Thay’s example and teachings have deeply transformed my life. Thay taught me how to stop-to come home to myself, to touch deep stillness-and to honor, embrace my suffering and generate authentic joy despite deep traumatic wounds. Once I was able to do that, whole new worlds opened up to me. I feel so incredibly fortunate to be in his continuation.
I feel exactly the same! I could have written each word you expressed. I’m happy that you found Thay so young, that your life can touch joy, be healed from suffering, and know that you are home throughout life. All my best.
"Ifyou don´t escape, if you allow the suffering to be there, if you are ready to face it, if you are not trying somehow to forget it, then you are different. Suffering is there but just around you; it is not in the center, it is on the periphery. It is impossible for suffering to be in the center; it is not in the nature of things. It is always on the periphery and you are the center. So when you allow it to happen, you don´t escape, you don´t run, you are not in a panic, suddenly you become aware that suffering is there on the periphery as if happening to someone else, not to you, and you are looking at it. A subtle joy spreads all over your being because you have realized one of the basic truths of life, that you are bliss and not suffering."
@@olgatrilogymartin3143 your emotions are not you. They are yours therefore you don't have to identify with them. You feel them, you watch them and watch them pass
When I was in high school I started to appreciate running. In college I began to appreciate mathematics. Then yoga came into my life and I started to appreciate it. Then I was hit by a Semi truck Thank you Running, Mathematics and Yoga for the suffering that I endured to feel accomplished in my mind saved my life when it came to dealing with life after everything changed.
did you ever come to appreciate Semi trucks? I am l earning that now.. It´s kind of hard, unless you are prepared to be new. Life saves itsefl in whatever way I guess.
Very educative. I love his videos. About suffering. 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.
This is a great thing. But it's very hard to embrace the suffering. There is a lot of it. Lots of crying, lots of fighting the urge to quit, lots of painful memories and fears keep coming up so it's not easy at all. But I hope that I can keep coming back to this video every day and I will be able to heal. So hard omg. We are trained to avoid suffering. I think this is how suicidal thoughts arise. But I really do want to learn the art of suffering. How can we survive without learning this? Pain and suffering is built into the human experience. You would think we'd be able to live with it 🙄. If you are having a hard time like me, I feel for you. You can and will get through it. Suffering is not forever. I will be okay, and so will you.
I feel you. There are times the suffering seems to be unbearable, even unfair. But the more I fight it the bigger it becomes and the less I am able to fight it. It’s as if it becomes big enough for me to finally rest and accept it. It’s not a flaw, it’s how I feel and it’s okay. There’s no problem with suffering. I am allowed to suffer… The message that helped me most in this video was that from suffering all the good things arise, when gone trough it. This message makes it easier for me to let go of my resistance against it. God bless you, we are all in this together ❤️
The trick i've found is not to think about the reasons for the suffering or anxiety. Not to justify them. Not to "figure out why." Not even to name them - not even to say, "I am sad." Rather, just sit with the buzz or the flush or the rush or the tingle - sit with the sensations of anxiety or sadness (or whatever) as they course through you. Just sit with them, welcome them (again, just focus on the sensation itself, not the reasons for it), and in 10-30 seconds of just unclenching and feeling (and not naming) - the sensations start to change into something else. Just by unclenching, and you start to realize (with a sense of "wow, it's so simple") it was the clenching that was the problem. You see that all of life is this: sensation and your reaction to it, either welcoming and giving it attention or clenching against and thinking about other things.
I think it all has to do something with the critical breaking point, once you go through it without killing yourself in the process, it can not go any deeper it might even start to fade away
Really this is priceless. The recognition of the suffering we all have and how to work with it, why aren't more people looking for this? We are attached to pain, having it and causing it. People don't know what to do without it and they wouldn't know what to do with peace or living peacefully. Thank you for this offering.
To answer your question- we don't look for this until we need it. Everyone's different of course - but for most people, life is relatively routine- long stretches of work, some play, rest and repeat. Years go by with no need to look any deeper. But then something happens - a death of a loved one or a chronic illness in yourself - one that WON'T just go away this time. And then, we are suddenly fragile humans again, facing that mysterious empty void and we tremble in fear at the sight of it. That's when we return to seeking deeper truths and try to somehow find our way back home.
Very educative. I love his videos. About suffering. 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.
This is really beautiful. The chanting made me cry. I've suffered four bereavements in the last 18 months, I'm having such a difficult time with the waves of grief which frequently overwhelm me. Thays teachings are the only thing which has bought me some moments of peace. A beautiful soul. May he live on in all of us 🙏 Thank you Thay
i listened to the chanting while deep in meditation and i got to a stage where i felt like i was in my own deathbed and trying to embrace the fact that the end was coming and the sadness that it was coming. i cried and it honestly changed my perspective on life. i thought of how i just take my family and my own life for granted. i also noticed how unfairly i still treat myself in my own head even despite my practice. i went downstairs and held my girlfriend with tears sliding down my face, confusing her somewhat ahahahaha. good luck to you on your journey, you have my deepest love and condolences. love yourself and give yourself permission to feel it all
I love what Hanh said about "mindful crying". Crying is both psychologically and physically helpful since endorphins are released which literally change our emotions as well as functioning as an analgesic. If you feel like crying, cry.
Crying is very therapeutic. I'm a 33 yr old male, and if I get the urge I indulge it. I blather like baby for as long as the tears will come. It feels like the stress being released once a month
What you say reminded me of something I stopped saying, because nobody seemed to understand and some even took offense: "My suffering is a luxury." This may sound very strange, but it is how I experience it. Even when I hear myself moaning with pain involuntarily in the bad moments, I can enjoy hearing that at the same time. There was a period of months were I was not able to suffer, even though there often was the same overwhelming pain and there was more discomfort then ever before in my life. I wasn´t just not able to cry, but not able to suffer at all. There was just not enough energy to keep my brain working well enough to keep up any feeling of seperateness. I could walk and talk, but there was truly no I to suffer even though I was more or less conscious the whole time. Hard to imagine now, but it took me three months to even fully realise I was not my bedding or my clothes.. After that I came to every time, so I remember the transition from just sensation to seperate. Many times over, but the first time was weird. Now, 9 months later, I can easily tell where I end and my bed begins, even in the middle of an episode.. And I can see the health, job, family, just all the life I lost and I suffer a lot more because of it and still it is so much better. Whenever it comes I can enjoy it as a sensation, like going on a rollercoaster against your will, it might not be pleasant, but it´s always interesting.. It doesn´t physically feel any better, it may even feel worse, because I take it personally now. But somehow it truly is better, I can enjoy there is a person to take it personally. To experience it as unfair and pout and mope. And I think because of Thay´s talks.. it´s even become beautiful in a way I don´t fully understand. When I have an episode my mind keeps going to monks lighting themselves on fire. They do not cry out, they do not thrash. To babies suffering in silence in the birthcanal, to anyone in history or future unable to express suffering, unable to cry. I somehow feel able to suffer for them in a way and maybe making it a little lighter for them somehow and I gladly suffer, then. I like to imagine I suffer for them, the way cells in a body die so other cells can live and keep making up the whole.. I feel connected to them, because my ability to suffer is their ability to suffer.. Maybe I just dedicated my suffering to them, like a poem or a piece of music, maybe it´s just the mind playing tricks to keep going, like Stockholm syndrome, but it is so beautiful. And the more pain, the more beautiful it gets. I know I will actually miss this a little if there comes a time when it is no longer here. I hope there will be, but I don´t want to ever forget this either. The pain and discomfort comes in waves every few hours and I think I am just reaching the end of a wave and life is getting "normal" again for a few hours, maybe a few days. I also get to enjoy "normal" so deeply now, just walking on the street, looking at people, like this morning, I am doubly blessed at the moment and just can´t stop smiling when things are normal.. Sometimes I laugh out loud, just can´t contain myself.. It´s so hard to take anything serious at times.. Don´t know if it ever will be normal again for longer, but I stopped minding about the insecurity about a month ago, I guess I finally surrendered then.. Stopped waiting and hoping it would disappear.. I enjoy what I have now, that I have now. In case you are wondering about what it is, so am I.. Nobody knows what it is, something with my brain, that´s basically it. They can see there is brain damage on an MRI, best guess is some kind of stroke... but nothing adds up. We don´t know if it is going to get worse or better or even why I seem to still be getting "better", I´ve gotten so much back, it´s incredible. And it seems more and more unlikely it is a stroke. It´s not something any of my doctors has encountered before, it seems.. Well, me neither. And does it matter..? We have to die some day and we are all on our way, whichever road we take. I just see whatever is left as bonus time and if I get to live another thirty years, I hope I always will.. The recordings of Thay´s talks have been crucial, to stop my agonizing over this, I think. It´s like he made them especially for this kind of thing. Maybe everybody feels that way, when they see him and hear him talk.. I haven´t seen the one about "mindful crying" yet, but I am gonna look for it, thank you!
Haven’t even watched the video yet but I cried today for the first time in about a year and I feel like I took an energetic shower. I had no clue the buildup that was there
@@Ludifantmy gosh, I understand. Numbness and complete unconsciousness detachment is worse than suffering. It is the epitome of an indescribable darkness. I much rather cry, feel angry, feel disgust, and all of the unfavorable emotions. I much rather feel anchored to the ground than my mind be sleeping in the clouds in the worst way. We are here, we are tangible, and the feelings are tangible. This type of detachment usually comes from extreme trauma. But when the body and mind becomes overwhelmed with the physical pain of emotions, it may shut it down completely. There are ways to let the body and mind know that It is okay to come back, and I am working on that aswell. I cried for the first time today in over a year and I felt rejuvenated. I felt like I had come back into myself. All senses felt heightened and I felt like myself. Some people have this way worse than me, but I do believe that I can understand what you mean. I appreciate *feeling*
It’s hard as a grieving mother - what he says about people running away from suffering is true , and so many people need to avoid me when I am in such pain or shut me down and make me feel like I should be better. Having people be present and witness our pain is a big part of the healing. I’m grateful that there are also ( much fewer ) people who do know how to be present with other’ s suffering. I know the most important person who needs to witness and be present with my suffering is me. Compassion towards myself. Even though I’ve been practicing this being present with my feelings for decades- immediately following the death of my child - I still tried to run from such intense suffering. After breaking bones , and other life threatening accident s , and just time and a few good people and a good therapist- I’m able to be with my suffering- with peace and compassion. Even though I thought I knew how to be a person who had capacity to be with other’s suffering ( in prisons - at hospice etc) this unwanted experience has definitely made me much more capable to be that person that can be there for others . I actually feel compassion for those who are blind to what Thich Nhat Hanh is saying
I believe so too, but society makes acquiring this type of character impossible when you are tormented by corporate politics pressuring you, exploiting your every day and the governments refusing for people to live a different life by taxing and asking you to pay for land that really does not belong to anybody or governments ! I refuse to recognize any government to lay claim on the land of this planet. I am forced by it , but do not recognize it and shall i ever obtain alien force i'll vaporize them and use their ashes as fertilizer mixed with manure.
As a child we usually cry when suffered, and then mother will come to help us. When we grow up, we pretend as a mother for ourselves, to recognize our suffering and make it healed. Thank you for this video.
an you also pretend to be literate to fit in but i gotta tell ya that if you stayed silent people may have thought you were literate. but the cats out the bag now
As he *pulls the heart jewels from his chest delicately* to present to the Universe, I cry for my cat Tiger who died while I was away for a year when I was 13. He was out trying to find me, a few weeks before I returned to visit him that Christmas. I followed his tracks back from the road, through the snow. *I love you.*
@@josephb4235 It is not up to us to decide how much pain or sensitivity a particular event has for each individual. The loss of a pet may feel far more consequential than a loss of a human being, and indeed as someone who has experienced both the loss of beloved animal friends, as well as family, I know that I have cried more over the passing of my two cats than for many passed relatives. Because the emotional connection between myself and my cats was a daily, fresh and vibrant reality. Whereas the emotional connection between myself and certain relatives, like my father, had become blunted through neglect, cruelty, distance in time and space - do not underestimate how the heart can bond to any being or thing that is mutually nurturing and forget anything or one that is not.
Mara Mara who is Mara?? Mara has a parrot nose as a witch. He wants everyone worship him only. Mara had burried thousand of Jew to death because they didn't worship Mara. Mara had told other people that Thich Nhat Hanh is a communist member because he wanted to destroy Buddhism by other people hand. He wants people believe your religion is running under any political Mara hate. Lastly, Mara has a hobby that is to prey on the kids for child molester crime.
So grateful am I to hear these words of Thay on this morning of my life when I am so desperately in need of his wisdom and teachings. I feel truly blessed. Thank you Plum Village. 🙏❤️☮️
I listened to this right before l fell asleep,right at 3:00 A.M going in and out of sleep,l caught the first chant and repeated it a couple of times,in the morning l woke up so happy and with a smile. I have been healing all my life. Thank you,thank you. I will watch and study all videos. 🙏
I heard that sometimes, when people pass, it is because they can help better from the other side. My sister passed at age 22 (I was 20). I wholeheartedly believe that she has been watching over me ever since. I love Thays teaching so now I ask him to also watch over me from the other side. We have not lost him, as now he can do more outside of the 3D physical rules.
Omg thank you for this I am 30 my brother is 29 that passed away last year! And he is helping me soooo much! Ppl think I’m crazy but I see and know the signs! He is helping me more than ever now that he is gone. He took the sacrifice he broke the curses and is helping me to break the rest! He paid a karmic debt forced grateful for you joshua! ❤️🦉👯♀️
Interesting to think the spirits of our ancestors surround and protect us. I have some great sprits watching over me. Thank God for the unified spirit!
These people are the only ones who acknowledge the same pain and suffering I feel. Nobody else talks about it. These people get it. I come here and I feel understood. I feel he understands me my pain and suffering. It feels like being hugged
Living in now helps to conquer suffering. Because living in the now helps us live and breathe in the present moment. We are less focused on future where the body deteriorates because we live in the now. Each moment is holy and is a gift!
what i seemed to get from this is that compassion is a power that can not only heal you in times of suffering but lend to healing those who wish to harm you, it seems this is the strongest and best power to me anyway
i think so to. Compasssion has the power to heal. Because u want such person to not suffer llike that. Imagine how some are born into a house where person never fellt love and compassion Which a baby benefits from. I believe compassion can be more effective if u hurt from someone than be mad and suffer more urself.
to me (and it's only become apparent over the last year, but really in the last few months)... the answer to suffering is just to will yourself into feeling the sensations of your body at every moment. All the little anxieties - the ones that build up into a constant buzz and make you feel like you're in a constant state of suffering - just in this moment, right now, start to relax the little muscles inside that are clenching against them and FEEL them. Not in an attempt to get them to go away. Just to say, "What's this?" Oddly enough, when you turn your welcoming attention on the sensations of your body, they begin to feel more like expectant energy and hope than the anxiety they were a moment before, but the trick is giving them your attention. Not turning away. Just saying, "Ok, guess I'm feeling this now. Show me, body." And dare yourself to feel as much as you can, not to make it go away, just to give it the attention it's due. And the longer you give your attention to the sensation, relaxing into it, over and over and over, the more you start to flow. Your naming brain quiets, but also the sensations you perceived as anxieties - they change. You begin to act spontaneously. Try it, I dare you :)
The chanting of Namo Valokiteshvaraya (or Name of Avalokiteshvara) is so genuine and pure, that I am brought to a place of very deep peace every time I hear it, no matter how deeply troubled my heart was.
What a magical music.. This is so full of harmony, love and peace... pure beauty and wisdom.. eternity... God exists... this a proof.. God is there.. in the music.. He is everywhere.. in nature.. oceans.. in the light.. the sun.. in our body and our minds.. lets keep them clean and harmonic.. God is adorable.. so loving.. like these zen masters.. they are angels.. invisible saints
What is amazing about the way he (Thich Nhat Hanh) teaches is that he connect us to Christianity and includes that in... Because in truth and in reality all roads lead to Rome.... He talks about the Kingdom being here and now... and Jesus said: Holy Spirit is always within you... it is all the same except different angles on reminding us who we are! Another thing I appreciate about him is the fact that he has been through war and suffering, and I have too, so I am inspired by him arriving to where he is and teaching peace and enlightenment.
I love what you shared. Thank you, friend. 🙏🏾 It made me think fondly back to a couple of stories… Just after high school graduation I worked at a Christian summer camp that summer. As part of our counselor training the week before the campers arrived, the pastor had us stand around the A-frame announcement board outside of the mess hall where different events are posted on each of the two flat sides every week. One group stood facing one of the flat sides of the A-frame, and one group stood facing the side of it here a clear “A” could” be seen, but not the flat parts. We had to describe what we saw. We had to convince the other group that what we were looking at was the real answer. Then we had to listen to the other group to understand their perspective, not judging it as right or wrong. “Which of those two activities felt more peaceful”, he asked? “Two different views, and yet both groups looking at the same thing when you zoom out and can see the whole picture.” That stuck with me, even now, 30 years later. So often we are all looking at the same thing, just with different perspectives. For 16 years I was married to a Jew. We would gather with his family for Jewish holidays and gather with mine for Christian holidays. One time his cousin, a Jewish scholar, stood up to give the blessing before the Passover meal, both Christians and Jews gathered together. H paused, then smiled and said, “A wise scholar once said, ‘Jews believe that the messiah has yet to come, and Christians believe he has come and will come again. So let us sit together and enjoy our time together with one another, and when he gets here we’ll ask him, “So, have you been here before or not?’” It’s funny the little life lessons that stay with us over the years. 🙏🏾💙
No. Not really. That's your belief. Don't try and change this video to fit your opinion. Be more open and just listen instead of warping it. That is what Christians do- never let things be.
@@sarahlouise8904 could not hold what in? your bullets? last time i remember you westerners listening to chants you shot those people an built USA to cover their corpses.
The address of the kingdom of God is the „Here & Now“ - I love this quote. „I have arrived, I am home“ Thank you so much. Your many impulses really helped me again and again in the past and also today, to get out of the „hamster wheel“ of worries and thinking. I really appreciate these videos, which keep Thai alive and transmit inner peace. Peace to you and all listeners from Salzburg.
If you know how to suffer you suffer less that is so true when you feel the pain as it was before if you feel the pain it doesn't last as long as it once did chronic pain you get used to having pain it's your life it's not as bad as it once was just get used to it and you suffer less. Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful words with us Thich Nhat Hanh
We have to be able to understand what drives humans to corruption, but we have also to create a society that enforces just consequences for such corruption. Because we humans need external drivers to shape our behaviors, too.
Life is suffering. We suffer pain, because we are in the flesh and need to survive. We suffer even before we are aware of what it is when we are in the womb. The society teaches you to run away and cover the suffering, and this inadvertently can sometimes also cause suffering onto others (those we love and those we don't know) This creates a cycle of suffering among everyone, because today you might be fine but the other people you come across, at least a few of them, are not.
thank you so much for all the awesome posts,i listen to THAYS talks and medetions everyday past few months,and has transformed me and my thought ,i was so depressed and on verge of nervous breakdown,after hearing him past sometime ,i want to live and feel happy .thank you sooo much for changing my thoughts on right path.
You suffer because you desire. Separate yourself from your thoughts. The real you is timeless, infinite, and strong beyond imagination. To say "I'm suffering" is different then to say "there is suffering inside of me". This separation of yourself and mind is able to be used because of understanding of who you are. Mindfulness of suffering is a practice. Like practicing religion, or building a muscle. Well your mind is a muscle and through the practice of mindfulness you will build barriers or coping mechanisms to help with suffering.
@@himanisingh8208 there’s different types of yogis. Ones that go to the mountain top to do what you’ve said, or there is a bodhisattva who goes back into the world to help people who are ready to wake up. If you’re ready to wake up you will. If you’re not ready you will stay poor little you. That isn’t a slight, if you are in the know you will see what is meant.
@@himanisingh8208 and it’s not what “I” am saying this knowledge is learned and experienced through religion psychology psychedelics study and direct experience… the ways of awakening.
Between Master Thay, ajahn Braham and Sadhguru I've really changed the way I look and deal with life. So fortunate to be alive in the same era. Blessings to all life and life making material.
I'm very grateful my mama showed me how to be happy in the midst of bad fate and suffering, she is like my shield, she is a human lidocaine. Happiness is in the smallest of things.
Summary: life is hard, humans suffer. To reduce suffering engage in meditation and mindfulness. It won’t solve your problems but you'll learn how to suffer, which reduces suffering. DON'T DRINK A SHOT for every time he says “suffer” or “suffering”. Wish you all the best and less and less suffering.
I am listening to this now On Jan. 23. 2022. NYC It is helping me bear the suffering I feel from losing my Beloved Teacher ✨🧡🙏🏼🌼✨ And so - I got my wish 🌟 Thay come back to help me with my grief 💫
Thank you so much venerable Thay. Your teachings are an ocean of peace where I can nurture my soul. You're in my mind and heart, and in every step in my diary living. Love you. You gave us an amazing community of Brothers and Sisters, THANK YOU FOR THAT. EC.
❤️ I listen to this as I battle disease and severe disability and torment.
💛 may you blessed 💛
Blessings to you!💪
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Scarlett, recover soon . We all will be waiting. Come on!
May you be peace ✨
Thay’s example and teachings have deeply transformed my life. Thay taught me how to stop-to come home to myself, to touch deep stillness-and to honor, embrace my suffering and generate authentic joy despite deep traumatic wounds. Once I was able to do that, whole new worlds opened up to me. I feel so incredibly fortunate to be in his continuation.
Awesome.
This is such a beautiful share. Thank you! 🙏🏾
And you are a very unusual person to do this. It takes guts. Blessed lifetime when the truth appears!
I feel exactly the same! I could have written each word you expressed. I’m happy that you found Thay so young, that your life can touch joy, be healed from suffering, and know that you are home throughout life. All my best.
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Wish I grew up with this wisdom. I'd be a different happier person. Never too late though. The teacher will come when the student is ready right.
Teacher will find you 🎉🌿
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"Ifyou don´t escape, if you allow the suffering to be there, if you are ready to face it, if you are not trying somehow to forget it, then you are different. Suffering is there but just around you; it is not in the center, it is on the periphery. It is impossible for suffering to be in the center; it is not in the nature of things. It is always on the periphery and you are the center.
So when you allow it to happen, you don´t escape, you don´t run, you are not in a panic, suddenly you become aware that suffering is there on the periphery as if happening to someone else, not to you, and you are looking at it. A subtle joy spreads all over your being because you have realized one of the basic truths of life, that you are bliss and not suffering."
when you say n think sh1t it happens. so thanks for your cursing anyone who unfortunately read your chants of suffering
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@@olgatrilogymartin3143 does to me
@@olgatrilogymartin3143 your emotions are not you. They are yours therefore you don't have to identify with them. You feel them, you watch them and watch them pass
This is quite a different view from the teaching here.
When I was in high school I started to appreciate running.
In college I began to appreciate mathematics.
Then yoga came into my life and I started to appreciate it.
Then I was hit by a Semi truck
Thank you Running, Mathematics and Yoga for the suffering that I endured to feel accomplished in my mind saved my life when it came to dealing with life after everything changed.
Well shit. Your resilience is amazing.
Good thing truck-kun didn't take you to another world. I applaud you.
A frikin semi? Jeez
did you ever come to appreciate Semi trucks?
I am l earning that now.. It´s kind of hard, unless you are prepared to be new. Life saves itsefl in whatever way I guess.
Very educative. I love his videos. About suffering. 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.
This is a great thing. But it's very hard to embrace the suffering. There is a lot of it. Lots of crying, lots of fighting the urge to quit, lots of painful memories and fears keep coming up so it's not easy at all. But I hope that I can keep coming back to this video every day and I will be able to heal. So hard omg. We are trained to avoid suffering. I think this is how suicidal thoughts arise. But I really do want to learn the art of suffering. How can we survive without learning this? Pain and suffering is built into the human experience. You would think we'd be able to live with it 🙄.
If you are having a hard time like me, I feel for you. You can and will get through it. Suffering is not forever. I will be okay, and so will you.
I hope you're okay and didn't stop to come back to this video. God Bless you :)
I feel you. There are times the suffering seems to be unbearable, even unfair. But the more I fight it the bigger it becomes and the less I am able to fight it. It’s as if it becomes big enough for me to finally rest and accept it. It’s not a flaw, it’s how I feel and it’s okay. There’s no problem with suffering. I am allowed to suffer…
The message that helped me most in this video was that from suffering all the good things arise, when gone trough it.
This message makes it easier for me to let go of my resistance against it.
God bless you, we are all in this together ❤️
🌹❤ much love from Italy.
The trick i've found is not to think about the reasons for the suffering or anxiety. Not to justify them. Not to "figure out why." Not even to name them - not even to say, "I am sad." Rather, just sit with the buzz or the flush or the rush or the tingle - sit with the sensations of anxiety or sadness (or whatever) as they course through you. Just sit with them, welcome them (again, just focus on the sensation itself, not the reasons for it), and in 10-30 seconds of just unclenching and feeling (and not naming) - the sensations start to change into something else. Just by unclenching, and you start to realize (with a sense of "wow, it's so simple") it was the clenching that was the problem. You see that all of life is this: sensation and your reaction to it, either welcoming and giving it attention or clenching against and thinking about other things.
I think it all has to do something with the critical breaking point, once you go through it without killing yourself in the process, it can not go any deeper it might even start to fade away
This is what i needed to hear 🙏
Really this is priceless. The recognition of the suffering we all have and how to work with it, why aren't more people looking for this? We are attached to pain, having it and causing it. People don't know what to do without it and they wouldn't know what to do with peace or living peacefully. Thank you for this offering.
Sometimes we enhance suffering due to wrong energies exerted in the desire to escape from the pain involved in the suffering.
To answer your question- we don't look for this until we need it. Everyone's different of course - but for most people, life is relatively routine- long stretches of work, some play, rest and repeat. Years go by with no need to look any deeper. But then something happens - a death of a loved one or a chronic illness in yourself - one that WON'T just go away this time. And then, we are suddenly fragile humans again, facing that mysterious empty void and we tremble in fear at the sight of it. That's when we return to seeking deeper truths and try to somehow find our way back home.
@@utube9000 yes the fear leads to deeper understanding tho
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@@utube9000 👏🏽👏🏽well said defy why I'm here
Thich Nhat Hanh was a great inspirational man may he rest in forever peace.
Thay's is still alive in the hearts of those who remember him and the good values he left
Very educative. I love his videos. About suffering. 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.
This is really beautiful. The chanting made me cry.
I've suffered four bereavements in the last 18 months, I'm having such a difficult time with the waves of grief which frequently overwhelm me.
Thays teachings are the only thing which has bought me some moments of peace. A beautiful soul. May he live on in all of us 🙏
Thank you Thay
ditto ....5 funerals in 3 - 4years.... come out of mind and into body/stillness thats what i did but still need guidance myself.
Same with the grief journey here...some days were like drowning and some riding the waves ...Hope you are feeling better
Hugs ❤️
i listened to the chanting while deep in meditation and i got to a stage where i felt like i was in my own deathbed and trying to embrace the fact that the end was coming and the sadness that it was coming. i cried and it honestly changed my perspective on life. i thought of how i just take my family and my own life for granted. i also noticed how unfairly i still treat myself in my own head even despite my practice. i went downstairs and held my girlfriend with tears sliding down my face, confusing her somewhat ahahahaha.
good luck to you on your journey, you have my deepest love and condolences. love yourself and give yourself permission to feel it all
I wish you all the best ❤️
I love what Hanh said about "mindful crying". Crying is both psychologically and physically helpful since endorphins are released which literally change our emotions as well as functioning as an analgesic. If you feel like crying, cry.
Crying is very therapeutic. I'm a 33 yr old male, and if I get the urge I indulge it. I blather like baby for as long as the tears will come. It feels like the stress being released once a month
Thank you. Crying this Christmas morning alone. 💧💧💧🕯
What you say reminded me of something I stopped saying, because nobody seemed to understand and some even took offense: "My suffering is a luxury." This may sound very strange, but it is how I experience it. Even when I hear myself moaning with pain involuntarily in the bad moments, I can enjoy hearing that at the same time. There was a period of months were I was not able to suffer, even though there often was the same overwhelming pain and there was more discomfort then ever before in my life. I wasn´t just not able to cry, but not able to suffer at all. There was just not enough energy to keep my brain working well enough to keep up any feeling of seperateness. I could walk and talk, but there was truly no I to suffer even though I was more or less conscious the whole time. Hard to imagine now, but it took me three months to even fully realise I was not my bedding or my clothes.. After that I came to every time, so I remember the transition from just sensation to seperate. Many times over, but the first time was weird. Now, 9 months later, I can easily tell where I end and my bed begins, even in the middle of an episode.. And I can see the health, job, family, just all the life I lost and I suffer a lot more because of it and still it is so much better. Whenever it comes I can enjoy it as a sensation, like going on a rollercoaster against your will, it might not be pleasant, but it´s always interesting.. It doesn´t physically feel any better, it may even feel worse, because I take it personally now. But somehow it truly is better, I can enjoy there is a person to take it personally. To experience it as unfair and pout and mope.
And I think because of Thay´s talks.. it´s even become beautiful in a way I don´t fully understand.
When I have an episode my mind keeps going to monks lighting themselves on fire. They do not cry out, they do not thrash. To babies suffering in silence in the birthcanal, to anyone in history or future unable to express suffering, unable to cry. I somehow feel able to suffer for them in a way and maybe making it a little lighter for them somehow and I gladly suffer, then. I like to imagine I suffer for them, the way cells in a body die so other cells can live and keep making up the whole.. I feel connected to them, because my ability to suffer is their ability to suffer.. Maybe I just dedicated my suffering to them, like a poem or a piece of music, maybe it´s just the mind playing tricks to keep going, like Stockholm syndrome, but it is so beautiful. And the more pain, the more beautiful it gets.
I know I will actually miss this a little if there comes a time when it is no longer here. I hope there will be, but I don´t want to ever forget this either. The pain and discomfort comes in waves every few hours and I think I am just reaching the end of a wave and life is getting "normal" again for a few hours, maybe a few days. I also get to enjoy "normal" so deeply now, just walking on the street, looking at people, like this morning, I am doubly blessed at the moment and just can´t stop smiling when things are normal.. Sometimes I laugh out loud, just can´t contain myself.. It´s so hard to take anything serious at times.. Don´t know if it ever will be normal again for longer, but I stopped minding about the insecurity about a month ago, I guess I finally surrendered then.. Stopped waiting and hoping it would disappear.. I enjoy what I have now, that I have now.
In case you are wondering about what it is, so am I.. Nobody knows what it is, something with my brain, that´s basically it. They can see there is brain damage on an MRI, best guess is some kind of stroke... but nothing adds up. We don´t know if it is going to get worse or better or even why I seem to still be getting "better", I´ve gotten so much back, it´s incredible. And it seems more and more unlikely it is a stroke. It´s not something any of my doctors has encountered before, it seems.. Well, me neither. And does it matter..? We have to die some day and we are all on our way, whichever road we take. I just see whatever is left as bonus time and if I get to live another thirty years, I hope I always will..
The recordings of Thay´s talks have been crucial, to stop my agonizing over this, I think. It´s like he made them especially for this kind of thing. Maybe everybody feels that way, when they see him and hear him talk.. I haven´t seen the one about "mindful crying" yet, but I am gonna look for it, thank you!
Haven’t even watched the video yet but I cried today for the first time in about a year and I feel like I took an energetic shower. I had no clue the buildup that was there
@@Ludifantmy gosh, I understand. Numbness and complete unconsciousness detachment is worse than suffering. It is the epitome of an indescribable darkness. I much rather cry, feel angry, feel disgust, and all of the unfavorable emotions. I much rather feel anchored to the ground than my mind be sleeping in the clouds in the worst way. We are here, we are tangible, and the feelings are tangible.
This type of detachment usually comes from extreme trauma. But when the body and mind becomes overwhelmed with the physical pain of emotions, it may shut it down completely. There are ways to let the body and mind know that It is okay to come back, and I am working on that aswell. I cried for the first time today in over a year and I felt rejuvenated. I felt like I had come back into myself. All senses felt heightened and I felt like myself. Some people have this way worse than me, but I do believe that I can understand what you mean. I appreciate *feeling*
Fantastic. Highly recommend his book Zen, and the Art of saving the Planet on audio.
It’s hard as a grieving mother - what he says about people running away from suffering is true , and so many people need to avoid me when I am in such pain or shut me down and make me feel like I should be better. Having people be present and witness our pain is a big part of the healing. I’m grateful that there are also ( much fewer ) people who do know how to be present with other’ s suffering. I know the most important person who needs to witness and be present with my suffering is me. Compassion towards myself. Even though I’ve been practicing this being present with my feelings for decades- immediately following the death of my child - I still tried to run from such intense suffering. After breaking bones , and other life threatening accident s , and just time and a few good people and a good therapist- I’m able to be with my suffering- with peace and compassion. Even though I thought I knew how to be a person who had capacity to be with other’s suffering ( in prisons - at hospice etc) this unwanted experience has definitely made me much more capable to be that person that can be there for others . I actually feel compassion for those who are blind to what Thich Nhat Hanh is saying
I’m so sorry about your loss. Your comments are so touching and beautiful. I wish you peace .
Thank you for sharing your grief. I witness it and hear it in my own grief. I try to hold love for all beings now.
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Terribly sorry to hear about your loss and suffering. Wishing you all the best.
We really love hearing the wisdom and insights from this kind man. The world needs more of his compassion and love.
I believe so too, but society makes acquiring this type of character impossible when you are tormented by corporate politics pressuring you, exploiting your every day and the governments refusing for people to live a different life by taxing and asking you to pay for land that really does not belong to anybody or governments ! I refuse to recognize any government to lay claim on the land of this planet. I am forced by it , but do not recognize it and shall i ever obtain alien force i'll vaporize them and use their ashes as fertilizer mixed with manure.
Amen
As a child we usually cry when suffered, and then mother will come to help us. When we grow up, we pretend as a mother for ourselves, to recognize our suffering and make it healed. Thank you for this video.
an you also pretend to be literate to fit in but i gotta tell ya that if you stayed silent people may have thought you were literate. but the cats out the bag now
This comment really touched me. Such a beautiful truth.
Pain & Suffering are the soil of Strength & Courage ... ❤ Suffer little children come unto me
"If you know how to suffer, you suffer less" this doesnt make sense to the unenlightened, but for those who knew, this is like a golden key
It is acceptance. But having Hope. Love. In their fullest sense as gifts.
Are you referring to the have’s and the have-nots?
I have watched some of the memorial, but I feel like listening to Thay speak is my best way to honour him
Brilliant observation - and so he lives on
Yes I agree followers are annoying they cause me to suffer.
agreed…
Watching with similar heart ❤️❤️🦋❤️❤️
Listening to Thich Nhat Hanh generates so much peace inside me🙏
As he *pulls the heart jewels from his chest delicately* to present to the Universe, I cry for my cat Tiger who died while I was away for a year when I was 13.
He was out trying to find me, a few weeks before I returned to visit him that Christmas. I followed his tracks back from the road, through the snow.
*I love you.*
Awwwww! 😢
an this is why children an most people shouldn't have children. you don't leave children at home alone for long but a year is absurd.
Although your loss is not good, you might want to brace yourself for experiencing far greater tragedy in the future.
@@josephb4235 It is not up to us to decide how much pain or sensitivity a particular event has for each individual.
The loss of a pet may feel far more consequential than a loss of a human being, and indeed as someone who has experienced both the loss of beloved animal friends, as well as family, I know that I have cried more over the passing of my two cats than for many passed relatives. Because the emotional connection between myself and my cats was a daily, fresh and vibrant reality. Whereas the emotional connection between myself and certain relatives, like my father, had become blunted through neglect, cruelty, distance in time and space - do not underestimate how the heart can bond to any being or thing that is mutually nurturing and forget anything or one that is not.
@@lizadeeza I can judge whatever I want. A lot of people have undergone far greater tragedies than losing a pet.
If this video was viewed by 1.000.000.000 people, probably the world was a better place..thank you for sharing. Love from Italy.❤
Mara Mara who is Mara??
Mara has a parrot nose as a witch. He wants everyone worship him only. Mara had burried thousand of Jew to death because they didn't worship Mara. Mara had told other people that Thich Nhat Hanh is a communist member because he wanted to destroy Buddhism by other people hand. He wants people believe your religion is running under any political Mara hate. Lastly, Mara has a hobby that is to prey on the kids for child molester crime.
Soon! Soon Fransesco!!!
Keep sharing to everyone who is suffering
The greatest teacher in my life!❤
'Kissing Mother Earth with your feet...'
love to all from Florida , USA
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I miss you so much, but you have given me so much during these years. Thank you my dear. Rest in peace!
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May you be happy. May you be at peace.
And until then, may you feel gratitude for the in breath, and the out breath.
So grateful am I to hear these words of Thay on this morning of my life when I am so desperately in need of his wisdom and teachings. I feel truly blessed. Thank you Plum Village. 🙏❤️☮️
I listened to this right before l fell asleep,right at 3:00 A.M going in and out of sleep,l caught the first chant and repeated it a couple of times,in the morning l woke up so happy and with a smile. I have been healing all my life.
Thank you,thank you.
I will watch and study all videos. 🙏
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I heard that sometimes, when people pass, it is because they can help better from the other side. My sister passed at age 22 (I was 20). I wholeheartedly believe that she has been watching over me ever since. I love Thays teaching so now I ask him to also watch over me from the other side. We have not lost him, as now he can do more outside of the 3D physical rules.
Yes, this is true…and she most definitely does assist you still💓
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Omg thank you for this I am 30 my brother is 29 that passed away last year! And he is helping me soooo much! Ppl think I’m crazy but I see and know the signs! He is helping me more than ever now that he is gone. He took the sacrifice he broke the curses and is helping me to break the rest! He paid a karmic debt forced grateful for you joshua! ❤️🦉👯♀️
Interesting to think the spirits of our ancestors surround and protect us. I have some great sprits watching over me. Thank God for the unified spirit!
read Autobiography of a yogi
These people are the only ones who acknowledge the same pain and suffering I feel. Nobody else talks about it. These people get it. I come here and I feel understood. I feel he understands me my pain and suffering. It feels like being hugged
Living in now helps to conquer suffering. Because living in the now helps us live and breathe in the present moment. We are less focused on future where the body deteriorates because we live in the now. Each moment is holy and is a gift!
The chanting is so beautiful! It makes me feel like I am in heaven.
Thank you!!!🙏🙌❤
This is the most beautiful meditation on living with suffering I have ever heard. What an amazing soul.
Mannn, can't begin to put into words how much this video helped me when I was getting to the point of thinking nothing could bring me back
sending you love
what i seemed to get from this is that compassion is a power that can not only heal you in times of suffering but lend to healing those who wish to harm you, it seems this is the strongest and best power to me anyway
i think so to. Compasssion has the power to heal. Because u want such person to not suffer llike that. Imagine how some are born into a house where person never fellt love and compassion Which a baby benefits from.
I believe compassion can be more effective if u hurt from someone than be mad and suffer more urself.
@@dellananjo4379 thankyou
to me (and it's only become apparent over the last year, but really in the last few months)... the answer to suffering is just to will yourself into feeling the sensations of your body at every moment. All the little anxieties - the ones that build up into a constant buzz and make you feel like you're in a constant state of suffering - just in this moment, right now, start to relax the little muscles inside that are clenching against them and FEEL them. Not in an attempt to get them to go away. Just to say, "What's this?" Oddly enough, when you turn your welcoming attention on the sensations of your body, they begin to feel more like expectant energy and hope than the anxiety they were a moment before, but the trick is giving them your attention. Not turning away. Just saying, "Ok, guess I'm feeling this now. Show me, body." And dare yourself to feel as much as you can, not to make it go away, just to give it the attention it's due. And the longer you give your attention to the sensation, relaxing into it, over and over and over, the more you start to flow. Your naming brain quiets, but also the sensations you perceived as anxieties - they change. You begin to act spontaneously. Try it, I dare you :)
that´s it.. Stop waiting for it to get better and be it now.
Thank you for the encouragement 🙏🏽 ❤
This was beautiful. So inspiring. May he rest in peace. What a great teacher.
Once Again listening to dear Thay's teaching and hearing the mostbeautiful singing， in tears。
The chanting of Namo Valokiteshvaraya (or Name of Avalokiteshvara) is so genuine and pure, that I am brought to a place of very deep peace every time I hear it, no matter how deeply troubled my heart was.
I bet Theravada monks who have been musicians are envious, they aren't allowed notes at all. Thay is a poet.
Namo means Homage
I don't understand but I like to listen. ❤
You tube is brilliant at archiving timeless souls when the others out there conspire to limit their teachings in the mainstream and your awareness.
What a magical music.. This is so full of harmony, love and peace... pure beauty and wisdom.. eternity... God exists... this a proof.. God is there.. in the music.. He is everywhere.. in nature.. oceans.. in the light.. the sun.. in our body and our minds.. lets keep them clean and harmonic.. God is adorable.. so loving.. like these zen masters.. they are angels.. invisible saints
Thank you dear Thay You plant seeds of Gratitude in my heart and I suffer MUCH LESS
That's nice
I listening again and again, chanting make me cry but peacfully.❤❤❤🙏
me too
Me too， each time listening ， in tears ， missing dear Thay and my father who with Thay in June this year。
Thank you for giving us the chance to touch to the beautiful soul of Thay!🙏
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Precious!
There is only Light & Love...so blessed to healed by this great master of peace...joy...love...light...compassion...grateful
What is amazing about the way he (Thich Nhat Hanh) teaches is that he connect us to Christianity and includes that in... Because in truth and in reality all roads lead to Rome.... He talks about the Kingdom being here and now... and Jesus said: Holy Spirit is always within you... it is all the same except different angles on reminding us who we are! Another thing I appreciate about him is the fact that he has been through war and suffering, and I have too, so I am inspired by him arriving to where he is and teaching peace and enlightenment.
I love what you shared. Thank you, friend. 🙏🏾 It made me think fondly back to a couple of stories…
Just after high school graduation I worked at a Christian summer camp that summer. As part of our counselor training the week before the campers arrived, the pastor had us stand around the A-frame announcement board outside of the mess hall where different events are posted on each of the two flat sides every week. One group stood facing one of the flat sides of the A-frame, and one group stood facing the side of it here a clear “A” could” be seen, but not the flat parts. We had to describe what we saw. We had to convince the other group that what we were looking at was the real answer. Then we had to listen to the other group to understand their perspective, not judging it as right or wrong. “Which of those two activities felt more peaceful”, he asked? “Two different views, and yet both groups looking at the same thing when you zoom out and can see the whole picture.” That stuck with me, even now, 30 years later. So often we are all looking at the same thing, just with different perspectives.
For 16 years I was married to a Jew. We would gather with his family for Jewish holidays and gather with mine for Christian holidays. One time his cousin, a Jewish scholar, stood up to give the blessing before the Passover meal, both Christians and Jews gathered together. H paused, then smiled and said, “A wise scholar once said, ‘Jews believe that the messiah has yet to come, and Christians believe he has come and will come again. So let us sit together and enjoy our time together with one another, and when he gets here we’ll ask him, “So, have you been here before or not?’” It’s funny the little life lessons that stay with us over the years. 🙏🏾💙
@@sofiamarie9136 thanks for connecting and sharing. 💕🍀🎼
@@lmansur1000 🙏🏾
No. Not really. That's your belief. Don't try and change this video to fit your opinion. Be more open and just listen instead of warping it. That is what Christians do- never let things be.
It’s so joyful to listen to Thay even though this talk was given 7 years ago. Hope he’s better 🙏
Agree I heard them chant & could not hold it anymore 😭😭💖💖 absolutely beautiful.
@@sarahlouise8904 could not hold what in? your bullets? last time i remember you westerners listening to chants you shot those people an built USA to cover their corpses.
Thank you for filming this. Transformative!!!
The address of the kingdom of God is the „Here & Now“ - I love this quote.
„I have arrived, I am home“
Thank you so much. Your many impulses really helped me again and again in the past and also today, to get out of the „hamster wheel“ of worries and thinking.
I really appreciate these videos, which keep Thai alive and transmit inner peace.
Peace to you and all listeners from Salzburg.
The greatest teacher ever! A Buddha!! Amazing being!
By far the greatest spiritual example, apart form my beloved teacher Gangaji
If you know how to suffer you suffer less that is so true when you feel the pain as it was before if you feel the pain it doesn't last as long as it once did chronic pain you get used to having pain it's your life it's not as bad as it once was just get used to it and you suffer less. Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful words with us
Thich Nhat Hanh
Thank you I have paint and suffering it has touch me deeply
I joined in with this Sangha and Thay's blessings touched me in a deep place I bow in gratitude🙏🌸
If you are one of the ones singing.. And even if you aren´t, you have my eternal gratitude.
Love u thay 🙏🏼🎈 hope your getting better ♥️
This has helped me pardon certain corrupt doctors and corrupt pharmacological labs.
We have to be able to understand what drives humans to corruption, but we have also to create a society that enforces just consequences for such corruption. Because we humans need external drivers to shape our behaviors, too.
Amazing revelation, I was in the mindset that when I suffer the world is torturing me. Now I know to look for the lesson inside every moment.
im in that mindset right now. I cant figure out or learn from this lesson though :(
🙏🏼 wishing you both clarity
Life is suffering. We suffer pain, because we are in the flesh and need to survive. We suffer even before we are aware of what it is when we are in the womb.
The society teaches you to run away and cover the suffering, and this inadvertently can sometimes also cause suffering onto others (those we love and those we don't know) This creates a cycle of suffering among everyone, because today you might be fine but the other people you come across, at least a few of them, are not.
Thanks to you, Thay, suffering in my case has become a way of understanding the background I come from!🙏😊
I'm home I have arrived
So simple n pleasant
🙏🙏thanq They
thank you so much for all the awesome posts,i listen to THAYS talks and medetions everyday past few months,and has transformed me and my thought ,i was so depressed and on verge of nervous breakdown,after hearing him past sometime ,i want to live and feel happy .thank you sooo much for changing my thoughts on right path.
Suffering is interconnected and with understanding and compassion we can help and heal for self and others 🙏 deep learning in this video. Thank you
Blessings of love and compassion to all. Thank you
Oh how I adore and respect Venerable Thich 🙏🏼💕. May you be in paradise. The planet is honoured to have had you on it. Wonderful man 🙏🏼💕
Godspeed, my friend!
When you guys went into that song it made my heart sing! God bless you
Yes, Yes, Yes.. I like my suffering in peace!!!! thank you✌️✌️✌️🙏🙏🙏
You suffer because you desire. Separate yourself from your thoughts. The real you is timeless, infinite, and strong beyond imagination. To say "I'm suffering" is different then to say "there is suffering inside of me". This separation of yourself and mind is able to be used because of understanding of who you are. Mindfulness of suffering is a practice. Like practicing religion, or building a muscle. Well your mind is a muscle and through the practice of mindfulness you will build barriers or coping mechanisms to help with suffering.
From desire? Do people desire cancer ?
@@aka626net you suffer because you desire is part of a larger quote. Noble truths of Buddhism. Look up suffering.
@@aka626net tell us what you learned about the different types of suffering and what do you think I meant by it?
@@himanisingh8208 there’s different types of yogis. Ones that go to the mountain top to do what you’ve said, or there is a bodhisattva who goes back into the world to help people who are ready to wake up. If you’re ready to wake up you will. If you’re not ready you will stay poor little you. That isn’t a slight, if you are in the know you will see what is meant.
@@himanisingh8208 and it’s not what “I” am saying this knowledge is learned and experienced through religion psychology psychedelics study and direct experience… the ways of awakening.
Suffering has lead me to a good place recently. I am making good use of suffering. The more you love the more you suffer aswell
Thank you for you beautiful words, Thay
Thank you. That really helped my heart !
If you have suffered long-term you develop skills and understanding to move beyond suffering. ❤️
1:35:12 so powerful
1:39:00 insight
1:41:52 changing focus/ stop the thinking is the secret
1:45:05 I must arrive
Helpful thank you
The coughing in many of his videos can be distracting.
Thank you so much Venerable Thay. Your wisdom is a miracle medicine to me. Evangelina Cortes.
hello Evangelina. I feel like that too. I like seeing your comments everywhere I go here. 'Evangelina'. Beautiful name.
Between Master Thay, ajahn Braham and Sadhguru I've really changed the way I look and deal with life. So fortunate to be alive in the same era. Blessings to all life and life making material.
Just listen to osho rest are fake--
@@mayank9183 osho was riding in rolls royces with groupies. think he was "real" ? 😂
So beautiful and enlightening! Thank you, Precious Soul.
Beautiful message ❤
This is the most valuable thing i ever heard in my life
Homage and deepest gratitude. 🙏🏼
I'm very grateful my mama showed me how to be happy in the midst of bad fate and suffering, she is like my shield, she is a human lidocaine. Happiness is in the smallest of things.
Thanku Thay
great wisdom. thank you for posting.
Summary: life is hard, humans suffer. To reduce suffering engage in meditation and mindfulness. It won’t solve your problems but you'll learn how to suffer, which reduces suffering.
DON'T DRINK A SHOT for every time he says “suffer” or “suffering”.
Wish you all the best and less and less suffering.
Thank you Thay🙏
The more room there is for pain, the less it hurts.
I am listening to this now
On Jan. 23. 2022. NYC
It is helping me bear the suffering
I feel from losing my
Beloved Teacher ✨🧡🙏🏼🌼✨
And so - I got my wish 🌟
Thay come back to help me
with my grief 💫
💜💧
He has many books where the money is used for good reasons. To help and improve society
Love to the world
We must recognize the diverse suffering in others
Thank you!
Thank you so much
Utmost respect. Very insightful.
my mama reminds me that even in the midst of any domestic violence and financial hardships, there's joy, she is my guanyin.
'I am never a sufferer except through my own fault.' St Augustine.
Beautiful
these voices are so healing, thank you
Tears of joy!
Thank you so much venerable Thay. Your teachings are an ocean of peace where I can nurture my soul. You're in my mind and heart, and in every step in my diary living. Love you. You gave us an amazing community of Brothers and Sisters, THANK YOU FOR THAT. EC.
These words derive their value from the fear that people have of suffering. It is a fear-based paradigm.
I wish I knew these things growing up. Then I wouldn't be using these teachings to heal over 40 years of hurt.
Words of true wisdom 💜
Thank you 🍃🌸🍃