The Sunlight of Awareness / Master Tich Nhat Hanh

Our Mind, Individual & Collective | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Helping Hungry Ghosts | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Plum Village App
Oct 16, 2020

 

The Roots of Anger | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh talks about the roots of our anger as well as common questions about anger, such as "can anger be beneficial sometimes?"
Taking Care of Anger | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Tools for Dealing with Anger | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Plum Village App
Sep 28, 2020

 

Through the Insight of Interbeing | Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, 2012.10.11

Calm - Ease | Guided Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh

Volition: Our Deepest Desire | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Plum Village App
Aug 29, 2019

 

Appointment with Life | Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, 2014.07.06

Plum Village
Jul 9, 2014
This is the first Dharma talk by Thay for the Summer Opening 2014 in Lower Hamlet.
Mindfulness is a kind of energy that everyone of us can generate. Mindfulness allows us to be aware of what is going on in our body, feelings, perceptions, in our mind, around us and in the world. You can define mindfulness as the kind of energy that allows us to aware of what is happening in the here and now. If you are not in the here and now, you cannot know what is happening in the here and now. Life and all the wonders of life are available only in the here and now. Mindfulness helps us go home to the here and now and get in touch with life. We have an appointment with life. That appointment takes place in the present moment. If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.

 

“There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

It’s like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud, you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Staying in the Present Moment | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

The Noble Eightfold Path | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

The Inner Child | Thich Nhat Hanh (short meditation)

Embracing Your Pain and Sorrow | Thich Nhat Hanh

Plum Village App
Dec 16, 2020

 

Remembering the Appointment with Life | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Plum Village App
Jan 4, 2021
In this short teaching video from the Plum Village app https://plumvillage.app/ Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh talks about the practice of mindful walking that can help us to remember the appointment with life, which is happening only here and now.
Excerpt from: Freedom from Being Caught in the Past or the Future | Dharma talk, 2014.07.26 (https://youtu.be/FDhn7e8MCWI)

 

Practicing with Unpleasant Emotions | Thich Nhat Hanh

Plum Village App
Apr 28, 2021

 

#ThichNhatHanh #mindfulness #loneliness
Loneliness and the Illusion of Connection | Thich Nhat Hanh, 2012.12.13

Our teacher Thich Nhat Hanh talks about loneliness being a problem of our time and that technology only gives us the illusion of being connected with others. Loneliness can be ended by coming home to ourselves, finding self acceptance as we are, before establishing connection with others.
The Miracle of Walking on the Earth | Thich Nhat Hanh

Dharma Rain, and Being Alone | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Plum Village App
May 3, 2021

 

Love, Desire, and Intimacy | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Four Elements of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Definition of Heaven | Thich Nhat Hanh

Plum Village App
May 10, 2021

 

How do I love myself? | Thich Nhat Hanh answers questions

On Loneliness | Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, 2012.12.13

How can I forgive myself and others? | Thich Nhat Hanh answers questions

Plum Village
Mar 8, 2021

 

Four Notions to Remove | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

The Five Spiritual Powers (Plus One) | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Plum Village App
Mar 4, 2021

 

No Craving, Nirvana & Letting Go | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Meditation Is Not a Luxury | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Plum Village App
Sep 25, 2020

 

Thich Nhat Hanh A Simple Way To Heal Yourself

Thich Nhat Hanh Revolutionise Your Thinking Pattern

Quentin Genshu
Jun 24, 2019

 

How To Deal with Strong Emotions | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

To Be Means To InterBe | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Plum Village App
Jul 7, 2021

 

Nondiscrimination | Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, 2004.03.26

Touching the Past | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)

Plum Village App
Jul 12, 2021

 

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Birth, No Death

SourceOfLightMon
Jun 1, 2013

 

Thich Nhat Hanh: January 3rd 2013

SourceOfLightMon
Jan 18, 2013

 

“Very alert, present and at peace”— Plum Village shares Thich Nhat Hanh 95th birthday update

by Martine Panzica| October 12, 2021
Plum Village addresses Thich Nhat Hanh’s 95th birthday and shares an update about his health.

Thich Nhat Hanh. Photo by Duc.

In recognition of Thich Nhat Hanh’s 95th birthday on October 9, Plum Village released a statement sharing updates about his health and wellbeing over the past year.


According to the statement, Thich Nhat Hanh has experienced increasing weakness over the past year, with special difficulty with his lungs and overall health during wet seasons. His difficulties are exacerbated during heavy rains in Spring and Autumn, which limit his capacity to go outside. The statement reported:


“In recent months, Thầy has been resting for most of the day with his eyes closed, yet he is often very alert, present and at peace. When the weather is fine, the attendants help Thầy to go out onto the veranda of the Deep Listening Hut to enjoy the sun. The pandemic has meant that this past year has above all been a year for the young monastics in Huế to spend time with Thầy in a very quiet yet joyful atmosphere, with many new young disciples taking turns to assist the attendant team.”


The statement from Plum Village also included some other updates from the community, including the release of Thich Nhat Hanh’s latest book, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, which addresses how to collectively combat global climate change. The post also included information on how to virtually participate in the Plum Village community, including through their annual 90-day Rains Retreat, and the Plum Village App which offers free meditations, practices, and other resources from Thich Nhat Hanh and his monastic community.
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Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the great Buddhist teachers of our time, dies at 95


by Lilly Greenblatt| January 21, 2022
Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Buddhist monk and founder of the Engaged Buddhism movement, died today in his home country of Vietnam. He was 95.


Photo courtesy of Plum Village.


One of the great Buddhist teachers of our time, Thich Nhat Hanh died today at Tu Hieu Pagoda in Vietnam, the Buddhist temple where he was ordained at age sixteen. Following his stroke in 2014, he had expressed a desire to return to his homeland, and, in October 2018, moved back to his home temple. There, he spent the last years of his life surrounded by his close disciples and students.


The International Plum Village has released a statement about Nhat Hanh’s passing:


International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism announces that our beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away peacefully at Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam, at 00:00hrs on 22nd January, 2022, at the age of 95. We invite our global spiritual family to take a few moments to be still, to come back to our mindful breathing, as we together hold Thay in our hearts in peace and loving gratitude for all he has offered the world. More official news will be coming shortly. Please sign up for email updates here: https://bit.ly/3fJx7pd


Nhat Hanh, affectionately referred to as “Thay,” by his students, has often been referred to as “the father of mindfulness.” In his 95 years, he made a global impact as a teacher, author, activist, and the founder of the Engaged Buddhism movement. His simple yet deeply profound teachings led countless people towards a life of mindfulness, joy, and peace.


Nhat Hanh suffered a brain hemorrhage in November 2014 and spent four-and-a-half months at a stroke rehabilitation clinic at Bordeaux University Hospital. He returned to Plum Village in France, where his health made remarkable progress and he was able to enjoy being “out in nature, enjoying the blossoms, listening to the birds and resting at the foot of a tree.”


In 2016, two months after his 90th birthday, Nhat Hanh expressed a wish to travel to Thailand to be closer to his homeland of Vietnam. He spent nearly two years at Thai Plum Village. In October 2018, Thich Nhat Hanh traveled to Vietnam to spend the remainder of his days at his root temple.


Nhat Hanh was born Nguyen Xuan Bao in Hué, Vietnam in October of 1926. Interested in Buddhism from an early age, he entered the monastery at Tu Hieu Temple in Vietnam at sixteen. There, he worked with his primary teacher, Zen master Thanh Quy Chan That. In 1951, Nhat Hanh was ordained as a monk after receiving training in Vietnamese Mahayana and Thien Buddhist traditions. It was then that he received the name Thich Nhat Hanh.


As Lindsay Kyte reported for Lion’s Roar in “The Life of Thich Nhat Hanh,” Nhat Hanh was sent for training at a Buddhist academy but was dissatisfied with the curriculum, wanting to study more modern subjects. He left for the University of Saigon, where he could study world literature, philosophy, psychology, and science in addition to Buddhism. He went on to begin his activist work, founding La Boi Press and the Van Hanh Buddhist University in Saigon. He also founded the School of Youth for Social Service, a neutral corps of Buddhist peace workers who established schools, built healthcare clinics, and rebuilt villages in rural areas.


Nhat Hanh accepted a fellowship to study comparative religion at Princeton University in 1960 and was subsequently appointed a lecturer in Buddhism at Columbia University. He had become fluent in English, Japanese, Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, and English.


In 1963, a U.S.-backed military coup had overthrown the Diem regime, and Nhat Hanh returned to Vietnam to continue initiating nonviolent peace efforts. He submitted a peace proposal to the Unified Buddhist Church (UBC), calling for a cessation of hostilities, the establishment of a Buddhist institute for the country’s leaders, and the creation of a center to promote nonviolent social change. The founding of the Engaged Buddhism movement was his response to the Vietnam War. Nhat Hanh’s mission was to engage with the suffering caused by war and injustice and to create a new strain of Buddhism that could save his country. In the formative years of the Engaged Buddhism movement, Nhat Hanh met Cao Ngoc Phuong, who would later become Sister Chan Kong. She hoped to encourage activism for the poor in the Buddhist community, and worked closely with Nhat Hanh to do so. She remained his closest disciple and collaborator for the remainder of his life.


In 1966, Nhat Hanh returned to the U.S. to lead a symposium at Cornell University on Vietnamese Buddhism. There, he met with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and asked King to denounce the Vietnam War. Dr. King granted the request the following year with a speech questioning America’s involvement in the war. Soon after, he nominated Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize. “I do not personally know of anyone more worthy of [the prize] than this gentle monk from Vietnam. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity,” he wrote.


In June of that year, Nhat Hanh presented a peace proposal in Washington urging Americans to stop bombing Vietnam, emphasizing that he and his followers favored neither side in the war and wanted only peace. In response, Nhat Hanh was exiled from Vietnam. He was granted asylum in France, where he became chair of the Vietnamese Buddhist Peace Delegation.


Nhat Hanh was the head the Order of Interbeing, a monastic and lay group that he founded in 1966. In 1969, he also founded the Unified Buddhist Church, and later in 1975, formed the Sweet Potatoes Meditation Center southeast of Paris, France. As the center grew in popularity, Nhat Hanh and Sister Chan Khong founded Plum Village, a vihara (Buddhist monastery) and Zen center, in the South of France in 1982. In 1987, he founded Parallax Press in California, which publishes his writings in English. He established Deer Park Monastery in Southern California, his first monastery in America, in 2000. Since then, many dharma centers across the US, serving tens of thousands of lay students, have been established as part the Order of Interbeing.


After negotiations, the Vietnamese government allowed Nhat Hanh, now a well-known Buddhist teacher, to return to Vietnam for a visit in 2005. He was able to teach, publish four books in Vietnamese, travel the country, and visit his root temple. Although his first trip home stirred controversy, Nhat Hanh was allowed to return again in 2007 to support new monastics in his Order, organize chanting ceremonies to heal wounds from the Vietnam War, and lead retreats for groups of up to 10,000.


“We gauge the greatness of spiritual teachers by the depth, breadth, and impact of their teachings, and by the example their lives set for us. By all these measures, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the leading spiritual masters of our age,” writes Lion’s Roar editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod in his introduction to The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh.


In his lifetime, Nhat Hanh authored more than 100 books, which have been translated into 35 languages, on a vast range of subjects — from simple teachings on mindfulness to children’s books, poetry, and scholarly essays on Zen practice. His most recent book, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, was published by HarperCollins in October 2021. His community consists of more than 600 monastics worldwide, and there now exists more than 1000 practice communities attended by his dedicated sangha across North America and Europe.


It is estimated that Nhat Hanh created over 10,000 works of calligraphy in his life, each sharing unique, simple messages: “Breathe, you are alive”; “Happiness is here and now”; “Present moment, wonderful moment”; “Wake up; It’s now”; “This is it”. His life itself was a meditation in action, creating peace with every step.


In a newsletter to the community, Plum Village shared that starting Saturday, January 22, the global community is invited to come together online to commemorate Thich Nhat Hanh’s life and legacy. Plum Village will broadcast five days of practice and ceremonies live from Hue, Vietnam and Plum Village, France. More details can be found on their website.


“Now is a moment to come back to our mindful breathing and walking, to generate the energy of peace, compassion, and gratitude to offer our beloved Teacher. It is a moment to take refuge in our spiritual friends, our local sanghas and community, and each other,” Plum Village writes.


In his book, At Home in the World, published in 2016, Nhat Hanh addressed his inevitable death. He wrote:


This body of mine will disintegrate, but my actions will continue me… If you think I am only this body, then you have not truly seen me. When you look at my friends, you see my continuation. When you see someone walking with mindfulness and compassion, you know he is my continuation. I don’t see why we have to say “I will die,” because I can already see myself in you, in other people, and in future generations.


Even when the cloud is not there, it continues as snow or rain. It is impossible for the cloud to die. It can become rain or ice, but it cannot become nothing. The cloud does not need to have a soul in order to continue. There’s no beginning and no end. I will never die. There will be a dissolution of this body, but that does not mean my death.


I will continue, always.
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