The Full Video from this weeks podcast
Can we truthfully say we did not exist before our birth? What will become of us after death? Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh addresses our ideas about life and death and how we can release these debilitating notions and get in touch with our true nature, the nature of no birth and no death. We have the tendency to think dualistically: coming and going, birth and death, same and different, being and non-being. Such opposing ideas are merely mental constructions that do not reflect the true nature of reality. Life arises when conditions are sufficient and fades when conditions are no longer sufficient. But we cannot say life and death oppose one another—they “inter-are.” “The teaching of no birth, no death,” says Thich Nhat Hanh, “is the cream of the Buddha’s teachings.”
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I don’t know what people believe right now. But one day we will all realize that we are like machines and nothing more than that. Just much more intelligent.
Just like once that particular machine is gone, it is gone for ever. The same thing happens with humans too. Dead and gone. No life, no conscience, no soul, nothing. I know this is not what you want to hear, but that is the truth.
Thankyou so much for this video. The sitting and walking at the end lovely to see and the music too quite lovely. It was an honour to listen to Thich and wonderful to see him and the nun singing ….I can only say thankyou.