III Transcending Dualism in Ethics | Thich Nhat Hanh

What are the roots of our personal sufferings and the pains of the world? We bring our mind home to re-examine our sufferings, to find a path. How to act. What we ought to do. What we ought to be.

Join us in reflecting and applying Thay's 2008-09 teachings on a Buddhist contribution toward a Global Ethic - made available for the first time with English subtitles.

This is the third talk of the series, which the community in Plum Village France watched on the 8th of November 2023. Originally offered by our teacher on 7th June 2009.

0:01:06 Start of the talk
0:01:39 Three kinds of approaches to ethics (Religious, Scientific, Buddhist)
0:10:55 The Buddhist approach: both subject and object of perception manifest from consciousness
0:14:00 Right view and The Noble Eightfold Path
0:18:31 The value of our life depends on the value of our thinking, speech and action (triple action)
0:32:51 Nothing is born, nothing can die and that is the nature of everything
0:37:43 Right thinking is free from fear and discrimination
0:43:15 Right mindfulness leads to insight
0:46:50 Wrong mindfulness: the suffering that comes from watching the film of the past in our mind
0:50:27 Original fear, original desire and their continuation
1:06:14 Right view transcends both notions of being and non-being
1:16:35 Pairs of opposites - bases for wrong view
1:27:41 Double grasping
1:45:05 Killing someone is killing yourself
1:48:28 Our ethic should be an ethic without dogmas

[patriciapereira]

Dear Thay, dear Sangha, thank you so much for this beautiful gift. To see and to hear Thay, is allways a blessing. I have tears in my eyes in gratitude for having been on some of yours retreats, with Thay, that totally changed my being and my way of understanding life.🙏🏽💜

[luxxnn]

I am so thankful to be able to watch this. Its amazing, i am deeply touched by this teaching & the insight that is being shared. Thank you for providing us with it.

[natezman]

Thank you for this wonderful dharma talk!

[melk]

Dear Thay,
Dear Beloved Sangha,
Thank you. His words and teachings have become so important and helpful to me. I appreciate these videos, I have learned so much and will continue to learn from them. Thank you for all the hard work that goes into the production and uploading onto YouTube. ❤❤❤

[carlalonghi]

So precious. I hope his words soak into my consciousness and there continue to sprout.

[tigistusiba]

As this amazing and great teacher put it because of the deficiency of the ability to understand the sufferings of others(interfering) our blind action slaughters innocent millions of our own ones, human beings and leads our precious world to catastrophe. Let's make a stop to analyze Thay's deep and great message about interfering!!!

[lhamopepper]

🙏🌷❤💕👍 I hope I can follow your teachings of peace and love. You are so wonderful and beautiful.

[dpachannel]

Atravesso um momento muito dificil, e estes vídeos me ajudam muito. Obrigado a todos que disponibilizam estas palavras no youtube.

[GardenYourHeart]

1:21:15 I love how you can hear Thay's breathing while he walks 🙏

[AislanBezerra]

The teaching (1:27:22) about the non-existence of an external world outside the mind's perception is profound and fascinating. In fact, it seems to align with the implications of quantum physics experiments.

[jenw]

Thank you dear Thay and dear Sangha 🙏🏻💐❤️

[susan]

Thank you for posting this - it is a deep and beautiful teaching, making us think so much as we listen. Thank you, Dear Thay, thank you, Plum Village.

[misinca]

Thank you Thây and thanks so much, Plum Village, for the video 🪷🙏

[KenSoHappyClegg]

Achieving balance between giving and recieving is a dance between opposites; a flame constantly flickering back and forth in the wind. The wind blows one way we give more, it blows the other way we receive more. Come inside a little closer, out of the wind of your ideas. The dance is about being more than doing. It's about how the flame shines more than the way it moves. Choose how much to let go of by what keeps your inner light brightest.

[brigitteleisegang]

I love to see and to listen to Thay's teachings. They changed my life, but netherless I found it a little bit irritating and not very mindful 😢 that some people in the sangha laughed when Thay described the monothistic principles of ethics.

[dejan]

Saying that terrorists are the victims is an insult on the common sense, that Thay commits time and again