Thank you for being, dear Thich Nhat Hanh. Your guided meditations have helped me so much. Your voice calms me and gives me hope and confidence again. Peace to all sentient beings.

When I read Thich Nhat Hanh's commentary on the Heart Sutra ("Heart of Understanding") then this meditation really started to get deeper for me. When I first tried this meditation, I admit it was somewhat puzzling. I was thinking "What are you saying 'no one is sitting'?? I'm right here!!" haha Now I can really rest in the deeper wisdom of this one. Just took a while to come around to the concepts of "no separate, permanent self", what emptiness means in Zen Buddhism, along with the idea of having an inherent, original "buddha nature" (his Diamond Sutra commentary "The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion" was particularly helpful with that one). I quite love this meditation now! Thanks as always for sharing it with us.

@plumvillageapp

2 жыл бұрын

Dear friend David, thank you for sharing with us how your practice and insights have changed over time ✨. We are happy to read that you enjoy this guided meditation. May your experience be an inspiration for other friends along the path 🙏. A lotus for you, The Plum Village App team plumvillage.app

I don't know why I always open my eyes just a few seconds before the end of the meditation. It happens in every single meditation. ha ha!

Blessings on you dear one.

Thank you ! Thich Nhat Hanh, you are truly the best..I've been listening to the audible book " mindfulness" twice already during this pandemic every morning while cooking and before I start my day for work. Thank you for your stories, your funny jokes ( i sure laugh by myself...jajaja) , the advices and the suggestions, your honesty. Your books have truly transformed the way I perceive things in my life and my relationships with others. I hope you are well in this times. Peace be with you.

@lizzettebonfanteg.7084

4 жыл бұрын

I meant to writing " mindful living" book. :))

@skarlan2210

4 жыл бұрын

Ii

🙏🌸😄

I just started the audio book of Being Peace. Finished the second chapter and it's great. Simple and heartwarming. Excited to go back to it today

Loved this. Thank you

Gracias 🙏

Thank you 🙏

Gracious !!!

🌻🙏😄

Perfect

Thank you dear Thay

Thank you

Merci pour cette puissante et au combien émouvante méditation

Thank you dear Sangha🌷💮

🙏🏻namaste🙏🏻peace

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💛🙏🏻

🙏🏻 Namaste.🙏🏻Peace

@plumvillageapp

2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@jerrymillett3895

2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻Namaste✌🏻Peace

@jerrymillett3895

2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻Namaste✌🏻Peace

@jerrymillett3895

2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻Namaste✌🏻Peace

@jerrymillett3895

2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻Namaste✌🏻Peace

thank you...please more volume

@plumvillageapp

3 жыл бұрын

Dear friend, thank you for your message. These are older audio recordings done with less professional tools, and unfortunately there isn't much we can do about the quality of the sound. 🙏

@anarosaabrahin2241

3 жыл бұрын

@@plumvillageapp very kind of you

Please more volume 🙏

Does anyone know what note that bell is? I'm looking to purchase a bell and that note is so soothing. Thank you.

@CL-he4jz

3 жыл бұрын

F# (F sharp) "4" (which means the F sharp above middle C) - turning into G 4 (G above middle C). My 9y/o told me cos he's got perfect pitch. (I'm a musician but I don't 🤣). It's a nice bell isn't it? The bells on insight timer app have names like "kangse" etc, maybe there's one with a similar sound.

Thank you plum village I am far how can I join your community I really want it do you have any online live meetings?

@plumvillageapp

2 жыл бұрын

Dear friend, yes, you can join all our live events. Have a look at this page on the Plum Village website plumvillage.org/live/ Hope this helps. 🙏

please can someone explain why there is only sitting and there is no one sitting, and why there is only breathing and no one breathing?

@kevinotero4623

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. I have the same question. It makes some sense to me in a very deep way, but not a conscious way.

@BrianQuesta

3 жыл бұрын

I read in one of Tchich´s books that the self is always connected with a something else. I am thinking. I am cold. I am breathing. In each of those cases the "I" is not spoken without the other object. That without that something else its existence is not possible. I think it has something to do with duality in Buddhism. Therefor there is only the sitting and only the breathing. .. However, I was also confused because a second before we clearly say I am breathing, I am sitting. It does feel nice however to explore that other side - the side where we let ourselves go and feel more or less connected to the other. Deep within this meditation we have let go of all our thoughts and worries that give definition to the "I". In the end we finally let the I go. Sounds dangerous! :)

@conephompany

3 жыл бұрын

@@BrianQuesta i am 16 minutes into this audiobook and i believe the concept is addressed here kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5aMxrusdpW_m6Q.html&ab_channel=Awareness

@bastianelken7125

3 жыл бұрын

@J, Thay explains the gatha you refer to in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l2aLvKOdo6ndeM4.html

@conephompany

3 жыл бұрын

@@bastianelken7125 thank you, i will check that out

There Is Only Sitting (Thich Nhat Hahn) Gong, Gong, Gong (full… 5, 5, 5 seconds) Let us enjoy breathing together… this is a guided meditation (10 seconds) … We invite the Buddha to breathe with our lungs, we invite the Buddha to sit with our back (3 seconds) … Dear Buddha, my lungs are still good, please use my lungs and enjoy breathing in… My back is also good, so please make good use of my back and sit… You might invite Jesus Christ to breathe with our lungs and sit with our back… They are inside of us; they are the best part of us… • I invite Buddha to breathe, I invite Buddha to sit… • Buddha breathing; Buddha sitting… Gong (short) Gong (full, 5 minutes) • Budha is breathing, Buddha is sitting… • I enjoy breathing; I enjoy the sitting… Gong (short) Gong (full, 5 minutes) • Buddha is the breathing. Buddha is the sitting… • I am the breathing; I am the sitting… Gong (short) Gong (full, 5 minutes) • There is only the breathing, there is only the sitting… • There is no one breathing; there is no one sitting… Gong (short) Gong (full, 5 minutes) • There is peace while the breathing is there, there is happiness while the sitting is there… • Peace is the breathing; happiness is the sitting… Gong (short) Gong (full)

But there is no "I am".

Thank you

@teresamoreira2280

3 жыл бұрын

Obrigada