#174 - Dealing with Hungry Ghosts: Thích Nhất Hạnh on Healing Intergenerational Trauma, Realizing Emptiness, Self-Compassion, and Living as a Transmission from Ancestors

Times are tough for everyone, but if you can spare $5 per month to support the History of Philosophy, my political writing, open source audiobooks, and simple intellectual entertainment, please consider joining my Patreon and helping me escape my day job.YouTube original video credit (Plum Village). Apparently first delivered in the "late 1980s".Read more about Thích Nhất Hạnh here.Music Credit: Schubert, Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat Major, performed by Max John.

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