What is Nirvana ?

Discourse by Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh

Category:

Education

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• Buddha
• nirvana
• nibbana
• monk
• thich
• Nhat
• Hanh
• vesak
• sri
• lanka
• buddhism

[kenny582]

I agree with you fully. I'm an athiest. No one needs to have a religion in order to find peace.

[mushroomagicman]

Thanx for posting this. Those of us blessed with 'psychedelic' experiences fully understand the nature of existence and it helps us to understand that the chaos apparently manifesting in this dimension is based on the illusion that we are separate, and an absence of 'Spiritual Experience'. Youtube seems to attract more than its share of self-opinionated 'experts' whose minds are closed to anything but 'materialism'.

There is only infinite Love -even David Icke is an illusion!!(he knows this!)

[ohwell121]

dude...chill out

This talk about Illusion is an intuition of something bigger than ourselves, there's another pararell world, and if you can get your mind into the right position you can get high off that, in a good way =) hahha

[Ashitanoyuki]

If I pull out a gun at you, that's not an illusion. That's what happened and that's what you see. But the coming fear and anxiety and anger which follows after you see me pulling out a gun. That's coming from perception. Coz you perceive me as evil and willing to shoot you. That's perception.

I might just wanna making a joke with you. But you perceive it as I want to kill you.

[Ashitanoyuki]

That's enlightenning.

I have the same notion that right and wrong dont really exist. Right and wrong is depended on the perspective and perspectives are depended on the conditioning of individuals which is out of people's control.

[tranquillize]

Great video. The idea that all views are wrong views is something most people have trouble understanding. Thich Nhat always articulates his points in a way that the listener can understand. Thanks :)

[MonMolo]

Someone pointing a gun at you and pulling the trigger isn't a perception, it will still happen if you're totally unaware of it. Perception would be "I see this as good" or "I see this as bad" or "I don't see this" or "He wont pull that" - vice versa. A reality remains behind the veil of perception, that veil of perception helps us survive, but without it we understand that survival isn't everything.

[MikoDollie]

Interesting, he said wrong perceptions. Not every perception is part of reality and you can even find this concept taught in modern psychology.

[Mwaterfall]

It is interesting that Buddhist as well as some others, say that perception is an illusion. So if someone pulls a gun at me, that's an illusion too???

I think, perception should be considered as a part of the whole reality. One should accept the part as well as the whole. Why?

There seems to be some buddhist teaching others to reject ideas, notions, concepts, et cetera... Let us be careful and balanced! AS HUMANS, WE NEED ALWAYS TO HAVE CONCEPTS AND IDEAS IN ORDER TO SURVIVE

[HiAdrian]

He's talking about the scope of perception. "Ultimate reality" isn't a suitable phrase though. The intellectual perception is just as (un)real as the direct, animal one. The latter seems to be way more enjoyable though, so why not dwell in it :)