What is God? | Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh

This short film available on the FREE Plum Village App link.plumvillage.app/TBJE is part of a new series of videos - Wake Up films - inspired by the spiritual teachings of Plum Village.
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CREDITS
✩ Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh (excerpt from a talk originally recorded in May, 2014)
✩ Directed and edited by Miguel Sánchez
✩ Co-produced by Plum Village App ➛ plumvillage.app and earth.fm ➛ earth.fm (2023)
✩ Length: 4 minutes and 6 seconds
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[@graceacer9369]

I'm waiting to hear it too. I feel like there's an online community that is strong. It seems we are very much needing and desiring these teachings. Like water and flowers when we're thirsty.

[@jSpirituS7]

We are all here for u

[@nadineflow]

We are all here for u❤

[@lavadajunerobertsroberts7772]

I am here in the kingdom of God

[@heikevoigt7825]

I love to hear the voice of Thay, I feel save and warm inside. Thank you for this wonderful Video. It is full of hope and love 🙏🙏❤

[@mariondorvalmemovoix]

Isn't it great to wait for Thay here and now? Isn't it funny to wait as he continues in us? How wonderful it is to breath in and call his presence, breathe out and feel he's everywhere anytime...

[@Pedrita13]

My heart is full of compassion ❤

[@SisterSunnyFreeSpirit]

Beautiful words... Thank you

[@TheCuteRibbon1]

What you are saying is true… Lately I often call on the ascended masters for help and support, and especially him (although I didn’t feel very connected to his teachings when he was alive). But I feel him now, and I feel very connected to him now.❤

[@SisterSunnyFreeSpirit]

@@TheCuteRibbon1 Same for me. I actually built an alter in my house for honoring alll the many teachers, it's fun and meaningful. Just sharing the idea, you might like to do the same. Mine also includes Ram Dass of course :). Make it great! xoxo 🙏

[@TheCuteRibbon1]

@@SisterSunnyFreeSpirit that is a beautiful idea. Thank you very much🙏❤️

[@monty70]

God is simply what there is. If you are reading this, you are standing in the middle of it. It is you, and you are it.

[@23Bentley45]

This is the only concept of god I believe in. Thank you dearest Thay

[@bildencarlia6924]

Dont guess and dont believe in it-first experience it and then be entusiastic about it...climb in the high mountains of action ....dont stay in the cold valley of believing....

[@living11for11love]

Wonderful insight​@@bildencarlia6924

[@living11for11love]

The truth requires no belief

[@armchairvoyager]

Lovely. Thank you dear Thay, and Plum Village community. Beautifully done.

[@moonkatmagic5599]

He was so beautiful ❤ listening to him is like a beautiful meditation in its self 🙏✨grateful xoxo

[@rosariosampere6409]

Estoy esperando para verlo!

[@noelaxton4941]

The most beautiful thing I've heard today. Thank you for posting this message.

[@jSpirituS7]

Today is my birthday And this is the most beautiful gift I could have ever asked for 😢❤

[@naneeleo823]

wishing you a very happy and blessed birThday . or "continuation day" as Thay would say . May you feel yOur inner smile 💛 . before going to sleep tonight and have beautiful dreams 🙏

[@jSpirituS7]

@@naneeleo823 this was wonderful! Thank you very much 🙏🏼 Sometimes it’s hard to find that inner smile, when life is in turmoil. And then it appears again as if to, say hello my friend. Last night I was speaking to my mother and father within myself and for the first time it wasn’t just a notion of them being present in me, but I could literally feel there specific energies within me, and when I called it by it’s true name it revealed itself to me as if being born for the first time Thanks to Thay and all the spiritual ancestors and teachers And fellow humans and creatures and minerals alike Seeing interbeing doesn’t have to be an abstract concept “out there” but it can be a resource we can tap into And I seem to tap into these insights after suffering tremendously…. It’s like the sun shining through the clouds on a stormy day That moment of reprieve is wondrous and makes me want to be alive!

[@GardenYourHeart98]

Happy continuation day

[@plumvillageapp]

Happy continuation day, dear friend! A lotus for you ❤ plumvillage.app team

[@jenniferslovak2623]

Happy Birthday!!! May 2024 be the best year 4 you!!! Many blessings!

[@vicf2520]

So beautiful and inspiring. Thank you dear beloved Thay for coming into my life and teaching me to live deeply. Thank you beloved Plum Village monastics and wonderful Miguel for your continuaton and this stunning film.

[@miamichel4586]

That was extraordinarily moving, beautiful, and captivating. This is truly an inspiring work of art. I have no words to fully express how that made me feel! I was having a bit of a rough day but now I am smiling and fully present in the here and now. I am definitely going to watch this again. ( It felt like more of a contemplation than simply "a film." )Thank you so much for helping me with my practice. Much love to everyone at Plum Village. 💓

[@ginoporrasabarca3854]

Thank you Miguel for always bringing these wonderful videos of Thay and Plum Village 🙏💛

[@deborahkizer4664]

🙏👏✨💛 beautiful. Hearing your voice makes me smile. Ty 🙏👍 Amen. ❤

[@DrDave-cp8vq]

Miguel does such an amazing job breathing new life into these talks. I felt tears of relief when I finally gave myself these 4 minutes to pause!

[@clotildebert9016]

Thank you for this wonderful moment. Thay is really always close to us. To be able to see his smile and his tranquility and to hear these teachings is a great joy. and what's more we enjoy beautiful images 🙏

[@lumeriadavidsonchreativitiestv]

✨ Great Teaching From Master Thich ✨ God IS One, Everything And If The World becomes Aware Of This, Ideas Or Religious Quarrels Will Stop And million People Will be Saved ✨ Thanks For Your Teachings And for meeting You in The Faithul Continuity Of Your Master ✨👍🙏✨

[@donnaramunno7472]

Love this……I miss him so💜💜💜

[@nadineflow]

Thank you father i love to have ❤

[@Foxlet66]

So beautiful ❤ Thank you 🙏🏼

[@billyoumans1784]

When I was in real depression, I found mindfulness helped. I could to some extent be in the awareness of depression and not completely identified with it. But it was essential for me not to attempt to enjoy anything in the external world. It would only make the pain worse. Better to put all the focus on my own inner awareness - and outer, but not to try to see God in anything. Only in the awareness itself. TNH says we can’t be aware of awareness and strictly speaking he’s right. The eye cannot see itself. But I could remain in the awareness of consciousness- and notice the how I was aware of everything inner and outer with a detached but focused attention. After the depression was over, I could again at moments see God in things.

[@plumvillageapp]

A lotus for you, dear friend. Thank you for sharing. Plum Village App team (plumvillage.app)

[@hoangh75]

So wonderful to hear this teaching.

[@dalewilbanks]

Thank you Thay for your life, your wisdom, your inspiration. Thank you for affirming what we know in our heart to be True. We Love You and continue you. 🙏

[@user-bt6yw8lj5p]

I am grateful ,tnks!!!

[@siangyeegoh3357]

🙏❤ This is the most beautiful teaching about God...😊 so peaceful yet inspiring 🙏 Thank you

[@maryottlinger8968]

Thank you, I am grateful ❤☮🙏🏻🌎

[@e.karolina5572]

🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

[@deedoyle4069]

Thank you. I'm an asthmatic. For my whole life, I've been grateful to breathe at all! Tiz said, "God is everywhere". How could it be Otherwise ?

[@raphaelfritzler8228]

Thank you for the reminder ☺️🙏

[@CaptBill69]

I Love the quote; that "The Word GOD is a Verb, ... not a Noun." ... and another; ... "We can see GOD in the eyes of our community". 🎶🌠

[@rafaelmangrone721]

❤️

[@robinmen]

Thank you 🤲

[@annachilimoniuk7839]

Such a gentleman Person. Pure Love❤❤❤

[@sunairagazali2279]

Amen thnk u

[@wizcoolc1]

He was a wonderful soul, I'm sure he is somewhere great now.

[@GardenYourHeart98]

🙏

[@ravenclause]

god bless

[@misinca]

Beautiful! Thank you Thây 🪷🙏

[@anusuyapanda5103]

❤Ohh... My Beloved Master. Bowing down my Head.

[@jit453]

❤🙏

[@epierce2058]

Feeling deep gratitude for this share.

[@PATRIC644]

Merci Thay

[@user-uu1zv5mc9u]

GOD IS EVERYTHING. 🙏💜

[@QuiterieGianinaGabrielle]

🙏🏽❤

[@magdalenawolfert5541]

Sehr fein.Der Film und die Gedanken und Worte von einem liebenswerten,spirituellen Meister.Dankeschön.

[@Sunny_Day1111]

Truly inspiring. Thank you, Thay and brothers and sisters 🌻 with Metta

[@plumvillageapp]

Metta to you dear friend. Thank you.

[@nadineflow]

@@plumvillageapp Metta to All of us 🪷

[@michellesuttoni4042]

God is everything❤

[@luccaeyes]

Beautiful. He communicates a complex emotional feeling perfectly. Thank you for sharing ❤

[@selftalkwithsal4229]

ALL IS GOD🙏🏿

[@danjam1411]

Yeah I’m reminded of this when I hear the frogs singing every year! It’s beautiful and better than any human music!❤❤❤❤

[@jahndrahm262]

Perfectly described that God is in everything and much more. Just wait and see. Thank you.

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💙

[@lukebridge3161]

Thank you, Plum Village❤

[@pps1223]

Beautiful!

[@balajib785]

God is everybody can attain without selflessness ❤

[@jarode1979]

Beautiful❤

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🙏🙏🙏

[@divi2747]

thank you!

[@bluegreenOD]

Beautiful

[@dharinisrinivasan9162]

Grateful for this message

[@adastra3591]

I love this man and the truth in his words...

[@Vince-ml9gw]

Beautiful. Thank you so much.❤

[@alfonsoberdunbelver4379]

Maravilloso video…qué Paz da este hombre…qué legado tan grandioso de Sabiduría y Amor nos ha dejado…infinitas Gracias Maestro y Amigo!🙏🏼♥️ Lástima que no esté la traducción al español…aunque le he entendido lo fundamental…Dios es Todo y está en Todo…vivimos en el Reino De Dios aquí en la Tierra…

[@hullshores]

When I saw marion in comment above my heart smiled because my name is Marion and Beloved Thay is with us always. Was blessed to be in his Presence twice on earth before his transition and just loved the tenderness of his message.🤍

[@mariewilliams1390]

Wonderful🙏🏼thanks for sharing❤

[@TherealMrsCothrine]

I used to go to sleep listening to his lessons... ❤ Thich Nhat Hanh..... i would say that i miss him .. but I see him still... hear him..... And I need to do better

[@darlenesassmann9418]

I love you, Thay❤ thank you

[@Sidtube10]

Lovely. Being in the moment/thoughtless and breathing in is indeed beautiful!

[@malarvizhinamasivayam3879]

👍🏽🙏🏽✌🏽❤️

[@alfreddifeo9642]

Gratitude for this, 🎯♥😶 🙏☮ may the power of love, grace, courage and understanding happen to all. Thanks for sharing 🙏

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❤😊

[@huansitoaguilar9405]

Peace Be Upon Him .

[@nicholaskearney678]

Joyul poetry about being alive in everything seen, in our dream. Blessings for you're eloquence and smile.

[@denisecassella37]

🙏💫💛🙏💛💫🙏💫🕊️

[@tubes-lut]

Probably my favourite person ever

[@grimus79]

God is the dreamer of this experience..aka me kiddos

[@robertopuccianti8498]

😊🧡❤🌻🙏

[@ivannebesnyk900]

Це сильно❤

[@d1427]

Looking for God is like searching for the glasses on your nose- "the place where I am looking from is what I am looking at"

[@MonkLife]

Thank you so much for producing these videos and content in a high quality way. It’s an enriching and beautiful experience of being with Thầy and his Continuation…

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🙏

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👍 🙏💙🙏💙🙏💙

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☺️

[@WoodstockG54]

God is a conscious singularity and we are the unconscious singularity aspect of the conscious singularity. Time to wake up.🙏

[@carmiiioi57]

If i talked about past and object : I remembered my classmate way back 2007 (to learn french) she's old and From Vietnam and i am from Philippines. I suddenly remembered her while Thich Nhat Hanh is talking. (It's impossible for me to forget those who gave me love that moment.

[@KevinPerez-ct9jn]

EL REINO DE DIOS ADENTRO ❤️👁🙏

[@rolanddanford512]

This is called Baptism by 🔥 Fire. Christ offers those who will forsake all else and choose Him♥️🔥✝️.

[@JNeil1975]

Faith-based nonsense. Jesus is died 2000 years ago. “Christ” never lived.

[@gra6649]

I have heard it said that God is the creative energy that caused, and moves the universe, without the limitations of a personality.

[@sachinpawar2678]

Breath in or breath out means putting efforts to be happy to be happy there shouldn't be any kind of efforts putting efforts may lead to unhappiness be natural be happy being natural and happy itself means GOD is with you

[@living11for11love]

The truth requires no belief ❤🪷🙏

[@senadbrick]

Our daily spiritual bread 🍞 69 When I am dwelling in dependence on a village or town, in the morning I dress, take my bowl and enter that village or town for alms. After the meal, when I have returned from the alms round, I enter a grove. I collect some grass or leaves that I find there into a pile and then sit down. Or sometime I sit on root of a tree or on trunk of an uprooted tree. Having folded my legs and straightened my body, I establish mindfulness in front of me. Then, secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states, I dwell peaceful and mindful, while clearly comprehending and concentrated. Then I dwell per­vading one quarter with a mind imbued with loving-kindness, likewise the second quarter, the third quarter, and the fourth quarter. Thus above, below, across, and everywhere, and to all as to myself, I dwell pervading the entire world with a mind imbued with loving-kindness, happiness, vast, exalted, measureless, with­out enmity, without ill will. I dwell pervading one quarter with a mind imbued with compassion, with a mind imbued with altruistic joy, with a mind imbued with equanimity, likewise the second quarter, the third quarter, and the fourth quarter. Thus above, below, across, and everywhere, and to all as to myself, I dwell pervading the entire world with a mind imbued with equanimity, vast, exalted, measureless, without enmity, without ill will. Then I understand thus: "I have abandoned greed, cut it off at the root, made it like a palm stump, obliterated it so that it is no more subject to future arising. I have abandoned hatred, cut it off at the root, made it like a palm stump, obliterated it so that it is no more subject to future arising. I have abandoned delusion, cut it off at the root, made it like a palm stump, obliterated it so that it is no more subject to future arising."🙏🕊💮

[@thomasspeight3797]

❤❤❤ what can i say..

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👉soul

[@Uytaryn]

Decidedness

[@nataliajust]

🤍

[@soulvendorlol]

is that alan harper?

[@AgakBokis]

Jika kita tetap terperangkap dalam pandangan bahwa Tuhan mesti adalah sesuatu objek eksternal yang menciptakan seluruh objek yang ada di seluruh alam semesta, maka Buddhisme menyimpulkan tidak ada Tuhan seperti itu. Jika saya berikan perumpamaan bahwa seluruh alam semesta dan isinya adalah bagian internal atau organ tubuh Tuhan, maka sebenarnya tidak ada ciptaan Tuhan karena kita adalah bagian dari Tuhan, begitu juga seluruh alam semesta juga adalah "organ tubuh" Tuhan. Tentu saja perumpamaan ini masih jauh dari gambaran tentang Tuhan karena Tuhan adalah bukan-personal, namun adalah realitas tertinggi, bangkitnya kesadaran murni dari latihan meditasi menuju tujuan akhir kesadaran, yaitu kesadaran murni, bahwa sebenarnya Tuhan dan kita adalah realitas yang tak berbeda.

[@robb6059]

Kṛṣṇa says in the gita that he is the seed giving father so i encourage you to read it the commentary by Srila prabupada original unchanged.

[@jeffreyhoward6319]

Is not 'who' the question?

[@MarsianForestcat]

I knew that to be a live is a good thing 😂 but what is to be not alive? Is it the opposite then?

[@kay2743]

I used to believe in god, but not anymore.

[@franziseitz5986]

Maybe you had an idea or a notion about god which doesn't fit in

[@sofimazi555]

God is energy No need to believe in It is there you can sence it meditating Not always possible But it is there.