Talks at Google
Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh (known as Thay in his circles) made a rare visit to the Googleplex to lead a half-day Health@Google workshop in the fundamentals of mindfulness. The exercises and rituals of mindfulness lay the path to optimal health and happiness.
Thay may be the second most famous Buddhist monk in the world, right after the Dalai Lama. He is certainly one of the best known and most respected Zen Masters in the world. Thay is a best-selling author, poet, and peace activist who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr. He is a key pioneer in actively applying insights from meditation to solving real-world social, political and environmental problems. Thay most recently published Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life, with Harvard School of Public Health nutritionist Dr. Lilian Cheung. At 85, he’s touring North America before retiring to his monastery in France.
Life at Google is fast, furious and fun, yet it can take a toll on ourselves and our loved ones. Through Thay’s specially crafted workshop, you’ll learn how to reduce stress, eat for health, sleep better, find emotional stability, improve concentration and sustain optimal performance.
–Chade-Meng Tan
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56:04 if you feel like skipping literally an hour of introducers introducing the next introducer
What on earth is a "Typical Googler"?? It must be a badge to prove how productive you can be, how much multi-tasking you can do and especially be SEEN doing, that's kinda pathetic. Really, there are higher things in life than being a productive GOOGLER.
SWEET SWEET
Hes so genuine, you really listen and feel it when he talks. Grateful for his talks.
melt
"fucks up everytime" smiles
Freaks
Is she high on drugs????
nam mo Bodhisattva Nhat Hanh!
Do they accept black people in the culture I would love to embrace your culture
Best part about washing dishes: Warm-hot water.
No, I suppose it is breathing… Being more aware of being alive is a truly spiritual sort of thing…
I friggin love monks
Thay at 57:
Such peace radiates off this man, you can hear it.
Tuyệt. Tôi yêu Bụt, yêu Thầy!
Vietnam
Really need subtitles.
Why do Buddhist Gurus always look like they feel so superior and are so unhappy?
Three and a half hours long????
How do I join plum village from Chicago Illinois.. I want to die because of this place..
Holy shit. The West is really falling apart.
Go and read Aristotle for four years. Then you'll be a real badass.
This talk changed my life. I had never heard someone speak with so much sense, so much freedom, peace and fearlessness. Since I watched this talk in 2014, I have dwelled into his teachings and practice and it has made the best possible impact on my life. Thank you Thay.
This is 3 hours I would be asleep less than a second
Try the guided meditation at 17:30. Brilliant!
Loved the song at the beginning! It was hilarious!
I was very surprised that master thich had a stroke despite of his meditation and being a vegetarian.
Thank you Thay for your teachings Being alive is a miracle! Breathe in mindfully 🧘🏻♀️I am aware I am alive with every in breath
If only Trump and Elon Musk could watch this
Great man, Great message, BUT his enunciation is so soft I cannot understand what he is saying. What is needed is text on screen OR have THay (sp?) take speaking lessons. See Ming Yur, young Tibetan monk, for clear enunciation example. How is this getting missed?
I'll stick to a busy mind
Thic Nhat Hanh is very talented
How do a man with a healthy mind body and spirit have a stroke did he eat poorly
Emperor's New Clothes.
Mindfulness pisses me off. The thing which helps me get over stuff is stoicism and life experience. Mindfulness doesn't actually solve any problems; it just makes you feel better about the problem. What's worse it that it's pushed by the company I work for. It's as useful as prayer or a Facebook like. It's also selfish, focusing on the self. I'd much rather help someone/something else.
Mindfulness is placebo medicine, not a cure.
The Baha'is follow the fifth Buddha called Bahaullah He also teaches we all are flowers of a rose garden and my gratefullness is too both Teachers for creating Peace. You are Buddhists and you are also Baha'i.
The message the music seems to convey is: don't take life or mindfulness or us or anything for that matter, too seriously.
No amount of meditation can get that opening song out of my mind!!
Oh, what courage this nun has. She sang much better the second verse and later and was less shy and embarrassed. I still enjoy listening to her and the others. It must be some type of therapy for her. She still makes me happy. We are all imperfect God bless. Shanti😂
A monk has no concept of real life. Mindfulness is only for people who are mindless.
2:37:31 Q&A session.
Where exactly does he talk about how to do mindfulness?
Guided meditation starts at 16:00ish…the singing before was a little awkward…maybe the nun that was given the mic to hold was not the best singer but the subject is mindful breathing in and out…that's the focus.
It appears that there are many differing reactions to this. My first reaction is sheer cynicism and nausea. I realise that I could just be wrong. Therein lies my hope. But to be cynical of everything and everyone is being dead already, anyway, that is what it feels like. So there must be another way of living. When I was young things were different. Everything was new or an exciting experiment. No longer. Have I grown wise or has my essence dried up? Perhaps a bit of both. I don't think it wrong to be cynical, but there must be a balance. What does mindful mean? It seems to me that these monks are just ignoring the world and living in their own little world of nothing, of living without stress. Yes, but life is stressful.
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