The Art of Embracing Loneliness | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2020
- In this short teaching video from the Plum Village app plumvillage.app/ Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh talks about loneliness.
Excerpt from: On Loneliness | Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, 2012.12.13 ( • Thich Nhat Hanh: Decem... )
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He spent over 60 years teaching Peace 🌷🧘🏻♀️🌱⛲️
Until today, I used to think of loneliness as something separate from me that I needed to distance myself from. I never thought of it as a part of myself.
Hi, I’d appreciate if you would share how you arrived to this conclusion. I have saved your comment however l can’t seem to distinguish the difference between you (1) understanding the difference between distance and loneliness being part of thyself?
Sincerely appreciate knowing the differences… Thanks
"it is a mess, yes but i accept it!" So powerful of Thay. Thanks a lot for doing so much service for the world.
You have left home for a long time and home has become a mess - this line ❤
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So simple yet so forgotten. Love yourself first.
I was a crook before I started learning from Thich Nhan Hanh and now I’m better. Hey
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Until we learn to be comfortable in our own skin & to nurture our own soulz... everything we try to fulfill it with will only be temporary relief & may end up making a gaping wound bigger!
The only way out... is in! 🧘♀️
Thank you so much Dear Thay. I like this: I'm at home, he's at home; WE ARE AT HOME!!! Love you. Evangelina Cortes.
The way out is in.
Very spiritual and helpful advice from a beautiful soul, thanks a lot
Let us all cultivate metta in every moment.
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Thank you. 😊🤎I love the quiet voice.
I can attain this kind of state in nature when I am alone in nature, but I can't attain it in town or in the presence of other people. I'm 67 and have studied and practiced many spiritual methods; some in depth and with daily practices, and some by dabbling and moving on. It took me a while to cobble together a personal practice I really like, and Buddhism is a piece of it, but sure not the whole thing.
I was an atheist as a teen before I discovered how I reacted to being alone in wilderness, and I didn't experience real wilderness till my 20s (having been born in the Bronx & grown up in the NY metropolitan area; but I live in the northwest now and have been here for over 45 years; moved here when I was 21).
I slowly came to recognize that the wilderness is my church, but having started as an atheist it took me years to recognize this, and then even more years to become comfortable saying out loud that nature is my church.
Thich Nhat Hanh's advice is that one can start simply by paying attention to one's breath and breathing deep was my natural first response to being in nature. The beautiful fragrances . . . . The natural sounds are so beautiful. I got silent and went inwards just by being there, as a young woman, and I knew I needed that; needed wilderness; more than a good job, more than renown, more than money or a a marriage or family; more than anything else....
(Do you know that when there isn't any breeze, or any rush of a nearby river or stream to drown it out - - - Nature makes its own ongoing sounds which drown out the softer natural sounds - - - did you know that snow falling on snow, tinkles?
Snow falling on snow tinkles very faintly; like wine glasses crashed in a fire place during a wasteful bash at a 1%ers' party, but much much softer, and and gentler, and steadier, (like the sound of a light rain in its steadiness and gentleness) and at a higher pitch than smashing glass.
After all it is crystals falling on crystals .... And it doesn't need to be nearly that quiet for you to hear your own heart beat, when mechanical noises are completely absent. The hiking I needed to get into deep wilderness forced me to get in touch with, and listen to, and honor the directives, of my entire body; which is more advice from the Buddhists (and on other paths, too).
Now that I know where my church is, and I have spent lots of time in it; lots of time in the place that brings me home, again and again and again, and I understand more why devout people come "home" when they go to church, or temple, or to the mosque.
But being inside of a building never could be a bridge for me, or a door for me, or whatever metaphor one likes best; even the most beautiful buildings just don't do it for me.
I admired the art of the Cistine Chapel ceiling;a when I got to see it, but I don't come home to myself effortlessly by gazing at it. I've never been to the Taj Mahal, but I imagine I'd admire the architecture and tile work, and not come home to myself there, either.
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I feel sorry for my own family who left me because of my illness May they find the way❤️
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Mazel tov! Blesses be! The Lord be with ye. Namaste.
The Buddha within me sees the Buddha within You.
Hi Bryna, I know what you mean about being in nature and how it allows you to connect with who you really are. I have had similar experiences - I live near a vast area of moorland, before I knew what meditation was I used to walk with my dogs listening to the sound of my feet on the ground and feeling the breath inside my body. Deep down we all know what we need to fulfill us and to touch what is authentic inside. In my experience there is something we come to rest in which defies words. If there is a downside to this it's just that when I'm back with people, a lot of them seem quite mad and full of negative energy.
@@hettyandmaggiespinone4893 I like your post a lot.
Unfortunately I am learning that some people cannot go deep inside to access the divine within. They are people without any compassion and all they are into is image, image, image, image; and often their images are quite "good;" succeed at fooling others.
It gives one food for thought. I have such a landlord/room mate right this moment, and he handed me an eviction notice some two weeks ago, because I have seen through his lies from the very beginning, and he knows it . . .
I don't really understand it, I admit. I like thinking that people are basically good and that anyone can access the divine from within. I live in an area that has just been decimated by forest fires here in the "great" USA, and I am one of the lucky ones who fled the fires, and who returned to find my "home" is still standing.
It isn't getting out in the news; I think; how small rural communities in the USA are pulling together to help those who just lost everything, and I am lucky enough to be part of such a community. But my soul-less landlord is not part of the community that is helping one another . . . but he pretends he is . . . .
I could go on and on about this; with more questions than answers, really; how hard times can bring out the best in the best people, and the worst in the worst people.
Talent Oregon is my home, population 7,000 according to the 2010 census in the USA. There were a number of fires in the region when Talent was evacuated. The Almeda fire started in Ashland (where I was shopping that day; Sept 8th) dry hot winds whipped the fire north to Talent (evacuated that afternoon), then the winds pushed the fires north to Phoenix (which lost at least 1,500 homes burned to the ground) and the winds whipped the fire north and west where it tore through tiny, Europeans would say "villages" I think & not towns . . . places like Cave Junction, Williams, etc; tiny places where a grocery store and a post office is "town" center, and those places were wiped out . . . .
Street art is appearing all over the place, and people are putting food out in front of their homes, for anyone to take up; anyone at all.
"Talent Stay Strong!" says one piece of street art, and there are many languages adding the same feelings; Spanish, Laotian, Korean, and I know not what else. "Phoenix Rises From the Ashes," says another piece of beautiful street art. A painting of a big heart; the name Talent, and a sign "Don't Lick People," to mock the US government "policy" on covid . . . .
Irony abounds. There is much going on here that inspires me, and it comes from average people coming to help each other out, without government, corporations, cops, or military helping one scrap . . . .
I wish that part got into the news . . . how people are helping each other out SO much . . . .
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Nice to see modern context
I like his teaching of embracing loneliness. One have to feel good about theirselves n know the presence of GOD.
Once you enjoy your own company...you become irresistible
U are a soothing balm at the right time.
Island of self...know yourself...very nice speech.. yes, everything is in yourself...thank you for pointing remindings...
Thank you for your teaching.
Self love is everything. 😘🙏💚
Thank you Thay for your loving teaching:x
Thank you 🙏
I always like being my myself.
Thank you ,so soothing!
U read my mind.Bless the sangha!
First : turning back to myself.
my favourite Thay talk... I'm so grateful for it to exist on the Plum Village app... thank you so much!
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Beautiful, eloquent talk. Thank you.
I feel myself - I feel painful loneliness...
Love you
Thank You
Merciiiiii 🙏
Thank you very much ur talks have helped me understand a out many things thank you
Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you 🙏💓🙏
Thank you
Thank you
A great teaching ❤ thank you so much 🙏
Home is exactly the place one feels most lonely
He is love.
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Im watching this, 14 Dec 2020, spooky.
🙏💜🦋🌈 namaste
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"Loneliness is the ???? of our time."
"Loneliness is the ill-being of our time." Also, the English subtitles are available for this video. Thanks for watching!
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To be perfectly honest I don't think one can fully embrace loneliness because once you are it's like a lifetime sentence that's surely self imposed and hope flies out of the window of ever being near a human being again
It's good to be perfectly honest! I understand what you're saying, but I think Thay was suggesting a different kind of embrace. It's a subtle difference; you change the relationship with your loneliness. You get into relationship with your loneliness and that is what frees you from it. Listen to the talk again.
He said you see your inner child and you say I am here and we will face our loneliness together and come out of it with each mindfulness step of caring for your inner child that is actually your present self in the end