WALK WITH ME narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch (Fragrant Palm Leaves by Thich Nhat Hanh)

Book: Fragrant Palm Leaves by Thich Nhat Hanh
Movie: WALK WITH ME
As Benedict Cumberbatch’s meditative voice reads extracts from Thich Nhat Hanh’s early journals.
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I know what it is to get angry, and I know the pleasure of being praised.
I'm often on the verge of tears or laughter.
But beneath all these emotions, what else is there?
How can I touch it?
If there isn't anything
why would I be so certain that there is?
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When icy winter comes,
it is unforgiving to all things young, tender and insecure.
One must grow beyond youthful uncertainty to survive.
Maturity and determination are necessary.
Seeing the courageous, solid way
that trees prepare for winter
helps me appreciate the lessons I've learned.
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At first, it seemed like a passing cloud.
But after several hours,
I begin to feel my body turning to smoke
and floating away.
I became a faint wisp of a cloud.
I had always thought of myself as a solid entity.
And suddenly I saw that I am not solid at all.
I saw that the entity I had taken to be me
was really a fabrication.
My true nature, I realized, was much more real,
both uglier and more beautiful than I could ever have imagined.
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Friends want you to appear in the familiar form they know.
But that is impossible.
How could we continue to live if we were changeless?
To live
we must die every instant.
We must perish again and again
in the storms that make life possible.
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I became a battlefield,
and I couldn't know until the storm was over
if I would survive.
Not in the sense of my physical life,
but in the deeper sense of my core self.
I experienced destruction upon destruction
and felt a tremendous longing for the presence
of those I love.
Even though I knew that if they were present,
I would have to chase them away or run away myself.
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When the storm finally passed,
layers of inner mortar lay crumbled.
On the now-deserted battlefield,
a few sunbeams peeked through the horizon,
too weak to offer any warmth to my weary soul.
I was full of wounds,
yet experienced an almost thrilling sense of aloneness.
No one would recognize me in my new manifestation.
No one close to me would know it was I.
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Mountains and rivers, Earth and sun
all lie within the heart of consciousness.
When that realization arises,
time and space dissolve.
Cause and effect,
birth and death all vanish.
Though I dwell a hundred thousand light-years
from a star,
I can cross that distance in a flash.
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I knew early on
that finding truth is not the same as finding happiness.
You aspire to see the truth.
But once you have seen it,
you cannot avoid suffering.
Otherwise, you have seen nothing at all.
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At that moment, I felt perfectly at peace.
Not one sad or anxious thought entered my mind.
Ideas of past, present and future dissolved.
And I was standing at the luminous threshold
of a reality that transcends time,
space and action.
I arose and sat in meditation the rest of the night.
All that remained was a deeply rooted peace.
I sat like a mountain
and I smiled.
#ThichNhatHanh #walkwithme #zenmeditation

[@jochandler1180]

Beautiful 💕 thank you 🙏

[@alexdepilarez6921]

Thua Kinh Thay, Thank you for your continuation of your eternal presence.. “A Cloud Never Dies “TNH Thank you for sharing this video, it was heartfelt and beautiful 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️

[@jenniechen24]

Dear Thay is not only the greatest teacher, but also the greatest poet, philosopher.Most of all, dear Thay is the Buddha!!!

[@AustinandHaha]

To listen this video's voice, i felt so peace. thank you for this video.

[@KhanhHồng-n3b]

Hoa Nở Bốn Mùa 🎵🎵🎵❤️❤️❤️🌻🌻❤️🌍🌠☸️🙏

[@ngocdichgiang4824]

" I sat like a mountain and I smiled" - I love this saying

[@demimoonrise7288]

Dear Thay, you encompass everything beautiful in this world. I feel your presence always in my heart and I smile. Thank you for touching humans so deeply with you eternal words. May there be peace for all.

[@JD-cw4qg]

🙏🙏❤🙏🙏 so beautiful. Thay is within all of our hearts 🙏🙏

[@pageroad2825]

That voice!!!!! ahhhhhhh TSYM for uploading!!!!

[@thudo5587]

So touching. Thank you for your being Thay

[@QuangThanhUs]

Thầy vẫn còn đây trong video này. Hạt giống đã nở ra những đoá hoa thật đẹp như thầy Minh Niệm và người làm ra video này. Cảm thấy thật hạnh phúc vì thầy vẫn còn ở hiện tại.

[@telmasimonssantizo3780]

Donde puedo verlo en español .gracias

[@huekim6771]

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[@mariettrozner6971]

Wonderful drops of peace ....grateful!

[@happyandsimpledays504]

Hey great video!

[@acdebiase]

Beautiful 🙏

[@mailynestorgio5810]

This is really helpful for me to feel relax

[@williamguerrero53912]

Si pudieran emitir traducción al español latinoamericano.

[@baileyekd]

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🙏❤️🌈

[@zed804]

Thank you for this.

[@markbogues2958]

Hi thanks for putting such a powerful piece of work out there for more people to connect with it. You have done a wonderful job in this, may I point out two issues in the subtitles that might help the viewer experiencing this? I believe it's "destruction after destruction", instead of "distraction after distraction" and "layers of inner mortar lay crumbled" as opposed to "layers of inner mortal lay crumbled". Please delete this comment after you have considered it. Best wishes

[@happiness_is_secret]

Thank you 🙏

[@olgamihajlovicblagojevic3370]

I think that in Buddhism destruction and distraction might have similar meaning, or at least a similar effect because the undistracted mind is indestructible mind.

[@antonellabarbalinardo1335]

Una combinazione magica. Benedict Cumberbatch che narra questo meraviglioso scritto del bellissimo Thich Nath Hanh, è poesia e aiuto per affrontare questa vita cosi' complicata. Nel mio cuore