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Why do I sometimes feel as if there is
a heavy ball on my heart?

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Why do I sometimes feel as if there is 
a great, heavy ball

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weighing down in my heart?

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The practice of mindfulness may help

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us to find out why that feeling...
comes...again

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Sometimes something has been transmitted to you

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by your mother, your father, your ancestors,

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some sorrow,

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some fear,

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some worries

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And it's good that you have encountered 


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the practice of mindfulness

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because with the practice of mindfulness

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we can help transform that for our mother,

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for our father,

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for our ancestors

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Because we are the continuation of

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our father, our mother, our ancestors

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They are still in us

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with their happiness and their suffering,

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their talents and also their shortcomings

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So that feeling may be a result of...

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some worries, some fears, some anger

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by former generations

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We have to accept them

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We have to accept them

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So you practice breathing in

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and you accept it:

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"this is a feeling of heaviness..

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"in my chest"

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And it can be transformed by

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the practice of mindfulness,

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by the practice of love and understanding

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And you are aware you are breathing in

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for your mother, for your father,

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for your ancestors

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And you know that the practice of smiling,

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of releasing,

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of compassion

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can very well transform
that kind of sorrow,

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that kind of anxiety, that kind of fear

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And you do that out of love

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You do that for your mother,
for your father

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for your grandfather,
your grandmother and so on

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Many of us feel a kind of suffering

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that we do not understand

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We don't understand
why we suffer like that

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We have not created that suffering,

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the reason why it is there

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The only answer is that it has
been transmitted to us

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by society, by ancestors

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And we have to accept first

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And accepting makes it easier

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And then the next step is to

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breathe in and out mindfully

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and smile to it

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And realise that the practice

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of mindfulness, concentration and insight

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can help transform,

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because understanding and compassion

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these are two kind of energies 
that have the power to transform everything

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It is like the sunshine

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The sunshine can melt the snow

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and dry...

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and help...dry the tears

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So if we practice
understanding suffering and compassion

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it can help transform the

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suffering of our father, our mother in us,

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our own suffering

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And sometimes it can be done very quickly

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provided that you don't worry,

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that you know it can be transformed

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And after five minutes
of breathing, walking

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or resting, you may feel that it is gone

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And the next time when it comes,
you do the same

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and if you continue like that,

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one day it will disappear

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and will not come back

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But we have to keep the practice

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We need someone to remind us to practice

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That is why it is wonderful

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to have co-practitioners

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in our neighbourhood, our family

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Everytime we feel that, we remember to practice

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and if we do not remember to practice

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someone else will tell us

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to go back to our in-breath and
out-breath and practice

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Thank you for asking the question

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It helps many people

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