Becoming distracted and irritated by focusing on the coughing, is to fall at the first hurdle in the practice of mindfulness. Simply observe it as a distraction, then let it go and continue. Each time it enters your consciousness, acknowledge it briefly again, set it down and return to the present moment.

It never crossed my mind til i saw all these comments lol. Doesn't bother me. I'm used to 2 crazy cats bumping around the house and it's all just background sound.

agree

I’m so involved in this talk I didn’t hear the coughing sorry stop complaining. It’s not about that at all.

You could check plumvillage.org, I think there you will find enough source about mindfulness practice

"To truely be present we have to stop our thinking. This is the secret of success". Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Eat (Mindfulness Essential, #2).

During the time you are practicing mindfulness, you stop talking-not only the talking outside, but the talking inside. The talking inside is the thinking, the mental discourse that goes on and on and on inside. Real silence is the cessation of talking-of both the mouth and of the mind. This is not the kind of silence that oppresses us. It is a very elegant kind of silence, a very powerful kind of silence. It is the silence that heals and nourishes us. uhs.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/article_-_five_steps_to_mindfulness.pdf Mindfulness practice should be enjoyable, not work or effort

Breathe

Maybe you are not still because those commenting on coughing are upsetting you?

what is darkansaka

Thay is refering to the Avatamsaka sutra, you can google it. 🙏🌸

that's crazy talk sailor

You're very confused

Nirvana or Hell is there for each of us every moment . Life is full of sickness and death and laughter and joy . We bring more suffering onto ourselves when we reject the reality of the world around us .

This is the quintessential argument put forth by the early church apologists in denouncing the Gnostic traditions, as they saw these practices as fundamentally equating the flesh with sin. It makes sense from a practical standpoint to conclude that the Gnostic traditions boiled down to this premise, because surface level analysis of surviving texts seems to suggest as much… but the tradition is far deeper than that. What you’re trying to communicate here, in obvious relation to the lecture, is simply that the vehicle for modern living as it exists in our psychosocial identity as westerners is fundamentally absurd and illusory, am I right? To forge the light body is something that occurs as a result of transmutation and distillation of the individual into a “purified state” wherein the Buddha nature is made clear. What these commenters are trying to explain as a retort is that the outcome of this endeavor is a product no different than that which you started with. Nirvana and hell are in constant presence with one another, only a breath away. The degree of attachment and intellectual abstraction we apply to the issue is the measure by which we become entrapped by it. If you were to ascend beyond your mortal limitations and endure forever as this ego-mind apart from the suffering of this world, what would be the point? You can speak in the tongues of angels and raise the dead, but if you have not love, you have nothing. Love and understanding, they are inseparable. To understand is to experience gnosis, and to attain gnosis is to become free from the flesh and achieve everlasting life. You never lost that life. You only forgot that it was there, because the “trap” of the flesh was designed as a tool to experience gnosis.

Get out of your head & remember how to dance.

Many people have health issues and are welcome at Plumvillag Thay is not bothered by the coughing He understands that they are not well and are very welcome

Agree

I didn't notice until some dumbass comments, lol. Everytime someone coughs I will send you compassion.

Hating fascism can be transformed into feeling compassion for the victims of the ideology. You are really missing an opportunity to build up yourself.

Bernd Mensing You make no sense

@@BethyKable he makes perfect sense… just not so good on syntax. Basically he’s just commenting on how people focus so much on their own identity and then wonder why they suffer so much when they perceive a threat to that ideology.

@@blindsoul7915 I agree completely and it’s refreshing to see someone comment this. So often I see people screaming in vitriol about their enemies, mocking and deriding them, not understanding that they share the same root consciousness. The same behavior patterns would’ve been inherited by either, should the conditions of their birth be reversed. Instead isn’t it more important what we do with these experiences, rather than the experiences themselves? One can easily engage in hatred of another, especially when feeling threatened. It is easy to love people who think and look like you. Much harder to see yourself in the oppressor and be willing to forgive in anticipation of their potential self revelation of who they really are. I will admit though that I can’t help but take the side of the underdog, no matter the context. It’s very hard for me to place myself in the shoes of the status-quo when everything about me is aberrant and seemingly incompatible with humanity in general. Very natural to see other people suffering in the same way and project my own struggle onto them, seeing them as implicitly righteous just as I subconsciously see myself

MANY PEOPLE Go to Plumvillag for healing not just healing of the mind MANY are physically sick and Thay is fully aware of them and he pleased to have them

You don't have to be so uncompromising either. Where did you have your attention? ask yourself

Who would pay attention to the background so deeply when the message is right under their nose?

Agree - their coughing was so loud at times it drowned out what was being said.