(Bell rings)
Dear respected Thay
and the whole community
The sound is ok
It's a little bit loud
Today is the 27th of December
the year 2019
We are in the Assembly of Stars Meditation Hall
at Lower Hamlet. So welcome to Lower Hamlet
for the Mindfulness Day
I hope that everyone enjoyed
Christmas time together.
Are you happy with Christmas time
at Plum Village? Yes, thank you.
So, thank you for coming here
to celebrate Christmas time
together as a . . .with family
as a spiritual family
Christmas time is a time for
us to go home
to celebrate Christmas together
so in that spirit I would like
to share with you
about going home.
How we can go home
to take care of ourselves.
By breathing
we can go home to our body
and follow our breathing.
It's simple
to follow inbreath and outbreath.
And we calm our inbreath and outbreath
and we can smile to our inbreath and outbreath
And we feel very peaceful
when we enjoy our breathing.
And then we are aware of our whole body
and relax our whole body
Calm our whole body
When we are aware of our whole body
we can feel the tension
in our body
and then we release the tension
We can pay attention in that area
And breathe with that area.
And slowly, slowly you can feel relaxed
And the Zen method
we can
be aware of our feelings.
So what feelings come up
in our mind
we can be aware of them
and smile to our feelings
and calm our feelings.
And also
the same with our mind.
So what comes up in our mind
present in our body.
We can be aware of our mind
and calm our mind down
and smile to our mind too.
And when we can do that
we feel at ease,
we feel peaceful.
We can manage ourselves,
we can master ourselves
and we can be free.
The fact that our body and our mind relate to each other
what happens to our body,
it will happen to our mind
and also what happens to our mind
will stay in our body.
So take care of our body in order that we can take care of our mind
And to take good care of our mind,
we can take good care of our body,
and we feel at ease.
You feel solid,
you feel comfortable
to our body
to our feelings
and to our mind.
When we go somewhere
for a long journey,
and sometimes we are tired
because of the long journey.
And when we come home
come back home, we feel at ease,
we feel relaxed,
and we don't want to go
anywhere else.
Lie down and relaxed,
feel warm and feel cozy.
And so we do the same
when we go back home to our body.
We also feel at ease,
comfortable,
relaxed,
peaceful and solid.
And we can be our home.
And then, when we can be our home
we can sustain our home to other people.
When people come to us
they also feel at ease.
They feel peaceful, they feel relaxed.
And they can take refuge in our self.
Because our home now is very relaxed.
Our heart is bigger.
And we can be the place
for other people to take refuge in.
And first of all, for our beloved one.
When your partner comes to you,
they feel at ease.
When your children come to you,
they feel joyful,
happy, peaceful.
And then we can sustain our home
to other people, for example,
to our friends,
to our colleagues,
to our workers,
to the people around us,
to our Sangha.
And then we can sustain our home
to all people; to all humankind.
And our home becomes bigger
and bigger and bigger and bigger.
It's never limited.
We have to feel this before we
celebrate the New Year.
In Vietnamese tradition we prepare
a lot for the New Year.
And Vietnamese New Year, we call it.
And we don't wait until the 1st of January
to welcome the New Year.
But we also call the last days
of the year is like New Year,
like the 26th new year
(Vietnamese)
26th new year, 27th new year
28th new year, 29th new year
30th new year until the first day
of the New Year.
So we celebrate the new year before.
We prepare a lot of things.
We clean up our house.
We plant a lot of flowers.
We prepare a lot of food.
We have the new press.
Many things
to welcome the New Year.
So I would like to invite you
to benefit the spirit
at the Vietnamese New Year.
We can go home
to clean up our home.
To prepare ourselves to
welcome the New Year.
To plant in our garden
many kinds of flowers.
And maybe in our home
there is some garbage
so we can throw it away.
In order that our home
can be spacious,
our home can be clean,
can be beautiful,
and can be breathable
for us to enjoy.
So I would like to invite you
to reflect on yourselves
to see what kind of garbage
that you want to throw away.
There is some furniture
some things that you store
for a long time
and it's accumulating a lot of dust.
And maybe we never touch it,
and we don't want to throw it away.
And it occupies our home, our room
and maybe for 10 years we don't touch it.
So now we have to be brave
to recycle them, to throw them away
for our house to be spacious.
So we do the same to see
what kind of mind we have
that prevents us to be happy,
that prevents us to be free.
And we take it, put it in a bag
and bring it to the recycle area.
So I,
and to
to throw the garbage
sometimes we need the courage
because we feel regret
that we don't want to throw them away
and sometimes we need the courage.
And courage is one of the three powers
that lead us to be happy,
that lead us to be peaceful.
And sometimes we call this power virtue.
This power is not the power of money
it's not the power of fame,
it's not power of wealth,
it's not power of position.
But it's a power to lead us to
happiness,
lead us to be,
peaceful.
So I would like to write on the board
the three powers.
So the first power is compassion.
And first of all, we have to have
self-compassion.
We have to love ourselves.
We have to accept ourselves.
We have the capacity to forgive ourselves.
Sometimes we make a mistake
and we feel regret and we suffer
because of the regret.
We don't have the capacity
to forgive ourselves, so that is why we
are not so free.
So we have to have the capacity
to forgive ourselves.
We can practice to begin anew.
We can do it in a different way.
I remember that the
first days when I came
to Plum Village to become a nun
I missed my family a lot
and I also cried a lot.
Especially I missed my Mom
because I love her.
But also because I felt regret that in
the past I caused her a lot of suffering
so it is why I feel regret.
I was very stubborn; I didn't listen to her,
and so it is why I feel regret.
But with the practice
I communicate with her
and try to forgive myself.
And I say to myself that I have to
live wholeheartedly in this environment.
So when I leave this place
I don't feel regret.
But when I left my home
to become a nun,
it was a good lesson for me
It was a big lesson for me
so wherever I am I live wholeheartedly
in order that in the future
I don't feel regret.
Sometimes we suffer because we feel regret
what we have done in the past
or what we didn't do in the past
that instead we have to do,
so we try to live wholeheartedly
in the present moment,
and we don't feel regret later on.
So we have the capacity to forgive ourself
and to free ourself.
And when we are free,
we have a lot of space and we can
bring joy and happiness to others.
Like when I am free
I can bring joy and happiness to my Mom.
And I stopped (inaudible) communication
with my Mom.
And I become happy.
So compassion first of all,
you have to compassion,
you have to be compassionate to yourself.
Forgive yourself,
and embrace yourself.
Sometimes we cannot accept ourselves.
We feel we are not good enough.
We are not beautiful enough.
And we become suffering.
We are very clumsy.
We have a lot of shortcomings.
So imagine that we have a child
who is not so beautiful,
who is also very clumsy.
She did a lot of mistakes,
and the people disparage her.
And she suffers a lot and she cries a lot.
So what should we do as her mother?
We should embrace her,
and telling her that "you are ok."
"You are beautiful already in my heart."
Right?
You don't want to yell at her anymore.
You don't want to blame her.
You don't want to punish her
because she suffers a lot already.
You don't want to make her more suffering.
So we do the same with ourselves.
We suffer a lot already.
We don't want to make ourselves suffer more.
And we are a mother of ourselves.
To embrace our body,
to embrace our feelings,
to embrace our mind.
As a mother, to embrace our child.
And we can say to ourself,
"You are ok."
You don't want to become another person.
You don't want to become another
and you don't want to become
another thing.
And the mother is mindfulness.
Mindfulness helps you to embrace yourself
and calm down your feelings.
Calm down your suffering
Calm down your mind,
until you feel release,
until you feel relaxed.
Then you have the capacity
to help other people to do the same.
The people that also have a lot of suffering
and you can help them
to go back to themselves.
To accept themselves
and to water the good seed inside of themselves.
Sometimes we both lose something
to make us suffer
and we become angry with that person
and sometimes we become hatred with that person.
And we cannot forgive her or forgive him.
And we cannot forgive him
because the wound is still here
in our body and in our mind.
And every time we think of that person.
give you hurt.
You feel painful.
So that is why we have to go back to our body
to take care of the wound.
By the breathing, relax our whole body,
release the wound.
And when you are healed
you have the capacity to forgive.
If not, there is no way to forgive.
Maybe the first time it's easy to forgive.
The second time it's easy.
But when the person makes the same mistake
and cause you suffering,
it's really, really difficult.
"Why do you keep repeating this thing
again and again and again?"
And so it is really difficult.
And when you see that it's really difficult for you to forgive
so it means that the wound is still here.
But when the wound is healed,
you can forgive them easily.
And sometimes we don't need to say that
"I forgive her."
But forgiveness happens naturally,
because the wound is gone.
Sometimes they make a mistake
and you wait for them
to say sorry to you.
"Why did you make a mistake with me?"
"Why did you cause me this suffering?"
"But you don't want to say 'sorry" to me?"
And we only forgive her or him
when they say sorry to us.
But they didn't.
Why do we have to wait
until they say sorry to us to free ourself.
We have to free ourself first
not wait until
they say sorry to you.
Because maybe it's too late
maybe they never say sorry to you.
So please don't become the victim.
We can overcome the suffering.
And when we change, the people will change.
But sometimes because of our habit energy
we want that person to say sorry to us
and they never did it
and we suffer forever.
So if we are wise, if we are smart
So please . . .
liberate ourselves as soon as possible.
Don't wait for other people to change
for us to be happy,
for us to be free.
So it is a way we love ourself.
It is a way to take care of ourself.
And by this way we can transform
our wounds, our suffering,
our obsession into joy and happiness.
There is some (inaudible) that makes us to
obsess.
And we don't want to think of it
because every time we think of it
we suffer a lot.
And we don't want to touch it.
And when the times come
you feel suffering.
For example, if we have the wound happen
during the Christmas time
We feel very scared
when the Christmas time comes. Right?
Because we think of our obsession.
We think about the haunting memory.
And sometimes we run away
from that time.
We don't want to free to ourself.
If we have the wound happen
in the Christmas time we feel very scared when Christmas comes.
If we have the wound
in the new year we feel afraid
and scared when the new year comes
and we want to run away.
But by the way to come back to ourself
and heal the wound
we can transform the obsession.
We can transform the haunting memory.
And it becomes the big lessons for us.
We can do better, we can behave better
in order that we don't create
the same mistake again in the future.
So, whatever happened
if we are mindful,
if we are aware of it,
it becomes a big lessons for us.
And we can do better.
And by that way
we have the capacity
to begin anew,
and also we have . . . we offer other people opportunity
to practice beginning anew.
And we look at other people with the new eyes
We don't judge them,
we don't prejudice with them,
because they're already changed.
And we always look at her past,
we overlook his past.
And sometimes she wants to change.
She wants to change but we always look at her past
so she doesn't want to continue
to practice begin anew.
So we understand ourself and we can understand
other people.
So it is the first power that you need to nourish yourself.
And when the people come to you
they feel embraced by us.
They feel that they receive the forgiveness from us,
and they feel peaceful.
They can do beginning anew.
They can be the start of a new person.
And the second power is:
Clever.
Sometimes we call wisdom
or insight.
Sometimes we are caught.
We are caught in something that we cannot overcome.
But if we look deeply
into the situation
we can find the way out.
And clever here is not
the knowledge that you can
find in the book
or you can find in the DVD.
You can't find in my talk.
But this "clever" it comes from yourself.
It comes from inside of yourself
by your practice
in the daily life.
And all the lessons we learn (are)
the same.
You don't see (them) in the book.
You cannot learn compassion
when you open the book and you read it, no.
But by the way we contact with the people,
by the way we transform our suffering,
so we have the compassion.
We cannot learn the patience
in the book.
Or ways to deal with the situation during the day
in your relationships
then you learn the patience.
So it is the same with clever,
with insight, we never learn
in the book.
So it is not the knowledge
that you accumulate while you (are) reading books
or you watch a DVD.
You go to the YouTube and search
for what you need.
But it's not the insight.
But the insight comes from your experience.
And it also comes from your peaceful mind.
When you go home to your body,
calm down
your feeling,
calm down your emotion,
calm down your mind,
so you can see things clearly.
So it is the insight.
And insight comes up quickly.
It's like the thunder.
It comes up naturally,
quickly.
So sometimes we have the problem and we don't know how
to solve the problem.
Try not to think
but just go back to yourself.
Let your mind become peaceful,
and when you are peaceful enough
the solution comes up.
Of course we need the knowledge
because if we don't have the knowledge
maybe we don't kn.ow how to nourish it
We don't know how to nourish the insight.
For example, if we don't know
how to breathe maybe we don't breathe properly.
We if don't know how to
calm down our feeling and our mind
maybe we don't know how to do it
correctly.
So we have to learn how to do it.
And then we know how to do it we have to put it into practice.
We have to apply it.
And then we have the insight.
And sometimes we call it understanding.
And if there is .no understanding there is no love
We cannot love other people
if we don't understand them.
We may think that we love them
but in fact we cause them a lot of suffering.
As the parents
we see our children as our
treasured property.
We do everything for them.
Buy the new thing for them buy the new beautiful clothes for them,
raise them up.
Help them to go to the university,
to have the good job,
to buy the car for them. And
you think that you
have done everything for your children.
But in fact, you don't understand them.
You don't know what they want.
You don't know their
aspirations.
And you may never have a chance
to listen to them.
So you may come back
to have a good communication
with them to understand
your children.
And when you understand your children
you can bring them a lot of joy and happiness.
So that is the insight, that is the understanding.
And you see that your children
are your continuation.
You take good care of your children
is to take good care of your continuation.
Then your children can bring you to the future.
So it is the insight
And we have many kinds of insight.
Impermanent insight.
Non-self insight.
Interbeing insight.
So we have to learn about
impermanence. We learn about non-self,
we learn about interbeing,
we learn about love,
and we put them into practice in order that we have the
insight.
And the insight
can liberate us.
And the third power
is courage.
The courage
to cut through
afflictions.
Sometimes we call courage
sometimes we call "cutting through the afflictions"
or sometimes we call "letting go."
We have the courage to let go
of our ideas.
Sometimes the idea makes us suffer.
We think that we are right
and the people other people are wrong.
So it is why we are with each other
we bring disharmony
in our family.
I remember that when I was young
sometimes my parents are with each other
and my Mom thought that she's right
and my father thought that
he was right.
And both of them were right.
But I cannot ask the other people's ideas,
other people's view.
So it is why they cause
each other suffering.
And they make their children suffer.
So we have to be courageous
to let go of our ideas,
even we think that we are right.
But if it doesn't bring harmony
in our family so we can
bring it home oh sorry we can
let it go.
Because it doesn't bring happ.iness to each other
So maybe we can contemplate
to see what we need to let go
what we need to cut through.
And the first thing we need to cut through
is our craving.
So there are many kinds of craving.
We are craving for food, for example.
It can bring us a lot of suffering.
It is very tasty, very delicious,
but it's not good for our health.
So maybe we can let go.
We desire
to have a car,
a beautiful car.
And we do a lot of work,
we work hard to earn money to buy a car.
But, in fact, that when we have the car
we are not so happy.
We accumulate more
tension . . .
stress.
And when we are tense-ful and stressed
we make other people suffer also.
But we may not realize that.
And somethings that we think that if we have them
we are happy,
but in fact that when we have them, we are not happy.
So we have to look deeply to see
what kind of desire we have
that doesn't bring us happiness,
but we think that it will bring us happiness.
And we have to be courageous to let
them . . . . go away.
We have to let go.
It is the same with the material things
and spiritual things also.
We have to let go.
So . . .
when we look deeply
into the things and we can realize that
maybe the simple life is the best for us.
We don't need to have much things to be happy.
We live simply,
where we have time for ourselves,
we have time for our beloved one.
Sometimes we feel tense.
We feel stressful
but we don't have time to relax.
We do thing after thing.
And we think that when we finish these things we have opportunity to relax,
to rest.
But in fact when we finish one thing we have another thing to do.
And we never had the chance
to relax and to rest.
And even when we go to the vacation,
we also do a lot of things,
arrange a lot of things,
for us to relax, but in fact we accumulate more
tension . . . in our body and in our mind.
We want to have a big house
but in fact that when we have a big house
we are not happy.
But if you have time
you have everything.
And people say time is gold,
but our teacher says that time is our life.
We have to enjoy our time
as we enjoy our life.
And the second thing that we
want to cut through is
anger,
or hatred.
Anger is a big thing that. we have to deal with
Because of anger we also create a lot of suffering
for each other.
And when we are angry
we think that we are right
so it is why we're angry with other people.
They did something wrong they make us suffer.
Why they do like this? Why they say like that?
and because of that we're angry with that.
But the same method to go back to our home
to our body and feel it.
To take care of our body and feelings.
We take good care of our anger.
We embrace our anger,
calm down our anger,
and to free ourself.
When I do sitting meditation
I scan my whole body.
Aware of my whole body
from my breathing,
to my face,
my shoulders,
my arms,
my back, my legs,
my fingers,
my toes,
my intestines,
my liver, my heart.
So I scan my whole body.
And then I scan all
members
in the community.
In my sangha,
to see if I'm angry with anyone.
And then I scan all the people
with other hamlets with other sanghas.
With my family to see if I'm angry,
if I'm angry with anyone.
And the moment that I feel I'm not angry with anyone I feel so happy.
I feel so free.
So just the fact that we are not angry with anyone,
we're already happy.
So you may
do the same
when you have free time.
To think of yourself, think of other people
and see if you are angry with anyone.
And then the moment you feel that you are not angry with anyone,
you free yourself.
You liberate yourself,
and you become happy,
like you are the happiest person in the world.
And the same with the other mind.
If you have the jealousy,
and when you do sitting meditation you also scan
everyone
in your family or in the community.
And that moment you don't feel jealous with anyone,
you feel so happy.
And you can do like that with any kind of mind
that bothers you, that makes you unhappy.
And then you sustain the sitting meditation time,
all of the day.
Like when you do the work,
when you cook in the kitchen,
when you do washing,
when you take a walk.
So you sustain it
and you also feel happy,
and your happiness becomes huge.
And all day long you feel happy.
And if you can do for one day,
you can do for the second day, the third day, the fourth day,
a month, a year
and maybe forever.
And you can master yourself.
So . . .
anger or hatred is only ,one kind of mind
but with every kind of mind you can do the same.
And the third is ignorance.
With the insight of wisdom
we have to look deeply into things.
We have to look deeply into the situation
to understand the situation better.
And when we understand
the situation
we can free ourselves.
We suffer because we don't see things clearly.
We know nothing.
We're ignorant
about things,
about reality.
So we have to cut through ignorance.
We have to cut through ignorance
in order that we can free ourselves.
Sometimes we need friends to help us
because we don't see things clearly.
But we thought that we see things clearly.
It is very dangerous s.ometimes we need help
We can ask our friend who has experience in the practice
to show us the way, to help us.
In our community we say that
the individual insight
is not
as good as community insight.
So we need the collective insight to help us.
So when we have the difficulty please ask for help.
Because the (inaudible) is very dangerous.
We think that they are wrong,
and we are right. It's very dangerous,
so please ask for help.
So we go back to ourself
go back to our home
to see what kind of garbage
that you want (to) throw them away
by this kind of method.
And what kind of flower you want to plant
in order that we can welcome the new year.
(Bell rings gently)
(Bell rings)
Sometimes we can
we can let go of the big thing
but we cannot let go of the small thing.
And we turn the small thing into the big thing, the big deal.
I don't know if you read the magazines
New . . . .
New York Times
There is an article
with the title "Is he ever going to put away that shirt?"
It's very interesting.
It is written by
Brenda Chadowitz.
She tells about the shirt
of her husband.
The shirt was left
on the . . .upstairs in the hallway
for many days
and he didn't take it away.
And when she saw the shirt
she felt very irritated.
She says that "Why, my husband
didn't clean up,
didn't take it away?"
And she wanted to clean up she wanted to take it away.
And it only took a few steps
to take it, to put it in the cabinet.
But she didn't do it
because she didn't want to become the person who
cleans up after him,
to pick up after him.
Because she has two children
to take care of
and she always
cleaned up things for her children.
Pick up after her children.
So, it is why she doesn't want
to pick up things after him.
But everyday
she became more and more irritated.
And she told her Mom
and her Mom said that because her husband is the doctor
and he's busy so take it away.
But she doesn't want to
and she come to the therapy
(Laughs)
but it doesn't help.
She told her friend
it also doesn't help.
And she remembered the moment that
her husband
did a lot of things.
Clean up the house,
throw the garbage,
(inaudible).
And there were some very difficult moments.
Her husband
comfort her,
help her to go out of the fear
of the suffering,
of the worries.
But still
she still suffered because of that shirt.
And she paid attention to that shirt to see if it's moved
(Laughs) But it's difficult, huh?
Day by day,
for six minutes.
(Audience laughs)
And one day she saw it was gone.
And she asked her husband "You took the shirt away?"
And her husband said that
"What . . . what kind of shirt?"
(Gentle laughter)
And he said "That shirt on the upstairs?
And he said, "Yes"
I cleaned up this morning I took them away.
And I also
took off the socks.
And she asked
"What kind of socks?"
(Laughter)
In fact the socks that she wants to wear when she do exercise
She put the . . .
aside and she didn't use it and she
leave them there for many days.
Maybe many months.
But before that she so surprised why
her husband didn't pay attention
to the shirt.
And she feel that it seemed that it like nothing
but it has become a big deal for her.
But when she realized that
I think she feel free.
She may laugh to herself.
It is very human, huh?
It's very mundane
but sometimes it's very . . .
I think that everyone,
sometimes we
share the same situation
with her.
Sometimes we can deal with the big thing
but with the small thing. We cannot overcome it,
and it causes us a lot of suffering.
Why we have to worry until six months
to liberate ourselves?
Instead it can take
few seconds
to take it away
and we free ourselves of six months.
So maybe it is an invitation.
That I would like to invite you
to look deeply into yourself.
To see what bothers you, what ties you up
that allows you to be happy, to be free.
And we don't worry
until six months later to free ourselves.
We don't worry until
our husband took away the shirt for us to be free.
We can do it because it's very little thing.
Sometimes, there is something happen
that we don't like it.
Our mind attaches to that.
Our mind goes right to the object.
And it carries us away and it prevent us to be happy.
So we have to go back to ourself
and concentrate on our breathing.
Concentrate on our mind,
in our body,
in order that we can stop thinking.
We can stop directing our mind to the object that we don't like.
We cut off
the thing that prevents us to be happy.
Direct our mind back to our body.
And when we go back to our body,
we also see clearly
that we also have some mistakes.
In the . . .
Dhammapada Sutra (Vietnamese words)
the Buddha also said that
Easy seeing . . . . easy seeing are others faults.
Hard indeed to see one's own.
Like just one
we know others faults
but one's own faults, one hides.
As the crafty
gambler
conceals his gambling scars.
(Speaking vietnamese)
So easy to see the mistakes
of other people.
But for our own it's really difficult to see it.
So during the daily life
if you only see the mistakes of the other people.
So maybe our practice is strong,
you have to go back to ourselves to see our mistakes.
And the more mistakes we see,
the better we are.
Because we see
ourselves clearly.
Not because the more we practice the more mistakes we create
but the more practice, the more
clearly we see ourselves.
And when we see ourselves clearly
it's really easy for us to
forgive other people.
So mistakes are sometimes very precious.
If you don't do mistakes
maybe it's really difficult for you to forgive other people.
But when you have the mistake
it's easy for you to forgive
other people.
So it is why the Buddha always
advises us to go back to ourselves
to see ourselves clearly.
And if we see ourselves clearly
we can help other people to see themselves clearly too.
Outside it's very beautiful
Today we are lucky to have the sunshine
so maybe . . .
we stop here to enjoy the sunshine.
(Laughter).
But one more time, I would like to invite you to go back home
the physical home,
home here and home
in your family.
To clean up
your home and to plant a flower
in your garden to welcome the new year.
And . . .
of course we can plan.t many kinds of flowers
And every kind of flower they need different water,
different ingredients,
different manure.
So we can learn in order that we can plant
good flowers.
So we can do the same
we can plant in the garden of our mind
many kinds of flowers. Flowers of compassion,
of love, of forgiveness.
Of peace, joy, harmony, (unaudible)
and then we can plant a garden.
And sometimes our garden is not so
clean. It's not so in order
because we don't take good care of our garden.
And it becomes wiry.
And sometimes we go back to our garden
and our garden becomes
very dirty.
And we become bored when we see our garden.
And we worry
we don't know where we can start.
So if this is your situation,
to smile to your garden.
And we can be brave,
we can be courageous. to take care of that
And we look around to see in the garden
if there are any trees still alive.
So we can start from that tree.
And we take good care of that tree and we enjoy that tree.
And then from that tree
so we can sustain
to take care of other places in the garden.
So it is the same with the garden of our mind.
Sometimes we feel
unease with our mind.
But if we see that we still have the compassion.
it's good already.
If it's still alive we go back to take care of our compassion.
And make it bigger, make it stronger.
We can love, share our love to other people.
Feel compassionate to other people.
Feel compassionate to other's suffering,
other people's suffering.
And then we sustain to
other trees, love, forgiveness
understanding actual, and we make our
garden become more beautiful.
Become bright.
So I wish you a safe trip home
to take good care of your garden.
To clean up your
home,
with joy and happiness
to celebrate a new year.
Wherever you are
and enjoy the happy new year.
Thank you so much for your listening.
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