Heal the Mind, Heal the World | Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, 2012 12 31 (Winter Retreat)

Thay is offering a Dharma Talk in Plum Village on the New Years Eve, during the winter retreat of 2012-2013 on how to experience Nirvana in our daily lives. Right here and right now. He is teaching about the island within, the true home within ourselves, the Noble Eightfold Path, and how we can truly understand the teachings of Buddhism and Christianity by letting go of our dualist thinking.
Thay's New Year resolution: "I am determined not to waste my life. I dare to live the life that I want to live. I want that every step I make on this planet to bring joy to me and to other people, and to touch Nirvana and the Kingdom of God with every step."
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[@ConexionHumanaOficial]

I don't have words to explain how wonderful is to learn from such a great teacher. Thank you so much Dear Thay for being generous in sharing your teachings. My honor to you. Evangelina Cortes.

[@jixie_93]

Thank you so much! So beautifully needed to hear this today... I'm without a place that feels like home so I will look inside ...longing for home...

[@ritamorelli3869]

Hope you do find somewhere that feels better

[@lukez9567]

🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽Nam Mô A Di Đà PHẬT 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 THẦY vẫn ở mãi trong LÒNG của CHÚNG CON❤️❤️❤️ 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 THẦY vẫn ở mãi trong LÒNG của CHÚNG CON 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 ❤️❤️❤️ THẦY vẫn ở mãi trong LÒNG của CHÚNG CON ❤️❤️❤️ 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 Namo AMITABHA 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 THẦY vẫn ở mãi trong LÒNG của CHÚNG CON❤️❤️❤️ Dear TEACHER, You will forever stay in our HEART and our MIND ❤️❤️❤️

[@AnneHarp]

Thank you for your teachings, Thay, dear teacher. 🙏💖💕 You've brought so much joy and peace to my life, and I always try to pay it forward.

[@soul_survivor_oracle]

Thank you for making this public and sharing.. I could listen to this a hundred times to find ease and contentment, in this moment 🌏✨❤️

[@suzywalsh7906]

I have experienced miracle healings after hearing his words and practicing mindful breathing. I will be forever grateful. I carry him in my heart always and my desire is to suffer less and to show others how to suffer less. I no longer am embarrassed and ashamed of my prior unskillful behaviors.

[@blehkinsoph9466]

by the end of the video, i was filled with so much joy in my heart just by seeing thay's beautiful little smile.

[@housera229]

Dear Teacher, thank you for devoting your life to teaching us about happiness and compassion. I will continue listening to your talks and reading your books as they are a blessing to me in this moment of my path. ❤

[@alanhehe4508]

I love and appreciate that this wisdom is available to me. Thay was such a great being and teacher. Listening to him makes me laugh and cry simultaneously. That is the nature of truth and wisdom and love--they touch our deepest being. God bless Plum Village.

[@colleendeane7888]

Thank you Dear Thay. Nirvana is here and now. It is the way. I must be aware of dualism.

[@naturalhigh9776]

Best Dharma teaching I have ever heard, now understand interbeing.

[@steevo211]

I believe he is the greatest teacher of our time. I have heard others criticise his work saying that it is out of date, or unrelatable this is just an unknowingness or insecurity from other monastics/ people or teachers, yes we are developing other ways, new techniques as we have problems never faced before in our world, but the teachings behind the application of the practice are timeless.

[@nancymcconnell8198]

👏Thank you for this beautiful Dharma talk. I am greatful that Thay knew the English language and knew it very well. Dualism has made trouble for me in my life. Thank you for this online Sangha. And again...thank you for Thich Nhat Hanh's deep well of knowledge.👏

[@jasytrujillo8419]

8,gu7? Ok Ok thank i88,8),8

[@jasytrujillo8419]

Cgciiu,777,) is hu is cc is?iviuvi ihc8?, cvv

[@josephb4235]

Very few people have such a great personality as this guy does.

[@sankyumata]

01:10:45 wonderful resolution 💛

[@colleendeane7888]

Thanku Thay for showing me that Nirvana and the Kingdom is now

[@henrihonghytan7278]

Thank Thay and the teaching it.

[@suzywalsh7906]

Oh snap! Master Thay you are da man! No disrespect intended, but this teaching can reach the heart of anyone at any level who honestly seeks truth.

[@stepheniecopping7165]

What a shame there is so much coughing and sneezing ( no covering of the nose and mouth) in this broadcast

[@alexdepilarez6921]

"A Cloud Never Dies" TNH 🙏🙏🙏❤

[@GK-sc7ii]

Alot of people seem to be sick over there...couching and sneezing. 🤧

[@zdenkahorackova8047]

Unbelievable... The same noisy audience almost in every video 😑 came there to cough

[@1234kingconan]

Regarding the coughing this is a well known and studied phenomenon. As in it’s been scientifically studied. Basically people will cough more in these settings than outside of it. Once they leave they stop. Why is that? There are a few reasons. 1. When people are bored 2. When people hear one another cough it becomes a “contagious” urge to also cough even though they’re not sick, the urge arises 3. When what they are watching is not captivating their attention, they listen to each other cough and the urge to cough increases It’s been shown in studies that they cough much more in these settings than when the presentation is over. Same with orchestras. This is studied from classical music concerts. I went to music school and this is something we had learned about also. Here are a few more interesting points. 1. When something interesting happens, the coughing stops. For example in a very dramatic or exciting portion of a movie or symphony etc. 2. When the exciting part stops and goes back to the part that does not captivate the audience’s attention, the coughing resumes (because they’re paying attention to one another cough). Ironically, paying attention to the coughing and not the show is probably the biggest contributor to this phenomenon. These folks simply aren’t paying attention or it’s boring to them and they’re listening to one another cough and then the urge becomes unbearable and they start coughing 😂. I can relate to that I’ve also been in this situation and found myself magically having an extreme urge to cough even when before I didn’t. Just a weird quirk of human beings. To prove my point in case you don’t believe me, pay attention to when Thay has a very interesting story to tell that capture’s the audience’s attention and notice how the coughing stops. And when he resumes a part that loses their attention the coughing also resumes.

[@nellliving3372]

Thank you xo

[@jbee5209]

So much better teachings than fake leo gurus, thay is the real deal

[@sangpopierluigi7594]

GRAZIE 🌅

[@goldensun1911]

you don't have to die in order to go to the kingdom. in fact, you have to be very alive, you have to be fully present in the here and now, and if you can do that, you take a step and go to the kingdom. the most beautifil place of heaven is on earth. the kingdom is right here and now. the kingdom doesn't have to come, it's already here. so our friends will come to polish and joined walking meditation, and if they have enough mindfulness and concentration, they enjoy the kingdom of god in every step, they enjoy nirvana at every step. we know that there is no way to nirvana, nirvana is the way, the path.

[@xavierpaquin]

Thank you 🙏

[@thomaswalker211]

Love these videos so much. But, I feel like in every one of these talks there is someone coughing for the duration of the talk. 😂 pls. PLS drink some water

[@user-vm4zn6pt6v]

스님 그립습니다 🙏🙏🙏

[@drummer4refurbish]

tell the people in the audience to put the bong down...👍

[@jamiekahn5778]

Great title.

[@JB-fv8bi]

🙏

[@funktion6926]

🙏🏻

[@fraukedorschky4218]

❤

[@LeePearce-wq6pv]

Breathe You Are Online..

[@pauljung3534]

"The ultimate in beauty? It is that which mends and inspires the soul, and all creation." "Special is that something, or someone, that invokes more in all." "Beauty is that being, who stands as such, who stands for more, who stands for better." "To have a heart, is a blessing. To have a heart, allows one to care. And to care for life, beyond your life, is a love that is ultimate - for it is boundless and knows no death." "I am not the product of myself. I am the sum total of all that l’ve encountered. Honor our Creator, plus all our creators, & give back to life, for what life has given to us." ~ Paul Jung

[@roseapplehousenolabysidmon6635]

✌️💕🕊️

[@richardlynch6927]

I’m new to Buddhism and loving everything I see and hear , I’m finding it difficult to move awareness from head to my abdomen, any advice would helpful . Thank you Thay for your wisdom

[@chetanimckinney]

Also new to this teaching, I got a copy of “Breathing Through the Whole Body” by Will Johnson. Perhaps that can help - as well as the many books authored by Thich Nhat Hahn himself. Blessings.

[@supremeplustv1892]

"Do merits , refrain from doing sins, tackle your mind , this is the budhism " Basis of budhism is reincarnation and law of karma . If have no confidence search on internet and in books for proofs. In theravada tradition you get lot of meditation techniques . There are lot of gods but no supreme god . There can't be a creator coz who created the creator , why not only good people , why not world without any problem, why doesn"t he appear before us.In world history nobody has ever seen him. We shouldn't do anything to others what we don't them to do to us, call " Aththuppanayake dharma " Five ways to attain final stage 01. Listening to budhist lectures 02. Teaching what you know about budhism to others 03. Meditation 04. Chanting 05. Thinking what you know about budhism Try this , Having known this , " Gods, brahmas and human beings were benefited by lord Budhdha " Keep chanting this and other qualities of triple gems for all evils , " Gods,brahmas and human beings were benefited " Further , Visiting four places highly recommended namely birth place of lord budhdha , where he became Budhdha , where he conducted first lecture and place where he passed away . According to " Maha parinibbana sutta " all four places should be on a straight single line with similar distances among those places " May triple gems bless you !

[@vindembmw6421]

Did anyone else notice that the windows are "fake", meaning that they do not show the outside, but that they are painted? Why?

[@brendakofford2999]

Bow

[@ceciliar8458]

❤🙏❤️

[@Trainpaintoday]

How do I stay in the present moment without being consumed with negative thoughts about burning and throbbing nerve pain in my nose?

[@camille9803]

by being with the negative thoughts about burning and throbbing nerve pain in your nose. I hope you've since gotten some relief from this pain.

[@FionaHansen729]

Dear Plum Village's brothers and sisters, in the video at 51:59 and the translation wasn't correct, I think it should be the word "diligence" instead "delusions" right?

[@g.balareddammareddamma3626]

🌼🌼🌼

[@fernandopagan4384]

Please help me here I've been watching many videos of this wonderfull human being and every video I've seen there is always coughing and sneezing i don't understand do they come here really sick is very disturbing listening to this master while there is an orchestra of coughing

[@NikWeber.]

It's a big community from all over the world before our time of masks. Its normal that there will always be someone sick. Thich Nhat Hanh recommends if something disturbs you make it a reminder to come back to your breath and to be mindful so you transform irritation into something skillful. Wishing you all the best and continued effort in order to develop your understanding of the dharma. May you be well and happy wherever you are Fernando 🙏🏻

[@choosetobehappynow1580]

Hello, I love everything Thay,and yes,I don't understand all the coughing and sneezing etc,it is a regular retreat as u understand it. Why hadn't these people excused themselves or been asked to sit in the back or something? Is it to challenge the rest of us to concentrate on Thay? Geez

[@1234kingconan]

@@NikWeber.this comes across so patronizing hahaha

[@lucabrambilla2699]

58:57

[@evelyncampbell8692]

1

[@cuongho0110]

Thank 40:47

[@Chris-hp1wy]

amazing talker. but that coughing....

[@andrewerickson2534]

Bro thank you. Give that man a cough drop and put him outside to meditate lol

[@sarahlouise8904]

Use the coughing as your challenge to hear even though there are noises if you can do that. You can practice meditation in the midst of the storm. See it as a teaching not an annoyance 🧘‍♀️🙏

[@calijahlovechild7706]

I believe it’s an involuntary bodily response to ego death. Lots of folks do it as negative energy is moving out their body

[@mariegrandjean6426]

There is too much cough noise to hear properly that wonderful teaching

[@hughslevin7120]

Many people who come to Plumvillag are not well They have physical disabilities also Some can't stop coughing

[@GordyThomas]

We are in each other, so we cannot separate ourselves who do not cough from those who cough. The suffering we experience in being distracted provides us the opportunity for compassion and understanding. 🙏🙏🙏

[@bojanmilito2380]

the guy coughing every 10sek made me stop the video

[@naturaltastes5996]

Coughing as a bell of mindfulness

[@DanielAubel]

bomb diggity

[@kippapao]

The "world' is nothing more than the mind.

[@Makenneh]

The mind and world interare :)

[@MrLucky2gunz]

The coughing. My god the coughing

[@ezequielsa6985]

❤

[@cantstoplion]

🧡