What Is Happiness? (EN subtitles)
This is a full Dharma talk (around 1 hour and 30 minutes) given by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh on September 28, 2003, in Upper Hamlet, Plum Village France, in the Autumn Retreat.
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🔔 Video transcript
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In this talk given in 2003, Thay defines what happiness means and discusses the connections between pleasant feelings and happiness, and between suffering and happiness.
He then points out the five things that keep a practitioner happy every day and draws the connection between small happiness and the great happiness of nirvana.
Using a match, Thay helps us tell nirvana's four virtues (Permanence, Happiness, Self, and Purity - written with the first letters being capitalized) apart from the typical teachings of the Buddha on permanence, happiness, self, and purity.
At the end, Thay says, "the kinds of uncapitalized happiness that lead us to capitalized Happiness are the ones we can make use of. Meanwhile, the kinds of uncapitalized happiness that don't lead us to capitalized Happiness are not true happiness. They are suffering."
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✩ Original Vietnamese title: "Thế Nào Là Hạnh Phúc? TS Thích Nhất Hạnh, Xóm Thượng, Làng Mai 28.09.2003"
✩ Originally posted by Làng Mai (Plum Village's Vietnamese YouTube channel) on Mar 3, 2022
✩ Talk given on September 28, 2003, in Upper Hamlet, Plum Village France, in the Autumn Retreat
✩ Length: 01 hour 27 minutes 19 seconds
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SPECIAL THANKS The translation of this Dharma talk will never be possible without the valuable advice of Dharma Teacher Chân Cơ (Maple Village Sangha, Canada).
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REFERENCES (Resources used to translate this Dharma talk): Please kindly refer to the video transcript link to see the full list.
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