Sixteen Steps of Mindful Breathing | Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh

This talk available on the FREE Plum Village App ➛ link.plumvillage.app/nD8F is an excerpt from a Dharma talk during the ‘Mindfulness Retreat for Educators’ which covers all 16 exercises as explained by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
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✩ Excerpt from a talk originally recorded on August 13, 2013. Watch the full talk here ➛ • Mindfulness Retreat fo...
✩ Length: 27 minutes and 56 seconds
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✩ Find out more about the 16 steps of mindful breathing by listening to these episodes of The Way Out Is In podcast ➛ link.plumvillage.app/dAf9 (The Heart of Meditation - Part One) ➛ link.plumvillage.app/a4LG (The Heart of Meditation - Part Two)
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[@yukio_saito]

It's timely for me. There is a lot of toxic information available online. We need to choose carefully what to read. 📖

[@mariestirzaker500]

Long live the spirit of Thai who teaches us the other spirits he walked with. Beautiful Tree. Thank you to Plum village for posting this teaching. Peace and joy to anyone listening ❤

[@2hard2knock]

I deeply miss the great master. Feeling privileged to have walked the earth when you too had mindfully walked it.❤

[@johnherberte8131]

Thankyou so much for making these teachings freely available.

[@Englishroserebecca]

Just the sound of his voice and his smile calms me.

[@babciamira9556]

I am so immensely grateful that you have reordered Him and I can now listen to Thay and see him and feel as he would be still among us.

[@JWoodf]

Always with us. A cloud never dies ❤ 🌱 🌧️

[@popcornnoble437]

Thank you for sharing this Darma talk by a great teacher.❤

[@miaiam9555]

Thank you for still touching my mind heart and soul. I feel huged everytime i hear his empathic voice and teaching. Love.

[@miamichel4586]

I really needed to go over these steps again. I love the way they are laid out in sections and how he shows how they are interconnected in this video. This helped me a great deal, I gained much insight while watching this last night. Thank you so much to everyone at Plum Village for helping me with my practice. 🙏

[@dan-andreivasilescu228]

Thay has embodied Presence itself in everything🙏😊🍵

[@MrTomasz23]

Namaste 🙏 thank you, Thich Nhat and Plum m Village. Vital education

[@mirimeijers9053]

This beautiful talk is about more than mindful breathing. Thank you for posting this

[@anoshya]

Thay was my good friend on the Path..he enriched my life for 32 years and that of my family..I do not miss him as he is with us all the time . Thankyou Thay my dear friend and guide

[@raphaelfritzler8228]

Thank you for sharing this with us. What a blessing. It took me a long time to finally come home to the breath in this moment ❤️

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You lucky dog 😅

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Thank you so much for sharing and love and light to all listeners and to the wonderful teacher🤍🤍🤍

[@PrettyWhiteLady]

"Hello, Fear, I know you are there. I will take good care of you."💗

[@misinca]

Thank you so much for the Thây's beautiful speech on mindful breathing. Greetings from Spain 🪷🙏

[@colBe-ex9re]

wonderful clarity and warmth. a terrific summary of the recent "the way out is in" podcasts on The Heart fo Meditation pts 1&2.

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Sending love in support of you.❤️

[@jorgeotalpelayo5849]

Muchas gracias desde España! Las enseñanzas de Thay son maravillosas! ❤❤❤

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Thank you so much for sharing this valuable content to let us all participate in his teachings❤🙏🏼

[@Theplainwalker]

“Hello fear, I will take care of you.” ❤ This is so powerful.

[@isabelkassan5244]

Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us! Watering the good seeds!

[@maispourquoi8672]

“Hello fear, you’re there, I’ll take good care of you.”

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Thankyou Thay🙏🙏🙏

[@maryannechilds6459]

Very true ❤ nurture yr gd seeds ❤

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Thank you for sharing this🙏🙏🙏

[@belapatel651]

Thank you so much for making it available for everyone... It's very helpful ❤

[@colleendeane7888]

Perfection. Thank you Thay

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Thank you so much So nice

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🙏🙏🙏 Thank You , Dear Sir.

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Selective Watering...thats a very good one.

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Blessings

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I 🤍 THAY 😊 ✨️ 🙏🏻 Muchas gracias!

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Luna Lotus, Thank you for providing sources of what Thai is teaching. ♥️

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[@balajib785]

This monks never hurt any one indutuvals the are sacrificing their whole life to find the truth ஃ❤

[@sindrefritzner]

On how to approach the meditation, what would TNH say? if you have a strong thought or feeling, you would start from the beginning and methodically work your way through all the points or you go faster to the relevant points, e.g. 9,10,11 12? Some experience?

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[@beki1377]

my son doesn’t want to hear me… he is intoxicating every day with his internet & games…😢 I cannot change him and this is hard for me to accept

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[@jennyfernandez895]

The teachings are wonderful, but I still don’t know how to do the practice. I meditate on the breath, mind wonders, I come back to the breath, repeat. But how do I water the good seeds? Am I supposed to think a particular way? Say something specific to myself? Is there another teaching here that shows you what to do? Suggestions gratefully received 💚🙏🌱

[@HelloHaveFunWithMe]

Ajahn Sona said you have to create those feelings. They are not just gonna come by themselves. Effort is needed. Buddha calls it Right Effort the 6th path factor of Noble Eightfold Path. In the beginning your efforts will create a seed of joy and compassion. You may not feel them because they are just seeds and are not grown. You have to water those seeds until they become big enough for harvesting. Buddha calls it Gardening of your mind. First you need to get rid of the weeds known as 5 Hindrances (Desire, Anger, Laziness, Restlessness and Skeptical Doubt). Then you have to remove the roots of the Hindrances which are the 10 Fetters (Beliefs in self or identity, attachment to body, beliefs, opinions etc. Attachment to anger and objects of sense pleasures. etc. Be aware of the cessation of hindrances and more). Then you can start planting seeds of joy and compassion. Wait for them to grow.

[@mmichelehcimm]

@@HelloHaveFunWithMe Thank you

[@fingerprint5511]

People, this teaching was not invented by Thay, it is the Anapanasati Sutta from the Buddha. The Buddha employed these 16steps on the night of his awakening. If you look up the Sutta and practice, you will be doing skillful things in the Dhamma.

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Thay never said these teachings were his....he only brought it to us. So sit on it. Nobody wants to hear you.

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In fact Thay mentions a number of times that they are teachings of the Buddha. Strange comment from the OP. Maybe they only want the Buddha to teach these practices​@@user-mc9ec4kx8t

[@MicheledaFirenze-je6lw]

It's dangerous to do any kind of breating technique. Some are very intense and people who are not very settled with their mind and/or emotions, become mentally ill. So beware what you tell others here ("skillful"). -> In buddhist traditions there are paths to follow like guidelines because of that. Beginners should always start with basic practices. Like in every Sport or other skill. Starting with advanced stuff and you will probably fail and loose happiness and interest.

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Thaï is a/the bouddha of this moment you are the bouddha of one moment too!

[@brookibrowning687]

Yes, he is sharing teachings of the Buddha. Is this not what he does, typically? Thank you for sharing the original source.

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What good is winning if loosing can't graduate? r.p.

[@dututhewanderer.5266]

Buddha's warning that only few people know: < Don't believe anything before you have witnessed it yourself> Apologies to the reverent Buddhists who praised this monk. The following words are only for Buddhists who sincerely seek Supreme Liberation: If this monk knows the Buddhist Nature, please share it, if not, please continue reading... The world is a fantasy, whether Good or Evil, whether Righteous or Evil, whether Holy or Mortal, whether Sangha or Ordinary, Good or Bad Luck, is just the phenomenon of birth and death of the world of particulars, both the body and the sensory consciousness... i.e. ethereal flowers ... are all lessons to awaken oneself from samsara in the dream realm, which is the Buddhist's goal, not to hide from unhappy afflictions and seek lowly petty happy satisfactions. All karmas are self-inflicted, all year round hearing all the falsehoods from the mouths of others, committing yourself to the sheep's duty, praising flattery and fetishism prove nothing, how can you see the salvation yourself, even once... Today's monks, some of whom are also endowed with the title of Zen Master, most of them preach what they interpreted the Dharma according to their own opinions or from the sutras, just as Christian missionaries or philosophy teachers specialized in Buddhist teachings, have nothing to do with the True Nature of Buddha. They are just nerds, sitting cool, eating countless bowls of porridge offered from the worshippers, just to gather knowledge, sooner or later that knowledge will dissolve with their flesh and bones. Mercifully... for Buddhists ... the blind follows the blind ... PAINTED CAKE, EMPTY WORD The catchy title draws viewers in, but we don't need to know the content of the clip. The sole purpose of Buddhism is to escape life and death. Liberation is to witness one's own truth, or Buddha Nature, and to live with it in all daily activities, besides, all external scriptures, teachings, and philosophies are mere empty words, and every form of cultivation is a farce. Buddha is formless by nature. The Way is inherently pathless. Not knowing own Mind Fall into the Mara’s trap! 3 repeated copies, the original truth is no longer the truth. The Buddha's teachings speak only half the truth. After being written into scriptures and translated into many languages, the other half is missing, so the sermons, analysis, commentaries, are just clichés … The teacher who is good at teaching, not Buddhist monk. a. If anyone should see me through form b. Or see me through sound c. Such a one walks on the wrong road d. Anh would never see the Tathagata The religion that does not lead to self-liberation, not Buddhism. Cultivating in the sound and form for general hearing, thinking and remembering is the practice of the Evil Way. Buddhism must be authenticated by Buddha... What is Buddha? Meditation can only transmit from Mind to Mind... What is mind? Monks have a talent for drawing a cake that they themselves had never eaten. Due to being hungry and eat their painted cake, how can you be full? In the same way, because of experiencing many afflictions of suffering, closing your eyes and ears believing in the EMPTY words from the mouth of the greedy monk who fills his stomach with stolen knowledge, that cannot be used, like the novice's interpretation to children, how can you get rid of the affliction of suffering? Finally, the Buddha said, "In 49 years long of preaching the Dharmas, I have never said a word about the Way." So, are there any words in the scriptures or from the mouths of monks are true? Only the Way within us is the True Way, that cannot deceive us. Be confident in yourself, you are your teacher, called ‘Own Master’.

[@Growing4LovePeace]

Thay practiced Buddhism walking mindfully through the American war in Vîetnam. And he is not ranting, sensless, hissing, angry, and arrogant like you. Peace on your healing journey.

[@dututhewanderer.5266]

@@Growing4LovePeace My opinions about this monk, not about you, or anyone other than him, you don't need to be so angry about my opinions. Besides, if he were still alive, and I had the opportunity to meet him face to face, he would be astonished if I pointed out if he was really a Zen master or a Buddhist monk. But surely your condemnations of me prove nothing about his hollow philosophies. What I'm writing here is only for Buddhists seeking liberation or the Truth, if you're not one of them, you don't need to bother, none of your business, anyway.

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