Social Change at the Base | Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, 2004.03.27

Thich Nhat Hanh offers this Dharma talk at Deer Park Monastery during the Colors of Compassion Retreat on March 27, 2004.
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[@Kobiriv]

Thank you for posting! I read some of these ideas in Thay’s books, but hearing him explains it in video is pure joy and helps deepen the understanding.

[@diksha1144]

I am from Nagpur and my family was one of the half a million untouchables who took refuge in Buddha that Thay talked about. So blessed to hear this from him🙏🙏🙏

[@alexandrugheorghe5610]

You're beautiful.

[@beki1377]

This is one of the best dharma talk I have heard for a long time... so many basics and important and helpful insights in this talk! I have still problems to know what to do best to convince my son (not watering so much violent seeds) but I feel very touched by this talk and want to thank so deeply Thay for his great teachings 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💜

[@stowjer]

This was absolutely captivating and inspiring. Deep deep truth here. the world needs this kind of action. It must happen!

[@hanhnguyen-gt7el]

I have been ill-being for a few days now that made my body and mind parallelized, sleepless and suffering , this talk help me so much: I need to touch the well-being, goodness and refreshing things right now!

[@donnabodel4113]

I know the pain you are feeling.Breathe..and ❤️🤗🤗🤗

[@reef6826]

the book no mud no lotus changed my life for ever. thank you.

[@infinitelyconciousness]

I love the Dharma talks.

[@lornakim5706]

Jesus & Buddha As Brothers by Thich Nhat Hahn is So Very Wonderful & Good As Gold unto Eternity^^ Xoxo

[@alexandrugheorghe5610]

So beautiful to see the mindful walking at the end. It's as if, the society has forgotten how to come together. We're all now absorbed by the negativity on social media. 😔

[@chayaerikago]

Hello dear PV Online Sangha, Thank you for sharing this beautiful talk by Thay. I had just finished writing the English subtitles for it, and enjoyed the practice of listening+typing on the Amara platform. The subtitles are now available on the video. May Thay's words be of service to all!

[@beki1377]

chayaerikago Thank you for your effort! Very helpful sometimes to read ;-)

Thanks so much for your meaningful translation 🙏

[@hughslevin7120]

WHAT A LOVELY WONDERFUL SERVICE TO PROVIDE THANK YOU

[@boundlessky9]

Thank you for posting❤

[@chongseitmooi2593]

Love Thay's humour

[@nishanthpeters1395]

I have spent much of my life avoiding the kingdom of god, because i wish to be somewhere else, something else which lead to violence and suffering. Now i realise my errors, and i work with children at a peace oriented montessori school. Nevertheless, i continue to watch these dharma talks because this is a co tinuous practice and i have a long way to go. Thank you thay for this insight

[@LikeKoby]

I appreciate this view (new to me) when viewing the senses as consumers, very useful. Thank you

[@kalbertdr]

I am extremely grateful for all the dharma talks. Thank you!

[@ConexionHumanaOficial]

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Venerable Thay, this talk is so deep, exactly at the base of what we need to understand in order to get to heal our society. I try to do my best, working in the part that is my responsibility and much more that I can with my little understanding, but I am happy because I know that I'm improving step by step.

[@janedoe-ex5wo]

I feel so very fortunate to be able to hear this message from Thay. Thank you, thank you for bringing his words to the world❤❤❤

[@branchestarot]

Gratitude, and peace. 🙏🏻

[@georgelouis7782]

Much appreciated 🙏

[@kirstinsdorra9370]

Vielen Dank🙏

[@awolpeace1781]

The best argument I've ever heard for not watching the news

[@iforgiveyou3031]

My beloved ❤️ My life 🙏

[@XOXO-mb2vh]

He's so reverent.

[@lhamopepper9887]

❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@toaiphamtri3410]

Namo BUDDHA SAKYA MUNY!*

[@HienVu-oe3us]

the paths of enlighten are rooted in being right /not wrong but right/wrong types of existence which are not rooted. A good nature is

[@lornakim5706]

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[@kippapao]

Nelson Mandela was in prison Thay!!!! I am sure he had time (20 years or more I think it was) to sit with his suffering!!!!!

[@beki1377]

Maria Whittaker as far as I understood this is what Nelson answered and I guess he means quiet and peacefully just sitting and being alive ;-)) He definitely had enough time to sit with his suffering... but sitting free and peacefully is different ;-)

[@cynthiaalpenia3948]

Perhaps once he became president of South Africa it was difficult for him to even find time to pee!

[@hughslevin7120]

THAY Knows the all about the life of NELSON MANDELA It was in fact 27years for your information The point is that unless we are taught or guided in these and inlightenment THAY Himself had to learn from the teaching Thats how he became inlightened

[@daotruong2275]

You got him wrong. Check his words.

[@pauljung3534]

"You aren’t a machine with broken parts. You are an animal whose needs are not being met. You need to have a community. You need to have meaningful values, not the junk values you’ve been pumped full of all your life, telling you happiness comes through money and buying objects. You need to have meaningful work. You need the natural world. You need to feel you are respected. You need a secure future. You need connections to all these things. You need to release any shame you might feel for having been mistreated." ~ Johann Hari "Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management." ~ George Monbiot "There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths - globalizers of economic growth and those hell-bent on this 'big is better' idea - on the one hand, and on the other hand those who are dedicated to spiritual renewal, more small-scale development, more human scale, more sustainability, more crafts and arts. Where human beings are not just sold to companies and money and those kinds of things. Where human beings have a sacred path." ~ Satish Kumar "There are some things in the world we can't change - gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere." ~ David Suzuki "Does commerce, & the cravings they create, have our best interests at heart?" "I thrive on what Mother & Nature provides... but not on what 'Mad Men' & mad-scientists ply." ~ Paul Jung "Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education." ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti "Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence - a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils." ~ Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor "The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see." ~ James Baldwin "Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life." ~ William Blake