Stop Running | Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh

How special to publish this beautiful video with Thay’s amazing words of wisdom and insight exactly twenty years after he spoke them…grateful for his teaching and your community for sharing them, along with all these pretty images and scenery. Thank you. Sending you bliss and love from Brussels, Belgium on this rainy night, the 1st of February 2024.

“You do not have to die to go to heaven, you have to be alive”.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, a gentle wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms - Thay

This man was Vietnamese and wanted nothing to do with the war. His whole life is an expression of peace and the eternal possibility of it.

For anyone going through a hard time and if you are unable to love yourself remember that everyone here loves you. All buddhism temples are filled with people that love you. So if not for yourself, for us be compasionate with your body and mind.

That was so beautiful. I had an extremely painful day, emotionally. Throughout I practiced walking meditation and did my best to not run from my feelings but embrace them, sooth them, and look deeply into them to gain insight. It helped, but I still had lost my smile until I watched this. Now I am able to smile again. This really helped me transform my suffering! I am so grateful to Thay and Miguel and everyone at Plum Village. 😊

I believe I was led here to absorb these beautiful words. I'm taking a Vipassana course in a few weeks and my mind has been busy thinking and planning. I've been very aware of randomly hearing or reading the words "stop running" and "stop jumping around" a lot lately and realizing it's what I do and it's not helping my journey, it's hindering it. Many thanks and blessings to Plum Village and the entire team who have gifted us with these precious films and words to help us. I have tears of thankfulness for you.

Thank you for these powerful words

We miss you Thay, we miss you, your love for people have no boundaries, love and gratitude for life is the manifestation of our souls ❤❤❤

Just listening to even one single talk from Thay leaves me feeling calmer, more gentle, more understanding, more patient, even my speech is slower and I speak more softly. He gives me such peace. I want to listen to this man talking all the time. ❤

I have peace because of you, dear Master <3. Thank you for everything.

Breathing in, I know I'm breathing in. Breathing out, I know I'm breathing out. Mindfulness: the art of living.

Thanks much Plum Village and team of brothers and sister who work hard behind the scenes, to bring us such beautiful words of Thay, he is alive in our hearts and we need to hear his voice on daily basis to keep on this path of peace.

Just beautiful and so timely for me. Stop running...sounds like such an easy concept but difficult to achieve. We need these constant reminders to stop and tell ourselves that we are at peace, we are home, we have arrived.

Thay’s teachings are always fresh. A wonderful video. Beautifully designed and edited, Miguel. ❤❤❤

Thank you so much our Beloved Teacher, Brothers and Sisters for so generously sharing this devotion and beauty with us all. So much love and gratitude to you all.

Mindfulness inspired me to create my own channel - to gently remind people to stay in the present. I started deeply looking into meditation as someone who struggles with a constantly wandering mind since early university days. Some days are easy but most days are incredibly hard to be present constantly, especially as a student. Calm's audio on meditation has genuinely helped me become a better person and more importantly actively try to be a mindful person. Days are not easy but its the littles steps consistently that count!

Dearest Thay, dearest Sangha 🙏 What a beautiful way to enjoy Thay’s words and such peaceful imagery. Thank you!

The comfort I feel when Thay speaks is healing. Peaceful, calm, safe. Grateful for his teachings and all of the brothers and sisters of Plum Village/Deer Park/Magnolia… with Metta 🌻

Thank you for this wonderful video. Thay will always be in our hearts!