as a trauma survivor and thriver as much as i am able, this talk was so wonderful to hear, that plum village are starting to explore how its wonderful practices can help people with deep trauma, but there is a lot of work still to be done
I stopped sitting meditation for about 3 years because of some difficult experiences. It took me a while to find the tools that help me. Tich nhat hans videos were definitely part of it, and his emphasis on first being able to create a safe space, of joy and happiness, before one goes into the suffering. Metta meditation also really helped me, where I focused on compassion for all others going through similar things. As well as asking who am I, and ramana maharshi teachings. I am happy to say that over the last few months, I naturally wanted to sit again, and have got back into regular practice, and have been able to develop more tools, similar to what have been described in this video. I remember once, it was just hearing birds chirping, that reminded me that all was peaceful, and there was no real danger at this moment. I don't think I have fully overcome it because I do still have some fear of those thoughts returning, but when they do come, I am much more equipped to not let them overtake me
This is so good. Thank you for sharing. Remember why you sit-- it's not to avoid something bad or fear something bad, it's actually deeper than that-- it's to get better at seeing what is already true, the wisdom you already have-- the strength you *already* have :) (this is more difficult to see without training, but notice the difference between the exercise and the lack of it?) Wishing you peace, I'm in a similar situation
I recently ordained as a temporary nun for 3 months. It was nice looking back at this comment and seeing how far I've come. Understanding I am not my thoughts, I am not the sensations I feel. No attachments to those identities of I am a bad person, or unable to do this, or whatever the thoughts that arise are. It's all arising and passing away. There is no me, only present moment.
Understanding you are not thoughts is very important on a spiritual level. But please know that trauma sits in the nervous system and therefore in the body. Seeking help with a body based trauma therapist or practitioner is needed to integrate the trauma, otherwise it sits in your system without being integrated. Blessing on you way
@@nanasabia yes, for sure i have felt the trauma in my body, and with the meditation my body would shake a lot. But through more training and with the guidance of a few techers including our dear sayadaw ashin ottamasara, i also learned that we are not the body either, and one doesnt need to react physically either, since that realization even the shaking stopped. Its still a process of detaching from the body, not reacting.
Such a profound, illuminating talk on a topic that isn’t discussed enough and yet is SO relevant to a large number of people, myself included. Thank you , thank you, thank you 🙏 ❤
Dear brother Spirit, dear Plum-Village-moncs and nuns, THANK YOU so much for being such a wonderful continuation of Thay! What a blessing to see how you evolve and let us take part in your evolution. What a helpful and ressourcefull darma talk! I am so grateful being able to learn so much from you. Just As Thay, you are a great gift to the world!
It's awful when usual coping mechanisms don't work. Frightening when meditation isn't helping either. Hard to feel self compassion sometimes . Thank you for this talk and your honesty.
Thank you for starting this conversation. It's so important to provide mindfulness teachings in a way that is trauma-informed. After all, the body and the nervous system keep the score.
This Dharma talk is such a wonderful gift. I have watched it twice and will watch again. What a treasure. Such a gifted mind and such an incredible ability to communicate the most profound teachings. Forever thankful, dear brother.
Dear Brother, I feel deeply grateful for your shering with us your pain and your suffer and your way in and out of it. Thank you from the Bottom of my ❤
Thank you, Brother Phap Linh, for this deep and powerful talk, showing us the connections between healing trauma and Plum Village practice. I feel Thay smiling.
This is the most touching Dharma talk. Living with trauma has been overwhelming, confusing and so much more. Thank you so much for your vulnerability and your teaching. Much love ❤️ 🌻
This is so good. Thank you Thank you Thank you. Just coming through a traumatic event and put my nervous system on hyperdrive. I have been white knuckling it with some support including plum village lectures. ❤️
So interesting…when a new connection comes…I never understood what was happening…happening in a first therapy experience…in a guided meditation context…I began to tremble…to shake as I was able to settle more deeply…It may well be so that this natural capacity to restore ourselves was manifesting here…a shaking it off…a kind of recovering outside the habitual mind sets and patterns…Thank you dear brother.
I benefited from your dharma talks. As a surviver of life and unacknowledged ADHD and Autism for over 50 years I appreciated your approach and considerations. In a previous talk you mentioned using body scan as a means of coming to an anchor. You have an example. I mention this only because you said - I notice my elbows. I smiled in the moment and I seem to be using "noticing my elbows" when I need help finding a smile. I think it surprised me when you mentioned it and for now it has become my way of finding my seed of happiness in the moment. Thank you.
I appreciate your knowledge and openness in sharing about your personal experiences! I think understanding another's experience and seeing they've endured can be very reassuring. Learning to cultivate a maternal presence when relating to pain / trauma can also be helpful. I love Thay's demonstration of how the practitioner should attend to their pain, like a mother carrying their baby with love tenderness and care.
Thank you for saying we’ll continue together. I really appreciate the way you spoke about trauma. It is clear how Thay tells us that it’s possible to heal. We have this present moment. Dwelling in things as they are. I remember Thay saying, yes, things are a mess, but I accept it. Thay tells us to start where we are. The story of all of his papers being blown around his room, because all of his windows were open. This story shows us that we may have a mess right now, but we can stop and be in the here and now. We can clean up our minds and lean how to let go of the past which no longer exists! I started to listen to this talk yesterday and I felt fine. Then strong Complex PTSD showed up and the picture changed. Today I finished listening and I’m grateful. Yes, I feel this heavy storm of deep suffering due to pictures from the past or worries about the future, but that’s when the mind is wondering. I see whatever “pictures” come up and I let them go and come back to the present moment. Trauma doesn’t have to break us. I keep dwelling in the here and and in the now- letting go. With the practice of mindfulness we can use its energy to embrace our suffering and allow it to go. I can clearly see how I have the choice to feed these pictures of trauma. Everything needs food. We have to be brave enough to wake up to this moment and stop feeding the pictures.
This was a brilliant talk! I am so encouraged by this. I don't deal with trauma. But so many around me are. Now I will know how to respond. Thank you so much for sharing this and your story. It hit home for me as far as the many conversations I have had with a woman with severe trauma. 🙏☸️🕉️🧘♂️
Wow! You put this all together for me. I know it is possible to dwell happily in the present moment, but I have been struggling with the how. I have listened to the part around 1:34 over and over again because it is such a balm to those of us still struggling with how. How means later, not now. When we give up the how, it really is possible to dwell happily in the present moment. So simple yet so profound. Thank you, dear Brother for your wisdom and guidance.
My dear loved one passed away on the 1st of July, aged 50. Thank You So Much he was shot while at work it is on the news in Miami Beach. I have also compassion for the man who shot him as something happened to him that made him do what he did and after 20 years he may be a different man so I do pray for healing very much for all When I heard the bad news and we rushed to be with him and did not know whether he would live, I remember every second emptying my mind and renewing my mind Hard to explain My husband of 7 years has an identical twin who is grieving as well and so so many people have reached out. "Everyone we know and 'everyone' we don't know too" I played the Great Bell Chant on my speakers just now. Thank you so much , always
This talk itself is a refuge. Thank you Br Phap Linh for the work you put in to prepare a talk on such an important and much needed topic. Powerful talk delivered with such gentleness and so much love. Appreciate the courage to share your vulnerability, the personal struggles and triumph. By showing us your faith in Thay's teachings, in the dharma, in the sangha, and your diligence in the practice, you helped to strengthen us as well. How wonderful you had the sangha to lean on when you needed it most. It's a privilege most of us don't have. Once again, thank you. And thank you Plum Village. 🪷
Thank you so much, Brother Phap Linh, for this wonderful class. The peaceful atmosphere makes me feel like being in a forest while listening. My nervous system reported safety. My heart is full of gratitude. 🙏
even focusing on breath is hard when youre traumatized. it brings you back to the moment when you were hurt so bad all you could do was lie there, listening to your own breathing and crying
Yes. That's why I love how Br. Phap Linh says, toward the end of this talk, about how he healed by mindful walking not mindful sitting or mindful breathing. As a somatic trauma therapist, I agree with this. Mindful movement can feel more tolerable than sitting still.
Deep gratitude to respected Thầy 🌼🙏🙏🙏🌼 Sincere thanks to Brother Pháp Linh for the greatly precious dharma talk - how to get over one”s trauma and to be harmonious with others 🌼🙏🙏🙏🌼.
Many of our mental health issues today are rooted in trauma and a lack of support when we were developing. I still struggle with understanding my triggers and where my trauma lives but coming back to the breath and learning to be in touch with my body has given me relief during times of intense change.
I recognized your voice Br Linh, from one of my fave PV app meditations, meditating on the joy of spring, and my ancestors. Wonderful to see you and listen to this wonderful, timely dharma talk. 🙏🌹
I am one of many to whom Thau showed right path. Thank you for continuing such noble work. Very useful and helpful. One thought on trauma vs suffering though. Traditional advice how to handle suffering may apply to trauma. Trauma is how we react to some event. Due to trauma we develop strong, strong craving. Suffering is consequence, once craving is not met. E. G. Abandonment trauma may lead to adulthood craving to be protected and treated like a baby. Which will surely cause suffering as it won't happen in reality. Recognising and letting go this particular craving might end suffering. Than trauma would loose its biting force, and become mere experience. For me it works better to focus on underlying craving that trauma event generated, than event it self. With breathing in, breathing out. Love and respect.
Thank you so much for this beautiful and insightful talk. Brother, your personal account of your experience is invaluable and very helpful to see the connection between what was and what can be. Thank you 😊 🙏🏻
"being able to learn and grow...find a refuge"! The Dharma in the PlumVillage Tradition is my refuge, spiritual home and mindfulness practice a wonder-working tool for healing oneself.Very Grateful to venerable THAY my precious spiritual teacher.Blessing Brother Phap Linh 🙏 for this very helpful teaching.
Splendid content and so neatly put. Respect! I could only suggest leaning slightly more over to the mystic and spiritual side, and with a slightly adjusted asmr-like voice intonation (see spiritual unfoldment of John Butler) and your thoughts will become an even more wholsesome experience😁💫🙌
As a trauma survivalist, I find great comfort in the filosophical content of Sam Harris’ waking up app in the afternoon and you guys in the evening, before bedtime I switch over to John Butler and onwards to the hypnosis of Tansy Forrest, as a scale for easing my restlessness.
As a childhood trauma survivor I feel deeply grateful for this nourishing dharma talk. So good and hopeful to see that the tradition of Thay doesn't discriminate against ideas, but instead is open towards integrating different perspectives into the ancient practice. For me personally, both perspectives are very familiar to each other. I use both the regular therapy for my cptsd as well as Thay's teachings!
Dear Brother Linh, thank you so much for these words I heard for the first time from a monastic. Since almost 40 years I have the diagnosis bipolar disorder and as long I search relief and healing in christian and now buddhism spirituality. So often I felt unable to do what they say like closing my eyes and breathing. Thank you a lot for your tipps like the walking meditation. I want to give you al little tipp back: To feel relaxed in the body you can hold a marble in your fingers. Or you take a shower before meditation. Love and Light, Marie
Thank you for sharing this, what I needed to hear as I’ve experienced difficulty with the practice since some old trauma has re-surfaced. Staying within the window of tolerance feels key and faith in the practice but modify and remind myself in every moment I have choice and connect to what I need. Grateful to Thay, the Sangha. Happy you are there.
thank you, dear brother, dear thay, dear sangha, for this talk, and the refuge I find in this practise! So Grateful. may all beings be well. love Lenneke Brussee, the Netherlands
Dear Brother Phap Linh, your story about walking meditation around the 1:18:00 mark was extremely powerful for me and inspired enormous faith and connection. Thank you so, so much, my love.
Thank you Thây, thank you Brother Phap Lihn for this amazing talk. As a survivor of many traumas, I spent decades in my life going from a psychotherapist to the next, decades of useless therapies and a lot of money wasted away. Studying how the autonomic nervous system works gave me the chance to at least understand what was happening inside of me, all those painful feelings and constant alarm, and to reply to many questions that were unrepaired with traditional therapists, making me feel weird and hopeless. I dream of spending some time at the Plum Village France (I've been studying zen Buddhism from Thây 's tradition for many years now) but .... I'm still scared to travel, can't win this paralyzing fear, so I feel so frustrated. I'm in Italy and there is nothing here to support me ....
I'm moved by the suffering you describe. You may be curious to search for a Somatic Experiencing (SE) practitioner/therapist in Italy. They exist throughout European countries. SE isn't like regular talk therapy, it focuses on the nervous system states as is described in this Dharma talk. In combination with your Buddhist practice, SE might really help you. I wish you freedom and full vitality in your life, friend.
@@SusanaATX yes, unfortunately in Italy there is nothing really valid about SE. That's why I'm studying in English, and following lots of IG accounts about SE and read tons of books. Italians are not very good at English, most of tge material is not even translated and they ignore the core of SE and the work of dr Peter Levine or dr Gabor Maté and tgw concept of cPTSD is mainly unknown. I could be a somatic therapist . I live in the wrong country and I feel really lonely (I AM really alone). Thanks a lot for your comment 🙏
Thank you for the wonderful talk ans raising trauma awareness. I want to also mention, that those cruel collective traumatising events for me started with colonisation and that it is imortant to see that the old definitions of sufferings are still very relevant in the global south.
Dear Thay, thank you so much for this most wonderful talk. Just listening to it has healed so much in me. Healing is the way, was my aha moment. How succinct, never thought about it. I have a question and I am hoping you could answer. I am a Meditation and Mindfulness facilitator. This is my personal experience too and certainly what I see everyday in our communities. People don't have a sangha or community or even their family members to find safety and refuge in like you found with brothers and sisters. Because of so much religious suffering in general people have aversion to any teachings of Dharma. On a broader levels of our society, how can then people find a safe and supportive space when it's not available within. Many people live alone, isolated, or lonely even when living with their family or friends. Trauma healing becomes rather challenging in these situations. Thank you so much. Deep bows and gratitude. 🙏🙏😇😇💜💜
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Saying that the freeze response is part of an overloaded parasympathetic response is counter to everything else I've read about this subject. I've always heard it defined like this: The sympathetic response is fight, flight, or freeze. Most people just say fight/flight but everything I've read says it's really fight/flight/freeze. And animals, when overwhelmed, do sometimes freeze. The deer frozen in the headlights is the classic example I suppose. I've never heard the freeze response defined as part of the 'rest and digest " parasympathetic nervous system. Interesting. Idk. Anyway: Thank you for this. I've had a lot of early childhood trauma and it's the hardest thing to try to heal and release. Stimulation of the vagus nerve has helped me some, as well as breathing exercises, yoga, and connection with nature. But when the trauma is triggered like by loud banging or noises, etc, I still struggle with the anger that arises with the trauma. Also, as you said, there's economic trauma. It's difficult to meditate when you're facing eviction and homelessness. We've strayed so, so far..
sickness and illness especially physical is a front and center of human suffering, to pretend otherwise is an egregious error, and something Thay and Linh now seem to have missed, finding errors in Thay's thoughts and supplying the teachings and drawings insights from the bhuddha is key to honouring the teacher. Not to downplay trauma, it's equally as valid, but physical sickness is a serious threat to human happiness if not the clear frontrunner by many miles.
I wonder if animals don’t take pictures of what has happened to them and create or embellish the pictures with a huge amounts of emotional drama ? Something happens to an animal and if they don’t die they move on and let go. Of course when they met the Predator again they go into flight/ fight mode again.
I am confused, how do you deal with situation of continuous abuse of power where you can not defend yourself against authorities.? The trauma is deep and the response over time is anger, or proceed to aggression against the self or others. The pain is so tense that we loose self confidence. Do you suggest that we just breath and accept abuse. This leave deep trauma. You have not addressed such case. What is the Buddhism position on that? I am disappointed by the talk.
Thich Nhat Hanh did talk about suffering. He was from Vietnam where he endured suffering in the extreme; then exile. He saw some of his closest friends burned alive; his homeland destroyed and yet he survived, not just physically but emotionally.
Me too was exiled fur 20 years, kidnapped and judged in person, so I know what suffering is! I did not like the talk about trauma today as it was too simplistic and missing the essence of wisdom of Thay. Blessings to all in our journey
And surviving with remaining trauma in our heart and soul is not good way of leaving…..the question is how to overdone such trauma and keep striving with open heart in dark human history ?
Dear Iman, In my own life, I have come to realise that continuous practices such as tea/eating/working/walking meditations as in the Plum Village tradition, mindful movements and Dharma sharing are all embodied practices, ie address the body AND the mind. Over time, they all help us to have a witness to our trauma in our Sangha, and water our seeds of resilience eventually. Sitting meditation can be attempted in shorter time periods and only when one feels safe enough in one's body to address it. Buddhist practice is about helping our ownselves to understand our own landscape of our own suffering so that we find our own insights into the roots of what led us to experience trauma, which is, for me, another name for suffering. Somatic practices, ie activities that address both body and mind, like Tai Chi, creative movement, mindful movements, etc contribute to gaining eventual healing. May you be well and may the practice benefit you on your journey.
@@peacebeing555 thank you brother and sister for the reply. It is true that deep mediation helps accessing our own insights. I am trying to step away from fight, flight, or frozen state of consciousness. The suffering is so deep mainly with unfair abuse. Right now I am in frozen stage and imposed silence and retreat in my own home. I pray for grace to keep me strong in face of adversity. Resilience is key word here. I wish I can attend your retreat but I can not afford it as I am without job with little income. I follow you on RUclips for free. Appreciate you make these videos available. Blessings
I'm glad that the monastery offers talks for free on-line and lets lay people come to retreats. They only charge what is needed to cover costs. Sometimes there is financial assistance available - thanks to donors. Also there's local sanghas (meditation groups) in many places around the world.
@@ronforstersd I really need to be taught in person closest to me is a 5 day trip to Mississippi and to stay cost money over $1000 fora month I couldn’t even afford 2 weeks or a week
The first time I'm hearing a buddhist talk regarding trauma. Way overdue. More talks on trauma please!
as a trauma survivor and thriver as much as i am able, this talk was so wonderful to hear, that plum village are starting to explore how its wonderful practices can help people with deep trauma, but there is a lot of work still to be done
I stopped sitting meditation for about 3 years because of some difficult experiences. It took me a while to find the tools that help me. Tich nhat hans videos were definitely part of it, and his emphasis on first being able to create a safe space, of joy and happiness, before one goes into the suffering. Metta meditation also really helped me, where I focused on compassion for all others going through similar things. As well as asking who am I, and ramana maharshi teachings. I am happy to say that over the last few months, I naturally wanted to sit again, and have got back into regular practice, and have been able to develop more tools, similar to what have been described in this video. I remember once, it was just hearing birds chirping, that reminded me that all was peaceful, and there was no real danger at this moment. I don't think I have fully overcome it because I do still have some fear of those thoughts returning, but when they do come, I am much more equipped to not let them overtake me
This is so good. Thank you for sharing. Remember why you sit-- it's not to avoid something bad or fear something bad, it's actually deeper than that-- it's to get better at seeing what is already true, the wisdom you already have-- the strength you *already* have :)
(this is more difficult to see without training, but notice the difference between the exercise and the lack of it?)
Wishing you peace, I'm in a similar situation
Ty for sharing your experience strength and hope
I recently ordained as a temporary nun for 3 months. It was nice looking back at this comment and seeing how far I've come. Understanding I am not my thoughts, I am not the sensations I feel. No attachments to those identities of I am a bad person, or unable to do this, or whatever the thoughts that arise are. It's all arising and passing away. There is no me, only present moment.
Understanding you are not thoughts is very important on a spiritual level. But please know that trauma sits in the nervous system and therefore in the body. Seeking help with a body based trauma therapist or practitioner is needed to integrate the trauma, otherwise it sits in your system without being integrated. Blessing on you way
@@nanasabia yes, for sure i have felt the trauma in my body, and with the meditation my body would shake a lot. But through more training and with the guidance of a few techers including our dear sayadaw ashin ottamasara, i also learned that we are not the body either, and one doesnt need to react physically either, since that realization even the shaking stopped. Its still a process of detaching from the body, not reacting.
Thank you Brother Phap Linh truly beautiful Darma talk. I am so blessed to be able to hear your talks. Thank you 🙏
Such a profound, illuminating talk on a topic that isn’t discussed enough and yet is SO relevant to a large number of people, myself included. Thank you , thank you, thank you 🙏 ❤
Dear brother Spirit, dear Plum-Village-moncs and nuns, THANK YOU so much for being such a wonderful continuation of Thay! What a blessing to see how you evolve and let us take part in your evolution. What a helpful and ressourcefull darma talk! I am so grateful being able to learn so much from you. Just As Thay, you are a great gift to the world!
It's awful when usual coping mechanisms don't work. Frightening when meditation isn't helping either. Hard to feel self compassion sometimes . Thank you for this talk and your honesty.
Thank you for starting this conversation. It's so important to provide mindfulness teachings in a way that is trauma-informed. After all, the body and the nervous system keep the score.
This Dharma talk is such a wonderful gift. I have watched it twice and will watch again. What a treasure. Such a gifted mind and such an incredible ability to communicate the most profound teachings. Forever thankful, dear brother.
Dear Brother,
I feel deeply grateful for your shering with us your pain and your suffer and your way in and out of it. Thank you from the Bottom of my ❤
Thank you, Brother Phap Linh, for this deep and powerful talk, showing us the connections between healing trauma and Plum Village practice. I feel Thay smiling.
This is the most touching Dharma talk. Living with trauma has been overwhelming, confusing and so much more. Thank you so much for your vulnerability and your teaching. Much love ❤️ 🌻
This is so good. Thank you Thank you Thank you. Just coming through a traumatic event and put my nervous system on hyperdrive. I have been white knuckling it with some support including plum village lectures. ❤️
hang in their kiddo, God willing it will get better
Thank you for sharing this Plum Village 🙏🏻 Brother Phap Linh, I needed to hear this now. I shall revisit this dharma talk again.
So interesting…when a new connection comes…I never understood what was happening…happening in a first therapy experience…in a guided meditation context…I began to tremble…to shake as I was able to settle more deeply…It may well be so that this natural capacity to restore ourselves was manifesting here…a shaking it off…a kind of recovering outside the habitual mind sets and patterns…Thank you dear brother.
Thank you 🙏
Es maravilloso poder recibir y sentir la Sabiduría y el Amor en cada palabra y cada gesto...me nutre profundamente. Mi gratitud ❤
I benefited from your dharma talks. As a surviver of life and unacknowledged ADHD and Autism for over 50 years I appreciated your approach and considerations.
In a previous talk you mentioned using body scan as a means of coming to an anchor. You have an example. I mention this only because you said - I notice my elbows. I smiled in the moment and I seem to be using "noticing my elbows" when I need help finding a smile. I think it surprised me when you mentioned it and for now it has become my way of finding my seed of happiness in the moment.
Thank you.
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I appreciate your knowledge and openness in sharing about your personal experiences! I think understanding another's experience and seeing they've endured can be very reassuring. Learning to cultivate a maternal presence when relating to pain / trauma can also be helpful. I love Thay's demonstration of how the practitioner should attend to their pain, like a mother carrying their baby with love tenderness and care.
Thank you for saying we’ll continue together.
I really appreciate the way you spoke about trauma. It is clear how Thay tells us that it’s possible to heal.
We have this present moment.
Dwelling in things as they are. I remember Thay saying, yes, things are a mess, but I accept it. Thay tells us to start where we are. The story of all of his papers being blown around his room, because all of his windows were open.
This story shows us that we may have a mess right now, but we can stop and be in the here and now. We can clean up our minds and lean how to let go of the past which no longer exists!
I started to listen to this talk yesterday and I felt fine.
Then strong Complex PTSD showed up and the picture changed.
Today I finished listening and I’m grateful. Yes, I feel this heavy storm of deep suffering due to pictures from the past or worries about the future, but that’s when the mind is wondering.
I see whatever “pictures” come up and I let them go and come back to the present moment. Trauma doesn’t have to break us.
I keep dwelling in the here and and in the now- letting go.
With the practice of mindfulness we can use its energy to embrace our suffering and allow it to go. I can clearly see how I have the choice to feed these pictures of trauma. Everything needs food. We have to be brave enough to wake up to this moment and stop feeding the pictures.
This was a brilliant talk! I am so encouraged by this. I don't deal with trauma. But so many around me are. Now I will know how to respond. Thank you so much for sharing this and your story. It hit home for me as far as the many conversations I have had with a woman with severe trauma. 🙏☸️🕉️🧘♂️
Wow! You put this all together for me. I know it is possible to dwell happily in the present moment, but I have been struggling with the how. I have listened to the part around 1:34 over and over again because it is such a balm to those of us still struggling with how. How means later, not now. When we give up the how, it really is possible to dwell happily in the present moment. So simple yet so profound. Thank you, dear Brother for your wisdom and guidance.
My dear loved one passed away on the 1st of July, aged 50. Thank You So Much
he was shot while at work it is on the news in Miami Beach. I have also compassion for the man who shot him as something happened to him that made him do what he did and after 20 years he may be a different man so I do pray for healing very much for all
When I heard the bad news and we rushed to be with him and did not know whether he would live, I remember every second emptying my mind and renewing my mind
Hard to explain
My husband of 7 years has an identical twin who is grieving as well and so so many people have reached out. "Everyone we know and 'everyone' we don't know too"
I played the Great Bell Chant on my speakers just now. Thank you so much , always
Thank you for being and presenting this gift.
Thank you so much for this helpful dharmatalk!!! Thank you for sharing your deep experiences and insight. A lotus to you!
This talk itself is a refuge. Thank you Br Phap Linh for the work you put in to prepare a talk on such an important and much needed topic. Powerful talk delivered with such gentleness and so much love. Appreciate the courage to share your vulnerability, the personal struggles and triumph. By showing us your faith in Thay's teachings, in the dharma, in the sangha, and your diligence in the practice, you helped to strengthen us as well. How wonderful you had the sangha to lean on when you needed it most. It's a privilege most of us don't have. Once again, thank you. And thank you Plum Village. 🪷
Thank you so much, Brother Phap Linh, for this wonderful class. The peaceful atmosphere makes me feel like being in a forest while listening. My nervous system reported safety. My heart is full of gratitude. 🙏
even focusing on breath is hard when youre traumatized. it brings you back to the moment when you were hurt so bad all you could do was lie there, listening to your own breathing and crying
Yes. That's why I love how Br. Phap Linh says, toward the end of this talk, about how he healed by mindful walking not mindful sitting or mindful breathing. As a somatic trauma therapist, I agree with this. Mindful movement can feel more tolerable than sitting still.
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Deep gratitude to respected Thầy 🌼🙏🙏🙏🌼
Sincere thanks to Brother Pháp Linh for the greatly precious dharma talk - how to get over one”s trauma and to be harmonious with others 🌼🙏🙏🙏🌼.
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Thank you for this class, was very powerful. My heart is full of joy and gratitude. I have a path, everything is ok 💗
Many of our mental health issues today are rooted in trauma and a lack of support when we were developing. I still struggle with understanding my triggers and where my trauma lives but coming back to the breath and learning to be in touch with my body has given me relief during times of intense change.
Thank you Plum village🙏🏻❤️
There is so much wisdom in this talk. Thanks for sharing.
I recognized your voice Br Linh, from one of my fave PV app meditations, meditating on the joy of spring, and my ancestors. Wonderful to see you and listen to this wonderful, timely dharma talk. 🙏🌹
Thank you 🙏 Plum Village for all your compassion and teaching.
Thankyou 🙏
Grazie di nuovo Master Br Phap Linh,
And to all Sangha as well..
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My deepest appreciation for this amazing and enlightened Darhma talk. I have learned so much and will listen again and again...
So many beautiful insights and tools to go through life with a wonderful lamp
Thank you so much dear Brother.. thank you respected Thay
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I am one of many to whom Thau showed right path. Thank you for continuing such noble work. Very useful and helpful. One thought on trauma vs suffering though.
Traditional advice how to handle suffering may apply to trauma. Trauma is how we react to some event. Due to trauma we develop strong, strong craving. Suffering is consequence, once craving is not met.
E. G. Abandonment trauma may lead to adulthood craving to be protected and treated like a baby. Which will surely cause suffering as it won't happen in reality. Recognising and letting go this particular craving might end suffering. Than trauma would loose its biting force, and become mere experience.
For me it works better to focus on underlying craving that trauma event generated, than event it self. With breathing in, breathing out. Love and respect.
Thank you so much for this beautiful and insightful talk. Brother, your personal account of your experience is invaluable and very helpful to see the connection between what was and what can be. Thank you 😊 🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing this helpful teaching.
"being able to learn and grow...find a refuge"! The Dharma in the PlumVillage Tradition is my refuge, spiritual home and mindfulness practice a wonder-working tool for healing oneself.Very Grateful to venerable THAY my precious spiritual teacher.Blessing Brother Phap Linh 🙏 for this very helpful teaching.
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Splendid content and so neatly put. Respect! I could only suggest leaning slightly more over to the mystic and spiritual side, and with a slightly adjusted asmr-like voice intonation (see spiritual unfoldment of John Butler) and your thoughts will become an even more wholsesome experience😁💫🙌
As a trauma survivalist, I find great comfort in the filosophical content of Sam Harris’ waking up app in the afternoon and you guys in the evening, before bedtime I switch over to John Butler and onwards to the hypnosis of Tansy Forrest, as a scale for easing my restlessness.
Thank you brother what a lovely teaching🙏🦋🙏🌈
Wonderful talk!! Thank you so much greatful
Thank you so much, Brother Phap Linh, for this dharma talk. In the end of it I feltänkt a lightness in my heart and body and hope. 🙏🌸🌺
Really appreciate the tools to manage PTSD that are shared in this talk. Thank you brother spirit.
As a childhood trauma survivor I feel deeply grateful for this nourishing dharma talk. So good and hopeful to see that the tradition of Thay doesn't discriminate against ideas, but instead is open towards integrating different perspectives into the ancient practice. For me personally, both perspectives are very familiar to each other. I use both the regular therapy for my cptsd as well as Thay's teachings!
Thank you so much for share your teachings with ALL of us.🙏🌺🌹☀️
Thank you Brother Bhap Lin for sharing your story 🩷
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Dear Brother Linh, thank you so much for these words I heard for the first time from a monastic. Since almost 40 years I have the diagnosis bipolar disorder and as long I search relief and healing in christian and now buddhism spirituality. So often I felt unable to do what they say like closing my eyes and breathing. Thank you a lot for your tipps like the walking meditation. I want to give you al little tipp back: To feel relaxed in the body you can hold a marble in your fingers. Or you take a shower before meditation. Love and Light, Marie
Thank you, thank you .
just what I needed to hear today with a wave of trauma moving around me. always helpful to know we are not alone in our struggles.
Wow, powerful dharma talk! Well-founded on science and the Buddist teachings. Thank you for all the insights!
Merci beaucoup
Thank you dear Brother. Namaste 🙏
🙏Most beloved community, we send you everlasting blessing and grace! From Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 with infinite love!❤
So much love I feel from this talk thank you
Thank you so much for this talk.
Thank you for sharing this, what I needed to hear as I’ve experienced difficulty with the practice since some old trauma has re-surfaced. Staying within the window of tolerance feels key and faith in the practice but modify and remind myself in every moment I have choice and connect to what I need. Grateful to Thay, the Sangha. Happy you are there.
thanks so much for honestly addressing these issues
thank you, dear brother, dear thay, dear sangha, for this talk, and the refuge I find in this practise! So Grateful.
may all beings be well. love Lenneke Brussee, the Netherlands
Thank you so much.
Dear Brother Phap Linh, your story about walking meditation around the 1:18:00 mark was extremely powerful for me and inspired enormous faith and connection. Thank you so, so much, my love.
Thank you Thây, thank you Brother Phap Lihn for this amazing talk. As a survivor of many traumas, I spent decades in my life going from a psychotherapist to the next, decades of useless therapies and a lot of money wasted away. Studying how the autonomic nervous system works gave me the chance to at least understand what was happening inside of me, all those painful feelings and constant alarm, and to reply to many questions that were unrepaired with traditional therapists, making me feel weird and hopeless. I dream of spending some time at the Plum Village France (I've been studying zen Buddhism from Thây 's tradition for many years now) but .... I'm still scared to travel, can't win this paralyzing fear, so I feel so frustrated. I'm in Italy and there is nothing here to support me ....
I'm moved by the suffering you describe. You may be curious to search for a Somatic Experiencing (SE) practitioner/therapist in Italy. They exist throughout European countries. SE isn't like regular talk therapy, it focuses on the nervous system states as is described in this Dharma talk. In combination with your Buddhist practice, SE might really help you. I wish you freedom and full vitality in your life, friend.
@@SusanaATX yes, unfortunately in Italy there is nothing really valid about SE. That's why I'm studying in English, and following lots of IG accounts about SE and read tons of books. Italians are not very good at English, most of tge material is not even translated and they ignore the core of SE and the work of dr Peter Levine or dr Gabor Maté and tgw concept of cPTSD is mainly unknown. I could be a somatic therapist . I live in the wrong country and I feel really lonely (I AM really alone). Thanks a lot for your comment 🙏
Thankyou venerable Thay Phap Lin 🙏🏻🌱
It's always pleasant to visit Plumb Village even if only by the internet
Thank you for the wonderful talk ans raising trauma awareness. I want to also mention, that those cruel collective traumatising events for me started with colonisation and that it is imortant to see that the old definitions of sufferings are still very relevant in the global south.
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"si sabes como sufrir, sufres menos" gracias querido Thai.
thank you for reminding of this cherished notion
The Body Keeps the Score by van der Kok is the modern classic in this area. This talk could have been taken from it.
Intelligence is saving my life again
Dear Thay, thank you so much for this most wonderful talk. Just listening to it has healed so much in me. Healing is the way, was my aha moment. How succinct, never thought about it.
I have a question and I am hoping you could answer. I am a Meditation and Mindfulness facilitator. This is my personal experience too and certainly what I see everyday in our communities. People don't have a sangha or community or even their family members to find safety and refuge in like you found with brothers and sisters. Because of so much religious suffering in general people have aversion to any teachings of Dharma. On a broader levels of our society, how can then people find a safe and supportive space when it's not available within. Many people live alone, isolated, or lonely even when living with their family or friends. Trauma healing becomes rather challenging in these situations. Thank you so much. Deep bows and gratitude. 🙏🙏😇😇💜💜
Có phương pháp đó. Nhưng có lẽ bạn nên gặp Tăng Thân Làng Mai gần nơi bạn sống để được hướng dẫn cụ thể, chi tiết.
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I will listen tonight. Tell me how to practice mindfulness while still living with my abuser, although abuse has abated. Thank you. 🙏
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Saying that the freeze response is part of an overloaded parasympathetic response is counter to everything else I've read about this subject. I've always heard it defined like this:
The sympathetic response is fight, flight, or freeze. Most people just say fight/flight but everything I've read says it's really fight/flight/freeze.
And animals, when overwhelmed, do sometimes freeze. The deer frozen in the headlights is the classic example I suppose.
I've never heard the freeze response defined as part of the 'rest and digest " parasympathetic nervous system.
Interesting. Idk. Anyway:
Thank you for this. I've had a lot of early childhood trauma and it's the hardest thing to try to heal and release.
Stimulation of the vagus nerve has helped me some, as well as breathing exercises, yoga, and connection with nature.
But when the trauma is triggered like by loud banging or noises, etc, I still struggle with the anger that arises with the trauma.
Also, as you said, there's economic trauma. It's difficult to meditate when you're facing eviction and homelessness.
We've strayed so, so far..
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Smile Release
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James suggests a calm between an object sensed.
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sickness and illness especially physical is a front and center of human suffering, to pretend otherwise is an egregious error, and something Thay and Linh now seem to have missed, finding errors in Thay's thoughts and supplying the teachings and drawings insights from the bhuddha is key to honouring the teacher. Not to downplay trauma, it's equally as valid, but physical sickness is a serious threat to human happiness if not the clear frontrunner by many miles.
I wonder if animals don’t take pictures of what has happened to them and create or embellish the pictures with a huge amounts of emotional drama ? Something happens to an animal and if they don’t die they move on and let go. Of course when they met the Predator again they go into flight/ fight mode again.
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I am confused, how do you deal with situation of continuous abuse of power where you can not defend yourself against authorities.? The trauma is deep and the response over time is anger, or proceed to aggression against the self or others. The pain is so tense that we loose self confidence. Do you suggest that we just breath and accept abuse. This leave deep trauma. You have not addressed such case. What is the Buddhism position on that? I am disappointed by the talk.
Thich Nhat Hanh did talk about suffering. He was from Vietnam where he endured suffering in the extreme; then exile. He saw some of his closest friends burned alive; his homeland destroyed and yet he survived, not just physically but emotionally.
Me too was exiled fur 20 years, kidnapped and judged in person, so I know what suffering is! I did not like the talk about trauma today as it was too simplistic and missing the essence of wisdom of Thay. Blessings to all in our journey
And surviving with remaining trauma in our heart and soul is not good way of leaving…..the question is how to overdone such trauma and keep striving with open heart in dark human history ?
Dear Iman,
In my own life, I have come to realise that continuous practices such as tea/eating/working/walking meditations as in the Plum Village tradition, mindful movements and Dharma sharing are all embodied practices, ie address the body AND the mind. Over time, they all help us to have a witness to our trauma in our Sangha, and water our seeds of resilience eventually. Sitting meditation can be attempted in shorter time periods and only when one feels safe enough in one's body to address it. Buddhist practice is about helping our ownselves to understand our own landscape of our own suffering so that we find our own insights into the roots of what led us to experience trauma, which is, for me, another name for suffering. Somatic practices, ie activities that address both body and mind, like Tai Chi, creative movement, mindful movements, etc contribute to gaining eventual healing. May you be well and may the practice benefit you on your journey.
@@peacebeing555 thank you brother and sister for the reply. It is true that deep mediation helps accessing our own insights. I am trying to step away from fight, flight, or frozen state of consciousness. The suffering is so deep mainly with unfair abuse. Right now I am in frozen stage and imposed silence and retreat in my own home. I pray for grace to keep me strong in face of adversity. Resilience is key word here. I wish I can attend your retreat but I can not afford it as I am without job with little income. I follow you on RUclips for free. Appreciate you make these videos available. Blessings
David Adams from Bristol larping as Vietnamese is super weird.
Discrimination for the poor but charges over $1000 for a stay at a monastery….
I'm glad that the monastery offers talks for free on-line and lets lay people come to retreats. They only charge what is needed to cover costs. Sometimes there is financial assistance available - thanks to donors. Also there's local sanghas (meditation groups) in many places around the world.
@@ronforstersd I really need to be taught in person closest to me is a 5 day trip to Mississippi and to stay cost money over $1000 fora month I couldn’t even afford 2 weeks or a week
Why is this only men???
There are also plenty of talks by nuns on the Plum Village channel.
Discrimination against vaccine status is the most agonizing for me.
I don’t believe Thay would be pleased with your politicizing the practice this way. Up to date? Don’t you mean politically correct? Shame on you.
How is the practice politicized in this talk in your opinion?
Thank you.