Transforming Generational Suffering and Hatred | TWOII podcast | Episode #59

In episode 59, Zen Buddhist monk Brother Phap Huu and leadership coach and journalist Jo Confino discuss conflicts in our world. They focus on the war in the Middle East, through the prism of Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings, which remain so relevant in the current moment.
Exploring Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings in relation to conflict, pain, and the path to peace, the presenters investigate ways to not take sides during a conflict, and how Thay managed this during the Vietnam War; deep listening, holding space, and transforming the conflict in us; keeping communities together; cultivating nondiscrimination; walking the path of love and understanding in times of war; and gratitude.
Brother Phap Huu further shares around Thay's legacy of dealing with conflict and the joint retreats he organized for Palestinians and Israelis in Plum Village; ways to show love for humanity; right action and enabling healing in the present moment; the importance of small acts of kindness; our own true presence of peace and nondiscrimination.
Jo also opens up about what it feels like to go through a “period of deconstruction”; being the child of refugees and the deep connection this can create to generational trauma; dealing with the tensions created in organizations by global conflicts; and fear, and how to not be consumed by despair, but, instead, how to feel it in order to transform it.
The episode ends with offerings of gratitude and a short meditation guided by Brother Phap Huu.
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A Cloud Never Dies ➛ plumvillage.org/a-cloud-never...
Interbeing ➛ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbeing
Peace Begins Here ➛ www.parallax.org/product/peac...
Calming the Fearful Mind ➛ www.parallax.org/product/calm...
Love in Action ➛ www.parallax.org/product/love...
Peace Is Every Step ➛ www.parallax.org/product/peac...
The Way Out Is In: ‘War and Peace (Episode #24)’ ➛ plumvillage.org/podcast/war-a...
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Dharma Talks: ‘Right View: Understanding the Roots of Our True Happiness’ ➛ plumvillage.org/library/dharm...
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[@sackmaster91]

Let anger be a bell of mindfulness to invite peace 🙏❤️

[@ParminderChauhan-mm5wk]

Glad to hear you are back . A much needed teachings. Missed your very peaceful and understanding teachings. Peace Peace Peace

[@Dyson750]

Thank you all so much for this wonderful podcast. Dear Brother Phap Huu and Joe, your openness and willingness to share your deepest emotions is truly remarkable. As always, your words brought me great comfort, the world needs your beacon of calming loving light so dearly. I will remember as my bell of mindfulness that darkness cannot extinguish a candle's light. May all truly listen to each other, may all have peace.☮🙏🕊

[@sacredartsroe]

" Far beyond the concept of bad people and good people There is a field. See you there." - Rumi - ❤💙💚

[@giri.nugraha]

Deep deep gratitude for creating and sharing it. Namaste

[@desireewhitehouse2773]

Thank you for shining the light.Thank you dear brother for your loving kindness, and offering a wonderful meditation 🙏🪷

[@annjellybean22]

Wow, chills and tears with the umbrella!!

[@marthasadler3055]

Thank you for showing how to find gratitude. Thank you for your practice and this podcast.

[@colleendeane7888]

I am grateful to have heard this sharing from the heart. Thay's candle is burning brightly

[@SmithBrookHollow]

1:04:49 This discourse by Brother Phap Huu is a beautiful continuation of Thay! Br Phap Huu showed the getting of wisdom here as he humbly moved this conversation into gentle, soothing and nonjudgmental dharma for us all. A Lotus for you, Br Phap Huu!

[@plumvillageapp]

Dear friend, thank you for listening! A lotus for you 🙏

[@shrimpie202]

How do you not judge this evil ? I’m shocked by plum village stance. Thank goodness we had Churchill and not Plum village in 1930s or we would be living under the Third Reich . When they come for the Buddhists- you’ll have no one left to speak up for you.

[@tinaoldenskov]

Merci beaucoup, je vous écoute en boucle; chaque fois comme la premiere.

[@meplanas]

Thank you.

[@annd6082]

Thank you for another wonderful and much needed podcast! 🙏❤️

[@plumvillageapp]

Thank you for listening! A lotus for you 🙏

[@judithkahn7143]

Thank you both so much for coming back! Sharing from the heart in really difficult times. Thank you, thank you😊 ❤

[@michelebewick9761]

Thank you 🎉it is lovely to hear your voices 🤩💗💗

[@tntpang2036]

Thank you both for coming back. The light you illiminated is beyond words of gratefulness

[@melissalemke8614]

Thank you for this today.

[@plumvillageapp]

Thank you for listening dear friend. A lotus for you, Plum Village App team, plumvillage.app (the app is completely free)

[@karenelton8210]

Love listening and experiencing your teachings. My practice of life has benefitted greatly. Much gratitude and Love ❤️

[@daslafrika6990]

Thank you deeply for this and your deep sharing from the heart. It was so good to have you back.🙏

[@elkem-o.geerdetfriedvollle7234]

Thank you so much , this is hope und deep healing 🙏🙏☀️☀️🌻🌻

[@elefantcastle]

Thank you so much ❤

[@lindamaree2630]

I very much understand the need to take time for oneself. And it is so good to hear your voices again and share in the deepness of your discussions 🙏🏼💙 Peace 🌎

[@armandefrance701]

Thank you and welcome welcome, so happy that you are both back. Thank you 🙏🏽for this mindful communication, I can feel the sense of peace and acknowledgement of human suffering, how simple yet difficult it can be within ourselves, thank you🙏🏽. Listening-hearing you both speak feels like being held.

[@Skevanston]

Thank you Dear Brother and Mr. Confino. Such a helpful rest and guide to awareness. Thank you so much.

[@plumvillageapp]

We are very happy to bring you the soothing balm of the teachings of Thay and Plum Village. A lotus for you, PV App team plumvillage.app (A monastery for your pocket.)

[@ParminderChauhan-mm5wk]

Breathe and be present . Peace to all mankind .

[@misinca]

Thank you, Br Phap Huu and Jo. In these difficult times, let practice in order to our inner peace could shine and build outer peace. 🙏🪷

[@lincatt]

Thank you so very much.. you help very much❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@denisekassal5949]

I waited patiently and you showed up this a.m in deep gratitude 🙏🏽 collective peace consciousness is the way. Love to all 🩵 🌍

[@plumvillageapp]

Beautiful warm words dear friend. Thank you for sharing. A lotus for you, Plum Village App team, plumvillage.app (the app is completely free)

[@barbaramcspadden8655]

Much appreciation for your POV I can rely on being from a broader perspective.❣️ There's been much confusion and I get the feeling we all want the same peace and cooperation with one another without really knowing. Thank you for being present. This is a unprecedented spiritual war. 💙

[@shrimpie202]

We do not “all” want the same peace and the West - which protects Buddhists- needs to open its eyes.

[@leni.m1]

What 👀 I thought you were all in Rains Retreat 😄 Nevertheless, I have never been one to look a gift horse in the mouth 😉 Thank you friends ❤ We wish you a nourishing Rains Retreat 🙏

[@cottrosbc]

❤thank you!!!

[@julialucas8394]

Thank you so much 🤍🤍🙏🙏

[@happytraveller8953]

Respectfully, may I add a thought: we get out of this by remembering that we are of one tribe: the human family. It's not a matter of 'wokeism' (as someone commented on) by acknowledging the pain being suffered by the Palestinian AND the Israeli people. Death is death no matter to whom it happens. We also need to follow the Buddha's teaching of remembering that everyone has at one time or another, been our mother and that we all need to remember that person's kindness to us in a previous life. This horrific killing by bombs is killing all of our mothers and it is not woke to call attention to that nor to cry over the blood spilled by both sides. And, if you further follow Buddha's teachings, then yes, even Hamas needs kindness and compassion because they are suffering their own samsara (I am NOT saying that what they did was right; it was heinous and disgusting because they erred against the precept of no killing) from their own making. what I hear is Brother Phap Huu being burdened by yet another terrible event in the world and there are no good answers to how to get mankind off this rotten samsara wheel.

[@shrimpie202]

I just feel plum village followers are very leftie , crying for the suffering of Palestinians caused by Israelis but not for suffering caused to Palestinians by Hamas… I do not think Thay would fall into the two-sidesism he was more sophisticated.

[@shrimpie202]

All the same , helpful . ❤

[@shrimpie202]

Respectfully, not sure Brother Phap Huu is educated enough in the world - the historical dimension- to be up to this & fear he is under the influence of Wokeism taking over Plum Village since Thay’s disappearance. Not sure Thay would have applied moral equivalence,, this “both sideism” to a terror group , nor equivalence between Hamas and interest of Palestinians. Very disappointed in Plum Village aligning itself with the woke movement.

[@theminingsage]

Did you not listen to the part where he said that Tyne did not take sides and that his side was the site of peace, Israel nor Hamas are on the side of peace You are the one who is lost in politics

[@shrimpie202]

@@theminingsage Hi. I do adore Brother Phap Huu . I just think that while Thay had a doctorate and was extremely educated, plum village is falling into the Woke ideology. Only a Woke person would think the Palestinians were suffering because of the Israelis- they live under a jihadi dictatorship and are brainwashed whereas the Woke believe they’re colonized . I’m not lost in politics- but really they haven’t even been able to identify the bodies of October 7 and plum village is chiming in with the @both sidesism so characteristic of the Woke . I just don’t think Thay would fall for this. I’m very disappointed in plum village .