Resting in God | Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh | Day 1 of the Israeli Palestinian Retreat (2003)

We are re-publishing this Dharma Talk from October 20 2003, recorded in the first day of a retreat in Plum Village for Palestinians and Israelis, where Thich Nhat Hanh offered his perspective on resolving conflict based on Buddhist teachings as well as his own experience of war in Vietnam.
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[@soundyoucantouch]

This retreat were talked about in so many books of Thay. Finally I can be a part of it almost 20 years later. Much needed at this time when the world once again find itself in major warfare... Gratitude to Plum Village for releasing this footage!

[@joselycarvalho]

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[@dietersteffens770]

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[@jeanmcalister1600]

Thai 's teaching has never been more needed in the world at this time. Thankyou Plum Village!

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[@TJolteon]

How much more relevant his message is, how much more precious his teachings become. We carry Thay with us.

[@TheDekramer]

For years Thay has been a grounding presence in my life. A true beacon of love and compassion. I have so many quotes and lines from him, and in times of trouble will recite them. They really do help me act from a place of mindfullness and compassion. Rest easy friend, Ill see you in the blooming of flowers, the playing of children, and the openness of the sky

[@jennifergrant6873]

Beautiful ☀️🌻💕

[@tinamallin2570]

🙌

[@JWoodf]

So beautifully said 💐🌱❤️

[@plein-soleil]

🙏🧡 Resting in God Here & Now 🙏🧡 I have arrived 🧡🙏 I am home 🙏🧡 In the here 🧡🙏 In the now 🙏🧡 I am solid 🧡🙏 I am free 🙏🧡 In the ultimate 🧡🙏 I dwell 🙏🧡

[@anoshya]

When I wake at perhaps 3am and can’t sleep I think of Thay and feel he is with us all the time…indeed a medicine for us…listening to him has improved the quality of my being and lessened the fears which followed me even in my dreams. Thankyou Thay my friend

[@JaninaHughes]

What a wonderful teaching both in it's depth and simplicity, and so relevant in today's troubled world.

[@OHaraMcNamara]

Missing him deeply tonight. My dear, dear Thay, you are so loved, still. You are so alive and present. Arriving at every moment, still.

[@roncephil5021]

❤️

[@SirChronDonIII]

Even though he is no longer here I feel that he is still with us. I still learn from his teachings and videos. Gratitude to Plum Village for keeping his videos up!

[@suzywalsh7906]

I almost multitasked myself into the grave. I’m so glad I’ve learned how to be still and do nothing.

[@kelvinnguyen5625]

Thank you so much Venerable Thay. I'm so happy to learn from your deep teachings. I love when you explain on being solid in order to be free and happy. Hello Suzy Walsh, how are you doing?

[@tntpang2036]

So happy to be able to listen to the master. Peace to the world!!

[@rethinking2023]

Compassion, Loving kindness, connectedness with joy day after day word by word thanks to THAY Love and blessings 🙏

[@misinca]

Wonderful talk! Listen to Thây is so beautiful! Thank you, Plum Village Sangha, for the video. Greetings from Spain 🪷 🙏

[@ezfungi]

"A cloud never dies" Thank you master Thay and dear friends of the sangha 🙏🏻

[@jerklecirque138]

Thank you for all these recent uploads of Thay.

[@sleepycat224]

I Have arrived. I’m home. Live in the present moment. Where else. That’s where life is. Here, now! Love that expression 💖 How right you are/where dear Thay in how to live a life. Here and now. Bless you and I feel you are here - in a flower, a candle, in my thoughts. You are present to me. Bless you always dear Thay 🙏🏻💖✨🕯🕉☸️

[@emmanuelweinman9673]

you can’t arrive home if you never left. going in and out of the awareness of All is part of the interplay of All. We are All part of the same Being. We are all being continuously now. Home is not a place. Home is a space of being. we call This space God. God is just a word. Words can never live up to the experience. Just live. Life is miraculous. Om Namah Shivaya 🙏🏼

[@amonymiriamnancy7586]

You leave home so many times. Worries, anxiety, pressures, challenges, anger, bitterness etc always stray us from "home" unwillingly or unknowingly. This is why we must be mindful, we must always return home to peace, solidity, and stability in the here and now. Living life with our full presence and awareness. Hari Om!

[@leanh4435]

Thầy has always been fresh, happy and free. That’s why Thầy is able to water and sprout these seeds in countless numbers of people in the world 🌸🙏🌸. Deep gratitude 🌻🙏🙏🙏🌻

[@leanh4435]

🌸🙏🙏🙏🌸😍❤️🍀🌹

[@tanginpoh3992]

I hv arrived...I am home...in the here...and the now 🙏🙏🙏

[@leanh4435]

@@tanginpoh3992 🌻🙏🙏🙏🌻😍❤️🍀🌹

[@woah6958]

He has also experienced unimaginable pain.

[@leanh4435]

@@woah6958 🍀🙏🙏🙏🍀💚💐

[@JOANANTONIFERNANDEZ]

Sacred and Eternal Master ✨🙏🏻✨

[@sarareco8008]

Beloved Thay Dear Sangha thanks for be here .I wish Love and peace for all, from Catalonia

[@Iamthepossum]

I and so many millions of people love him so much; he is truly like a Father we never had. Of course; Thay decided as a young monk to not marry and have children; taking the vows of a monastic; but I imagine too what would be the weight of having such an extraordinary parent, and how difficult it would be to feel that I was living up to his expectations. I imagine that he would always be disappointed in me, and I would feel I was failing him. I wonder sometimes if his monastics at Plum Village ever had that emotional dimension open up in their life in his footsteps. I wonder if they ever felt that they were letting him down, if they struggled with mindfulness after receiving the precepts; I wonder if they ever didn’t feel they measured up when compared with his leadership. I know that’s how I would feel; as deeply as I feel connected to his teachings and his memory. 🙏🏻❤️. Much love to you all as we continue to try to evolve into the people he wanted to see in the world, and apply his teachings to our lives ❤️🙏🏻

[@rodneypratt9700]

Needed this healing , comforting word ! Peace & Blessings!

[@lOwlEyesl]

One of my favorite dharma talks by Thay!

[@TheGinguk]

Thank you. This is much needed in these trying times.

[@thuylieuphanthi7380]

Thanks for everybodycare to my grandfather when he was this place and when he have just died, which is carefully and enough everything. Thanks everybody very much!

[@kelvinnguyen5625]

Let us all be peacemakers at home and global communities at this particular time... 🙏 grateful for all of you ❤ Trying to make peace in my body mind family 👪 Neighbors refugees in Vietnam and prayers for the world.

[@23Bentley45]

Thank you. This is a treasure.

[@baileyekd]

Thankful. Grateful. Gratitude to Plum Village for sharing this retreat with the world. Peace to all. Find refuge in the Present Moment in the here and Now. The world needs this 🙏🤍🙏

[@jenniferolsen2305]

I thank you so much, Thay. I am sorry to have found you after you, beautiful cloud, have transformed into water, or some other part life... And yet, I am not sorry, because you made these videos to go on helping people, like me... and here I am being, concentrating, loving, learning, and at peace in mindfulness. I love you Thay! Thank you for your blessings and teachings that you have given the world!

[@hoaha8903]

Let us all be peacemakers at home and global communities at this particular time (including President Putin and all leaders around the world). Let us replacing the letter A of “Arrogance” in the middle of WAR word with “Angel”. Arrogance only brings destruction for our beautiful earth, while acting as an angel we can create PEACE, JOY, LOVE, FAITH, HOPE immediately for all sentient beings. May peace be with us in each breath. THE BELL 🔔

[@fab302]

Brings warmth in my heart

[@Eyes_Unclouded]

🥰

[@wheniamhome]

thank you for this. so beautiful.

[@sumaiasaif82]

I felt inspred to look up Thay and the situation in Palestine and truly blessed to find this. I'm behond grateful. 🤍

[@margrietbrandsma000]

Grateful.

[@muttlee9195]

We need you now Thay ❤️

[@Iamthepossum]

He’s still with you! ❤️ we keep him alive in our hearts by listening to these wonderful discourses his monks so lovingly curate for us ❤️ and being peace in the world 🙏🏻 we find him again every time we walk in the pure land of the Buddha 🌹 sending you thoughts of support from one virtual sangha member to another ✊🏻

[@muttlee9195]

@@Iamthepossum ❤️🙏❤️

[@evangelinacortes708]

Thank you LOVED THAY for this beautiful chant. I have arrived I'm home in the here in the now. I'm solid, I'm free.... My Honor and Gratitude to you for all the eternity. EC.

[@HelenasUkulele]

Solidity and freedom is the foundation of your peace 🙏

[@jamesblack9382]

Learned much from him and it makes sense what he says. My life has been better because of him. Blessings to all life.

[@EricBachet]

Merci Maître ! 🙏🙏🙏

[@evangelinacortes708]

Thank you so much Venerable Thay. I'm so happy to learn from your deep teachings. I love when you explain on being solid in order to be free and happy. Solid-Free together great combination-fusion WONDERFUL! EC.

[@JenS-oz2mo]

Thank you Thich Nhat Hanh. Your gift to all, within all, is infinitely present though your form has since passed away. Thank you. 🙏🙏🙏

[@thuylieuphanthi7380]

Thanks everybody very much! I want to gives thanks for myfriends are living in Paris. All This person are kind, careful, help with mygrandfather in France.

[@gabryg1849]

Grazie mille ancora Maestro Thay, and to you Sangha too.. 🙏❤

[@sanjayram1101]

Thay transformed me completely

[@tigistusiba7837]

An amazing teaching of the most important things in our life to which we couldn't pay attention!! An amazing teacher, Thick Nhat Hanhs! Thank God that he prepares his unique teachers for us!!

[@alfreddifeo9642]

Thanks for sharing your wisdom and love of truth. Blessings,peace and love to all beings of the universes and the courage to be free thru Grace.

[@lordbyron3603]

The wave and the water …. metaphor for God ! I finally understand.

[@chongseitmooi2593]

Remain d best of Dharma talks❤ natural Buddha wisdom words. I can sense d peacefullness with Thay sl voice

[@user-tn2rc8ww3o]

dear Thay, i will try to practice eating and enjoying breakfast better. i often forget it, already in a hurry to get the day started. i am very gratefull to have met you, to have been your student, a few years as a monastic, and now as a young father and counsollor, i try to be a beautifull continuation of your life and teaching. listening to you today at my work i found some healing and letting go.

[@thuylieuphanthi7380]

Thanks you very much!

[@SisterSunnyFreeSpirit]

When you are ready, the teachers will come...

[@kelvinnguyen5625]

This video takes me to where I want to be in wonderful relaxed meditative awakening.. in peace. we miss you. Hello how are you?

[@kristindrijvers4579]

♡♡♡from the Netherlands

[@maryannsteffler3044]

Thankful for your help That❤️

[@kelvinnguyen5625]

Oh yes, am glad he help us with his teaching before he pass away, Where are you from?

[@jarhead57vn]

Mahalo for reminder to be present and that I can do it. A beautiful gift to hear Ti speaking ❤️

[@johnbeck382]

These talks are the best

[@amyconnell5448]

Thank you for the gift of these teachings at this time💚🌻🙏

[@irenamangone]

Thank you.

[@graceacer9369]

Thank you

[@evangelinacortes708]

This special Retreat is for every single person around the world. I have learned a lot from the lovely words Thay give to the Israeli and Palestinian people, because this class apply right here and now, not only at 2003 year. EC.

[@denisekassal5949]

So beautiful this world 🌎 needs this now!

[@evangelinacortes708]

Freedom means no past no future, just present moment. Marvelous insight in order to enjoy life. EC.

[@joanneclark709]

🙏 grateful for all of you ❤ Trying to make peace in my body mind family 👪 Neighbors refugees in Ukraine 🇺🇦 and prayers 🙏 for our wonderful Mother Earth 🌎 and all of us human beings, creatures, 🪴 plants, incects. Amen. Looking deeply into my fear perceptions . Thank you sangha. 😊

[@thuylieuphanthi7380]

I wish that the best with for everybody this place in Paris, France.

[@Beingkindfeelsgood]

Sitting here, atop the valley of a mountain. The tent becomes a cave. Poor is this humble person indeed. Wearing every cloth to stay warm. Being quiet, observing the noise down below and above. No thing is at peace. The good people don't slow down long enough to notice. Living their whole lives, as participants, in the midst of a war zone.

[@pauljung3534]

"How do I have to be, to free the sum, whole and best of me?" "It is the whole of me, which matters most, of which comes the most." "I have a physical body, a mental body, an emotional body, and an external body. Attend to that which needs strengthening. Adding strength to one, adds strength to all." "When the body talks, I listen. And when the body heals, I glisten." "To sense, is to sustain, is to soar." "To weigh and balance all, is to come into harmony." ~ Paul Jung

[@margietimmons7400]

Be still and know, that, I am God!

[@jerusalemhealth784]

Now more than ever..

[@brotherchristopher2149]

He reminds me of what Jesus would be like. 🙏

[@tonyduncan3243]

Namo amithaba buddha 🙏 ♥

[@beonelove3483]

🙏💯🎯🕉🌈🌞🦋🖤🪞🤍🦋🌞🌈🕉🎯💯🙏 Thank You

[@louisesumrell6331]

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the "present".

[@margietimmons7400]

Be still and that I am God

[@pauljung3534]

"Truth & beauty, that cannot be denied, is proof that God does exist." "And, as life's true beauty unfolds, I find I need no other currency." ~ Paul Jung

[@karunamayiholisticinc]

This reminded me of seeing a monk drinking tea in a restaurant for almost an hour. Never seen anyone so content mindfully drinking that one glass of tea. Sorry my mind went into past. Not being mindful. 🙏🏻

[@selvakarthik8708]

This moment for me is full of dark energies, suffering and literally a desert for me. I couldnt stay in present and i dpnt want to suffer the hell called present moment

[@Pfau1]

❤️❤️❤️ TNH ❤️❤️❤️

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[@Arentjansz]

Wonderstuck😇 zo wise

[@nisheethkhanna9121]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@jimmydakthon3433]

U are a true Buddhist Preacher . Help many life . A simple life as a monk. And no political .or live a lavish life . And enjoy lime light. As there are famous Buddhists monk . Have fane and do nothing. Sorry to say that

[@mkh2799]

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[@waindayoungthain2147]

If’s laziness is one choice for me and the children, I am justifying it with wrongs voting 🗳 for freedom 🙏🏻. Please advise me on wisdom is ?

[@theangendeavor9910]

The past is no longer there, There is no future...only on a calendar. The only reality is the ultimate reality which is the here and the now. I have arrived I am home. It is a practice not a statment.

[@alotapotago8766]

I have arrived

[@august_19]

Thich Nhat Hanh: (imparts great wisdom) Audience: *coughs*

[@NuLiForm]

ya...that always gets me too

[@me0di3n]

please have compassion for those who coughed just as Thay did, and I am sure you can for the seed of love and tolerance is in you. Their coughing is an indication of their frail physical and emotional health, otherwise, they would not be in the retreat. Just like us, we would not watch this precious teaching if there is no pain in us.

[@august_19]

@@me0di3n thank you for reminding me. I let negative emotion get the best of me.

[@NuLiForm]

@@me0di3n ..sometimes...the obvious is not so obvious as it should be, especially so when we are grieving...i will remember your words because they are Right...Thank You

[@me0di3n]

@@NuLiForm @Gus S I have to thank you for giving me the chance to water the seed of love in me as I reminded you of the beautiful seeds that are already in you. :)

[@stevesewall]

Picnic! Lazy Days!

[@farrahfrench7690]

Where can we take refuge from our own body killing us?

[@guillermoantoniohenaoarias9124]

Traduccion al espñol

[@roncephil5021]

❤️❤️❤️

[@EasyVonDutch-Legacy]

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[@perdurabo56]

31:00

[@SCzxjk]

This a buatyful talk by a buatyful person

[@kimballbarrett1961]

picnic tent enjoy cooking teacher and student no picnic so busy always running being lazy days on your own camping teaching go to picnic our picnic war fear anger not ready to the picnic right now enjoy the sitting is a pleasure be peace right here and right now body suffers so much peace to rest bring peace to the body sad painful feelings unpleasant time right here and now anger fear emotions how to handle our fear anger handle anger wrong perception all feelings daily life free leaf on the water master the situation victim come home no victim peace in you begin to one self then to the other peace ultimate reality give up cannot go on refuge in god buddha wave on the ocean up and down refuge recognize not afraid seek in god buddha allah being peace resting in god wave born and die solid long lasting lasting wave want water go home to the self wave realize she is water resting in god what is god who is god what is buddha the ultimate taking in notions trust your in breath take refuge in your step how to take a step 100 in the in breath habit or running running fulling peace in your touch in your feet slow walking step back to the present moment touch life plane 6 rs think of new york arrive some where arrive the present moment i have arrived i have stopped running only the present stopping is very important arrive in the here now go home to the here and now stop running touch peace in breath manifest take refuge living in the here and now running all your life very crucial picnic right now enjoyable touch remove the conflict mindfulness of consciousness and insight reclaim our freedom sangha easy seed of peace i have arrived in the here an now wonder in nature this is the practice arrive at any moment enjoy one thing at a time walking in the kingdom of god buddha breathing in refuge true home ancestors hom no need to run home is here here is life body pain emotions feelings perception reality live in our perceptions freedom some wrong fear like mindfulness consciousness explore home to our mind born spirit in the here and now take deeply is your step in touch now very healing have it now in the present enjoy home in the now here is the now in the here in here and the now 3friends touching just enjoy in the here and now try to pulled past a ghost you are not solid victim of i have arrive i am the here and now arrive at home solid a fact i am solid i am free foundation of in the wave resting in buddha touching ultimate god a reality touching i have arrive enjoy smile refuge wonder 16 year stick 100 percent in body home pick up glass in the present moment smile to it stay no past and past mindfulness and concentration mental formation breath in no the 100 percent mindfulness of real drinking true home the sunshine energy of what is there drink tea peace and joy not outside yogurt take the time today a cup of the tea allow your self that a big peace and joy mindful enjoy deeply into what is there flower tea joy freedom from worries peace in breakfast happiness can be great why waist the time take 30 min as a free person lunch wonder of life take refuge in touch with the ultimate bell enjoy to the meditation hall rest room pot of flower water in the fingers smile tooth brushing urinate joyful our picnic mindful concentration heals is joyful voice of god to come home always in kingdom of god Kimball Barrett

[@StressRUs]

Too many humans using too many natural resources and producing too much pollution, sadly, spoil the picnic. Stress R Us

[@StressRUs]

Solopsism will not save humanity or the planet, only a worldwide voluntary movement for family planning/contraception can save our potential offspring from a shorter life of agony and death. Thinking only of myself is a fool's errand, although I love this dear courageous man and his Buddhist way. I am a practicing Buddhist, but also take action to alert humanity to our massive overpopulation driving the death of every other life-form before our onslaught. Stress R Us

[@kimballjim242]

, to z

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[@thuylieuphanthi7380]

Im very bad....hihi...

[@kelvinnguyen5625]

Hello em, Where do em live?