Make a True Home of Your Love | Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, 2010 12 26

[@glennshocket9183]

How could someone possibly this wonderful, beautiful, wise, and generous? I wish I would have found Thay earlier in my life perhaps I could have found my true home. As hard as I try I can’t escape the darkness. I am so lonely and hopeless. I am scared of my thoughts. I just want the pain to go away. Thank you Thay for being so selfless and saving so many by showing them the path. I’ve never met you and yet you’re by far the most wonderful person I have ever known. Thanks for bringing some joy to this hungry ghost.

[@Dylan20]

Glenn, you may enjoy meditating and practicing mindfulness with a sangha in Thay's tradition. I too have often wished I had found Thay earlier in my life, but I get a lot of nourishment from the sanghas I've practiced with, and it makes me feel more connected to his teachings. If you haven't already found one, there is a directory on MindfulnessBell.org, and there is a directory of online-only sanghas at Plumline.org.

[@glennshocket9183]

Dylan, Thanks so much for taking the time to reply. I recently signed up for my first retreat from Plum village “Understanding our mind: Buddhist Psychology and Neuroscience which is an online retreat due to the pandemic later this month. I find Thay’s teachings on the mind and body so fascinating. Honestly I am desperate with the world today. Of course Thay won’t be attending but many of his continuations will be. I joined an online Sangha some time ago but for some strange reason I have not yet attended like I am not worthy. I am hoping the online retreat which includes dharma talks and sharing will break the ice for me. I can’t thank you enough for caring enough to reply and I can tell you too are a continuation of Thay. I bow with gratitude 🙏. A lotus for you. Please stay safe and healthy.

[@Dylan20]

@@glennshocket9183 Glenn, you're definitely worthy and welcome to join a sangha meeting! The online ones are generally very open. If you tell people you're new and a little nervous I'm sure you'll get the welcome you need. 😊

[@glennshocket9183]

Dylan, Thank you very much my dear friend. I know you’re there and I’m so happy.

[@andrewbrown6307]

Glenn, I feel the same way that you do. I often believe and accept these ideas that my brain tells me about hopelessness. But I keep following the path, watching these wild inaccurate thoughts at a distance, with some good days and some bad days. I hope you are doing OK and are persevering.

[@csflower]

Precious teaching. Great truth. As a child forced to suffer sexual abuse I know what our teacher says is true. When suffering as an adult suicide has been strongly a desire for me. Old now I have been able, once retired, and not so busy, to understand the source of my suffering and some self destructive choices and spend time letting the heartaches, the deep pain in my soul surface so I can let it go and be healed. The result has been being able to see my success and appreciate indeed I am a valuable human being. Loved. Making myself my home now and living now in the Kingdom of God with forgiveness and understanding damaged and hurting people damage and hurt other people is part of the release of the pain. To anyone who reads this and experiencing the pain of a broken heart, of rejection of abusive relationships, take heart, as you walk through the pain a Light is waiting for you at the end of the tunnel of darkness you are feeling. Let yourself grieve - it’s gets better. All the positive forces in the universe are on your side!❤️You are a precious human being.

[@SisterSunnyFreeSpirit]

Beautiful. Thank you. Your words are mine.

[@lindamon5101]

Thankyou for your tender mercies.

[@moniqueaubry1027]

I Thank You very much for your beautifull testimony.❤

[@jarnocrippa4999]

This is a Nobel prize speach. If I will never be a teacher I will teach these words . Thank you Thay never met you but miss you so much

[@lhamopepper9887]

🙏👏🎖🌷❤❤🥰👍it's like I am free and very vast whenever I listen to beautiful Thay who is a buddha in another form. I feel like I can love anyone and feel deeply grateful for everything my love to everyone. 🙏

[@arlenespiritualcoach9112]

I adore, adore, adore this beautiful man and soul. I do not have the words to express how I feel when listening to him. His presence vibrates in my heart and whole body profoundly. It is deep, deep love vibrating. 🤗🤗🤗🌸🌸🌸🌹

[@Luke-ofStoke-Factor]

May These Teachings awaken the World!!!!!

[@Bibiznatch]

These are the videos that should have the most views on this platform.

[@gordonclaydon6239]

RIP You wise and calming gem of a human.

[@mountainserenity]

One of the most powerful and beautiful teachings ever presented on our true home. As I deal with the suffering caused by metastasized cancer in my body, this teaching is immensely helpful. Deep bow of gratitude. 🙏

[@Alphacentauri819]

I send you light and love 💫💛

[@BeastxxWar]

❤

[@NadiaSofi888]

Sending you so much love & healing 💖

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[@Vinobre2024]

great and lovely teacher . Thank you all

[@ElaKozak-cd9bg]

True... thank you so much 🙏❤❤🌱🪷🙏❤ Namo Amitabha Buddha

[@natalie20835]

This talk is so amazing. Thank you so much dear Thay 🙏

[@linhdinh3590]

Thank you Thay for your beautiful teaching! Not all of us are taught what is true love from the beginning. From the misunderstanding between true love and sexual desire or other sensual pleasures caused us and the other ones much suffering and destruction. In a modern world, we really need to mindfully choose what are good nutriments to our body and soul, along with practice of mindfulness, so we could build a home of true love inside ourselves for our beloved ones.

[@karaeverman1164]

You don’t know me but you helped me to just stop and be okay with life as it is bless you brother

[@pearlcallender2780]

Thank you. You have changed my life. I listen continuously. God bless and keep you always

[@day6545]

Thankyou Thay for sharing these wonderful dharma talks love and blessings to you and the sangha 🙏🏻💜

[@RainforestMind]

What a true gift for the world - Thay is. Thay is the light, in the darkness, that saves my / our soul.

[@sleepycat224]

Thank you dear Thay for your lovely and wise teaching. I arrive. I’m home ☸️☮️🕉️

[@lisalasoya2898]

You look like a courageous man, that haves a message to the world. By sharing ways to practice mindfulness and use it to stay open to self and others. The seeds of Love offers a path for nurturing the positive seeds. God has influenced me in more ways than none, the message you bring about should culture my spirit & bring this peace & love to my heart. Thank you for sharing. Lisa

[@melodyst.claire5389]

These past few weeks have been so life changing I find my home in your words and teaching ♥ Iam safe now 🙏😌❤ Peace walks with me and in my heart. 🙏 😊 ❤

[@ingebraun582]

Hallo

[@andylee7862]

It is so beautiful. I experienced this too. Sex without mutual understanding is empty. After so many suffering, I finally realized this too. It is so true now. It was never more true than before. Thank you for speaking it out so clearly.

[@pranalip268]

Thank you so much for this talk. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🍀

[@giovannidondi5773]

Grazie a questa pratica ho liberato il mio corpo dal male attraverso le mie mani. È stato liberatorio. Grazie infinite

[@layauprety8124]

Dear Monk, You are indeed fully enlightened and your each lecture is fully enlightening for the novice.

[@ginamori4970]

Greatful

[@philiprowney]

I come to this as a habit ( a good habit of listening Master Thay would say ) and I hear teachings that serve me on this day and forward. I am a lonely man ( at near 53 looking at the longest celibacy since virginity ) but, I have to wait until I truly can love. I feel the master in me and I feel some peace.

[@nelcyorozco4429]

Thanks a lot for these teachings, Thanks for make then available..

[@vaishalithukral649]

I sat through ...full time in complete silence ...listening to every word he said and connections he made ....he shares with such honesty, clarity and openness ...not sitting in a high pedestal of knowledge but with such senstiveness and kindness ..knowing how difficult living truly is. I loved it when Thāy says giving up as a monastic is far easier than living through sensory pleasures every day ! In today's time with war going on ..the way to report without watering fear anger or hatred is so important. Tuning in as much as tuning out ...transforming instead of transferring your past inherited collective energies was so simply shared . This talk is a masterpiece...must be heard by every educator and care giver.

[@mindingownbusiness555]

This is my husband’s KZbin Subscription. I have no idea how we you tube’s algorithm paired us witch Thay, but I am so grateful. This is the second talk I’ve listed to. I’m about 15 mins in & I keep rewinding it to hear him speak those words again lol. So Beautiful & Self Reflective. Plus his voice soothes lol. ❣️💜💓❤️

[@MoeJusNiks]

This is my favorite talk I have heard so far. I listen to it often, it gives me so much joy, comfort and hope. Thank you so much for sharing, I can't thank you guys enough.

[@Sophiacuity]

Thank you Thay. I appreciate your talks on Dhamma, it is calm and relaxing to me. Very transformative, healing and holy! Thanks again ♥

[@kimtaylor9096]

Beautiful Thay. I feel so grateful to hear, to receive this wonderful teaching. With all love and respect.

[@marlenejackamarra5216]

Thank you Plum Village and the beautiful teaching of Thay. With deep respect. Marlene Jackamarra

[@robynehuber6767]

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[@Rieon02]

Through this message I send love to you ❤

[@gabryg1849]

Grazie di nuovo Maestro Thay and Sangha as well.. 🙏

[@beautiful20106]

Thank you for teaching us . Have a great health ! Wish I listened earlier

[@QUANGTUONG-s2r]

So lucky for someone in life to look for the true happiness and find out the true teacher

[@LynJegher]

Thank you for your beautiful wisdom that lives within us daily.....LOVE Is a great healing energy!

[@nocturne8916]

This talk is so enlightening! I started to learn about Buddhism after my relationship with someone I loved ended. I was truly inspired by the teachings of letting go, everyone is an Island, mindfulness, etc., but I was confused about how Buddhism view romantic love. I always thought, “if love or sex is so great as people say, why don’t the monks enter into these relationships? So it must be bad for us.” But then I see Thay used this comparison of monks and astronauts in this video. It just enlightened me so much. Thay has so wisely guided me toward the right path of understanding Buddhism and love. I am forever grateful for your wisdom, kindness, love🙏🙏🙏

[@popeyeandolive2458]

Such a beautiful pointing lm singing along all day. Thank you blessed ones.😍

[@patriciaobrien771]

That's the best Gong ever. Wonderful.

[@rakhipeswani]

Humble Empowerment to the core, that’s what he is able to give. Because he has so much of it himself. The love and joy he has, he translates those in us deeply. We are indebted to you, Thay, to be able to live in us.

[@GardenReflections]

This was very profound. Thanks so much.

[@ConexionHumanaOficial]

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Venerable Thay for this wonderful teachings, so clear for my little understanding, but I know I can improve, because I'll listen several times this talk in order to learn more and more every time I take this marvelous class of you. Evangelina Cortes.

[@lukez9567]

🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 Namo AMITABHA 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 THẦY vẫn ở mãi trong LÒNG của CHÚNG CON❤️❤️❤️ Dear TEACHER, You will forever stay in our HEART and our MIND ❤️❤️❤️.....🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 Namo AMITABHA 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 THẦY vẫn ở mãi trong LÒNG của CHÚNG CON❤️❤️❤️ Dear TEACHER, You will forever stay in our HEART and our MIND ❤️❤️❤️....🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 Namo AMITABHA 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 THẦY vẫn ở mãi trong LÒNG của CHÚNG CON❤️❤️❤️ Dear TEACHER, You will forever stay in our HEART and our MIND ❤️❤️❤️

[@hieutrannm.188]

Cám ơn thầy đã dâng cho đời những bài học và chân lý của đạo Phật. :D

[@jizhimushui]

Thank you so much for the teachings, wonderful!

[@kimtaylor9096]

Dear Thay, Thank you. ♥️🙏🏼🕯️

[@beki1377]

So beautiful teaching - all important aspects in this dharma talk - everybody should know this... esp about the sexual relationships, children, food, compassion, consuming - it’s all so important insights to know about it, to learn and to practice. Thank you Thay dearly 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Namaste 🙏🏻

[@tamilselvam4589]

what an in-depth talk to understand the complex human desires and emotions... great learning..

[@graceacer9369]

Such a beautiful teaching

[@joyrayer6180]

Palestine, for the first time in 75 years must feel understood! Thousands upon thousands have heard your prayers and know your suffering. Now the world, the whole world needs to know your pain.

[@danieladolores1215]

God bless your soul....thank you

[@michaelwozniak183]

Thich gives the best Dharma talks. THANK YOU✌️

[@aimeeboniolo3531]

My favourite teacher♥️

[@mindingownbusiness555]

Btw.. been on YT for years & years. 1st comment right before this. 😭😊😘

[@venusianmd]

Thank you. I have watched/listened a few times. Love this

[@poetrykellymaiden5457]

💞💞💞💞🌹THICH✨ NHAT✨ TANH✨ is a home for my soul. Thank you, for saving me from the torment of my mind.🌹 💞💞💞✨

[@shonmhoon9715]

Strength, stability, protection Safe, intimate, cozy

[@louisesumrell6331]

Talking about cosmetic surgery, I'm a trans-woman who transitioned in 1993. I've only had hormone therapy, no surgeries. I just function better, in every way, on estrogens, rather than testosterone. People thought that I was a sissy little boy, but I knew myself to be a little girl. My life has been so much better... but I never could feel okay with surgeries... not to say that I know what other people should do, that's just me. 💖🙏💜🙏🏼

[@katherinewilson1853]

"When you do not accept your body as it is, you are not your true home."

[@ourfamily9397]

To chant Buddha is to plant "good roots and good fortune", and its merits and virtues are inconceivable. There are ten specific benefits of reciting "Amitabha Buddha" regularly, as follows: 1. Automatically realize every thought of your own heart, every cell of your body, and make yourself in a state of peace and happiness. 2. A single Buddha’s name can make us let go of all karmic conditions, recite single-mindedness, recite emptiness, and eliminate distracting thoughts. 3. Reciting "Amitabha Buddha" allows us to mention "contemplation", to connect with the highest wisdom of life in the universe; to communicate with the instinct of the self, and to bring out the potential of human beings. Fourth, reciting "Amitabha Buddha" allows us to communicate with the Buddha, that is, the mind is a Buddha, that is, the body is a Buddha; not confused, not delusional, not stupid; away from mistakes and inversions. 5. Reciting "Amitabha Buddha" can enable us to recite the goodness of our nature and achieve perfection; the pure and good nature of others can also be brought out. 6. Reciting "Amitabha Buddha" can eliminate evil and cut off bad thoughts, and it is also effective for others; it can stop others' evil thoughts and evil actions, and eliminate demons and evils. 7. Reciting "Amitabha Buddha" can eliminate omissions and suffering; comprehensive thinking and empathy; all six sense organs, self and others. Eight, reciting "Amitabha" can recite transcendence, recite light; recite immeasurable and boundless enlightenment and sobriety. 9. Reciting "Amitabha Buddha" can recall that the self-nature embraces all things in the universe, illuminates the entire space of the dharma world, and all the dharmas. 10. Reciting "Amitabha Buddha" can have full precepts, concentration, and wisdom; awakening, righteousness, and purity; all actions and aspirations are fulfilled, and merit is achieved. .

[@boundlessky9]

Wow! Thank you!

[@April0Wants0Truth]

Thank You Plum Village! Thank You Thay! Thank You Universe!

[@malinwahlstrom470]

Beautiful 💛

[@dallasford5735]

thank you great timing

[@dewainangeletti5744]

video interrupted after one hour an fifteen minutes, excellent teaching

[@martinesakulku6546]

Thank you .

[@branchestarot]

Thank you.:)

[@tonmut4343]

In our Meitei culture, we call our Un-married sisters as "Leishabi" which means Lei(flower). Leishabi means a "Flower like". 😊 I am remembering while Thay is speaking about us being flowers in the garden of humanity. 🙏

[@premnoorie4456]

Thank you 🙏⚘

[@ulsan57]

I am sorry to hear that. Thanks. Your answer.

[@baileyhollynbermond6879]

This is so beautiful and wise. So thankful for his teachings. Bless your journey home TNH. ( I wish the coughing wasn't so frequent and prevalent. Anyone have tips for not letting it bother me? 🙂 ✨ )

[@stevenbursey9624]

I initially struggled with the same feeling. Reflecting on it I came to view the person making those coughs in a compassionate manner. And I used the coughs as a reminder to be mindful, much like the bell. To be present doesn't mean it will all be nice and free of distraction. In my practice if I can tolerate and accept the noise and not lose my peace of mind...then I'm doing ok! Good luck. And yes I'd prefer there to be no coughing but it contains a lesson of acceptance.

[@alidalavezzari4103]

May all living beings obtain illumination

[@biller2000]

“Let’s be an island unto yourself”, Thich Nhat Hahn says. My interpretation from what Thay says, When you are Understanding your own suffering, as a result you can heal your own physical and emotional pain. If I am understanding Thay’s example? Then you can teach others to do the same, and help transform the mental conditions of the people who live on this planet. Understanding is love. This is what Thay says, even though a rare unknown writer named Neely Fuller Junior says, love can’t exist in the presents of injustice. Love is peace. Peace is love. Justice is love, and love is justice. From Mr. Fuller’s perspective, you can’t live on a planet that has injustice occurring everywhere, and still have justice for some, and not for everyone else. That is not logical! As Mr. Fuller would say, you also can’t have peace, friendship, correctness, love without justice. Just like you can’t have love without understanding, as Thay would say. We live in a world where some people have said, and claimed you can have injustice and justice at the same time in the world we live today, doesn’t that sound like a contradiction? You can’t love someone and not understand them. People generally don’t understand themselves and each other. Then how can love and justice exist? One component of love is affection, maybe that is one aspect of what Thay is discussing. Thay will say something of what is to exist with an optimistic expectation that it will happen. Mr. Fuller says, love and justice are all one in the same. Injustice and justice cannot exist simultaneously. Only one can exist at any given time, this is what Mr. Neely Fuller Junior says. Thich Nhat Hahn and Neely Fuller Junior are from the greatest generation. Both of these people work to change the consciousness of all the people on this planet. Let us study their work! Mr. Neely Fuller Junior’s website: www.producejustice.com

[@al_2662]

Collective energy in nyc in general is toxic not completely though. But when he mentioned that I thought of how I moved out of there. It’s not just the physical crime etc this collective energy is sometimes able to be sensed. We need more individuals who can implement healthy environments at work school and residential areas.

[@chongseitmooi2593]

iWish Thay will b transformed his good health as what he was in ths video Namoavelokistevara namobuddisatva namomahasatva He should stay in France his based fr so manyears

[@XOXO-mb2vh]

He's a true Zen master

[@Mickeymouse7727]

Lots of folks these days will argue the sexual thing. They think they got it all figured out. That they are different.

[@xedang6576]

🙏🙏🙏🌷🌷🌷

[@oswinhaas]

I find it very beautiful that "husband" or "wife" in vietnamese means "my home". The english word "husband" also has a link to "house". "hus" means "house". But it seems that "band" means "master". So it would be a role of domination. The etymology of "wife": either the word has its roots in "the one who moves a lot" or in "the one with the "headscarf" 8which is very surprising, especially in these times of the discussion about the Islamic headscarf ...), but no direct link to the "house".

[@jonedeep4.1atxr1.7]

💯🔥🙏 HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH 💯

[@jiggersotoole7823]

25:00 onwards . Embrace your pain with the energy of mindfulness. Etc

[@KRSNALOKO813]

32:16 Invitation of the bell

[@dieuam8154]

Namo Amitabha Buddha

[@jacquelineannepoitras4053]

I love you

[@jacquelineannepoitras4053]

I appreciate very much to hear words I’ve longed for my whole life. I really love your gentle voice. Last time I saw and spoke with my Dad he sounded so similar. Maybe I was hurt so deeply and had wished he could have provided more care towards me and my children. Maybe he wanted to but he knew I had to suffer

[@ramthian]

🙏🙏🙏

[@laust1750]

Have someone give tea to the one coughing..

[@marinaraikis5441]

🙏

[@Ludifant]

If you do anything against your will... to be accepted, what is accepted is not you.. We have no choice, but to be ourselves if our wish is to really be accepted. Else, we take away the ability of another to accept us, by pretending to be something we are not. And we guarantee a bad outcome for ourselves. Even though it may feel like low risk taking, you accept rejection before it is decided.

[@ginamori4970]

Even if you've NEVER done anything against your will, which I HIGHLY DOUBT in this life, and suppose that everything is hunky dory as far as conditions are concerned between moving or not moving. You still will ALWAYS HAVE ONGOING ENTANGLEMENTS WITH YOURSELF AND OTHERS PAINBODIES. SO BUDDHISM DOESNT PLAY AROUND WITH EVERYDAY CHALLENGES. IT IS VERY REAL AND YOU WILL GO SWIMMING WITH YOURSELF EVENTUALLY. ❤

[@pranalip268]

Thay’s words here have helped me in moments when nothing else could. Forever grateful 🙏🏻 Towards the end a portion seems to have been cut out. Where can I access the complete session?

[@karunamayiholisticinc]

Understanding.

[@karunamayiholisticinc]

Need to find the safe home. But it is where we are. Only when we find our true home, a safe home, we can become home for another. Really loved the story he read about the married couple. Love is understanding.

[@upstatenewyork]

What the heck with all the loud coughing of so many people. If you are going to be present at a talk and discover you have an ongoing cough you should leave so you don’t disturb hose around you,

[@me0di3n]

with loving kindness, thầy does not exclude anyone.

[@upstatenewyork]

What does that have to do with anything?

[@me0di3n]

​@@upstatenewyork means some people were not feeling well that was why there were coughing, but with loving kindness, Thầy would not exclude them when he gave talks. Don't forget that most people come for the retreat have a lot of sadness and hardships in their lives. They might not be at the best state of their health.

[@alimohamad2901]

Lol I know right!!

[@fusedart]

its winter. by the way why are you angry with people caughing in the video? thats just the opposite of thay teaching.

[@Happy-Family9999]

🙏❤️🙏

[@ablemayble214]

Love is all

[@KrisTina-hi8ik]

Ty

[@maloumonsma3954]

🙏💞

[@LIVEFIT5D]

I want this spiritual connection with my spouse we connect physically but mentally and spiritually we are apart how do we connect mentally and spiritually

[@lisaariottiart]

I feel like for men mental and spiritual connection must come first or it is forever overshadowed by the physical.

[@sharonlujan9497]

you guys look cool. I want to come to plum village. Nobody loves me..

[@stevenbursey9624]

The trick is to love yourself. You are worthy of self love.

[@namthomson1124]

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[@Tendomcgoobin]

Why do these lectures attract people who are coughing up a lung for 2 hours straight

[@haizzzz7486]

So many watching this and do not understand the impermanence of there own irritation. The coughing just is....

[@Sooryante_lokam]

How about people born genetically different or with metal disorders?

[@SYCZ]

Does everyone attending have COVID or something…? I swear every three seconds is someone coughing.