A Cloud Never Dies: The Passing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh | TWOII podcast | Episode #20
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- At such a demanding and delicate time, the presenters, Zen Buddhist monk Brother Phap Huu and lay Buddhist practitioner and journalist Jo Confino, reflect on Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh passing on January 22nd, 2022. They offer a profound insight into the memorial week, the funeral, impact on the Plum Village community, and the overwhelming global response.
This instalment of the podcast is an intimate account of the period between the announcement of Thich Nhat Hanh’s passing and the recording of this episode: “a retreat of silence, and a retreat of remembering Thay and continuing Thay.”
Brother Phap Huu, Thay’s former attendant and current Abbot of the Upper Hamlet, shares his personal relationship with Thich Nhat Hanh and how these events have impacted him. He also shares a detailed behind-the-scenes look at the traditional ceremonies and memorial services, preparations, and processions, as well as personal stories from the Plum Village communities over the eight days following the beloved teacher’s passing.
The conversation delves into: the significance of the ceremonies’ texts; the deep practises underpinning the formalities; Thay becoming a spiritual ancestor; deep levels of aspiration; the symbolic homes for Thay’s ashes; acceptance, togetherness, and impermanence; the relevance of Thay’s teachings for years to come; and what it means to be the continuation of Thay.
The episode ends with a short meditation on continuation and gratitude, guided by Brother Phap Huu.
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‘Photos from Thay’s Memorial Ceremonies’ ➛ plumvillage.or...
‘Daily Contemplations on Impermanence and Interbeing’ ➛ plumvillage.or...
Chants: ‘Namo Avalokiteshvaraya’ ➛ plumvillage.or...
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‘New Heart Sutra Translation by Thich Nhat Hanh’ ➛ plumvillage.or...
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Sister Chan Khong ➛ plumvillage.or...
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Thank you for including us all yet again because even those of us on the outside, who’ve learned from Thay on utube, even we feel his fatherly warmth and love strongly. He’s helped many survive these times and we are attached to all of you that we’ve met through the internet. You all are so important and you each carry his special spirit that we all can continue to learn from on the outside. From the outside you welcome us in and I thank and breAth with you all
Me too ! Thanks for your expression of gratitude and appreciation for Tai s teachers living breath we all share
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Well said, I believe you speak for so many 🙏🙏🙏
Deeply appreciate brother Pháp Hữu (Thay’s baby monk) for sharing beautiful thoughts and memories with Sư Ông 🙏🙏🙏❤️
Thank you br. Phap Huu n Joe. I can’t hold my tears when I listen this episode. I have big trust on you br. Phap Huu. 🙏💕
Such a beautiful and intimate insight. It has been such an honour to be able to share in the grief and joy with Plum Village and around the world. You are all doing an amazing 'job' of continuing Thầy and his wonderful teachings. Thank you, Jo , for bringing this Podcast to us. Thank you so much, Brother Pháp Hữu for your genuine openness and allowing us to share in your deep, heartfelt emotions. 🙏🙏🙏
I cried with you during the early ceremonies, when you spoke to the sangha for the first time after Thay’s transformation, and again as I listen to this podcast. Thank you for sharing your memories 💗🙏💗
Love and peace to you all! Thank you Plum Village for sharing Thays teaching with us!
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Thank you for sharing the moments with us 🙏❤️🙏. Live and Rest in peace, dear Thay 🙏🕯️🙏. Let us embrace his teachings within us 🙏☁️🙏. Thank you, thank you, thank you🙏🙏🙏.
I was introduced to Thich nhat hanh from Haenam Sunims book. I have been going through a personal crisis. The mindfulness and the teachings of compassion remind me to be grounded and be kind to myself
You are carrying the torch so beautifully! Thank you!
Yes be kind and forgiving to you,we all learning to be loving 🥰 first love you self so you can love all!
So beautiful. I have never met Thầy but fortunate enough to touch his teaching.
It is wonderful feeling to listen about how your experiences being so close with Thay!! I know how much pain and sadness you have been through when you hear about Thay passed away, you are not alone! The whole World were mourning with you Bro Phaphu! Feeling grateful and blessed to be as close as you had experiences and feeling we are his continuation is magic healing! I breath and smile with Thay❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I m glad the podcast is back👏❤️🙏🏾 thankyou Jo
I was first introduced to Master Hahn when someone recommended his book, "Anger", and it helped me take a deep look at myself. I'm forever grateful to Master Hanh for that. 💙
Such a precious sharing. I grieve with my tears, and it's beautiful. Teacher. This community. This deep respect. Thank you so much dear brother. You help us so much. I wish many people could listen to this. Breathing together.
❤️ Thank you! ❤️
Zen Master Thich...such a wholesome being. Words cannot explain the humility, love, and expression of being in the here and now like Master Thich. He guided me in a time of loss and despair... Within that time of loss, I was gifted with strength, only because I felt comfortable with truthfully being free of this physicality.(Because of Master Thich)... It was apart of my soul to come across Master Thich's "Present Moment" video.(Although I've never met Thich, it felt like I've always known him). I never drifted away from the words of his teachings. Forever, he will hold a special place in my heart. I cannot see you physically, but I WILL ALWAYS SEE YOU. You've taught me patience, perseverance, and most importantly, the significance of love. Love you more than a zillion!!
So grateful, so connecting and so inspired to support. I can really get in touch with Thay by practising breathing , walking mindfully. Even now, by walking mindfully in my house in Amsterdam and to make a cup of tea and drink it mindfully. Thank you so much, lets continue together, lets ‘Thay’ together!
Thank you for sharing. I got emotional listening and I only know him through his writing and RUclips teaching. I can’t imagine being so close to him as you have been. Blessings to you all.
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Thank you 🙏🏻💕
Thank you for this beautiful personal tribute to Thay and for sharing your grief and insights. Brother Phap Huu thank you for your contribution to the memorials from Plum Village, and to the monastics of Plum Village, you manifested the grief and gratitude of many of us and continued and still continue Thay’s message of love and compassion. 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
thank you
I only found Thay very recently and I immediately felt a deep love and gratitude for him. He really has changed my life, and I have shed many tears. Thankyou for your beautiful words and insight. Love, blessings and deep gratitude 🙏
We never walk alone! Dying unafraid, mindfully living now. All together, beautiful. Such joy. It is heartfelt. Every step of the way. Thank you brother.
Thank you very much brother Phap Huu for carrying the torch and sharing Thay 's memories.thank you very much for the wisdom and freedom through your loving kind guidence dear Thay.with deepest gratitude and greatest respect I continue to practice..... Thich Nhat Hanh continues...A Cloud never dies.🙏
Beautiful episode! Thank you Br Phap Huu and Joe
🙏 Bless you all.
Deep gratitude. beautiful podcast..Thank You
A True Humanitarian for Peace and Love on this planet , Let's Celebrate the life of this wonderful human being and continue the work of spreading the love and peace to the whole world 🌎 ❤ 🙏
Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories which affirms all of us to feel Thay's presence in each breath.."I'm here I'm at my home " the basic lesson of mindfulness"..☸️🙏
Thank you for sharing Thay Phap Huu. You are a beautiful continuation of Thay and many other Sisters and Brothers of Plum Village Tradition. A Cloud never dies ... Namo Avalokiteshvara 🙏
Amazing Podcast 👍a GREAT Zen Master, teacher of a life time! 🙏🙏
Beautiful description. Embraced by Mother Earth. I was blessed to have read some of his books and to have been touched by his teachings. Thank you
Dear Thay,
Thankyou for all the support, love, wisdom and inspiration received from you through the plum village videos. Particularly during such challenging times with covid. You will always live on in my heart.❤🌻🌷🌺🌹
So much love speaks through you🙏 it IS the manifestation of Thich That Hahn. You leave me speechless, with a silence and vulnerability where only love lives in its fullness. Thank you for giving this sharing to me and so many people today🙏
Could it be that our deepest pain, suffering touches highest beauty ?
That's what I discover at the moment.
Let it flow, with love and lightness 🐳☀️🙏
Thank you for all you've done Brother Phap Huu. Thay is a great teacher for all, the whole world. ❤
There is so much wisdom and heart in this podcast. Though I have never been to France or plum village, and I have never met Thay, still I feel him as my spiritual teacher. Perhaps, in a way I can't understand, even moreso now. I am recovering from a serious injury to my leg and the wisdom shared here has given me back my hope. Not so much the hope of physical restoration, though I don't pretend that that's not there, but more the hope and the knowledge that who I am being transcends my physical limitations. I can feel my spiritual strength again! I send this brief note to you with deep gratitude.
Brother, as I listened to your tears of love throughout the podcast an enormous amount of grief welled up in me. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself with us. We are in this together, one sangha body all.
I am deeply touched to listen to this most precious hesrtfelt podcast.Thank you for sharing your grief with us.It is all so vivid that I almost feel I was there with you all.May we all have Roots to Grow and Wings to Fly. Blessings. Catherine.
It become a bit of rain, a bit of river .... and again a cloud, deep love
The most genuine and meaningful podcast and interview I’ve ever heard. Thank you and bless you both.
Thank you 🙏🏻 🌸🤍
Thank You for sharing Brother Phap Huu. Thay helped me in so many ways watching on youtube. Brother Phap Huu thankyou you are a beautiful continuation of Thay .
I spent a lot of time with Thay's teachings. Hundreds of hours maybe, over years. So when I heard his lungs were struggling in the rainy season I prepared myself mentally. And in the last month when I practiced Metta, I named Thay a few times. But I, too was ill- prepared and surprised by the wrenching pain in my heart when I heard that he had passed. We are crying with you, we feel it too. What it must have been to be loved by him. He would have taught us as beautiful and deep the love was, so the depth of the loss. We are here for you. We are happy you are here. We hold you in our hearts with light and love as you cry your clouds and we grieve with you. 🙏🙏❤❤
Thank you Brother Phap Huu, for being vulnerable during this podcast. Hearing you talk about your emotions and how you deal with them inspires me, as it shatters my illusion that long-time practitioners are much less affected by feelings. By sharing your story, you lead by example in dealing with such difficult times. Thank you.
Thank you Joe Thank you Brother Phab Huu Thank you Thay
thank you, thank you for sharing those things!
I wish you all the deepest respect and gratitude for sharing. I wept with sad happy tears. He changed the way I look at everything and made my life so much easier with his messages. He had a very special gift and in his generosity, he shared it with all of us. How lucky we are to have felt it. I am glad he got to be in his homeland when he returned to the Earth. I shall paint in his memory.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, feelings and memories. I have never known Thay personaly, but read some of his books and watched dharmavideos of Plum village. He touched my very heart and was like a torch for me you spoke of in the Podcast. I am a christian and a pastoral worker. I have found so much wisdom in the teachings of Plum village.
I am with you in your grief and in the continuation of Thay. 🙏
Thank you so much!
Thua Kinh Thay,
Thank you for the continuation of your presence ..
Dear Sangha thank you for your continuation and continuing to transmit our beloved teachers teachings,,
Thank you Brother Phap Huu for sharing your deep relationship with Thay,
Thank you Jo for these podcasts that are a continuation of Thay..
"A Cloud Never Dies" TNH
Thank you, dearest friend, for sharing and watching. 🙏🏼
I’m so emotional 😭 listening young Thay sharing your thoughts and feelings for Thay Thich Nhat Hanh. Thay TNH had inspired and touched so many people lives in this world. What he left behind is his legacy, love, believe and hopefully 🙏 we all will meet Thay again. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for making this Podcast young Thay 🙏
Thank you for sharing your heartfelt love and devotion to your Master Thich Nhat Hanh - his words have brought me comfort and clarity on many occasions 🙏
Thank you so much both of you for Charing. I love to listen to your podcasts and I think that you make such a great contribution to Thays teaching and to Buddhism in general. Both of you are so open and full of love and I hope you never stop doing these podcasts because they bring a lot of joy and knowledge to many of us out in the world. Thank you again from Monika in Sweden ❤️🙏😇❤️👏❤️
Phap Huu and Joe too thank you. Witnessing your tears on You Tube that day Phap Huu brought me deeper in love with Plum Village than I have ever been, and I already thought I was pretty deep! It was the honesty; you helped us all to be in historical dimension in a graceful, sincere and honest way - the tear emojis were filling the comments box: you gave all our tears a place to land.
Thank you so much for the links too PV app.
For the young Monk 🙏
Our dear teacher walked all his life the path of heart and he brought love to us during he was teaching and gave us inspiration.
And you all were his inspiration!
Thank you for share your warm impressions with us now that you are in a mourning phase. Your tears show us, how much you care about talking about it. Tears of sad are sign of love.
We can direct love into breathing.
We can collect love into our heart, to be thankful
We can direct love in the field, to connect with others
We can direct love in our talents, to be an inspiration for others.
The talents will come out. Diversity is the key to reach everyone.
And sometimes funny things happen than make us laugh, although we are mourning right now. Our teacher taught us not to forget to laugh.
He is setting on a flame of love in all of us in all over the world
"happy teachers will change the world"
You are all together in our hearts
Merci infiniment pour ce merveilleux partage, et pour tout ce que vous êtes pour nous cher Frère Phap Huu, qui représentez un Dharma tellement plein d'humanité et gratitude à Monsieur Jo Confino pour sa bienveillance et sa délicatesse.🙏
Its so generous from you to put this podcast public to all of us that love Thich Nhat Hanh ❤️ I would like to tell you that I never met him in person... But I share your pain. You are so lucky to have spent time so close to him ❤️ Lets keep carrying his message on and on. I am with you. May you be blessed❤️🌹
Thank you both
I love the vocabulary of Plum Village. I will try my best to talk like you. So beautiful. 🌸🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so much, for including us with so many of Thay's teachings at Plum Village and for sharing so much of Thays memorial on You Tube. I send you all so much love and gratitude for all you do and share. I sat with you, cried with you and will celebrate his life with you and continue to share his knowledge with others. I will walk for Thay and with all of you.
There is a popular poem which starts
No one is gone, unless you want them to go, if you don't want them to go, then they are with you forever.
Some words I add to this are;
Continue the projects he started
Pass on the knowledge he gave you
Think of him, speak of him
And he will live forever 🙏
I didn't realize the news of his passing until just now. I couldn't help but get a little emotional while listening to this. When I was younger I read one of Thich Nhat books that my mom gave me, and the feeling of being transformed from the inside by his beautiful compassionate words. I knew immediately that Thich's message about mindfulness was one of the most valuable lessons one can learn in life.
Dear Brother Phap Huu, thank you SO much for showing us your deepest heart and including all of us who have been touched by our beloved Thay's life and teachings. This is the most beautiful podcast. I bow to you.
💧💧💧☁️☁️☁️🌧🌧🌧
This was an incredibly moving tribute. Much love and gratitude
🕊🕊🕊 Thank you for sharing this beautiful episode and reflection with us Brother Phap Huu.
and Joe
I love you Thich Nhat 🙏Everyone loves you. Until now your soul lives in the atmosphere ❤
Thank you so much for sharing your most intimate feelings. I am honoured to be a part of this journey with you brothers and sisters 💗
my favorite book by Thich Nhat HanH is Old path white cloud, i just started rereading it! Thay has been with me in spirit for over twenty years and his presence continues to illuminate my spiritual path!
Dear Brother Phap Huu and dear Jo Confino, this has been one of the most amazing dharma sharings ever! You two work so well together, I always feel the warmth between you. I continue to be so moved by the outpouring of love and support that Plum Village extended to the global community during this time. I have felt so cared for and included and I have learned so much, thank you. It has been beautiful and moving to hear all the behind the scenes stories and those from the past. Sending love and kindness to you both and to everyone at Plum Village and the global community.
Indeed his voice is quite but his passion lives on with us. Only gratitude will ground us. 🙏
Will treasure this ; Thank You 🙏🤍
Thankyou for sharing this deeply felt Love of your Zen master ❤ and help me too to let go of so many Loved one's . much Love ...Linda
My heart was deeply warmed by listening to this podcast. I was crying along with Brother Phap Huu. Thay has been a light in my darkness, an anchor of gentleness and grace. Without him, I would never have taught meditation in a Maryland prison. Without him, I would never have taught meditation at a local Maryland community college. Without him, I would never have taught meditation in a local spiritual community. Although I have never met him in person, he is embedded strongly in my heart. May his legacy continue through us and the good work of Plum Village!
No mud, no lotus ❤️ In 1998, following metta meditations with Joan Borysenko at a Balance Conference for women physicians, I bought Thay's The Blooming of a Lotus. His books How to Eat, True Love and now, thanks to the generosity of Plum Village and newsletter, "The Raft", I discovered a Sangha in my hometown in Fort Collins. My deepest gratitude to Thay whose light and medicine grows more potent since he became a cloud.
After the passing of Thay i had been longing to hear the voice of one of you from Plum Village. Though I'm an outsider, I felt the loss deeply.
So thank you so much for sharing this with us. Gratitude.
My heart is with you all dear Sangha. I did not have the honor to meet the master but discovering his dharma talk has opened my consciousness beyond any imagination. I was lost and now I am found in the hear and now. I promise to carry his light in me, in my actions and and speech. The master opened my heart and soul and I am lucky to find him even after his passing. I will follow the sangha and hope to be part of future retreats. With love and blessings. Thank you brother so much. The master is not dead as he will continue in all of us.
I am one who was saved by Thay's teachings . I vow to honour his life by learning more and sharing them with all. Breathing in I am breathing in. Breathing out I an breathing out. I am home I am free. Bless all. With gratitude.
Thank you for This podcast sharing so beautiful. . I started following. Sińce the funeral Of Thich Nhat Hang I have binge watched many of Plum village u tube and now I’m starting to go back and rewatching. With deeper reverence. Learning. The mindfulness. Breathing eating mindfulness. I’m also going to buy books. This will not be in contradiction. To my Catholic upbringing.
May you find Peace in Christ and the teachings of Thay and the Buddha.
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i have arrived I am home, dear thay an monastics, words cannot express the depth of my love for all that you do.
I want to remind you l am just a humble average supporter of yours, wishing people like you all the best, keeping the memory alive and enjoying a sustainable lifestyle, having FAITH is helping us live in perfect harmony with Mother Earth and wish you support those who need you the most, a lot of people need your help and compassion, you are a great inspiration for everybody
Thank you, my hand over my heart, I breathe as I listen to this and remember the week of Thay's passing. I can't find the words to describe what this meant to me.
Thank you for sharing this with us. Thay's life and teaching are forever alive. I have felt a great sorrow for Thay's passing away, and shed tears whenever I watch his lesson, because the more I know about him the more touching I feel about his lessons. I love Plum Village community and the atmosphere Thay has created. Thay has a really big impact on people's life as well as mine. I feel grateful to have benefits from Thay's lessons. I surely believe that you the Sanga and every one of us who knows Thay will be his continuation. I really hope to hear more stories and daily lessons about Thay told by his students and those who were close to him because we can learn from those simple daily stories as well. Thanks so much for sharing bro and wish you good health. With much love from Vietnam.
He is more in us us ever before!Being in so many hearts 🥰 he is present,on the other side what can be seen,only feel!
Thank you for recording such a profound and intimate podcast❤✨ I cried with you Br.Phap Huu
Beautiful memories! Thanks a lot for sharing with us! :)
Beautiful sharing
🕊💗🕊master thich nhat hanh ~ truly magnificient🕊💗🕊
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🙏Deep Gratitude 🙏🌻🕯💖☁️🌧🌊🌈🕯💎
A wonderful remembrance
Thank you! This was everything for me. Every thought, every question, every wish has been granted and shared. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Merci💜
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Thank you , I was eagerly waiting to podcast . Learning to embrace difficult emotions . It’s real even though online , never met … it’s melting , it’s alive . Thank you .
So lovely video and thankyou 😊
Really thank you!
Thank you for sharing all this love it really helps to go deeper and become kinder💖
🙏🙏🙏A wonderful podcast❤️❤️❤️
Respect from Maine 🌈.
1:16:15 maybe in the world, many people who spend years practising at home, releasing their trauma, also feel its time to hold the torch for the new world, when old systems collapse, this grounded spirituality is here and now.