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
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Dear Thay is not only the greatest teacher, but also the greatest poet, philosopher.Most of all, dear Thay is the Buddha!!!
" I sat like a mountain and I smiled" - I love this saying
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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.
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 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️
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.
To listen this video's voice, i felt so peace. thank you for this video.
Nam Mô Bụt Thích Ca Mâu Ni Chúng Con Kính Tri Ân Và Hằng Tôn Kính NGƯỜI - Cố TS Thích Nhất Hạnh
我知道生氣是什麼感覺 我也體會過被讚揚的喜悅 我經常都處於哭或笑的邊緣 但是被這些情緒隱藏起來的 又是什麼呢? 我怎樣才能觸碰到呢? 如果情緒的背後什麼都沒有 那為什麼我又如此肯定 一定存在著什麼呢? 寒冷的冬天 容不下任何年經 溫柔 和不安全的東西 必須克服年輕的不確定性才能生存下來 成熟和決心必不可少 樹木為了度過冬天 展現出來的勇氣和堅定 幫助我去珍惜我學到的道理 起初它看起來像是一朵浮雲 但是幾個小時過後 我覺得我身體變成一縷青煙 慢慢飄走了 我變成了一絲雲 我以前一直以為自己是堅固的實體 但是突然之間我發現 自己不再那麼真實存在了 我發現以前我以為是我的那個實體都是虛構的 我意識到我的本質 更加的真實 比我以前想像的更加醜陋更加美好 朋友們希望你以他們熟悉的方式出現 但那是不可能的 如果我們一成不變 那我們怎麼繼續活下去呢? 為了活下去 我們必須在每一個瞬間死去 我們必須在暴風雨中一次一次的死亡 才有可能活下去 我變成了戰場 暴風雨結束之前 我不知道自己能否活下來 不是物質意義上的生命 而是我的深處的靈魂 我經歷了一次又一次毀滅 我極度渴望能有我愛的人 就算我知道哪怕他們存在 我都要趕走他們 或者自己逃跑 暴風雨終於過去了 內心的基礎已經奠定了 在我這個空無一人的戰場上 一縷陽光穿過地平線照了過來 陽光太微弱 不能給我疲倦的靈魂任何溫暖 我經歷了意想不到的孤獨 遍體鱗傷 沒有人會認識我的新形態 身邊親近的人都不知道這就是我 山川河流 地球和太陽 都存在於我們的意識中心 當意識到這一點的時候 時間和空間就不復存在 因果和生死全部都消失了 雖然我離星星還有十萬光年 但我能瞬間跨過那距離 我很早就知道 尋找真相和尋找幸福不一樣 你渴望看到真相 但是你一看到真相 就無法避免遭受折磨 否則你就什麼都沒看到 那一刻 我感到十分平靜 沒有悲傷或者焦慮的念頭 進入我的腦海 過去 現在和未來的想法都不見了 我站在現實的光明門檻上 超越了時間 空間 和行動 晚上剩下的時間 我都起身打坐 剩下的就是深深扎根的平和 我像座山一樣坐著 帶著微笑
🙏🙏❤🙏🙏 so beautiful. Thay is within all of our hearts 🙏🙏
That voice!!!!! ahhhhhhh TSYM for uploading!!!!
So touching. Thank you for your being Thay
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
Wonderful drops of peace ....grateful!
Hey great video!
This is really helpful for me to feel relax
Beautiful 🙏
Thank you for this.
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Donde puedo verlo en español .gracias
Si pudieran emitir traducción al español latinoamericano.
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
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Thank you 🙏
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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.