Turn Every Cell On | Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, 2005 11 12

Dear fellow practitioners and friends on the path. In this talk we learn of the joy and the happiness of the practice. The Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh offered this 107-minute dharma talk on December 11, 2005 from Upper Hamlet at Plum Village (France) during the annual Winter Retreat. We are reminded of the basic practices of walking and sitting followed by a deeper teaching on the Five Dimensions of Reality.
Touching paradise. When you practice walking, you involve your body with your practice. We can walk in the ultimate dimension. You turn on every cell in your body. Being completely free with the energy of mindfulness. Each step brings healing and nourishment to you. We use the techniques of mindful breathing.
We apply the same techniques to sitting. We turn on all the cells in our body to arrive in a unified state of being. All the cells will sing in unison and we are in a state of concentration. This is the foundation of enlightenment. Thay comments on sleepiness during sitting meditation. We have to make our sitting interesting. There is so much to enjoy. This state of being gives us the capacity to heal.
The Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing offers us exercises to touch all the cells of our body.
Thay offers some reflections on neuroscience and consciousness and how the Buddhist tradition sees things quite different. The elements of the human are: Form, Feelings, Perceptions, Mental formations and Consciousness. The Five Skandhas. Perceiver and the perceived. We train ourselves in seeing the object of our perception. What is the object of our perception? Our consciousness? The Five Dimensions of Reality in Buddhism.
Thay offers a deeper teaching on consciousness and mental formations, including technical terms from Chinese and Sanskrit.
One lesson from this talk is we practice with body and mind together.
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[@pushthetempo2]

This is positive power of the Internet. It means I can watch a talk from a Vietnamese Buddhist monk in a French monastery recorded 16 years ago, while tucked up in bed late at night. The sharing of incredible wisdom from a master of his field. And its completely free.

[@willywagtails7984]

I feel exactly the same.....we are truly blessed to be able to see & hear this beautiful human being 🙏

[@flyingrandom]

I first found a talk of his online 18+ years ago. He has always been one of my favorite humans and I’ve never actually seen his face

[@LanDarson]

Couldn’t agree more

[@Shloopy420]

I hope you've continued to follow the wisdom in these teachings. The internet can be such a positive place. I am so thankful for access to these teachings.

[@bethnorris1361]

I, too, am thankful...he died just a few days ago, and seeing these talks again is so gratifying and comforting.

[@lesleymcclintock8920]

I was somewhere in the audience during this talk. I remember it. It is so radical. Thank you Dear Thay. I miss you so much. You have brought so much healing to my life.

[@jamesread-tannock7176]

That idea, that people who have been in hell are lucky because they have the capacity to recognise when they are in paradise, is really beautiful.

[@tmac8892]

Some r afraid of hell, some aren't, because they've been there, and survived. When it's your turn, may it pass quickly.

[@DowntoEarthThinkingcom]

RVN vets woudl easily qualify as I do. But I have seen many shades of hell right here on this planet. This guy is the real deal and very down to earth indeed. Makes all the new age fools of todays internet marketing shams look like fools with his simplicity and total lack of hype ! Just very simple answers and direction.

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[@pushthetempo2]

Yes but its amazing how quickly you forget how hard hell was and get comfortable in paradise. Thats why you need to remind yourself how it was and appreciate everything.

[@bastian6173]

@@pushthetempo2 yup. Don't be attached to anything. Clinging to paradise is just as wrong as trying to fight suffering.

[@stevenbursey9624]

Just listening to this peaceful man calms my soul. Anxiety just dissipates. What a profound teaching and presence.

[@gina1960]

Yes. His presence. His understanding 🤍

[@tomaszlosinski875]

I've looked at a fair few religions and I think my beliefs line up the best with Buddhism. I believe there is a sanctity in everything and the only true way to become closer to the divine is to recognise and respect that by truly understanding it and seeking out more about the universe and our world. No religion should negate humanity and life to focus on god but it is through our respect to all life that we unknowingly dedicate our lives to God.

[@mastochabou62]

I totally agree with you

[@bastian6173]

Agree. I like Buddhism because it's so non-dogmatic. Just look inside and see truth for yourself. No need to convince anybody of anything.

[@eisvogel8099]

Like Buddhism isn't about a "God" or "gods". No duality. "God is not an object." as Ramana Maharshi said.

[@g.bestorba4013]

I so agree. With this, the exercise of being humans are evident- simple and innate.

[@CecaeliaRose]

The most inspiring and beautiful human of the modern era.

[@XOXO-mb2vh]

One of the them.

[@lemostjoyousrenegade]

♥️ Precisely.

[@martinmarriott1819]

He has lived his entire life on buddhist lines.

[@geovaniavaninha2640]

I agree 🙌❤

[@allynerosenthal280]

Indeed. And he is inspiring both in word and action. And then of course there is the story of his life, and the example he sets for us.

[@ConexionHumanaOficial]

My honor and gratitude to you and your teachings Venerable Thay. Specially In this phase of my life this Dharma Talk is the best medicine to me in order to get my physical recovering. Evangelina Cortes.

[@williamdonaldmoody5305]

I feel constantly blessed by every teaching he has recorded his books I believe are also a mine of wisdom for a soul wishing to return to the self he reveals through the simplicity of returning to ourselves through mindfulness, for the past 3 years I have listened enjoying the teaching, wandering back to a less mindful life and returning via his message, Rest In Peace Gracious Zen Soul thank you for your Gift and your Service to life 🙏🙏🙏😎👍

[@helenalford2831]

This talk gave me a real sense of peace; thank you so much for making it available.

[@manishrana3387]

Every step is healing , every breath is healing ...,🙏

[@k8eekatt]

How very blessed to have this video and Thay's gentle way, to learn from.

[@ConexionHumanaOficial]

Thank you Dear Thay for teaching me the importance of being conscious of my physical body. Evangelina Cortes.

[@aliwafa5324]

may all human being be happy

[@melodyst.claire5389]

Amazing Truely this knowledge really needs to be in our education systems The children of our World would truly benefit all Helping to understand and help one another This is our Golden moment of the hour Always love ❤ you❣ Master Thay ❤ Namaste 🙏🌎❣ 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐

[@41lakshmi]

This is so beautiful....the best food we had it today for lifetime....so nourishing....Thank You for sharing this super food!.

[@user-fs2zo8jv8f]

Such purity of soul.

[@kintavedas3710]

Your voice is the best lullaby Master, full of understanding love care and joy 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

[@ANAHATAJADE]

Thich Nhat Hanh the greates teacher! The ultimate is real and true. It takes practice. Love who you are as you are within; what you love you will make interesting.

[@rohlay00]

Thich has not coughed a single time and he is probably the oldest person in the room...

[@mattheww797]

Cough cough cough

[@zarasophia3714]

That person coughing is teaching us to be mindful. (one more than others) was probably the only chance for them to be in the presence of Thay. What an honour and privilege. Let’s be happy for them.❤️

[@AdrianHill-ne2bf]

Finally someone else said it! I don't know if it's the uncomfort of being in a dry room with silence or If people genuinely think other people want to hear them cough their lungs out but honestly I can't watch any more of these videos because of the non stop abrasive coughing

[@AdrianHill-ne2bf]

We need a lecture on Mysophonia and mindfulness

[@kyro-jaxxsonofkosmos23]

It’s in every video I have seen of him too. Do they follow him around??

[@Dylan20]

Words I did not expect to hear in a dharma talk by Thich Nhat Hanh: "Bose-Einstein condensate." I was not sure what he meant by that either, or how it related to meditation! But I kept listening, and I'm glad I did, because this is a very detailed and practical dharma talk. 🙏

[@maggyhanrahan]

Realy apreasate all the talks ,feal so grateful to have found them.

[@dkcorderoyximenez3382]

I am very grateful for the considerable body of lessons accumulated by the Plum Village Staff...to hear Thay's gentle voice on a wide variety of Dharma subjects, provides great comfort for me... Thay is very much alive in my heart, spirit and mind...in me, he will never be silenced...

[@barbarafrankel3572]

Dazzling! Thank you with all my heart and mind.

[@valdetorrente1938]

Merci pour cet enseignement solaire et sympathique et intelligent cela m aide beaucoup merci à tous et toutes spiritual and hearty people

[@evangelinacortes708]

Thank you so much Venerable thay. Your wisdom is amazing. I do my best every single moment in order to practice your teachings. Thank you for the great community you gave us. All of them are extraordinary teachers of me. Evangelina Cortes.

[@soulful2393]

🙏Thank you Beloved Thay🙏❤

[@Mae-88888]

Mich berührt diese weitere wunderbare Übertragung tief in meinem Herzen 🙏❣️🙏Dankeschön 🙏

[@KGB.83]

The master held me by the hand as we traveled through limitless consciousness that knows no boundaries. I still speak to master through all the noise produced by this universe of human created pain and suffering. Blessings to those who seek Inner peace.. May you find what you are seeking..

[@tiddlyNum]

It is your seeking mind that finds your teacher. Wherever you and she/he may be. In any medium or dimension. Teacher and student find each other because of the infinite grace and power of the teacher and the brilliant and resilient light of the student. We are lucky beyond words to find.

[@regulator9leorise629]

Thank you for this space and this content this immediately resonated with me along the path of my practice and journey much gratitude. Peace, Love and High Things Abundantly. I had no idea these talks were here after reading The Art of Communicating and True Love. These offerings are tremendously appreciated. ✨🤲🏾❤️

[@sam846]

a great and generous teacher of my life

[@vinnyvincent2862]

R.I.P. 😢❤🙏

[@Red-Di]

I am loving his continuation within these talks 🙏🪷

[@dariankelly6698]

I hold this man in my highest regards. He is second to none in his wisdom. I dare say he made an even bigger impact on my life than Marcus Aurelius.

[@5646jess]

Just subscrib a week ago, and i watched related video daily... Feel comfortable and relax. And of course, information and knowledge is very valuable for me... Thanks so much.. Happiness, smile, and joy

[@Tanoaproductionsfiji]

Thank you Dear Teacher. 🙏

[@rps8400]

Thank you for this beautiful, powerful teaching. It is appreciated. 🙏

[@BarbaraMerryGeng]

What a great teacher 💝🙏🏼🗾

[@lukez9567]

🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽Nam Mô A Di Đà PHẬT 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 THẦY vẫn ở mãi trong LÒNG của CHÚNG CON❤️❤️❤️ 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 THẦY vẫn ở mãi trong LÒNG của CHÚNG CON 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 ❤️❤️❤️ THẦY vẫn ở mãi trong LÒNG của CHÚNG CON ❤️❤️❤️ 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 Namo AMITABHA 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 THẦY vẫn ở mãi trong LÒNG của CHÚNG CON❤️❤️❤️ Dear TEACHER, You will forever stay in our HEART and our MIND ❤️❤️❤️

[@dharmastudent4519]

Namo Amitabha Buddha 南無阿彌陀佛🙏🏻

[@Eyes_Unclouded]

Beautiful :) thank you for sharing

[@samantha-kemp-therapy]

Thank you so much for sharing this 🙏

[@kathrynphillips3710]

Thankyou kind master 🙏

[@ACS888]

Thank you Heavenly Father Almighty God

[@vegan660]

Thank you very much.

[@lisamoody332]

“Every step is like tasting a piece of chocolate” - Aw Thaaaay ❤

[@boundlessky9]

I find this talk so helpful. Thank you! I return to this talk often.

[@MatteoSattinWORK]

i listen to this man and meanwhile i put some dubstep background. perfection.

[@tashaharrington3081]

Thank you Thank you Thank you.

[@jameshoward799]

Yea, he is a level above most. Ive only seen a few people have this type of effect on others.

[@alissajoseph8762]

I love Tich Naht Han

[@drushasuresh6819]

Wonderful

[@BarbaraMerryGeng]

Thank You 🌺🙏🏼🌞

[@vegetallove9335]

So much gratitude ❤️🙏 so much ❤️

[@LouiseDAlise]

Thank You 🙏

[@show_me_your_kitties]

2022. October 1st. Bless this man. "Those of us who have been in hell are very lucky, they now have the capacity of walking in paradise."

[@chongseitmooi2593]

Tay was a very talented zen Master ❤

[@lizzytylor662]

Listening ♥️ 2023 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@FingerBreakerWu]

When he writes on the whiteboard, it’s stunlocking ASMR. It just freezes me. 🤤

[@lydiaeve6634]

He is incredible the coughing made me loose it 😂

[@farazmasrur]

1:35:38 "To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour"

[@leni.m1]

This was a deep Dharma talk 🤓 As always, Thay's humour is top tier 🚀🚀🚀

[@silverlakeowl]

Who creates who is wonderful

[@bullardesq2390]

This is a lovely dharma talk. NOTE: subtitles are inaccurate in this talk. In particular: "Walk" is typed as "work" repeatedly.

[@BethyKable]

The constant coughing needs to stop...go outside for the sake of others. Such an important talk should not be missed.....such wisdom.

[@Cval200]

Pls look pass the coughing guys. Science has proven that sound and frequency cures all, those people walked in wanted to be healed and is getting that. The body reacts and heals through these talks!

[@RosaGrau2014]

What a dhamma talk!

[@dkdg5150]

Thich Nhat Hahn - Bhagavat!!!

[@stevesewall]

44:10 "In the Buddhist tradition the way of looking is quite different. We think of the human person as having form [body], feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness. And these five elements, they INTER ARE ... one of the five contain[s] the other four." [Bohm's holographic view of the universe.]

[@melissaaarnio805]

I think it must be really cold there 🥶 you have to experience the cold though to appreciate the warmth 👌😏

[@rohlay00]

It's definitely cold. Can't you hear all the coughing?

[@Morganistalking]

Spiritual enlightenment: now with 30% more algebra.

[@LisaBeergutHolst]

lol

[@juxtaposer.]

felt that 🦈☸⏫

[@roseapplehousenolabysidmon6635]

Each step liberation. 🙏🪷

[@supremeplustv1892]

Basis of Budhism is reincarnation and law of karma . The necessity of Budhism is impermanence , sufferings and concept of no soul . Budhism is Guiding us to remain in human world and heavens until final stage is attained 🙏🙏🙏

[@santiendah1877]

Assalamualaikum It is rest Drive with true passion 🇮🇩

[@silverlakeowl]

Master lives forever in my blood in my will teacher lives forever sacrifice spin it you know you can

[@aboxofphotons]

What is it about Thich's speeches and one or two people coughing uncontrollably in the background for the entire thing?

[@silverlakeowl]

We should all fight the good fight

[@silverlakeowl]

I didnt say that

[@fraserhawkins4462]

Crazy that people would be clearly sick and continually coughing in a crowded room like this.

[@CashmereCafe]

Such peacefulness in his voice❤

[@TheSeedforme]

This man had the capacity to make a room cough like no one else

[@israelcorazon-comunidadiamante]

My.friend Tich... Thanks for your love 🤍🤍🤍🌌👆🏼

[@HeatherDMorris]

Every cell is turned on pinging off every tower in the world. I was waiting on " hell's bells " to start playing .

[@anniecausey1897]

This shows the great lengths to which we have gone to deny our sin and damnation, and the gift of salvation by faith in the only begotten Son of God who shed his blood to redeem us from sin, and rose from the dead as death could not hold him, giving eternal life to all who believe on Jesus from the heart. You must be born again, born of God. John 3:16.

[@greenthumb8266]

Please don’t stay in the wrong perception that your upbringing or religious teachings have brought you to. Don’t you see that the very teaching, that you believe is from God, separates you from others and from God. Do you really want to worship a god who would create all life and then like a child, condemn it all to hell, and then, like a narcissists, claim that he sent his son to die so we (that it created) could beat death? Why didn’t this god create us perfect to begin with, not with bodies that age , that require consuming other living things to continue to live, that suffer pain and death? The Creator is loving and flows through all of us if we allow it. We are here to experience life in these bodies, with all their shortcomings, difficulties, pain and ultimately death, so that we can understand and appreciate pain free eternal life. PS the Creator doesn’t mind what you call it, it answers to all who seek a genuine authentic relationship with it. And it loves you so much, and wants you to love others without discrimination.

[@lukas81217]

"Fighting the non-fighting Fight. That is true fighting" Oh its so funny and wise at the same time

[@glennpedersen9398]

❤

[@deborahaulick8479]

Focus on Thay's beautiful voice, watch him closely and let the coughing fall away, this way you "touch the wonders" of his presence.

[@bichphuongkieu9862]

Nam mô a di đà Phật

[@user-ii8yw5li9c]

This man was my friend I know his family that was killed in California 1970 my friends and me was buda monks family I never seen none of the families I found out that many of the buda monks and dolly lamas was dead that I was with in California my nick name is indianka.

[@chipakakafi8058]

The best and all, but who knows that person who keeps coughing In the background, this is not the first video

[@rohlay00]

That person shouldn't have attempted all these talks. There ain't a single one without coughing. Its mind boggling

[@_vnposs9556]

Dear Honorable Sisters and Brothers, is there any dharma talks of Sư Ông in German or with german subtitles? Thank You very much!

[@ericastier1646]

analog video was so much better in fluidity ! than the high res digital we get now that seem to have lost that presence.

[@easybake8420]

I feel like I'm auditing a philosophy class taught by a Zen Master.

[@frankgallardo7710]

I always hear every video since 3 years. But ever since there is always attendee who is coughing. Is this a part og mindfullness?

[@sampascall4306]

could someone tell me the name of that bell he is ringing at the start of the talk?

[@xiqueira]

It's called a singing bowl. Either a Buddhist singing bowl or a mantra singing bowl or an ohm singing bowl.

[@istoppain62]

The kind of bell is insignificant compared to the mindfulness it generates.

[@cIeetz]

Thigh is my ninja

[@silverlakeowl]

Who shows you love what is your foundation

[@beatrizalquati7173]

Hi, I would like to participate helping with the translations, but I am confused when I get to the site you suggested in the comments. How can I do it?

[@plumvillageonline]

Dear Beatriz, in order to use Amara you need your own Amara account. It's free and easy to set one up. And then you have to go to the Plum Village Amara page and add subtitles under the video you want to translate. amara.org/en/videos/create/ If you decide to go for it, do let us know if you need further assistance after setting up the account. Thank you! 🙏

[@calijahlovechild7706]

🙏

[@rmleider]

I find it difficult to be aware of my whole body/all my cells. I can understand taking time to scan with awareness each part of the body...but how can one notice the whole thing at once? Can anyone offer advice?

[@alebongo999]

It is a process my friend and you improve with practice. The more understanding you generate the better you are getting. Until you're aware of what your body needs. Much love ❤️

[@jodstar31]

Honestly I would love to watch this but the people coughing in every single video destroys it.

[@gettagudenhei8355]

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