Emptiness is NOT nothing - teaching from Thich Nhat Hanh.

"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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[@miked.8097]

This person is the closest thing to living Buddha

[@haggaigertz]

I'm crying while I'm listening such wisdom, such revelation! it's amazing!!!

[@PhilipTikka]

I am currently reading “the buddhas teaching” - my mind understands and forgets, therefore I came here to re-remember.

[@mrbatista666]

I literally cried out of joy watching this beautiful video. Thank you Thay for your wise words and enlightening presence!

[@tomgeorgearts]

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.

[@lukasdohnal1229]

+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.

[@tomgeorgearts]

Thankyou man, good to hear your reflections. :)

[@lukasdohnal1229]

+Tom George I am happy that you found it interesting. :) I am happy to share.

[@gbornfreereallyfree4928]

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.

[@lukasdohnal1229]

+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".

[@saswatabiswas190]

Best Buddhist teacher I have ever seen on internet

[@baptm727]

Yes!

[@sanilyadav1450]

SN GOENKA .......

[@HolyFosterConner]

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.

[@siobhanphoenix9789]

+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.

[@timeparker]

There is also a series on here "discovering your true nature" where Thich touches on this as well. It helped me so much.

[@YabbaDadADo]

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.

[@indexMemories]

A little late. But welcome to the "fathers who suffered from liver cirrhosis" club.

[@masnsenyuva9182]

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

[@BioStuff415]

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.

[@shamansierra4966]

emptiness is form; form is emptiness

[@silence7047]

and the truth is the semicolon in the middle.

[@edgepixel8467]

Shiki fu i ku, ku fu i shiki

[@hiddendimsum1075]

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.

[@kimberleyolliff9636]

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.

[@nondual]

Thank you for appreciating, Kimberly. Yes, it's quite different from what is most popularly understood by "emptiness" i.e. rock-bottom depression!

[@zaffranmoon1580]

@@enstigatorofficial you seem to misunderstand, Thay is nothing but compassion. As are the books. I hope you find peace.

[@enstigatorofficial]

@@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.

[@vindembmw6421]

@@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 🙏🏼

[@enstigatorofficial]

@@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.

[@tanjorebhuvaneswari3429]

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.

[@stangobuck]

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.

[@Abornazine_]

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.

[@astrumdeus7098]

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

[@Jackitate]

Emptiness (Shunyata) doesn't mean EMPTINESS in the ENGLISH SENSE.

[@BenTalley]

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...

[@MikeGsaxman]

Yes, the immaculate lotus grows from the mud. OM MANI PADME HUM.

[@Firecelebi]

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.

[@armanhossainanubhab1055]

Nirvana means what? 1/ Going into extinction and erasing one self into non-existence (Absence/ Death/ No awareness of that one self) and will no longer exist into the existence. (If this is the freedom then the person wouldn't feel any bliss of it, because that person wouldn't be there anymore to feel bliss or stay aware of what's going on) 2/ Leaving mind, body, emotion etc and becoming detached of it, later going beyond it and meeting the true self, which is actually nothingness or emptiness. (Not going into extinction but going beyond the regular aspects). 3/ None of them but a type of higher consciousness, wisdom or enlightenment. 4/ Becoming free from every single thing (even from existence, Universe etc) and no longer connecting with anything except emptiness or nothingness, everything will happen at one's own will, nothing will bound them from anything, they have free will and can do anything they want. (But that person haven't died or got erased, person is still there having bliss of freedom). Which one is right? No.1 and 3 I got from basic or knowledge and information that's around. No. 2 and 4 are my thoughts. If I am not right, then correct me and tell me what really it is and please be sure that the thing you agree with is the right one. Finally, is going into non-existence, becoming extincted, a positive thing or negative? I see it as negativity because a life wouldn't exist anymore, it's like doing suicide but this suicide is permanent, that being is erased and won't return anymore, it's like the death but even worse than death, after death the person still exists without mind or body but going into non-existence means a great trouble, there would be no life, no life will exist after if it really means cutting your own self off from existence. (It's my opinion and comment towards it, don't take it negatively). This comment hasn't made for criticism, I am here just for accurate and right information, please reply if possible. I am seeking knowledge so whatever I go for, I go for right thing, the thing I expect, not something which is very unexpected.

[@baptm727]

Empty of an independent existence, fullof everything else, beautiful.

[@ninearthify]

This individual seems to have some weird fetish fixation on fathers. I remember once him telling a child that she should put up with the abuse of her father EVEN if it was dangerous to her. Worst advice I've ever heard. And now THIS, and also how does this work for an orphan like myself who never even met my own father ? Thank you Thich Nhat Hahn for yet another terrible useless advice 👍

[@magnesiumdrip]

In Buddhism there is a filial aspect of revering, loving, and respecting your parents since they gave life to you whether one wants it or not. Not a fetish lol. But to address the other point, to do 'nothing' is to wait and see if the father comes to a realization that he's doing wrong. Only he himself can understand it. We can beat him up I guess but that just causes more pain and suffering. But main point is try to change our perspective on the situation, but try the best to prevent more occurrence through compassion and understanding about where the other person comes from. Maybe he was abused as a child and this is what happen when a child is reared in this situation. But if push comes to shove and her life is to the point of death or near or it continues to progress down a slippery slope than by all means pick up the phone and get intervention. I don't know about the person you refer to or what situation she might have been in, but I hope she's okay. Thich nhat hanh doesn't want the suffering to continue, but to lessen it as much as possible by 'doing nothing' waiting patiently, looking at the bright side, and try to understand another, because you know they too must have been abused. He can't do much rather than to ask us to change our perspective on things no matter how dark it maybe. I know that might not be satisfactory answer but the best way to put it. And for your case, it may not apply since your father has not been part of your life, can you find another person on your life that might bring happiness to your heart, or one that makes you feel warm and safe on the inside? Even for a second? If not than please don't hesitate to get mad at me if I offend. He's trying to relate to someone close and to many people including me my father and mother bring that feelings to me, they're humans too. For the last part his teachings helped me through my rough times and brought me to feel happy about myself and other and try to understand others. Not all teachings work for everyone. A hammer is only useful for hammering something (I know you can do other stuff with it) but yeah. I'm sorry if I offend I don't want you to get mad at me.

[@ninearthify]

Henry Pham thank you for your comment. You didn't offend me. Even though I never met my father or my mother, I have met great people 👍 cheers

[@GeorgiYJohnson]

On the question of child abuse, it feels very important to stress that denial of what happened is one of the root causes of the traumatic split. No-one wants to "allow" that it happened, and in this there is a complicity of abuse. The feelings get pushed underground and isolated, which is an added suffering. There is wisdom in the understanding that we can't 'undo' the past. We can't 'unfeel' feelings. The first premise of transformation and liberation must be allowance. This is very different than a premise that says we can allow people to abuse children. But what has happened can't be undone, and as Jung pointed out, what we deny, we become. Hoping this is helpful.

[@benji-5796]

Yeah, I must admit some of the things he said were just not realistic. Sadly, a child sitting patiently waiting for the abuse to end do end in them losing their lives in some sad and extreme cases.

[@ersterkommentar2415]

Shunyata is the realization of no durance in every thing and, like thich nath hanh said: the complete knowledge of interaction. Conscious or not.

[@karencontestabile6064]

Beautiful! Thanks, Master Thay!

[@VCaamano]

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.

[@tenzinrabyang6652]

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!

[@tm-bg4so]

It is really hard to accept the emptiness. It shocks me out completely.

[@MartinJutras]

The kindness in his eyes strikes me every time.

[@triceadawkins3092]

Where is the full dharma talk?

[@nondual]

It's on the Plum Village channel here: kzbin.info

[@KeyaKyea1]

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.

[@arthurrex6940]

I Am Here - Opening the Windows of Life and Beauty. The emptiness of here that allows it all.

[@25bmax]

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.

[@TreeGreenOak]

WOW we all made of the same star dust just like our planet the sun the moon and the universe.

[@Rudenbehr]

He feels more Dalai Lama than the Dalai Lama😂

[@blombergk]

Wow stunningly beautiful

[@Bozhena904]

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!

[@baptm727]

Crazy

[@marianpaintal9334]

Beautiful.... Realistic... realization ...Gratitude.

[@santelang]

I feel sorry for those disciples and the this good sir nhan. What he is saying is not Nirvana or total extinction. Emptiness he described​ as cloud become rain, rain become vapour and vapour again cloud. This thing is not under Nibbana, it's a vicious circle of birth and death, a wheel. One needs to penetrate this beyond, that's the final extinction. Without a natural light and faith one can't cross over. one need a boat to bisect that circle. Awake my friend!

[@godofgodseyes]

If this version of emptiness is absence of something relative to another, it is not nibbana. A distorted path from the main goal of Buddhism.

[@Flaytt744]

Nagarjuna's Catuskoti (fire fuel) example awakened me

[@autumnzolstice9758]

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

[@lukasdohnal1229]

"Mister Bodhisattva tell us" :D

[@leelyquan]

Amazing viewpoint on eternity.

[@Ferenz111]

this is a perfect teaching !

[@vicbrown42]

Background music is too loud

[@nondual]

True.

[@jessieyau2331]

Empty of tea,but it's full of air. Amazing, I love his voice, his eyes...he's a great teacher.🙏

[@ngs8022]

What Thay explained was Anātman. Is he saying Anātman coincides with Śūnyatā?

[@KesleyCage]

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.

[@randybyrnes5000]

music got too loud at the end. He has a meek delivery.

[@randybyrnes5000]

REMIX it PLEASE!

[@luzarsacdetoro903]

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!

[@AndyMossMetta]

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.

[@nondual]

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 :-)

[@AndyMossMetta]

@@nondual A lovely reply .....and yes it does.

[@emgece2302]

How is this different from Advaita Vedanta? Isn't the Shunya conceptually the same as Brahman?

[@vagabundoenlinea]

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.

[@toquangdinhbs5399]

You are all things also not all things that means emptiness

[@WeelChair-l9q]

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[@patcasey1]

His words are great, there is no need for music. It takes away from the message and is distracting. I was not able to watch beyond 5:22

[@CaddilacJoe1]

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

[@heavilymeditated2263]

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.

[@allenmorgan4309]

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.

[@melglitter300]

Namaste. free me from the sufferings of samsara.

[@KJ-dv6pf]

You can be shown a path and a glimpse of the “end” but you must ultimately walk it yourself to reach the end

[@oliverajocovic9133]

thank you

[@tsewongchazotsang2332]

The music is such a bad idea. It is so distracting, I can hardly follow the teaching.

[@dwanderful1]

Its unfortunate someone played loud music over the message

[@kiekko673]

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. ✌️

[@foshotho]

🙏 ❤️ 🌹 thank you Thay for your peace and love ❤️ 🌹 🙏

[@desertportal353]

Certainly empty of separate MATERIALISTIC existence. And then there is subjective BEING ITSELF. But this teaching is not about that. This video is a strictly materialistic teaching / understanding caught in space and time + cause and effect for any meaning. This teaching is a good example of how inference has leaked out of scientific method and infected belief. Actual direct experience needs neither belief or inference or reductive explorations for it veracity. Meaning that is found in direct experience is informed and energized by Knowing knowing itself. Buddhism is prevented, by inference and belief, from knowing this very Knowing and direct experience of absolute Being that is "empty" or void of all concepts and inferences .

[@manbu7849]

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).

[@TheDeepening718]

If emptiness is not nothing then it should not be said that Buddhism differs from Hinduism in that it doesn't have any concept of a Spirit or eternal substance. Saying "emptiness is not nothing" is just another way of describing that Self which cannot be described.

[@TheMahayanist]

You're not correct. Buddhism doesn't accept that there is any eternal essence or nature.

[@TheDeepening718]

"Man is made only of non-man elements", which means all is one, which means there is an Ultimate Ground or Spirit in Buddhism, which means Buddhism does NOT differ from Vedantism in this manner.

[@TheMahayanist]

No. Vedanta claims there is an eternal absolute ultimate ground, Brahman. Buddhism doesn't not. There is no ultimate in Buddhism.

[@WeelChair-l9q]

Recognizing for me for the word of lovingkindness i going to type now

[@evaandrews1149]

The music is distracting. Difficlt to hear the teaching.

[@pedestrian_0]

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

[@TEAMxRONNIE]

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.

[@sujitchoudhury8815]

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.

[@gra6649]

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.

[@mariusbaltazarrozenberg-ho9367]

I want to ordain as a monk under Thich Nhat Hanh.

[@mcsmith732]

This is a great teaching, but the music, which overwhelms Thay's voice, adds nothing but obscuration and needs to go. Thich Nhat Hanh's voice is all the music that is needed.

[@pedestrian_0]

If you have captions on then the experience isn't that muddled. I appreciate everything imperfect and perfect about the video

[@itchaban]

What music is this....its lovely

[@AncientWisdomTeachingsLLC]

Travel well great teacher I will see you everywhere thank you❤️🙏🏼

[@25bmax]

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.

[@sjja0903]

Very wise gentleman

[@MultiPopculture]

There are many orphans with no father no mother -- but they have Lord Buddha who is the eternal heavenly father as per the Lotus sutra. I appreciate his intention but his dharma is not in tune with the actual teachings of the incomparable Lord Buddha.

[@Vincent-om2lg]

What is that piece of music? Beautiful. Beautiful teachings too. Sadhu sadhu sadhu

[@pierrebernard5922]

According to physics Emptiness is not possible , it will borrow particles from the futures to make it happen

[@peopleplacesandperspective5564]

Beautiful ❤️🙏🏽❤️

[@DavidKarlsson-ti6sb]

I wish I had listened to these at a young age. I would liked to have had many years to ruminate on the teachings.

[@maeodok-laoskorat7097]

Love ❤️

[@Duck72432]

Ok first person to actually break this down where it made some sense.

[@kurtpiket6739]

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.

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

The Master

[@colleendeane7888]

Music is superfluous

[@awesomestuffies]

Thank you ❤

[@ElaKozak-cd9bg]

🙏❤️🌺🌸🌺true

[@danng7402]

Music too loud

[@madhiazhaganranjith5112]

Co existence

[@MikeGsaxman]

Beautiful!

[@JayBe23]

the cosmos is within these words

[@mdinnen5930]

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.

[@jesuschrist1501]

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.

[@TeguhKiyatno]

Anumodana. Thanks for the explanation of Shunyata ..... (Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutra).

[@rajeshwarihemmadi3229]

Simply blessed to come across this video ...🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@damiencross5110]

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.

[@nondual]

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.

[@NangongReng1973]

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.

[@damiencross5110]

NangongReng1973 Your base assumption is wrong. For future reference, don't try to base your perspective of a person off of a KZbin 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.

[@butterflybeatles]

NangongReng1973 The notion that "Buddhism is not a religion" is simply hogwash.

[@damiencross5110]

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.

[@iasminvicentinni5547]

💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

[@patriciawilliams7107]

Thank you, Thay!

[@shadowolf3998]

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.

[@pokesmile1712]

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