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(FRENCH) What is the difference
between the soul and the spirit?

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What is the difference
between the soul and the spirit?

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People have different
ways of understanding.

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The soul - (French) "la âme"

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seems to be bigger than the spirit.

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That is a feeling only

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it may not be the truth

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but when we hear the world 
soul - "la âme"

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we feel that it is bigger

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and a bit heavier than
(French) "l'èsprit" - the spirit.

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In Vietnamese we have two words,

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not in Buddhism, but in Vietnamese,

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we have two words:

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"hồn" and "via"

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"hồn" is the soul

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and the Vietnamese believe 
there are three kinds of soul.

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Three souls - "loại hồn"

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Three kinds of soul.

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It is very interesting because

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in Buddhist psychology
we have up to eight souls.

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Eight consciousnesses.

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The largest, the one on top is

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is the store consciousness.

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Then comes the seventh,

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which is something like the self,

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the awareness of the self,

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and then comes the mind-consciousness,

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and then ear, nose, tongue,

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body consciousness, and so on.

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Eight kinds of consciousness.

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In Vietnam we believe, that there are

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three souls.

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And we have - seven (Vietnamese) "via"

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"bảy hồn" - "bảy via"

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For ladies they have nine "via" -

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For gentlemen they have only seven "via"

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You see like a vegetative soul

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Very close to the body

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And when someone dies, the three "hồn"

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the three souls - they cease to exist

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and then the seven "via" will slowly

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come to a stand still.

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"bảy hồn" - "bảy via"

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And the via has a more vegetative nature,

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closer to the body.

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So the same may be true

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with soul and spirit.

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Spirit is lighter

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and soul has more of a vegetative

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element in it.

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But usually we say that soul, or spirit

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they are not the body.

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And there is also a distinction

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between body and soul.

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Where the soul, or the spirit,

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are not the body.

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That is a dualistic way of looking

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at the mind and body.

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So we fall into the same kind of trap.

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So it is not very useful to discuss,

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the differences between the soul

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and the spirit.

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But it is important to notice that there

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also is the notion that the body

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and the soul are different,

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body is different from soul

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and body is different from spirit.

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That approach is not close to the truth.

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Because we are stil caught in the idea

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that mind and body
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that can be separated

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from each other.

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Very difficult questions!

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