What is Mind? What is Consciousness? | Thich Nhat Hanh answers questions

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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @13c11a
    @13c11a 3 года назад +52

    This man is so humble. It is not until he begins to teach that you realize that he is exhaustively steeped in the teachings and what a privilege it is to listen to him.

    • @ericastier1646
      @ericastier1646 2 года назад +9

      His integrity in the process of thinking is supported by his mastery of mindfulness. His act of being is very compassionate while teaching without any artifice, he is really outside his body and he has said it, he is in his sangha, in his monks and nuns and in his lay practitioners. His ego is reduced to just the level necessary to be a loving human being to all. He understands that evil and vice comes from suffering. He has no insecurities. But he also said that in living a life of compassion you do not give to others the bad things, only the good things. So he is human and exercise restraint in what he presents to others. His mind power of controlling himself is the essential quality of Zen buddhism, the result of lifelong meditations.

    • @slimshany4602
      @slimshany4602 2 года назад +1

      Yeah, I fully agree with your comment :) 👍🌟 Listening on and on to his teachings it keeps amazing me the well of wisdom this teacher is. So grandiose 🌌🌝🌻🌚

    • @vivienpatrick5262
      @vivienpatrick5262 2 года назад

      Thanks for the recommendation .

  • @peteconcept6764
    @peteconcept6764 8 лет назад +55

    This is faboulous. And completely compatible with modern neuroscience

    • @phucluu100
      @phucluu100 5 лет назад +19

      Or it's just that modern neuroscience coming closer to the truth.

    • @ossssssssssssssssssssss
      @ossssssssssssssssssssss 4 года назад

      No it isn't. Store consciousness can be gone while a body is still alive.

  • @B2091
    @B2091 10 лет назад +17

    Lovely! Thank you for sharing I love listening to Thich. What a beautiful example of a human being

  • @judylam4988
    @judylam4988 2 года назад +3

    Master's explanation on mindfulness & consciousness is mind blowing, so deep & yet clear. Thank you !

  • @theresaggiffin9556
    @theresaggiffin9556 2 года назад +2

    It feels like truth is permeating my brain, mind, body, soul and spirit, as I listen to Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching.

    • @KarePassion
      @KarePassion Год назад

      We know deep down that he knows, that he speaks from the heart, with love, with knowing and with earned authority and esteem. I feel such deep love when I hear him speak.

  • @ConexionHumanaOficial
    @ConexionHumanaOficial 6 лет назад +13

    Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Venerable Thay. High level of science explained through the wisdom of the Great Soul of Thay. Your words have helped me a lot. Evangelina Cortes.

  • @ironmind674
    @ironmind674 4 года назад +8

    Consciousness is the spacious awareness that transcend feelings of the past present and future, it is pure spacious awareness, the witnessing presence of your thoughts,emotions and actions. It is essentially the space in which the contents of your life pass through,the presence behind your thinking, the overseer and observer body mind. We are all pure consciousness not the content of our lives,not our ideas,thoughts,sense perception,emotion,suffering or joy we are the silent witness of all these thing the space between all such things which is the pure conscious awareness

    • @Refulgent_Rascal
      @Refulgent_Rascal 4 года назад

      Where does intention come from then? Intention to decide to kill or intention to decide to become a monk?

    • @smacpost3
      @smacpost3 4 года назад

      Yes, but what is consciousness? "Spacious awareness"? What is that? "Space... (my)... life passes through"? Do you mean consciousness is space? I think you've described characteristics of consciousness, but not consciousness itself. Can you please clarify differently? thanks.

    • @xfaroutzx3637
      @xfaroutzx3637 4 года назад +1

      @@Refulgent_Rascal Intention comes from thought. It's based on beliefs, feelings and desires. Consciousness is like the observer.

    • @Refulgent_Rascal
      @Refulgent_Rascal 4 года назад

      @@xfaroutzx3637 Είθε να έχεις άφθονη ζωή. Περπατήστε στον Χριστό.

  • @rethinking2023
    @rethinking2023 2 года назад +1

    whenever I m listening dear THAY i enjoy the moment, wonderful moments 🙏

  • @spasticsadcase
    @spasticsadcase 7 лет назад +11

    what a great talk, got some insight on consciousness, a complex thing to understand

    • @robertbruner7429
      @robertbruner7429 4 года назад

      Yes indeed, more talk and attention should be directed to this subject. I've heard people argue whether or not a God (or gods) exist and never bring "consciousness" into the conversation.

  • @johnh888
    @johnh888 2 года назад +14

    Thank you Venerable Thay. A short and very deep summary of this subject of study. "Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology" is the book by Thay on this subject. He lead a 3 months retreat for scientists, psychologists among others to better understanding our Mind & Consciousness. To transcend the notions and to have direct encounter Mind & Consciousness. You can watch this on RUclips: 50 Verses on the Nature of Consciousness. It is very helpful to understand your mind, that makes it easier to understand people and the world.

    • @archiesworld8
      @archiesworld8 2 года назад +3

      Thank you for this suggestion 🙏🏻🌟

    • @jasmineteh5271
      @jasmineteh5271 2 года назад +1

      🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

  • @Davidiona
    @Davidiona Год назад

    Lma Thaye answers this so much more clearly and much more directly.

  • @IamDango
    @IamDango 7 лет назад +26

    At 10:07 the translation says an "elephant" is very intelligent. He says an "element", a particle is very intelligent. Im not ruling out ,however, that Elephants are very intelligent :)

  • @lordbyron3603
    @lordbyron3603 8 лет назад +8

    Great explanation !! Thank you!

  • @mael-strom9707
    @mael-strom9707 5 лет назад +18

    Consciousness...that annoying time between naps! 🤣😆😋

    • @lauralunaazul
      @lauralunaazul 5 лет назад +1

      Is during naps too. Lol.

    • @chrisw7347
      @chrisw7347 3 года назад

      Annoyed = thinking without awareness

  • @sonnguyen-kj4xr
    @sonnguyen-kj4xr 5 лет назад +2

    Con Cảm ơn thầy.

  • @SaithMasu12
    @SaithMasu12 5 лет назад +7

    To me counciusness is the greatest mystery that it even exists. The fact alone that i can say: "I am aware" is odd in all instances.
    From a logical standpoint, there should be "nothing" at all, no awarness, no beingness.
    Yet here i am. Thats simply something out of my grasp.
    You see, since i came to this world through my awarness of it, everything seems as it is the most normal thing, because one does not give this notion of beigness much attention. But by thinking about it clearly, im just in awe and wonder. There is simply no explanation for this.

    • @KamaleshwarMorjal
      @KamaleshwarMorjal 5 лет назад

      there is also no need of an explanation

    • @ChrisOakesCO
      @ChrisOakesCO 4 года назад +7

      I agree with you it's fascinating an I think daily how amazing that we exist and our aware of our existence! And apparently we've always existed in many different forms. The connection we all Feel not just to people but All living things trees animals insects and things that people think aren't alive like like a rock water air I Feel we're All One being just as different parts in our body but all the same One being. When I look at someone or an animal I see God and I see myself and we're all the same One being just different parts of the One we are. Most people think I'm crazy but this is what I Feel!

    • @twade2006
      @twade2006 4 года назад +1

      Chris Oakes it took taking ayahuasca for me to really feel this. Our human minds are incapable of grasping reality.

    • @ChrisOakesCO
      @ChrisOakesCO 4 года назад

      @@twade2006 Ha glad you saw! I saw 35 yrs ago while on LSD one day. Our human minds can understand alot of it but people are lie'd to from birth about the nature of their own existence so you can hold the truth right in front of there face an they won't see it but instead see what they been programmed. Not their fault.

    • @tomaszliske2131
      @tomaszliske2131 4 года назад +1

      Chris Oakes when you let go of all opinion the truth arise itself.

  • @cristinepredabon5448
    @cristinepredabon5448 8 лет назад +5

    maravilhoso, é apenas a matrix onde vivemos

  • @from-Texas
    @from-Texas 5 лет назад +3

    Consciousness....deep subject.
    The mechanism of being aware needs a higher dimensional force that is not subjugated to the laws if physics. What is that? How does it interact with our body minds? Without the presence of these two energies nothing can be experienced!

    • @edzardpiltz6348
      @edzardpiltz6348 4 года назад +3

      Busy and mind? What is mind other than a bundle of thoughts? And where do thought exist other than in conciseness? And the body, does it not also appear in conciseness? Or have you ever experienced anybody and this includes your own body apart from it outside of consciousness? 😜😘

  • @lauralunaazul
    @lauralunaazul 5 лет назад +1

    Great question, wonderful answear, thank you.

  • @toanao1894
    @toanao1894 5 лет назад +3

    with me it was an enlightening video

  • @dabillasmith5703
    @dabillasmith5703 9 месяцев назад +1

    Please note that the subtitles, which are helpful here, because of background noise, tricky for people like me who are hard of hearing, are mistakingly translating STORE consciousness as core consciousness. Not the same thing.

  • @lauralunaazul
    @lauralunaazul 5 лет назад +2

    Me encantó. Gracias :)

  • @Matthew-369
    @Matthew-369 Год назад

    It's not just Earth that is a living organism, but the universe too. The Universe itself, is a living organism, with mind & spirit. Born from the Field of Now, the greatest ancestor of all, giving birth continuously, to all that which is.

  • @ronab.5489
    @ronab.5489 Год назад

    Always a beautiful teaching. Just one correction in the caption - it is “store” consciousness (not “core”)

  • @Realeye66
    @Realeye66 4 года назад +4

    Some body suffering from corona in there , coughing coughing, can’t hear properly

  • @KarePassion
    @KarePassion Год назад

    Thank you!

  • @BiancaPagnon
    @BiancaPagnon 7 лет назад +3

    Quem for usar as legendas em português atentar que há dois pequenos equívocos na legenda: onde se lê elefantes, eu entendo que ele disse elemento, partícula e onde se lê ferramentas (última palavra do vídeo), acredito que ele disse dois. :)

  • @ryandavid4570
    @ryandavid4570 4 года назад +2

    This question is unanswerable to a person that is still conscious. The four truths of suffering. Ignorance, attachments, desire, wrong perceptions. Without these things you cannot be, so suffering is consciousness. Mindless consciousness is like death. Very deep question.

    • @ericastier1646
      @ericastier1646 2 года назад +1

      It's a bit of an oversimplification. There is a distinction between store consciousness and mind consciousness. Store consciousness does not have tension, it only associates and connects it is powerful but we have no direct control over it. Mind consciousness has tension, it is slow and inefficient. I disagree that suffering is consciousness. The opposite of suffering, pleasure exists in our conscious mind. And no, pleasure is not absence of suffering. There is a even biological molecules in the brain associated with pleasure. So it is not an absence of something.

    • @IamThatiAm420
      @IamThatiAm420 2 года назад

      @@ericastier1646 🎯🎯🎯🎯

  • @LandAnchor
    @LandAnchor 6 лет назад +3

    Can I ask a question which has bothered me for a time. I feel like I am missing the point. I am a newcomer to Buddhist dharma practice and study at the same time. Consciousness as defined by the scientific community is determined as being produced by the brain. Buddhist practise from what I gather agrees with this, in the sense that there is no soul, no separation between the two. Is that right? I’m not looking to offend, merely put my mind at rest and continue living by Dharma.

    • @candicemcmillan720
      @candicemcmillan720 6 лет назад +6

      I don't think that they agree that consciousness is produced by the brain.

    • @marionow6227
      @marionow6227 6 лет назад +1

      In buddhism there no such thing as a soul or self, in the sense of a unique and unchanging 'core'. And, as you say, in buddhism mind and body cannot exist without each other.

    • @jamescornett981
      @jamescornett981 5 лет назад +2

      Consciousness is all invasive. Your mind and body are just forms of this world. Consciousness can't be observed, it has no form.

    • @ChrisOakesCO
      @ChrisOakesCO 4 года назад

      @@jamescornett981 The mind can't be seen either. The mind is not the same as the brain.

    • @twade2006
      @twade2006 4 года назад +2

      And while their is no unchanging person, there is an energy that holds karma. I don’t think humans are capable of understanding reality.

  • @sengchhuon2133
    @sengchhuon2133 7 лет назад +2

    Thank you....

  • @ArelyzTorresRodriguez
    @ArelyzTorresRodriguez 6 лет назад +1

    Hi ¿Could someone help me to understand the "store" consciousness term? In my understanding, a "store" is a place where are placed many things. The "store" consciousness term used, is something like the subconscious mind? or it is much more ... the super consciousness mind? Thanks for help. (English is not my first language).

    • @eli5071
      @eli5071 6 лет назад +1

      Arélyz Torres Rodriguez i think it is the subconscious mind, part of consciousness that is not in focal awareness.
      English is not my first language either ;)

    • @Beastman5K
      @Beastman5K 6 лет назад +4

      Yes, it is your subconscious mind. Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that seeds of emotions and ideas are in your store consciousness. When the seeds are watered by things you experience they sprout and you become aware of them.

    • @zendog8592
      @zendog8592 5 лет назад +5

      All manifestation arises out of store consciousness. Store has 8 aspects, these are the 5 consciousness's , of eye, ear, nose, mouth, body, giving birth to seeing, hearing, smellling, tasting, contact/touching, 6th consciousness is ordinary mind, the 7th consciousness is manas/ego, 8th is Store consciousness which is the foundation and storehouse of all that has happened and that is to arise. Thay offers two books as , The first is " Understanding your Mind " the other book l recommend to read first, is called Buddha mind Buddha body.

  • @jaque8257
    @jaque8257 2 года назад

    Gracias!

  • @jenniferspring8741
    @jenniferspring8741 4 месяца назад

    Thay is saying that everything is consciousness. Therefore, there is nothing that is not consciousness. So that is why duality may be interesting as a way of considering things, but not the whole truth. There is nothing that we need to ignore so that we can be true consciousness. With compassion, we see and experience everything as part of a whole. All seeming unique points of perception are Us too.

  • @TheGuiltsOfUs
    @TheGuiltsOfUs 3 года назад

    Thanks

  • @Dii86
    @Dii86 3 года назад +1

    Sorry may be im too dumb to understand, so where’s consciousness come from? Is it come from our brain? our braind think and experience the worldly phenomenas and therefore produce stored mind, is that what he said?

    • @ThuNguyen-lw8lr
      @ThuNguyen-lw8lr 2 года назад +1

      It came from your habit energy. You have received it from your ancestors and social environments like education, friends, TV, books. etc... We are the product of our ancestors.

    • @Dii86
      @Dii86 2 года назад

      @@ThuNguyen-lw8lr Where’s our ancestor’s body come from? Did they evolve from monkey?

    • @ThuNguyen-lw8lr
      @ThuNguyen-lw8lr 2 года назад +1

      @@Dii86 Of course! The theory of evolution has given the most authentic facts. Man is the youngest animal on earth. It is also thanks to evolution over time that we have thinking, so we have created human civilization.

    • @Dii86
      @Dii86 2 года назад

      @@ThuNguyen-lw8lr How come monkeys are not evolving to human now?

    • @ThuNguyen-lw8lr
      @ThuNguyen-lw8lr 2 года назад +1

      @@Dii86 You must read more about Buddhism. It will help you to understand more about this issue. All changing things in this world have to pass through stages. Humans can also become animals or plants and rocks. Depends on past karma. Animals can also become humans or other forms. Body and mind are one. When we die. Body and mind cease at the same time. Only the energy left in the actions of the past life continues on the next journey called rebirth in the six realms of samsara.

  • @anllpp
    @anllpp 6 лет назад +1

    Yes its brill. The now and non duality are also I believe compatible

  • @chrislaro1396
    @chrislaro1396 5 лет назад +2

    what we as two-leggeds must do is understand that, for example, does a tree contemplate itself or does she simply grow towards the sun? Can a tree 'see' what is behind her? Point being, doesn't matter - a tree exists in a single spot where it is rooted forever as we must be - rooted forever in one spot growing towards our own sunshine. Trick is - to stop wanting to look what's behind us an worrying about the weather, two truths I still do too much off - I live in the past and fret over things I haven't done or should have done. The 'mind' creates ALL that fkn angst that continues to whittle us down day by day. Such is how it is to be human, whatever THAT really means. Peace to all who try.

    • @mael-strom9707
      @mael-strom9707 5 лет назад +2

      Two-leggeds are like inverted plants that can walk around. The brain is like a root-ball nourished by the cosmos. ^^

    • @from-Texas
      @from-Texas 5 лет назад +2

      There is no past...there is no future...there is only now.
      Always was...always will be

  • @xuanthangnguyen8729
    @xuanthangnguyen8729 5 лет назад +3

    Him talking about AI? right?

    • @samrattayade3165
      @samrattayade3165 4 года назад

      Artificial intelligence right,if we compare ai and human consciousness then it will easy to understand.
      instagram.com/mr.samrattayade

    • @backwardthoughts1022
      @backwardthoughts1022 3 года назад +1

      by definiton ai is not conscious/aware

  • @lindaj5492
    @lindaj5492 2 года назад

    I think Thai is referring to “core consciousness” as described in this Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damasio%27s_theory_of_consciousness

    • @ThuNguyen-lw8lr
      @ThuNguyen-lw8lr 2 года назад

      should be called "Store consciousness" or "Tàng thức" in Vietnamese.

  • @aljapeterka9173
    @aljapeterka9173 3 года назад

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  • @LinjoJoson
    @LinjoJoson Год назад

    Are there anyone like poor me ? After watching 100s of videos and many books about consciousness and awareness, still dont really understand what they mean.. or in other words trying to practice mindfulness and meditation many many times but nothing works out.... Does anyone honestly have first hand experience on this?

  • @aljapeterka804
    @aljapeterka804 3 года назад

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  • @thfa730
    @thfa730 2 года назад

    🙏🙏🙏🇲🇲🇲🇲

  • @jacap2362
    @jacap2362 4 года назад

    store c aka 8 consciousness is eternal .. going back to nature

    • @smacpost3
      @smacpost3 4 года назад

      maybe that depends on what type of energy we produce while carnate?

  • @srh80
    @srh80 2 года назад

    Seems like, Core = System 1 and Mind consciousness = System 2.

    • @ThuNguyen-lw8lr
      @ThuNguyen-lw8lr 2 года назад

      Store consciousness not core consciousness. Store consciousness acts like the hard drive in your PC. And Mind consciousness is your CPU to processing the data like happiness or sadness. etc....

  • @Peace-si3qi
    @Peace-si3qi 2 года назад

    Thay passed away , 🙏

  • @rajivliyanage5856
    @rajivliyanage5856 3 года назад

    Great

  • @Gitte585
    @Gitte585 2 года назад

    🙏❤️🙏

  • @lauralunaazul
    @lauralunaazul 4 года назад +1

    💓💓💓💓💓

  • @DenverDeathrock
    @DenverDeathrock 6 лет назад +2

    It's confusing when he says that the mind and the body (and only the body?) inter-are, then goes on to say that the body is merely a formation of the mind like all other formations (ideas). The mind and the body may be aspects of being mindful when breathing, as the paper between the hands is the metaphorical breath, but ontological the mind is completely different than the ideas it processes. The mind is only the same when it makes itself a formation (such as when the mind thinks "My mind is racing today)."
    I sincerely believe that the monks and nuns should not impromptu answer questions on the spot, but meditate on them for a day and then deliver something more thought out, unequivocal and structured. I really really think you all should consider this.

    • @mael-strom9707
      @mael-strom9707 5 лет назад +7

      It really is quite simple ...it is perception which is you ...you are not your body, you have a body. Consciousness is that which discriminates differences in perception activity and is empty of self nature. In a sense it it like space and cannot be physically detected but only pointed to.

    • @TheCuratorIsHere
      @TheCuratorIsHere 3 года назад

      That’s because he’s full of shit. He can’t explain it because he doesn’t understand it

    • @marcusmusique4031
      @marcusmusique4031 2 года назад

      @@TheCuratorIsHere You have an attitude and a relevance problem.

  • @vitavitavitaaa
    @vitavitavitaaa 8 месяцев назад +1

    Anyone gonna mention how he's dressed like frodo

  • @Realeye66
    @Realeye66 4 года назад +1

    I don’t understand what he says , anyone does .

    • @smacpost3
      @smacpost3 4 года назад +1

      Yes, every word. Turn the volume up, relax, don't focus too hard. Also, you can press control and mouse scroll to turn video speed down.

  • @zardoz7900
    @zardoz7900 Год назад

    Actually its not true that mind consciousness is body dependent. Thats a materialists point of view.

  • @heidrunbettinaschmidt9951
    @heidrunbettinaschmidt9951 2 года назад

    💓🙃💓

  • @gregroth4696
    @gregroth4696 2 года назад

    Didn’t answer the question.
    Mind is the non physical spiritual machine that joins with the body. It’s the mechanism.
    Consciousness is the “awareness” of it all.

  • @lauralunaazul
    @lauralunaazul 4 года назад

    Kant!

  • @john_air
    @john_air 4 года назад +1

    he looks like jedi master
    -the only difference is in your mind

  • @zardoz7900
    @zardoz7900 Год назад

    Audio here doesn't get a zero but a minus 1

  • @invaderz1919
    @invaderz1919 7 лет назад +15

    lol he look like a jedi

    • @y2taner
      @y2taner 6 лет назад +12

      no... a jedi looks like him

    • @robdean9216
      @robdean9216 5 лет назад

      A toasty Jedi

  • @nicolecostes4043
    @nicolecostes4043 4 года назад

    Where is the mind in body dead?
    Thay says there no mind without body and no body without mind...
    I see body dead? There no mind in this body!
    So body can exist without mind...
    Someone can explain me?
    I think its cittamatra learn!
    In madiamika. ...

    • @Trueth447
      @Trueth447 4 года назад +1

      Mind is a kind of softwere that we create it from our first day through our understanding.

    • @smacpost3
      @smacpost3 4 года назад +1

      Mind and body are a package deal. The energy we create while in this package forms the next mind/body package we get. Do I have that right?

    • @ThuNguyen-lw8lr
      @ThuNguyen-lw8lr 2 года назад +1

      Body and mind are one. When we die. Body and mind cease at the same time. Only the energy left in the actions of the past life goes on to the next journey called rebirth.

    • @benji-5796
      @benji-5796 11 месяцев назад

      @@ThuNguyen-lw8lrnobody knows who is alive. All is speculation. A true being will simply say “ they do not know” as that is only the truth.

  • @ludwigvonn9889
    @ludwigvonn9889 5 лет назад +1

    shes cute.

  • @DavidKarlsson-ti6sb
    @DavidKarlsson-ti6sb 3 года назад

    Every speech, his audience sounds like it is full of chronic smokers. Are Buddhists heavy smokers?

  • @gilbertengler9064
    @gilbertengler9064 5 лет назад

    Very strange opinions based on nothing that is testable! Just amazing how many people liked this comment. It really worries me!

    • @ChrisOakesCO
      @ChrisOakesCO 4 года назад +3

      It's more amazing to me that people believe everything in the Bible when it was written by man.

    • @smacpost3
      @smacpost3 4 года назад

      It's something to think about.

    • @alpacino4857
      @alpacino4857 4 года назад +2

      in everything there is only one correct answer. What is consciousnesses ? Consciousnesses is link to Quantum Mechanics eg. the double slit experiment. Could it be the universe existed becos of Consciousnesses ?

  • @TheCuratorIsHere
    @TheCuratorIsHere 3 года назад

    He’s got no idea. Sounds like a drunk uncle.