Reverence is the Nature of Our Revolution| Brother Phap Dung | 2019 11 03

Br Phap Dung teaches on community living and reverence in our life and in our practice.
Br Phap Dung encourages us to give 100% of our being to the practice, much like a newly ordained novice.
The Plum Village community is a community of resistance, a radical, non-violent, 2,500 year old resistance movement, dating back to the time of the Buddha's sangha. Our teacher's vision of a renewed and engaged Buddhism is one where we participate fully in life. It is an applied practice with contemplation. A practitioner is a revolutionary, one who is working toward liberation from one's afflictions and other mind-binding activities. It is a revolution of how we look at our suffering and how we can be free of our fear of suffering.
Br Phap Dung encourages us cherish our life in the present moment, to look at where our suffering comes from, our ideas, our need to plan for the future. What is the nature of our suffering?
Time is needed to develop respect and love. The more we understand ourselves and other beings, the more reverence we have. Reverence is also not just for beings, but also for the things we produce, such as clothing, electricity and clean water. Material things also have spirit and a cost to someone. Can we bow to our trash bin?
Those taking part in the environmental movement need to instill an awareness of reverence in their actions. Seeing interbeing prevents us from falling into dualism which creates toxins in our mind and causes burn-out. As humans we have foresight and can predict the future but this ability may become a source of fear and anxiety. Perhaps we will need to mourn for the ending of our civilization, but after caring for the grief, our actions still need to come from a place of reverence and love
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[@ConexionHumanaOficial]

Great homework you have given me Br Phap Dung. Thank you so much for helping me to learn how to live better giving me 100% of my being to the practice. Great Dharma Talk. Evangelina Cortes.

[@KimHuynh-pd2jo]

Thank you for posting I’ve been lucky to have listened to this talk today and as I kept watching I remember Thay Phap Dung from watching the film Walk With Me where he is the first one who sat in the row of monastics who were meditating and I liked him from that film and I like him now, I can’t help but seeing in him Thay Thich Nhut Hanh whom I feel so privileged to learn from and I wish the whole world comes to know him and to practice what he teaches! As one human being to another I wish we all find peace and happiness within ourselves rather external factors as almost all of the monastics live their lives! I vow to follow in his and many of his students’ footsteps: do good, don’t do bad and purify my heart and minds!

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[@ashleywilkerson2064]

Such an outstanding dharma talk. Full of flavor: wisdom and humor. Thank you dear brother. I am so grateful for the love and foundation set by Thich Nhat Hanh. We are one. During these "uncertain times" I am confident that peace will prevail on Earth. Deep Love.

[@dimitrimols7935]

So looking forward to go to plum village and hope to meet Brother Phap dung. He is so funny and the way ho he explanes everything is in a way that i can reflect with . Plum village is like a familiy that I never had. Thq so much for that. Big hugg!!!!!!

[@rosemaryamahoro6714]

Thank you Br Phap Dung. Many friends of mine ask why in your practice you don't have words like God, Creator and yet you are putting in practice his precepts. Please explain this. I know God is in all you do. I am helped to see and revere God but my friends remain confused.

[@stevedolesch9241]

Together, we are one. We need to be together these days. Yes, we suffer, but let us embrace our suffering to be able to transform ourselves into One Being that lights up the world. This we need to do. No obligation. However, if we want to get through this pandemic, we need to be together. Namaste.

[@RogerHyam]

Wonderful talk. Thank you.

[@y9w1]

Good reflexions on the skyscrapers... I struggle with that, I feel oppressed by modern cities and giant buildings... Thank you 🙏☀️🌴🍄🌼

[@SonicPhonic]

Thank You Brother! What wonderful insight!

[@helenhohelen467]

Thank you Brother Phap Dung for your reminders and the humor." Not giving presents in the Christmas Holiday? " will try.... :)

[@patriciawilliams7107]

Thank you again, Br Phap Dung, as always!

[@stevedolesch9241]

uestion: What is there to forgive? Nothing! We need only to love that being to lighten its life and being.

[@cateholm9426]

Hammock time is timeless:)

[@mlcarroll8529]

How to grieve the end of all life on the planet at human hands? How do we "take care" of that kind of grief/despair? With respect, this is more than reflecting on impermanence. Deep sadness.

[@monicaarcher7107]

It is overwhelming at times and though I keep listening to Dharma talks this sadness persists very deeply under all my other feelings.

[@lauralunaazul]

100% 🙏❤

[@graceacer9369]

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[@y9w1]

There are studies, experiments, that show that ant colonies have "lazy ants". Ants that don't do much, but stay around and are still part of the group and pay a role... Some contemplative ants 😅👍🙏🌼

[@sharonlujan9497]

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[@y9w1]

I don't know what is the answer to these dilemmas (when facing crisis times)... There are certainly different options. But what I know is that in general, to go to a monastery to practice and "break through" is not escape, it is not hiding... It's rather the opposite (anyone who has been to a forest monastery has experienced that). Here is a reflexion on this topic (it's from another teacher, and I wonder if he's got a point, I'm between two minds) : "During one time refugees were pouring into Thailand from Laos and Cambodia. The charitable organizations who came out to help were many. This made some ordained Westerners think it was not right that Buddhist monks and nuns should just sit in the forest while other religious organizations were so actively participating in alleviating the plight of the refugees. So they approached Ajahn Chah to express their concern, and this is what he said, “Helping in refugee camps is good. It is indeed our natural human duty to each other. But going through our own madness so that we can lead others through, that’s the only cure. Anyone can go out and distribute clothes and pitch tents, but how many can come into the forest and sit to know their minds? As long as we don’t know how to ‘clothe’ and ‘feed’ people’s minds, there will always be a refugee problem somewhere in the world.” This reflection by Ajahn Chah is from the book, No Ajahn Chah, pp. 204.

[@carastevens7577]

Both ways provide what people need: refuge for the heart.

[@josedanilo321]

tom wool it seems selfish, I mean the act of not participating more actively in refugees concerns, philanthropy, volunteering, though... In any case, both-the act of finding in your own minds and volunteering- look like something that should be done... I'd like to try and see how that week in PlumVillage is...who should I contact? Or, as I am questioning too much I am not allowed?

[@baoise]

@@josedanilo321 if you check the plum village website www.plumvillage.org you can see the retreat schedule and register to attend. It is wonderful place and if you have the means I would definitely recommend visiting!

[@Leo-z1o5v]

Great

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