account, Sister Dang Nghiem compares strong emotions with a wave, a storm, a food (nutriment), and a habit (addiction). An emotion by itself does not have a long life span. But our reaction to an emotion can be long, making the emotion grow bigger and stronger-like a wave or a storm, to finally overwhelm us. So, it is essential to understand how we react to an emotion. Awareness is key. If we are not aware (of our emotions), we are lost. We will be tossed around like small boats on the high waves, and blown away by heavy storms ... and still then, we often have no idea what is happening to us.
If we are not aware of our emotions, how can we take care of them? How can we heal and transform? Our mindful breathing, and mindful steps, as Sister Dang Nghiem says, can bring us back to ourselves, to our body and to our mind. Only when we are present, can we see what is going on around us, and inside of us. Only when we are present, can we love, care and embrace. Through the practice of mindfulness we become steady and stable, and when a strong emotion comes up we can smile to it with equanimity (mental calmness).
Sister Dang Nghiem wrote three very personal, powerful and practical books about strong emotions and the path of healing:
1. Healing, A Woman's story from doctor to nun: www.parallax.o...
2. Mindfulness as Medicine: www.parallax.o...
3. Flowers in the Dark: www.parallax.o...
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh wrote an important book about this topic called Taming the Tiger Within: www.parallax.o...
In the first tone of your voice I can already feel the embrace of mindfulness. Dear sister you are a living practice 🙏🏿💕
Dear Sister no words to express my gratitude ❤ sublime words🙏🏿
Precious ❤🙏🏿
Thank you dear sister, dear teacher. I cry happy tears listening to you even at the very beginning. Thank you for your presence.
Such a powerful blend of neuroscience, psychology and spirituality. Powerful techniques from 2500 years of Buddha Dharma
Exellent teaching by your great spiritual strength, Sister Dang Nghiem, great and usefull insights. Thank you for sharing .
Thank you Venerable. That was very good..
An hour of tenderness. Great day. Thank you very much.
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Wow! Hearing these deep bits from her life story, it's all the more amazing how she was able to find Thay's teachings of mindfulness, find peace, forgiveness and grace and finally to pass that on to the rest of the world. The late Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh has fostered generations of enlightened beings and it behooves us all to seek them out and learn everything we can. This saha world needs it now more than ever.
Thank you sister for your teachings , you are a healer . I too was a child in the Vietnam war time but in USA . I am so sorry that you and your people in your country went through such a bad and cruel period. But please know this … you are a miracle and we love you. You have maid a huge step in helping the world and all people in it to find inner peace through Bhutan’s great dhamma. Thank you sister. And peace to you always.
APPRECIATE your sharing ❤ struggle with so much of what your talking about 🙏
Dear Sister Dang Nghiem, thank you so much for this enlightening, clarifying, wonderful talk - "be your own soul mate", guarding our gates, "Moon or market". I'll practise!
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🕊🙏🏻 Thankyou dear Sister Dang Nghiem 💐
Bow to you Sister Dang Nghiem.🙏❤️
This sharing resonates deeply with me. The depths of grief, trauma, and spiritual intensity of intense kindness are meaningful, well beyond what I've experienced before, and I'm deeply grateful to Sister for her kindness and empathy.
Beautifully spoken. Wonderful teaching. Thank you so much Sister. 🙏🙏🙏
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🙏Thank you.
Thank you for the teaching, sister 🪷
It is always a comfort to listen to you.🙏🙏
Thank you Sister 🪷🙏🏼
Dear sister D, your Dharma talks are always a source of inspiration for me. and give me the motivation to go on with my practice.Thank you so much for this, you are a lamp in the darkness.
Your holiness. Very educative. I love his videos. I do research on how Buddhism disappeared in Bihar. I realized it never disappeared from Bihar. Buddhists simply failed to research Indian Buddhism. They looked at Buddhism through the sphere of their own cultures searching for only the Buddha. Buddha had a myriad of names in different villages according to his teachings there. Example. His favorite teaching was 'Lust and desire causes pain. Remove lust and desire, and pain is removed'. Translated into Bihari (where the Buddha story took place) it is DHUKH HARAN meaning to remove dukha. Three dozen villages pray to DUKH HARAN Baba. Its clear that DUKH HARAN Baba is none other than the Buddha. Problem is Buddhists are searching only for the Buddha. In the real Vaishali the Buddha begged for alms. The locals there pray to 'BHIKHAINI' Baba (Beggar Baba). Bhikhaini was mispronounced by Buddhists as Bhikshu. Who is BHIKHAINI Baba. The Buddha no doubt. But people are searching for a man called Buddha. In the real Vaishali, in Beluha the Buddha suffered a sickness and felt he had grown old. The locals pray to 'BURHA' Baba (Old Baba). Who is BURHA Baba. The Buddha no doubt. In the real Vaishali the Lichavies pressurized Buddha not to die. They trailed him to Bandagawan pressurizing him not to die. To put pressure in Hindi is DABESHWAR. Three dozen villages around the stupa where Buddha gave the Lichavies his patra, the villagers pray to Baba 'DABESHWAR NATH' meaning the man who won the pressurizing game. It was the the Buddha no doubt as he gave the Lichavies his patra and succeded in sending them back. But Buddhists are searching for the Buddha. Forgive me for commenting out of the topic. I just wanted to impart this information to you.
Your words I hope to carry with me
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Hello your holiness. Namobuddhay. You are a professor in Buddhism. Zen Buddhism. I am a freelance researcher in Bihar in India where the Buddha moved around. I realize the Buddhist world failed to study and recognize Indian Buddhism in India. Buddhism in eastern UP and Bihar in India is alive and kicking. Sir, I have some good news. Day before yesterday I videographed the Vimalakirti's temple which marks the spot where he preached when he was sick, I videographed Kotigama where the Buddha would stay, I videographed Amrapali's property. Sir, she was stinking rich. She was the owner of ten sq km of land which she got through her profession. I videographed the place where her musicians lived, where she lived, where the Buddha's foster mother Maha Prajapati Gautami lived. And to top it all I videographed the exact spot where she attained Parinirvana. Locals pray to her as a village deity and they maintain the place where she died. It is a lovely temple with no statues or pictures of God. There were five tiny stupas on the spot she attained Parinirvana. I will be releasing the videos in my channel in a few days.
. I love your videos. I do research on how Buddhism disappeared in Bihar. I realized it never disappeared from Bihar. Buddhists simply failed to research Indian Buddhism. They looked at Buddhism through the sphere of their own cultures searching for only the Buddha. Buddha had a myriad of names in different villages according to his teachings there. Example. His favorite teaching was 'Lust and desire causes pain. Remove lust and desire, and pain is removed'. Translated into Bihari (where the Buddha story took place) it is DHUKH HARAN meaning to remove dukha. Three dozen villages pray to DUKH HARAN Baba. Its clear that DUKH HARAN Baba is none other than the Buddha. Problem is Buddhists are searching only for the Buddha. In the real Vaishali the Buddha begged for alms. The locals there pray to 'BHIKHAINI' Baba (Beggar Baba). Bhikhaini was mispronounced by Buddhists as Bhikshu. Who is BHIKHAINI Baba. The Buddha no doubt. But people are searching for a man called Buddha. In the real Vaishali, in Beluha the Buddha suffered a sickness and felt he had grown old. The locals pray to 'BURHA' Baba (Old Baba). Who is BURHA Baba. The Buddha no doubt. In the real Vaishali the Lichavies pressurized Buddha not to die. They trailed him to Bandagawan pressurizing him not to die. To put pressure in Hindi is DABESHWAR. Three dozen villages around the stupa where Buddha gave the Lichavies his patra, the villagers pray to Baba 'DABESHWAR NATH' meaning the man who won the pressurizing game. It was the the Buddha no doubt as he gave the Lichavies his patra and succeded in sending them back. But Buddhists are searching for the Buddha. Forgive me for commenting out of the topic. I just wanted to impart this information to you.