Emptiness is NOT nothing - teaching from Thich Nhat Hanh.
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- Опубликовано: 30 авг 2013
- "Emptiness is not nothing." Thich Nhat Hanh talks about emptiness - the root window of perception (HERE) within the I AM HERE teaching.
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I'm crying while I'm listening such wisdom, such revelation! it's amazing!!!
I am currently reading “the buddhas teaching” - my mind understands and forgets, therefore I came here to re-remember.
This teaching made me realize impermanent. Thay is right when he said this teaching has the power to relieve one from suffering. Rest in peace dear master.
Best Buddhist teacher I have ever seen on internet
Yes!
SN GOENKA .......
I literally cried out of joy watching this beautiful video. Thank you Thay for your wise words and enlightening presence!
I'm still getting used to this concept, but it's getting clearer. The challenge is not just to understand emptiness but to start to SEE the world like that. It opens the door to compassion when you feel the intimate connection between all things and all people.
+Tom George I think that direct experience of "Emptiness" in meditation is absolutely necessary. Buddha was reluctant to describe what he discovered by direct experience extensively, because he knew nature of human mind and wanted to avoid people mistaking the metaphorical finger pointing at the metaphorical moon for the moon itself. I see the only real usefulness of the mental concept of Sunyata in the fact that it serves as a way to put the experience in words, so that when you yourself actually encounter the experience in meditation, you can put that experience into context of the Buddhist teachings, into context of others' experience.. This is extremely important.
Also, I believe that Brahman, Supreme Consciousness, Supreme Self, God talked about in "Hinduism" and yoga is the same thing as Emptiness. Even though Buddhism talks about "no-self" (anatta) and "Hinduism" about Supreme Self or True Self, both are actually describing the same thing, only using different words.
Thankyou man, good to hear your reflections. :)
+Tom George I am happy that you found it interesting. :) I am happy to share.
empty of a self here and the world outside there, like if you can see or feel or hear a being, then it exist for you, not just in front of you, but a part of you, you can't be separate from what you're experiencing.
+gbornfree reallyfree If you say so. I would say it depends on what you consider "separation". It is a mental construct, a concept. It is a word, and as such, a symbol. In this case, it would be beneficial to clearly define the content of the word, so that we know what does it actually mean. Same goes for "I". Then we can truly understand the meaning of "I cannot be separate from what I am experiencing".
The kindness in his eyes strikes me every time.
This person is the closest thing to living Buddha
About a year ago I was bored walked down to a neighborhood library to randomly pick out a book. I saw The Miracle Of Mindfulness. I was drawn to it. I've been reading and listening to Thic Nhat Hanh ever since...... Thank you for helping me on my journey
emptiness is form; form is emptiness
and the truth is the semicolon in the middle.
Shiki fu i ku, ku fu i shiki
Beautiful! Thanks, Master Thay!
Wow. This video really struck a chord in me. My father passed away about 2 years back. I'm currently 19, and before he died my parents have been separated for almost 2 years. Before my dad died, I hadn't seen him in 4 years. The reasons are complicated. Lets just say my father wasn't really a good Husband or Father. He ended up drinking himself to death. Anyway, I always wanted nothing to do with him and still feel the same way. After watching this, I don't know what to think anymore. I should stick to my meditation and see for myself whats true and what is not.
+follow the light It is complicated. Another teaching is to keep company with people who support you on your path which means to be in god company. For those people that you surround yourself with that they do not wish harm on you or cause it. We can have compassion but if we surround ourselves with people who we cannot help because they don't want it or if we surround ourselves with people who do not contribute to a healthy relationship with us, then it is crazy wisdom. As children of alcoholics it is not our duty or our place in this life to lead them to water. It is not our place to save them or to parent them. It is not an act of disloyalty or a lack of compassion if you do not take this responsibility on yourself. It is very harmful to adult survivors of alcoholics to continue to take responsibility for their parents as they have already been made responsible for an adult, their parent, from a young age. From this situation, we perceive differently. We have trouble trusting our instincts, being able to tell what is the right thing to do from what would be wrong, and we have trouble believing that it is right to take care if ourselves. We easily feel guilty because that is how we have been brought up. There is a group on facebook for adult survivors. Check it out. There are plenty of adult survivors who think exactly the way you do. It is not good for us to carry shame and guilt wherever we go. The shame and guilt is unwarranted. We have done nothing. Our alcoholic parents are responsible for themselves and responsible for getting help. Namaste, Sat Nam, Blessed Be. May the long time sun shine upon you, all love surround you and the pure light within you, guide your way on.
There is also a series on here "discovering your true nature" where Thich touches on this as well. It helped me so much.
follow the light I'm sorry to hear of your loss. I lost my dad in the same way as you lost yours. So I know the pain and the suffering you experienced.
It's been nearly 10 years now since my dad passed away but the more I practice the path the more I understand his alcohol dependency as suffering and not as his choice. He tried to quit but couldn't manage it. So I just remember him in full but have only love and compassion for him, his suffering and all of the other beautiful parts of his nature.
As a father now I know just how hard it is to be the perfect dad. We can only do our best and work to remove suffering from ourselves in order to lessen the suffering on others. I hope you're well and life is getting better for you.
A little late. But welcome to the "fathers who suffered from liver cirrhosis" club.
you must forhive him and look forward, like this sage said, there is no inherent self, therfore when we deeply understand this, we become more compassionate to others, espetialy those who were close and not so kind toward us. namaste
Wow stunningly beautiful
We are so lucky to have such teachers with us🙏🙏💖
Beautiful.... Realistic... realization ...Gratitude.
Empty of tea,but it's full of air.
Amazing, I love his voice, his eyes...he's a great teacher.🙏
Empty of an independent existence, fullof everything else, beautiful.
thank you for sharing. Of course as an American the idea of emptiness and nonself have always been hard for me to comprehend. I have been pondering it for a couple of years and this video helps so much. His words bring me to tears everytime! Thank you again.
Thank you for appreciating, Kimberly. Yes, it's quite different from what is most popularly understood by "emptiness" i.e. rock-bottom depression!
@@enstigatorofficial you seem to misunderstand, Thay is nothing but compassion. As are the books. I hope you find peace.
@@zaffranmoon1580 --that would be HUMANISM, which is something different than BUDDHISM. How dare you insinuate I am not at peace, I am on the path of the elimination of all suffering. This charlatan takes advantage of westerners and steals parts of Buddhism and perverts it for a profit. One day i hope you come to understand the truth, and gain actual wisdom. Ignore this fraud in a fake store-bought robe and pursue the true nature of reality as taught by the Buddha.
@@enstigatorofficial apart from the misspelling, your username describes your action very accurately. By your actions, you are indeed an instigator. May you find peace, regardless of what you find to be true 🙏🏼
@@vindembmw6421 may you be enstigated to the true revelation of the Buddha and not fall for the new age froth that is more humanism than Buddhism. This guy here is a load of horseshit and he built more statues to himself than Saddam Hussein. Please avoid OSHO, because that is truly a dangerous cult. don't be an Oshole.
Thank you for helping me to realize that everything is a spontaneous arising. Long and short exist together and create one another and give meaning to one another.
🙏 ❤️ 🌹 thank you Thay for your peace and love ❤️ 🌹 🙏
this is a perfect teaching !
I have been struggling with this for so long. Whether empty was a state or sort of existence, or empty was how we aimed to feel. His words finally helped this teaching click. I am ever so grateful that we live in an age that we can still almost participate in teachings of those who have moved on.
Travel well great teacher I will see you everywhere thank you❤️🙏🏼
Thank you, Thay!
Very beutiful teaching, in the internet there is only concepts and a-ton of concepts, but buddhism needs poetry to settle down in our hearts, needs those subtle dance of verses to enter.
Buddha told Ananda that we cannot say something is empty. We must say empty of what. Thay points to what it (all phenomena) is empty of, and that is an independent inherent existence. The way to undermine the delusion we harbor is to contemplate the dependent relationships of phenomena. However, this is still within in the conventional truth. The ultimate condition is inexpressible. It is a meditative condition where the experience of the non-existant independent 'I' is lost. A very subtle object of meditation.
Beautiful!
Beautiful ❤️🙏🏽❤️
Thank you so much Thich!
Amazing viewpoint on eternity.
Simply blessed to come across this video ...🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
thank you for uploading this!
This made complete sense when he said the flower's empty if you consider it existing outside of everything else, rather it's full of life because of everything else that is also working to produce it, application is the same to us; We do not exist outside of everything else, we're the wave with the entire ocean. This is something I've definitely come to understand by myself, you didn't make yourself, you're constantly influenced by the outside, by other people, and you can't control it. It's a nice connection with everyone and everything, peace and love
Thanks for sharing.
A wonderful and meaningful explanation , thank you.
thank you
Anumodana. Thanks for the explanation of Shunyata ..... (Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutra).
love this
Pranam My Guru. Your wisdom is part of me. Like many things and event without that I am empty. Pranam, You are flowing in the cosmos.
I wish I had listened to these at a young age. I would liked to have had many years to ruminate on the teachings.
Thank you.
Very wise gentleman
Beautiful and profound wisdom...Gratitude to Thich Nhat Hanh and the sharer!
One observation though: When the physical father is inconsistent, toxic or mentally sick, then it might be useful for the son to refer as physical father vs 'real' father understood as Cosmic father or Creator/Masculine aspect of God.
(simply because as long as the son refers himself to the sick being that has given the seed for his existence, as long as he does identify to this 'impossible reference', he will feel himself as sick and mentally unstable and will keep on performing the sick behaviours that caused the wound in the first place. I'd actually would love to have Thich Nhat Hanh's view on this observation.) Thank you and sharing.
Such a special being
I needed this teaching today. Nihilism per dictionary is " extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence." There is an unfortunate use of the term "void" esp., in some Buddhist schools. In the West we are noted for our individualism and self interest vs. community good etc. This is acculturated. Part of this is due to mechanistic, materialistic rationalism that only serves to reinforce our suffering. It is very sad for us that we have inherited such a linear consciousness eh? Buddhism evolves in our "mud-like soil." Give it time...
Yes, the immaculate lotus grows from the mud. OM MANI PADME HUM.
Probably why we always struggle to understand emptiness as meaningful in any way as opposed to empty = pointless.
All the manure we've produced lately will definitely make for some fertile ground.
Rest in eternal bliss Master Hanh❤
Lovely
Yes . . . Wisdom is a silent kind of music all on its own.
the end really hit me because I do have problems with my father, he abused me and gave me his name so I had to walk through the world always being reminded of him just by being myself.
I was able to change my name and gender, my father still has not met the new me and sometimes that is saddening despite how much distance and there is between us
Love ❤️
I Am Here - Opening the Windows of Life and Beauty. The emptiness of here that allows it all.
The glass is emptiness. Emptiness is the glass. The glass is not other than the emptiness. The emptiness is not other than the glass. Heart Sutra!
Wish the music was a touch lower. It was making it harder to hear him and his accent is sometimes a challenge for those of us with hearing issues.
I really wish they would improve the audio quality on this video. His voice is very soft to begin with and the background music almost drowns it. Please remove the background music at least.
You are correct, my friend. Valuable as this little discourse is, the sound ruins it, in a way - near to the end, it's impossible to hear what the venerable bikkhu is saying.
Very true.
Yesterday a friend of mine was hit by a car at 17.45 today I saw that my wristwatch stopped yesterday at 17.45. We're all connected!
Crazy
Recognizing for me for the word of lovingkindness i going to type now
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Exactly !!!
It is really hard to accept the emptiness. It shocks me out completely.
Nagarjuna's Catuskoti (fire fuel) example awakened me
What is that piece of music? Beautiful. Beautiful teachings too.
Sadhu sadhu sadhu
What music is this....its lovely
It looks like the concept of oneness, I have come to notice it to be true as well as being an existence of infinite possibilities. Everything is potential energy.
I want to ordain as a monk under Thich Nhat Hanh.
C est costaud!! De la force de l Amour car on est l Amour, de l Amour pour tout car nous sommes le tout et que le rien est tout et que rien n est rien et que rien est l Amour!
Thank you for posting this video! What lecture or video is this taken from? I really want to see the whole thing.
It’s called plum village channel. This video was stolen from it.
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Well, this is exactly how the emptiness
was explained to me by a Theravada monk in
a Theravada country.
This guy, just like Dalai Lama for example
are true gems, but sometimes they kinda
let in “known” that Theravada is somehow
incomplete, lower way or vehicle, when
in actuality the Buddhist teaching is one
and the same regardless of tradition. Peace. ✌️
Namo Amitabha Buddha
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The Master
Shunyata is the realization of no durance in every thing and, like thich nath hanh said: the complete knowledge of interaction. Conscious or not.
the cosmos is within these words
"Mister Bodhisattva tell us" :D
My understanding of this teaching on emptiness, is that wholeness is constant and undying. This wholeness could be called the One Self, it is empty because it contains no fragments, parts or anything other than itself. This wholeness, which I am calling the One Self is completely empty. Everything inside the One Self, is the One Self only, and it is empty of any other separate thing. There is no separate thing. Every thing inter-exists.
The appearance of many selves within the One Self is contained by the Self, and is not other than the Self. Human beings on Earth feel separated from each other, and the cosmos, because we believe we exist alone - we do not recognize our non-separateness. Failure to recognize our connections causes suffering.
Perhaps our illusion of separateness was there only for the joy and pleasure of realizing our non-separateness i.e. the truth, greatness, beauty and ineffable mystery of who and what we are. Who we are together is really the 'I am'. Each individual is the 'I am' seen through the gaze of separateness by the material senses, but wholeness can be perceived through the spiritual senses. Spirit means breath - metaphorically, it is the breath that connects us all. What does this wholeness feel like to the spiritual senses? Emptiness. It is non-grasping.
The material reality is Samsara, Maya, Illusion. The body and all its senses is a vehicle for the One Self to explore its own elements and depths through that body, and the many bodies it contains within itself. All beings on the Earth - monkeys, hedgehogs, bats, kuala bears, palm trees, dandelions, bacteria, are the many eyes and senses of One opulent being. Even the criminally-convicted abuser resting in his prison cell is the One Self.
Possibly, the One Self descends far into the darkness of illusion and separateness, in order to experience the ecstasy of returning to truth i.e. the realisation of Oneness, and the divine glories, blessings and clear insight that brings.
So-called good feelings may be hints or signs that the Self is close to realization. The good feelings are produced by the Self, and the Self is the wholeness, the fullness, the One experiencing and the observer who contains the feelings. All feelings are produced by the Self good and bad, and they temporarily inter-exist depending on the closeness of realization of Selfhood.
So-called good and bad feelings may come and go according to how near or far one is from the spiritual sense of wholeness. Wholeness far transcends all definition of good or bad feeling. It is everything, every feeling, interacting.
Suffering may be a call to align with the true nature of the One Self - inspiring a desire to move toward love and connection, compassion, safety and a sense of wholeness in the individual. Suffering is not punishment, it is an invitation back to the to the true perspective of wholeness, and love is the effect or symptom of coming closer to the realization of wholeness. The One Self is both the cause and the effect, and transcends both. The love that signals Oneness can be pointed to with words, for example: Agape, unconditional love, loving kindness, compassion, complete peace, joy, serenity, attachment to nothing, non-attachment, striving for attachment only to the One Self (which is striving to avoid attachment to fragmented illusions, and attaching only to wholeness - acknowledging one's non-separateness, and this is in Reality non-attachment).
Individual does not mean separate or alone, it literally means in-dividual i.e. non divided, non dual.
The true nature of the Self is inter-being; everything is One, Whole, Integrated, Completely Connected, Non-separate.
Emptiness means contains nothing other than itself, it is already whole, full, complete. It is made up off all the elements. It inter-exists. Emptiness contains no separation.
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WOW we all made of the same star dust just like our planet the sun the moon and the universe.
Its unfortunate someone played loud music over the message
Namaste. free me from the sufferings of samsara.
You can be shown a path and a glimpse of the “end” but you must ultimately walk it yourself to reach the end
Ok first person to actually break this down where it made some sense.
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Where is the full dharma talk?
It's on the Plum Village channel here: ruclips.net/user/plumvillageonline
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3:48 help manifest as a w... of life? i 'm sorry i can't hear, any one can? ty
Aurélien Carnoy as a Wonder of life
Wonder of life
thank you so much
Turn on the auto subtitles sometimes it helps :)
Many thanks for posting this lovely teaching. Perhaps the background music towards the end of the video was not helping us to better receive this lovely direct heart communion?. 'All is practice' I hear you say! True but not correct.
Those were early days. One of the first videos on the channel. Since then the Zen penny dropped that less is more. Still, the value in the wisdom we hope outweighs the discomfort of our editorial clumsiness :-)
@@nondual A lovely reply .....and yes it does.
Music is superfluous
I enjoyed this video and appreciate Thay's teachings. However, as someone who has had a difficult relationship with parents (both biological and stepparents), just saying that I can't separate myself from them is not always helpful. There are times in life where those of us who have been abused by others MUST make at least a physical separation from those people in order to protect ourselves and heal. I am 40 and still trying to do this work. I think Thay started to touch on this when he said even if we don't like our parent or don't get along, we are still connected, there is no way to not be connected, and from knowing this, we can heal our anger. But I really wish he would've said more, especially speaking to those cultures (such as American) where connection with ancestors and elders has really been lost and the extreme focus is on the individual and what they want and desire or what they don't want and push away. Perhaps that was not the aim of this video, which I understand; no one can cover all topics all the time. Perhaps folks out there know another video or resource from Thay which addresses the deep pain that some of us carry from our parents and ancestors and how to heal that pain while acknowledging that sometimes we DO need to think of ourselves as separate, if only during the time we are going through healing and cannot sanely associate ourselves with those who have hurt us.
Its all in the taoist teaching. He is talking about the mental burden that you carry with yourself when you interact with your fellow parents, its what also helped shape who you are, the continuation of their actions. But the deeper underlining of his message is to still your mind (embrace emptiness) and accept that its part of due course that they had an effect on you, it is NOT to say you MUST have an answer to their actions that you despise or suffered from, this is against the teaching of taoism and buddhism, and from this you will continue to suffer mentally till you have the right answer, which is basically impossible, because your answer will not change them, it starts with you, and the answer is, as buddhaism and taoism teaches, to be mindful of your experiences. Once you accept this, your mind will rest and then slowly work yourself up by practicing unconditional love, you will start to see the world in a different light.... A peaceful one albeit.
How about follow the middle path. No duality like opposite of right and wrong, rich and poor. The true reality is no birth and no death or no coming and no going.
Before "Anything" arises in the mind there is emptiness. Or another way of saying it is, before there is something"To know" there is "Knowing". So lets say there is a cup. The cup is "Knowing, or Emptiness" manifested as a cup. It's the same with everything else, including ones self. "Knowing" without anything to know is "Emptiness". "It's like water and ice, without water no ice" (Zen Master Hakuin). That's how it was it was explained to me, and how I understand it.
Constructive criticism. The music is beautiful, but distracts from the teaching. He speaks softly and it’s hard to hear. Thank you for posting this.
Background music is too loud
True.
There are different theories about emptyness : Sunyata is penetrated by highest karuna and highest wisdom. This wisdom is in hinduism a characterstic of the Ishvara and in Mahayana of Samantabhadra. In Hinduism it is the Akasha of the trimurti, which emanates the shabda , the vajra-nada of Jamgon Kongtrul . An absolute empty emptyness could not have a creative impuls. In Theravada a kind of emptyness is mentioned in the Culasuññata Sutta and at the end of Satipatthana Sutta. Nagarjuna thaught in his Śūnyatāsaptati that things exists only in complete dependence on causality. The Madhyamaka saw Sunyata as beyond the highest Samadhi and so above the nirvana. Asanga rejected Emptiness and Nirvana and pointed to an area beyond(Parinirvana).
music got too loud at the end. He has a meek delivery.
REMIX it PLEASE!
I mean you can understand the heart sutra but coming to the conclusions on your own is doing the work so you train yourself to see the truth of the words within everything it takes time what's hard for me is explaining this to Christians or people in are American society its hard
Caddy Joey: i understand what you mean. Don't waste your time in explaining it to someone who's level of perception is not on par with yours. They haven't developed the mental tools along with the openness to comprehend such teachings.
The atomic body contains an emptiness, where the spirit of oneness is present and attracts all energy inside for growing in oneness.
This is in a scientific way: dark/unknown energy, which is the base of spiritual universe.
Here a spiritual evolution happens, from duality/bipolarity into oneness. Enlightenment ist the beginning, fulfilment follows.
How about follow the middle path. Duality are opposite pairs of the extremes.. Example rich or poor, good and bad or beautiful and ugly. The reality of true nature is no birth and no death, no coming and no going.
The music is distracting. Difficlt to hear the teaching.
How is this different from Advaita Vedanta? Isn't the Shunya conceptually the same as Brahman?
I am still afraid of the notion of emptiness. I fear eternity from both perspectives: I would not want to be immortal, but I also fear the temporal nature of "me." It's like damned if you do; damned if you don't.
One of the gifts of processes of emptiness is the liberation of deeply ingrained unconscious fears of death. In emptiness, there is a realization of the you that remains when all temporary formulations of self are released. We all recognize it, sooner or later, one way or another, It is a source of tremendous strength.
I assume you to be a Christian. That's why it's very complicated for you to understand what is emptiness .because your mind has been steeped into Christian doctrines for so long.Just for your info, Buddhism is not a religion ,so you don't have the misconception that I should forsake my religion to practice Buddhism. Internet is a powerful tool for knowledge. That day I just watched a talk about Buddhism when the Venerable mentioned that if you reach the highest state as the Buddha , even Nirvana or emptiness doesn't exist.
NangongReng1973 Your base assumption is wrong. For future reference, don't try to base your perspective of a person off of a RUclips comment and subsequently go on some tangent trying to educate the person on what Buddhism is. I kinda found your comment annoying.
I have been "studying" Buddhism for years (although I am still a lay person and have just scratched the surface I'm sure). I guess I get emptiness from an intellectual perspective, but it still doesn't ease my fear of the cessation of my consciousness or the impermanence of everything.
Also, emptiness is one of the paths to realization (Nirvana), according to Buddhist thought. Nirvana is the elimination of preconceived notions or concepts, so while emptiness still "exists" (since the nature of everything is emptiness/impermanent), a Buddha will have no use for it.
NangongReng1973 The notion that "Buddhism is not a religion" is simply hogwash.
butterflybeatles It's not. That's like saying existentialism is a religion. It's a school of philosophy, a way of looking at the world. Adhering to the concept of "no self" and "emptiness" is actually very scientific.