We can't find the internet
Attempting to reconnect
Something went wrong!
Hang in there while we get back on track. If this problem persists help us by reporting it so we can investigate it.
Watch this talk
Login or create a free account to watch this talk and discover other teachings from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Log in or create an account
thay viet x thuong ktmd
Only six days remain until the end of the three-month Rains Retreat at Upper Hamlet, which will conclude with the Ceremony of Invitation for Admonition (Tự Tứ), an occasion when the Sangha kneels before one another to request shining light on their progress and shortcomings. The day of Tự Tứ is also the celebration of the monastic “age”—after five years of rains, one is qualified to be a Dharma teacher, and after ten years, to become a venerable elder (Hòa Thượng), able to transmit the precepts and give birth to new spiritual life in the Sangha.
After the knight Rohitassa recounted his journey flying as swift as light for a hundred years without escaping birth and death, the Buddha affirmed that there is no means of travel that can take one to the realm of the unborn and undying; the world of no birth and no death is found right within this seven-foot body, and only through deep contemplation of our own body can we discover true peace and happiness.
- According to the teaching of dependent co-arising: “This being, that is”—flower and garbage give rise to each other, happiness is only possible when we have experienced suffering.
- The meaning of nirvana is extinction—the absence of all notions, not dreaming of a distant realm, but living fully in each breath, each step in the present moment.
- The original Sangha did not depend on rituals or ecclesiastical power; only the Dharma, the Sangha, and the precepts served as the compass for the practice of transforming suffering.
