WEBVTT 00:00:09.862 --> 00:00:13.862 (Bell rings) 00:00:16.389 --> 00:00:23.257 (Bell rings) 00:01:04.534 --> 00:01:07.504 (Bell rings) 00:01:49.866 --> 00:01:52.886 (Bell rings) NOTE Paragraph 00:02:46.936 --> 00:02:48.646 Dear respected Thay 00:02:48.909 --> 00:02:51.719 and the whole community 00:02:54.525 --> 00:02:56.165 The sound is ok 00:02:56.395 --> 00:02:58.968 It's a little bit loud 00:03:06.135 --> 00:03:09.205 Today is the 27th of December 00:03:09.374 --> 00:03:10.934 the year 2019 00:03:13.024 --> 00:03:16.184 We are in the Assembly of Stars Meditation Hall 00:03:17.004 --> 00:03:21.004 at Lower Hamlet. So welcome to Lower Hamlet 00:03:21.428 --> 00:03:23.268 for the Mindfulness Day NOTE Paragraph 00:03:24.752 --> 00:03:26.642 I hope that everyone enjoyed 00:03:27.064 --> 00:03:28.814 Christmas time together. 00:03:30.993 --> 00:03:33.203 Are you happy with Christmas time 00:03:33.224 --> 00:03:37.124 at Plum Village? Yes, thank you. 00:03:37.634 --> 00:03:40.772 So, thank you for coming here 00:03:41.034 --> 00:03:42.844 to celebrate Christmas time 00:03:42.964 --> 00:03:46.015 together as a . . .with family 00:03:46.545 --> 00:03:48.693 as a spiritual family NOTE Paragraph 00:03:50.263 --> 00:03:52.334 Christmas time is a time for 00:03:52.513 --> 00:03:54.283 us to go home 00:03:56.445 --> 00:03:58.905 to celebrate Christmas together 00:03:59.316 --> 00:04:01.106 so in that spirit I would like 00:04:01.246 --> 00:04:02.504 to share with you 00:04:02.786 --> 00:04:04.536 about going home. 00:04:04.868 --> 00:04:06.408 How we can go home 00:04:06.556 --> 00:04:09.146 to take care of ourselves. NOTE Paragraph 00:04:14.438 --> 00:04:16.276 By breathing 00:04:17.696 --> 00:04:20.041 we can go home to our body 00:04:22.884 --> 00:04:25.434 and follow our breathing. 00:04:26.601 --> 00:04:27.861 It's simple 00:04:28.141 --> 00:04:31.731 to follow inbreath and outbreath. 00:04:33.550 --> 00:04:37.013 And we calm our inbreath and outbreath 00:04:39.071 --> 00:04:42.151 and we can smile to our inbreath and outbreath 00:04:49.387 --> 00:04:51.877 And we feel very peaceful 00:04:52.131 --> 00:04:55.159 when we enjoy our breathing. NOTE Paragraph 00:05:07.684 --> 00:05:10.524 And then we are aware of our whole body 00:05:13.344 --> 00:05:16.130 and relax our whole body 00:05:16.986 --> 00:05:19.206 Calm our whole body 00:05:24.686 --> 00:05:26.886 When we are aware of our whole body 00:05:27.006 --> 00:05:29.516 we can feel the tension 00:05:29.976 --> 00:05:31.587 in our body 00:05:33.006 --> 00:05:35.061 and then we release the tension 00:05:40.296 --> 00:05:43.436 We can pay attention in that area 00:05:44.216 --> 00:05:46.409 And breathe with that area. 00:05:47.454 --> 00:05:51.433 And slowly, slowly you can feel relaxed NOTE Paragraph 00:06:01.578 --> 00:06:03.620 And the Zen method 00:06:03.919 --> 00:06:05.381 we can 00:06:05.822 --> 00:06:08.282 be aware of our feelings. 00:06:12.205 --> 00:06:14.975 So what feelings come up 00:06:15.195 --> 00:06:17.755 in our mind 00:06:18.674 --> 00:06:20.838 we can be aware of them 00:06:21.837 --> 00:06:24.350 and smile to our feelings 00:06:25.594 --> 00:06:28.129 and calm our feelings. 00:06:37.957 --> 00:06:39.205 And also 00:06:39.405 --> 00:06:41.988 the same with our mind. 00:06:42.748 --> 00:06:45.408 So what comes up in our mind 00:06:45.718 --> 00:06:48.508 present in our body. 00:06:49.298 --> 00:06:52.565 We can be aware of our mind 00:06:52.848 --> 00:06:55.688 and calm our mind down 00:06:56.628 --> 00:06:59.618 and smile to our mind too. 00:07:06.090 --> 00:07:07.959 And when we can do that 00:07:08.130 --> 00:07:10.120 we feel at ease, 00:07:11.583 --> 00:07:13.753 we feel peaceful. 00:07:19.202 --> 00:07:20.932 We can manage ourselves, 00:07:21.062 --> 00:07:23.634 we can master ourselves 00:07:24.806 --> 00:07:27.066 and we can be free. NOTE Paragraph 00:07:29.611 --> 00:07:33.106 The fact that our body and our mind relate to each other 00:07:33.386 --> 00:07:35.785 what happens to our body, 00:07:36.501 --> 00:07:37.981 it will happen to our mind 00:07:38.221 --> 00:07:40.862 and also what happens to our mind 00:07:41.097 --> 00:07:42.917 will stay in our body. 00:07:43.277 --> 00:07:47.437 So take care of our body in order that we can take care of our mind 00:07:47.567 --> 00:07:49.366 And to take good care of our mind, 00:07:49.626 --> 00:07:51.857 we can take good care of our body, 00:07:53.927 --> 00:07:55.697 and we feel at ease. 00:07:56.687 --> 00:07:57.947 You feel solid, 00:07:59.347 --> 00:08:01.057 you feel comfortable 00:08:02.187 --> 00:08:04.067 to our body 00:08:04.577 --> 00:08:05.987 to our feelings 00:08:06.097 --> 00:08:08.524 and to our mind. NOTE Paragraph 00:08:12.578 --> 00:08:15.121 When we go somewhere 00:08:15.901 --> 00:08:17.693 for a long journey, 00:08:18.531 --> 00:08:19.921 and sometimes we are tired 00:08:20.041 --> 00:08:22.331 because of the long journey. 00:08:22.481 --> 00:08:25.118 And when we come home 00:08:25.491 --> 00:08:28.821 come back home, we feel at ease, 00:08:29.221 --> 00:08:30.711 we feel relaxed, 00:08:30.801 --> 00:08:32.041 and we don't want to go 00:08:32.141 --> 00:08:33.831 anywhere else. 00:08:34.091 --> 00:08:36.231 Lie down and relaxed, 00:08:37.772 --> 00:08:39.555 feel warm and feel cozy. 00:08:41.543 --> 00:08:42.773 And so we do the same 00:08:42.923 --> 00:08:45.363 when we go back home to our body. 00:08:45.653 --> 00:08:47.703 We also feel at ease, 00:08:48.263 --> 00:08:49.263 comfortable, 00:08:49.403 --> 00:08:50.546 relaxed, 00:08:52.186 --> 00:08:54.296 peaceful and solid. 00:08:55.796 --> 00:08:57.986 And we can be our home. NOTE Paragraph 00:09:01.297 --> 00:09:03.777 And then, when we can be our home 00:09:04.027 --> 00:09:08.347 we can sustain our home to other people. 00:09:10.445 --> 00:09:12.621 When people come to us 00:09:13.585 --> 00:09:15.525 they also feel at ease. 00:09:16.455 --> 00:09:20.128 They feel peaceful, they feel relaxed. 00:09:20.940 --> 00:09:24.301 And they can take refuge in our self. 00:09:26.358 --> 00:09:30.163 Because our home now is very relaxed. 00:09:31.999 --> 00:09:34.719 Our heart is bigger. 00:09:37.523 --> 00:09:40.663 And we can be the place 00:09:40.843 --> 00:09:43.833 for other people to take refuge in. NOTE Paragraph 00:09:44.423 --> 00:09:47.973 And first of all, for our beloved one. 00:09:53.564 --> 00:09:56.388 When your partner comes to you, 00:09:56.984 --> 00:09:58.932 they feel at ease. 00:09:59.854 --> 00:10:01.794 When your children come to you, 00:10:02.594 --> 00:10:04.664 they feel joyful, 00:10:04.770 --> 00:10:06.714 happy, peaceful. 00:10:09.854 --> 00:10:13.124 And then we can sustain our home 00:10:13.560 --> 00:10:15.360 to other people, for example, 00:10:15.630 --> 00:10:17.280 to our friends, 00:10:17.800 --> 00:10:19.420 to our colleagues, 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:22.033 to our workers, 00:10:23.345 --> 00:10:25.707 to the people around us, 00:10:26.615 --> 00:10:28.623 to our Sangha. 00:10:30.307 --> 00:10:32.407 And then we can sustain our home 00:10:32.677 --> 00:10:36.917 to all people; to all humankind. 00:10:37.297 --> 00:10:39.377 And our home becomes bigger 00:10:39.482 --> 00:10:41.517 and bigger and bigger and bigger. 00:10:42.911 --> 00:10:44.725 It's never limited. NOTE Paragraph 00:10:51.304 --> 00:10:55.104 We have to feel this before we 00:10:55.274 --> 00:10:57.596 celebrate the New Year. 00:10:58.076 --> 00:11:02.076 In Vietnamese tradition we prepare 00:11:02.246 --> 00:11:04.036 a lot for the New Year. 00:11:04.276 --> 00:11:07.046 And Vietnamese New Year, we call it. 00:11:07.286 --> 00:11:12.386 And we don't wait until the 1st of January 00:11:12.616 --> 00:11:14.656 to welcome the New Year. 00:11:14.786 --> 00:11:16.656 But we also call the last days 00:11:16.766 --> 00:11:19.036 of the year is like New Year, 00:11:19.152 --> 00:11:21.859 like the 26th new year 00:11:21.983 --> 00:11:25.497 (Vietnamese) 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:27.709 26th new year, 27th new year 00:11:27.979 --> 00:11:30.669 28th new year, 29th new year 00:11:30.869 --> 00:11:33.049 30th new year until the first day 00:11:33.229 --> 00:11:34.579 of the New Year. 00:11:34.789 --> 00:11:37.259 So we celebrate the new year before. NOTE Paragraph 00:11:37.359 --> 00:11:39.949 We prepare a lot of things. 00:11:40.139 --> 00:11:43.819 We clean up our house. 00:11:44.219 --> 00:11:46.746 We plant a lot of flowers. 00:11:47.619 --> 00:11:50.369 We prepare a lot of food. 00:11:51.089 --> 00:11:53.259 We have the new press. 00:11:54.379 --> 00:11:55.909 Many things 00:11:56.019 --> 00:11:58.446 to welcome the New Year. NOTE Paragraph 00:11:58.999 --> 00:12:00.799 So I would like to invite you 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:02.529 to benefit the spirit 00:12:03.049 --> 00:12:06.109 at the Vietnamese New Year. 00:12:06.429 --> 00:12:08.679 We can go home 00:12:10.149 --> 00:12:12.639 to clean up our home. 00:12:14.878 --> 00:12:16.998 To prepare ourselves to 00:12:17.258 --> 00:12:19.558 welcome the New Year. 00:12:19.828 --> 00:12:21.798 To plant in our garden 00:12:22.008 --> 00:12:23.794 many kinds of flowers. 00:12:26.775 --> 00:12:28.505 And maybe in our home 00:12:29.045 --> 00:12:30.954 there is some garbage 00:12:31.945 --> 00:12:34.025 so we can throw it away. 00:12:34.225 --> 00:12:35.871 In order that our home 00:12:36.381 --> 00:12:37.931 can be spacious, 00:12:38.607 --> 00:12:41.567 our home can be clean, 00:12:45.506 --> 00:12:47.530 can be beautiful, 00:12:48.046 --> 00:12:49.860 and can be breathable 00:12:50.916 --> 00:12:52.456 for us to enjoy. NOTE Paragraph 00:12:56.605 --> 00:12:58.685 So I would like to invite you 00:12:58.845 --> 00:13:01.690 to reflect on yourselves 00:13:02.065 --> 00:13:04.545 to see what kind of garbage 00:13:05.145 --> 00:13:07.861 that you want to throw away. 00:13:11.078 --> 00:13:12.978 There is some furniture 00:13:13.178 --> 00:13:15.801 some things that you store 00:13:16.419 --> 00:13:18.050 for a long time 00:13:18.369 --> 00:13:21.266 and it's accumulating a lot of dust. 00:13:21.539 --> 00:13:23.969 And maybe we never touch it, 00:13:24.369 --> 00:13:27.209 and we don't want to throw it away. 00:13:27.899 --> 00:13:31.349 And it occupies our home, our room 00:13:33.445 --> 00:13:36.215 and maybe for 10 years we don't touch it. 00:13:36.825 --> 00:13:39.252 So now we have to be brave 00:13:40.335 --> 00:13:43.965 to recycle them, to throw them away 00:13:44.365 --> 00:13:48.613 for our house to be spacious. NOTE Paragraph 00:13:51.677 --> 00:13:53.757 So we do the same to see 00:13:54.087 --> 00:13:57.396 what kind of mind we have 00:13:57.957 --> 00:14:01.128 that prevents us to be happy, 00:14:01.567 --> 00:14:03.578 that prevents us to be free. 00:14:05.282 --> 00:14:07.627 And we take it, put it in a bag 00:14:08.832 --> 00:14:11.755 and bring it to the recycle area. 00:14:17.958 --> 00:14:19.658 So I, 00:14:20.990 --> 00:14:21.990 and to 00:14:24.680 --> 00:14:26.160 to throw the garbage 00:14:26.280 --> 00:14:28.348 sometimes we need the courage 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:31.309 because we feel regret 00:14:31.468 --> 00:14:34.162 that we don't want to throw them away 00:14:35.038 --> 00:14:37.765 and sometimes we need the courage. NOTE Paragraph 00:14:40.542 --> 00:14:45.051 And courage is one of the three powers 00:14:46.681 --> 00:14:48.671 that lead us to be happy, 00:14:49.691 --> 00:14:51.996 that lead us to be peaceful. 00:14:55.201 --> 00:14:58.781 And sometimes we call this power virtue. NOTE Paragraph 00:15:00.061 --> 00:15:02.421 This power is not the power of money 00:15:02.661 --> 00:15:04.441 it's not the power of fame, 00:15:04.661 --> 00:15:06.781 it's not power of wealth, 00:15:07.061 --> 00:15:09.202 it's not power of position. 00:15:11.786 --> 00:15:14.204 But it's a power to lead us to 00:15:16.254 --> 00:15:17.904 happiness, 00:15:18.794 --> 00:15:20.224 lead us to be, 00:15:20.678 --> 00:15:22.245 peaceful. 00:15:27.478 --> 00:15:31.208 So I would like to write on the board 00:15:31.698 --> 00:15:33.818 the three powers. NOTE Paragraph 00:15:53.839 --> 00:15:56.723 So the first power is compassion. 00:15:58.533 --> 00:16:00.493 And first of all, we have to have 00:16:00.794 --> 00:16:02.335 self-compassion. 00:16:02.908 --> 00:16:05.125 We have to love ourselves. 00:16:05.505 --> 00:16:07.225 We have to accept ourselves. 00:16:07.345 --> 00:16:10.508 We have the capacity to forgive ourselves. 00:16:10.925 --> 00:16:12.835 Sometimes we make a mistake 00:16:13.365 --> 00:16:16.075 and we feel regret and we suffer 00:16:16.285 --> 00:16:17.875 because of the regret. 00:16:18.065 --> 00:16:19.495 We don't have the capacity 00:16:19.745 --> 00:16:21.975 to forgive ourselves, so that is why we 00:16:22.095 --> 00:16:23.665 are not so free. 00:16:24.115 --> 00:16:26.655 So we have to have the capacity 00:16:27.515 --> 00:16:29.554 to forgive ourselves. 00:16:29.815 --> 00:16:32.305 We can practice to begin anew. 00:16:32.545 --> 00:16:35.295 We can do it in a different way. NOTE Paragraph 00:16:36.065 --> 00:16:38.165 I remember that the 00:16:38.615 --> 00:16:40.305 first days when I came 00:16:40.405 --> 00:16:42.975 to Plum Village to become a nun 00:16:43.465 --> 00:16:45.295 I missed my family a lot 00:16:45.665 --> 00:16:47.671 and I also cried a lot. 00:16:48.285 --> 00:16:50.645 Especially I missed my Mom 00:16:50.795 --> 00:16:52.315 because I love her. 00:16:52.565 --> 00:16:55.555 But also because I felt regret that in 00:16:55.875 --> 00:17:00.645 the past I caused her a lot of suffering 00:17:00.854 --> 00:17:04.264 so it is why I feel regret. 00:17:04.394 --> 00:17:07.974 I was very stubborn; I didn't listen to her, 00:17:09.672 --> 00:17:11.942 and so it is why I feel regret. NOTE Paragraph 00:17:13.145 --> 00:17:14.545 But with the practice 00:17:14.745 --> 00:17:16.445 I communicate with her 00:17:17.145 --> 00:17:19.125 and try to forgive myself. 00:17:20.872 --> 00:17:23.702 And I say to myself that I have to 00:17:23.932 --> 00:17:26.892 live wholeheartedly in this environment. 00:17:27.114 --> 00:17:29.342 So when I leave this place 00:17:29.552 --> 00:17:31.122 I don't feel regret. 00:17:31.362 --> 00:17:32.972 But when I left my home 00:17:33.472 --> 00:17:34.902 to become a nun, 00:17:35.372 --> 00:17:37.002 it was a good lesson for me 00:17:37.232 --> 00:17:39.362 It was a big lesson for me 00:17:39.882 --> 00:17:43.302 so wherever I am I live wholeheartedly 00:17:43.702 --> 00:17:45.312 in order that in the future 00:17:45.542 --> 00:17:47.182 I don't feel regret. NOTE Paragraph 00:17:47.442 --> 00:17:51.062 Sometimes we suffer because we feel regret 00:17:51.292 --> 00:17:53.322 what we have done in the past 00:17:53.602 --> 00:17:56.363 or what we didn't do in the past 00:17:56.913 --> 00:17:58.983 that instead we have to do, 00:18:01.483 --> 00:18:03.963 so we try to live wholeheartedly 00:18:04.133 --> 00:18:06.043 in the present moment, 00:18:06.423 --> 00:18:09.143 and we don't feel regret later on. NOTE Paragraph 00:18:10.375 --> 00:18:14.055 So we have the capacity to forgive ourself 00:18:14.678 --> 00:18:16.828 and to free ourself. 00:18:17.398 --> 00:18:19.495 And when we are free, 00:18:20.408 --> 00:18:22.338 we have a lot of space and we can 00:18:22.578 --> 00:18:25.778 bring joy and happiness to others. NOTE Paragraph 00:18:26.108 --> 00:18:27.668 Like when I am free 00:18:27.908 --> 00:18:31.038 I can bring joy and happiness to my Mom. 00:18:31.588 --> 00:18:33.538 And I stopped (inaudible) communication 00:18:33.698 --> 00:18:35.298 with my Mom. 00:18:36.316 --> 00:18:38.619 And I become happy. 00:18:39.776 --> 00:18:42.046 So compassion first of all, 00:18:42.216 --> 00:18:44.250 you have to compassion, 00:18:44.653 --> 00:18:46.880 you have to be compassionate to yourself. 00:18:47.130 --> 00:18:48.719 Forgive yourself, 00:18:48.999 --> 00:18:50.919 and embrace yourself. NOTE Paragraph 00:18:58.043 --> 00:19:01.099 Sometimes we cannot accept ourselves. 00:19:01.654 --> 00:19:04.313 We feel we are not good enough. 00:19:04.774 --> 00:19:07.070 We are not beautiful enough. 00:19:09.141 --> 00:19:11.371 And we become suffering. 00:19:11.931 --> 00:19:13.911 We are very clumsy. 00:19:14.841 --> 00:19:16.761 We have a lot of shortcomings. NOTE Paragraph 00:19:19.196 --> 00:19:22.366 So imagine that we have a child 00:19:22.566 --> 00:19:24.727 who is not so beautiful, 00:19:25.571 --> 00:19:27.821 who is also very clumsy. 00:19:30.890 --> 00:19:33.180 She did a lot of mistakes, 00:19:34.380 --> 00:19:37.418 and the people disparage her. 00:19:38.859 --> 00:19:42.859 And she suffers a lot and she cries a lot. NOTE Paragraph 00:19:44.618 --> 00:19:48.867 So what should we do as her mother? 00:19:51.531 --> 00:19:53.706 We should embrace her, 00:19:54.961 --> 00:19:57.951 and telling her that "you are ok." 00:19:58.311 --> 00:20:01.121 "You are beautiful already in my heart." 00:20:02.311 --> 00:20:03.471 Right? 00:20:04.651 --> 00:20:07.006 You don't want to yell at her anymore. 00:20:07.301 --> 00:20:09.403 You don't want to blame her. 00:20:10.003 --> 00:20:11.923 You don't want to punish her 00:20:12.173 --> 00:20:15.633 because she suffers a lot already. 00:20:16.793 --> 00:20:20.793 You don't want to make her more suffering. NOTE Paragraph 00:20:22.695 --> 00:20:25.192 So we do the same with ourselves. 00:20:25.755 --> 00:20:27.895 We suffer a lot already. 00:20:28.035 --> 00:20:30.825 We don't want to make ourselves suffer more. 00:20:31.998 --> 00:20:35.558 And we are a mother of ourselves. 00:20:35.828 --> 00:20:38.098 To embrace our body, 00:20:39.028 --> 00:20:40.988 to embrace our feelings, 00:20:41.218 --> 00:20:43.754 to embrace our mind. 00:20:45.838 --> 00:20:48.828 As a mother, to embrace our child. 00:20:51.196 --> 00:20:53.446 And we can say to ourself, 00:20:53.656 --> 00:20:55.436 "You are ok." 00:20:55.746 --> 00:20:59.026 You don't want to become another person. 00:20:59.426 --> 00:21:01.926 You don't want to become another 00:21:03.788 --> 00:21:06.098 and you don't want to become 00:21:06.622 --> 00:21:08.325 another thing. NOTE Paragraph 00:21:13.779 --> 00:21:16.129 And the mother is mindfulness. 00:21:16.820 --> 00:21:19.581 Mindfulness helps you to embrace yourself 00:21:22.758 --> 00:21:25.608 and calm down your feelings. 00:21:26.073 --> 00:21:28.150 Calm down your suffering 00:21:30.178 --> 00:21:32.129 Calm down your mind, 00:21:33.109 --> 00:21:34.909 until you feel release, 00:21:36.224 --> 00:21:38.024 until you feel relaxed. 00:21:44.195 --> 00:21:45.973 Then you have the capacity 00:21:46.871 --> 00:21:49.351 to help other people to do the same. NOTE Paragraph 00:21:51.414 --> 00:21:53.934 The people that also have a lot of suffering 00:21:56.837 --> 00:21:58.367 and you can help them 00:21:58.989 --> 00:22:00.839 to go back to themselves. 00:22:01.398 --> 00:22:03.138 To accept themselves 00:22:03.404 --> 00:22:06.484 and to water the good seed inside of themselves. NOTE Paragraph 00:22:12.601 --> 00:22:15.472 Sometimes we both lose something 00:22:15.936 --> 00:22:17.486 to make us suffer 00:22:18.323 --> 00:22:21.163 and we become angry with that person 00:22:22.164 --> 00:22:24.864 and sometimes we become hatred with that person. 00:22:26.435 --> 00:22:29.216 And we cannot forgive her or forgive him. 00:22:34.426 --> 00:22:36.206 And we cannot forgive him 00:22:36.320 --> 00:22:38.110 because the wound is still here 00:22:38.545 --> 00:22:40.924 in our body and in our mind. 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:44.099 And every time we think of that person. 00:22:44.392 --> 00:22:45.812 give you hurt. 00:22:45.930 --> 00:22:47.440 You feel painful. 00:22:51.308 --> 00:22:54.192 So that is why we have to go back to our body 00:22:54.440 --> 00:22:56.327 to take care of the wound. NOTE Paragraph 00:22:57.418 --> 00:23:00.490 By the breathing, relax our whole body, 00:23:02.829 --> 00:23:04.199 release the wound. 00:23:05.364 --> 00:23:07.121 And when you are healed 00:23:08.393 --> 00:23:10.413 you have the capacity to forgive. 00:23:13.800 --> 00:23:16.390 If not, there is no way to forgive. 00:23:17.474 --> 00:23:19.794 Maybe the first time it's easy to forgive. 00:23:19.986 --> 00:23:21.736 The second time it's easy. 00:23:22.028 --> 00:23:24.898 But when the person makes the same mistake 00:23:25.166 --> 00:23:26.826 and cause you suffering, 00:23:26.966 --> 00:23:28.836 it's really, really difficult. NOTE Paragraph 00:23:29.227 --> 00:23:33.017 "Why do you keep repeating this thing 00:23:33.086 --> 00:23:34.926 again and again and again?" 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:37.696 And so it is really difficult. 00:23:38.777 --> 00:23:42.397 And when you see that it's really difficult for you to forgive 00:23:42.682 --> 00:23:44.870 so it means that the wound is still here. 00:23:46.620 --> 00:23:48.600 But when the wound is healed, 00:23:48.717 --> 00:23:50.615 you can forgive them easily. NOTE Paragraph 00:23:50.735 --> 00:23:53.165 And sometimes we don't need to say that 00:23:53.207 --> 00:23:54.697 "I forgive her." 00:23:55.557 --> 00:23:57.857 But forgiveness happens naturally, 00:23:59.316 --> 00:24:01.346 because the wound is gone. NOTE Paragraph 00:24:03.713 --> 00:24:05.993 Sometimes they make a mistake 00:24:06.357 --> 00:24:07.947 and you wait for them 00:24:08.062 --> 00:24:09.702 to say sorry to you. 00:24:09.887 --> 00:24:12.487 "Why did you make a mistake with me?" 00:24:12.580 --> 00:24:15.000 "Why did you cause me this suffering?" 00:24:15.140 --> 00:24:17.690 "But you don't want to say 'sorry" to me?" 00:24:17.974 --> 00:24:20.624 And we only forgive her or him 00:24:21.089 --> 00:24:22.963 when they say sorry to us. 00:24:24.624 --> 00:24:25.854 But they didn't. NOTE Paragraph 00:24:28.639 --> 00:24:30.199 Why do we have to wait 00:24:30.269 --> 00:24:34.019 until they say sorry to us to free ourself. 00:24:36.142 --> 00:24:38.632 We have to free ourself first 00:24:38.800 --> 00:24:40.490 not wait until 00:24:40.699 --> 00:24:42.459 they say sorry to you. 00:24:42.903 --> 00:24:44.907 Because maybe it's too late 00:24:44.971 --> 00:24:47.551 maybe they never say sorry to you. 00:24:50.322 --> 00:24:53.022 So please don't become the victim. 00:24:55.849 --> 00:24:58.419 We can overcome the suffering. 00:24:59.800 --> 00:25:02.920 And when we change, the people will change. 00:25:06.402 --> 00:25:09.082 But sometimes because of our habit energy 00:25:09.327 --> 00:25:11.797 we want that person to say sorry to us 00:25:15.877 --> 00:25:17.417 and they never did it 00:25:17.690 --> 00:25:19.340 and we suffer forever. NOTE Paragraph 00:25:19.968 --> 00:25:22.878 So if we are wise, if we are smart 00:25:23.786 --> 00:25:25.206 So please . . . 00:25:26.617 --> 00:25:30.151 liberate ourselves as soon as possible. 00:25:33.336 --> 00:25:35.756 Don't wait for other people to change 00:25:35.842 --> 00:25:37.462 for us to be happy, 00:25:37.576 --> 00:25:38.976 for us to be free. NOTE Paragraph 00:25:42.100 --> 00:25:45.324 So it is a way we love ourself. 00:25:51.905 --> 00:25:54.507 It is a way to take care of ourself. 00:26:00.838 --> 00:26:04.348 And by this way we can transform 00:26:06.883 --> 00:26:09.523 our wounds, our suffering, 00:26:12.233 --> 00:26:16.053 our obsession into joy and happiness. NOTE Paragraph 00:26:17.195 --> 00:26:20.423 There is some (inaudible) that makes us to 00:26:22.668 --> 00:26:23.668 obsess. 00:26:25.688 --> 00:26:27.768 And we don't want to think of it 00:26:28.062 --> 00:26:31.161 because every time we think of it 00:26:31.258 --> 00:26:32.488 we suffer a lot. 00:26:33.097 --> 00:26:35.297 And we don't want to touch it. 00:26:39.380 --> 00:26:41.830 And when the times come 00:26:42.056 --> 00:26:43.626 you feel suffering. NOTE Paragraph 00:26:43.718 --> 00:26:45.827 For example, if we have the wound happen 00:26:45.957 --> 00:26:47.767 during the Christmas time 00:26:47.933 --> 00:26:49.723 We feel very scared 00:26:50.007 --> 00:26:52.947 when the Christmas time comes. Right? 00:26:54.303 --> 00:26:56.733 Because we think of our obsession. 00:26:57.929 --> 00:27:01.279 We think about the haunting memory. 00:27:05.562 --> 00:27:07.552 And sometimes we run away 00:27:07.687 --> 00:27:09.057 from that time. 00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:13.240 We don't want to free to ourself. 00:27:13.607 --> 00:27:15.637 If we have the wound happen 00:27:15.715 --> 00:27:19.787 in the Christmas time we feel very scared when Christmas comes. 00:27:20.854 --> 00:27:22.304 If we have the wound 00:27:22.398 --> 00:27:24.618 in the new year we feel afraid 00:27:25.101 --> 00:27:27.471 and scared when the new year comes 00:27:27.618 --> 00:27:29.498 and we want to run away. 00:27:31.610 --> 00:27:34.159 But by the way to come back to ourself 00:27:34.611 --> 00:27:36.051 and heal the wound 00:27:36.176 --> 00:27:38.926 we can transform the obsession. 00:27:40.698 --> 00:27:43.828 We can transform the haunting memory. 00:27:46.100 --> 00:27:48.830 And it becomes the big lessons for us. 00:27:50.968 --> 00:27:54.068 We can do better, we can behave better 00:27:56.090 --> 00:27:58.270 in order that we don't create 00:27:58.423 --> 00:28:01.623 the same mistake again in the future. NOTE Paragraph 00:28:02.093 --> 00:28:03.883 So, whatever happened 00:28:04.003 --> 00:28:05.523 if we are mindful, 00:28:05.791 --> 00:28:07.381 if we are aware of it, 00:28:07.491 --> 00:28:09.661 it becomes a big lessons for us. 00:28:10.802 --> 00:28:12.472 And we can do better. 00:28:14.860 --> 00:28:16.290 And by that way 00:28:16.333 --> 00:28:17.933 we have the capacity 00:28:18.020 --> 00:28:20.180 to begin anew, 00:28:21.045 --> 00:28:26.225 and also we have . . . we offer other people opportunity 00:28:27.193 --> 00:28:29.423 to practice beginning anew. NOTE Paragraph 00:28:29.553 --> 00:28:32.616 And we look at other people with the new eyes 00:28:33.587 --> 00:28:35.177 We don't judge them, 00:28:35.275 --> 00:28:37.355 we don't prejudice with them, 00:28:37.457 --> 00:28:39.647 because they're already changed. 00:28:39.822 --> 00:28:42.762 And we always look at her past, 00:28:42.867 --> 00:28:44.627 we overlook his past. 00:28:45.327 --> 00:28:47.437 And sometimes she wants to change. 00:28:47.587 --> 00:28:50.787 She wants to change but we always look at her past 00:28:51.137 --> 00:28:53.727 so she doesn't want to continue 00:28:54.447 --> 00:28:57.007 to practice begin anew. NOTE Paragraph 00:28:58.695 --> 00:29:02.865 So we understand ourself and we can understand 00:29:02.987 --> 00:29:04.207 other people. 00:29:08.058 --> 00:29:12.948 So it is the first power that you need to nourish yourself. 00:29:13.262 --> 00:29:15.482 And when the people come to you 00:29:16.582 --> 00:29:19.162 they feel embraced by us. 00:29:20.524 --> 00:29:25.534 They feel that they receive the forgiveness from us, 00:29:27.228 --> 00:29:29.128 and they feel peaceful. 00:29:29.835 --> 00:29:33.065 They can do beginning anew. 00:29:33.792 --> 00:29:38.672 They can be the start of a new person. NOTE Paragraph 00:29:42.983 --> 00:29:45.849 And the second power is: 00:29:50.075 --> 00:29:51.565 Clever. 00:29:54.293 --> 00:29:56.433 Sometimes we call wisdom 00:29:59.353 --> 00:30:01.083 or insight. 00:30:08.527 --> 00:30:10.577 Sometimes we are caught. 00:30:10.893 --> 00:30:15.033 We are caught in something that we cannot overcome. 00:30:19.060 --> 00:30:20.890 But if we look deeply 00:30:21.481 --> 00:30:23.211 into the situation 00:30:24.170 --> 00:30:26.130 we can find the way out. 00:30:27.711 --> 00:30:29.611 And clever here is not 00:30:29.790 --> 00:30:31.400 the knowledge that you can 00:30:31.570 --> 00:30:32.990 find in the book 00:30:33.116 --> 00:30:35.108 or you can find in the DVD. 00:30:35.915 --> 00:30:37.612 You can't find in my talk. 00:30:39.823 --> 00:30:43.013 But this "clever" it comes from yourself. 00:30:43.818 --> 00:30:46.350 It comes from inside of yourself 00:30:46.831 --> 00:30:48.114 by your practice 00:30:49.248 --> 00:30:50.969 in the daily life. 00:30:53.908 --> 00:30:56.697 And all the lessons we learn (are) 00:30:57.374 --> 00:30:58.444 the same. 00:30:59.084 --> 00:31:01.481 You don't see (them) in the book. 00:31:02.053 --> 00:31:04.693 You cannot learn compassion 00:31:05.012 --> 00:31:07.622 when you open the book and you read it, no. 00:31:09.477 --> 00:31:12.337 But by the way we contact with the people, 00:31:13.703 --> 00:31:16.413 by the way we transform our suffering, 00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:19.879 so we have the compassion. 00:31:20.392 --> 00:31:22.682 We cannot learn the patience 00:31:23.066 --> 00:31:24.416 in the book. 00:31:24.798 --> 00:31:28.461 Or ways to deal with the situation during the day 00:31:30.199 --> 00:31:31.949 in your relationships 00:31:32.912 --> 00:31:35.042 then you learn the patience. 00:31:38.244 --> 00:31:40.334 So it is the same with clever, 00:31:41.282 --> 00:31:43.352 with insight, we never learn 00:31:44.072 --> 00:31:45.292 in the book. 00:31:45.901 --> 00:31:48.061 So it is not the knowledge 00:31:48.164 --> 00:31:50.894 that you accumulate while you (are) reading books 00:31:51.122 --> 00:31:52.882 or you watch a DVD. 00:31:53.907 --> 00:31:56.367 You go to the YouTube and search 00:31:56.687 --> 00:31:58.537 for what you need. 00:31:59.132 --> 00:32:00.912 But it's not the insight. 00:32:01.381 --> 00:32:04.451 But the insight comes from your experience. 00:32:09.533 --> 00:32:12.813 And it also comes from your peaceful mind. 00:32:14.354 --> 00:32:16.764 When you go home to your body, 00:32:16.869 --> 00:32:18.199 calm down 00:32:20.723 --> 00:32:21.743 your feeling, 00:32:22.154 --> 00:32:24.024 calm down your emotion, 00:32:24.129 --> 00:32:25.669 calm down your mind, 00:32:26.184 --> 00:32:28.294 so you can see things clearly. 00:32:29.611 --> 00:32:31.041 So it is the insight. 00:32:31.149 --> 00:32:33.289 And insight comes up quickly. 00:32:35.313 --> 00:32:38.528 It's like the thunder. 00:32:40.523 --> 00:32:42.063 It comes up naturally, 00:32:42.138 --> 00:32:43.518 quickly. NOTE Paragraph 00:32:44.595 --> 00:32:47.313 So sometimes we have the problem and we don't know how 00:32:47.376 --> 00:32:49.133 to solve the problem. 00:32:49.198 --> 00:32:50.638 Try not to think 00:32:51.907 --> 00:32:54.127 but just go back to yourself. 00:32:54.543 --> 00:32:56.623 Let your mind become peaceful, 00:32:56.734 --> 00:32:58.544 and when you are peaceful enough 00:32:58.613 --> 00:33:00.623 the solution comes up. 00:33:02.531 --> 00:33:04.691 Of course we need the knowledge 00:33:04.815 --> 00:33:07.315 because if we don't have the knowledge 00:33:08.110 --> 00:33:10.760 maybe we don't kn.ow how to nourish it 00:33:11.497 --> 00:33:14.079 We don't know how to nourish the insight. NOTE Paragraph 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:16.110 For example, if we don't know 00:33:16.193 --> 00:33:19.993 how to breathe maybe we don't breathe properly. 00:33:20.540 --> 00:33:22.260 We if don't know how to 00:33:22.392 --> 00:33:24.522 calm down our feeling and our mind 00:33:24.743 --> 00:33:26.873 maybe we don't know how to do it 00:33:27.010 --> 00:33:28.453 correctly. 00:33:28.583 --> 00:33:30.783 So we have to learn how to do it. NOTE Paragraph 00:33:30.853 --> 00:33:34.323 And then we know how to do it we have to put it into practice. 00:33:34.773 --> 00:33:36.241 We have to apply it. 00:33:37.747 --> 00:33:40.057 And then we have the insight. 00:33:40.448 --> 00:33:43.238 And sometimes we call it understanding. 00:33:44.524 --> 00:33:47.644 And if there is .no understanding there is no love NOTE Paragraph 00:33:47.881 --> 00:33:50.171 We cannot love other people 00:33:50.265 --> 00:33:52.405 if we don't understand them. 00:33:52.485 --> 00:33:54.695 We may think that we love them 00:33:54.768 --> 00:33:58.140 but in fact we cause them a lot of suffering. 00:33:59.730 --> 00:34:01.570 As the parents 00:34:02.951 --> 00:34:05.632 we see our children as our 00:34:06.100 --> 00:34:07.710 treasured property. 00:34:08.849 --> 00:34:10.879 We do everything for them. 00:34:12.122 --> 00:34:15.821 Buy the new thing for them buy the new beautiful clothes for them, 00:34:16.368 --> 00:34:17.928 raise them up. 00:34:19.316 --> 00:34:22.106 Help them to go to the university, 00:34:22.260 --> 00:34:24.750 to have the good job, 00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:26.750 to buy the car for them. And 00:34:26.864 --> 00:34:28.394 you think that you 00:34:29.844 --> 00:34:32.444 have done everything for your children. 00:34:33.116 --> 00:34:35.950 But in fact, you don't understand them. 00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:39.299 You don't know what they want. 00:34:40.118 --> 00:34:42.948 You don't know their 00:34:43.607 --> 00:34:45.177 aspirations. NOTE Paragraph 00:34:45.900 --> 00:34:47.740 And you may never have a chance 00:34:47.891 --> 00:34:49.502 to listen to them. 00:34:54.022 --> 00:34:55.942 So you may come back 00:34:56.100 --> 00:34:59.420 to have a good communication 00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:01.959 with them to understand 00:35:02.638 --> 00:35:04.108 your children. 00:35:05.118 --> 00:35:07.448 And when you understand your children 00:35:07.536 --> 00:35:10.485 you can bring them a lot of joy and happiness. 00:35:12.139 --> 00:35:15.119 So that is the insight, that is the understanding. 00:35:17.825 --> 00:35:20.295 And you see that your children 00:35:21.845 --> 00:35:23.415 are your continuation. 00:35:24.034 --> 00:35:26.564 You take good care of your children 00:35:26.814 --> 00:35:29.394 is to take good care of your continuation. 00:35:30.667 --> 00:35:33.931 Then your children can bring you to the future. 00:35:36.641 --> 00:35:38.131 So it is the insight NOTE Paragraph 00:35:42.875 --> 00:35:45.145 And we have many kinds of insight. 00:35:46.983 --> 00:35:48.543 Impermanent insight. 00:35:49.010 --> 00:35:50.420 Non-self insight. 00:35:50.590 --> 00:35:52.050 Interbeing insight. 00:35:53.225 --> 00:35:55.295 So we have to learn about 00:35:55.495 --> 00:35:58.005 impermanence. We learn about non-self, 00:35:58.119 --> 00:35:59.869 we learn about interbeing, 00:36:00.231 --> 00:36:01.521 we learn about love, 00:36:02.349 --> 00:36:05.450 and we put them into practice in order that we have the 00:36:05.868 --> 00:36:07.848 insight. 00:36:07.958 --> 00:36:09.398 And the insight 00:36:09.527 --> 00:36:10.807 can liberate us. NOTE Paragraph 00:36:14.565 --> 00:36:16.405 And the third power 00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:22.619 is courage. 00:36:27.482 --> 00:36:29.212 The courage 00:36:30.903 --> 00:36:32.093 to cut through 00:36:37.378 --> 00:36:38.618 afflictions. 00:36:45.220 --> 00:36:47.280 Sometimes we call courage 00:36:47.422 --> 00:36:50.192 sometimes we call "cutting through the afflictions" 00:36:50.279 --> 00:36:52.199 or sometimes we call "letting go." 00:37:13.915 --> 00:37:16.285 We have the courage to let go 00:37:17.464 --> 00:37:19.134 of our ideas. 00:37:24.063 --> 00:37:27.043 Sometimes the idea makes us suffer. 00:37:30.125 --> 00:37:32.005 We think that we are right 00:37:33.384 --> 00:37:35.652 and the people other people are wrong. 00:37:37.352 --> 00:37:39.954 So it is why we are with each other 00:37:41.486 --> 00:37:43.546 we bring disharmony 00:37:43.695 --> 00:37:45.421 in our family. NOTE Paragraph 00:37:48.708 --> 00:37:51.348 I remember that when I was young 00:37:51.974 --> 00:37:54.744 sometimes my parents are with each other 00:37:55.319 --> 00:37:58.429 and my Mom thought that she's right 00:37:59.976 --> 00:38:01.866 and my father thought that 00:38:01.985 --> 00:38:03.105 he was right. 00:38:03.697 --> 00:38:06.277 And both of them were right. 00:38:06.973 --> 00:38:09.533 But I cannot ask the other people's ideas, 00:38:09.735 --> 00:38:11.375 other people's view. 00:38:12.353 --> 00:38:14.683 So it is why they cause 00:38:15.316 --> 00:38:16.946 each other suffering. 00:38:17.332 --> 00:38:19.780 And they make their children suffer. NOTE Paragraph 00:38:23.999 --> 00:38:26.469 So we have to be courageous 00:38:26.574 --> 00:38:28.858 to let go of our ideas, 00:38:29.179 --> 00:38:31.839 even we think that we are right. 00:38:32.903 --> 00:38:35.189 But if it doesn't bring harmony 00:38:35.636 --> 00:38:38.053 in our family so we can 00:38:38.139 --> 00:38:40.479 bring it home oh sorry we can 00:38:40.677 --> 00:38:42.147 let it go. 00:38:44.902 --> 00:38:48.498 Because it doesn't bring happ.iness to each other 00:38:57.169 --> 00:38:59.519 So maybe we can contemplate 00:39:00.189 --> 00:39:03.368 to see what we need to let go 00:39:03.737 --> 00:39:05.756 what we need to cut through. NOTE Paragraph 00:39:09.834 --> 00:39:13.264 And the first thing we need to cut through 00:39:14.812 --> 00:39:16.342 is our craving. 00:39:26.699 --> 00:39:29.349 So there are many kinds of craving. 00:39:32.828 --> 00:39:35.579 We are craving for food, for example. 00:39:36.081 --> 00:39:38.581 It can bring us a lot of suffering. 00:39:39.106 --> 00:39:42.438 It is very tasty, very delicious, 00:39:42.737 --> 00:39:44.927 but it's not good for our health. 00:39:45.808 --> 00:39:47.928 So maybe we can let go. 00:39:50.823 --> 00:39:52.253 We desire 00:39:52.643 --> 00:39:54.163 to have a car, 00:39:55.746 --> 00:39:57.196 a beautiful car. 00:39:58.422 --> 00:40:00.642 And we do a lot of work, 00:40:02.111 --> 00:40:04.826 we work hard to earn money to buy a car. 00:40:08.770 --> 00:40:10.900 But, in fact, that when we have the car 00:40:11.412 --> 00:40:13.122 we are not so happy. 00:40:13.329 --> 00:40:16.005 We accumulate more 00:40:16.098 --> 00:40:18.184 tension . . . 00:40:18.307 --> 00:40:19.687 stress. 00:40:19.787 --> 00:40:22.233 And when we are tense-ful and stressed 00:40:22.339 --> 00:40:24.842 we make other people suffer also. 00:40:25.102 --> 00:40:27.232 But we may not realize that. NOTE Paragraph 00:40:30.189 --> 00:40:33.629 And somethings that we think that if we have them 00:40:33.849 --> 00:40:35.179 we are happy, 00:40:35.309 --> 00:40:39.149 but in fact that when we have them, we are not happy. 00:40:40.984 --> 00:40:43.024 So we have to look deeply to see 00:40:43.141 --> 00:40:45.611 what kind of desire we have 00:40:48.487 --> 00:40:50.507 that doesn't bring us happiness, 00:40:50.581 --> 00:40:53.710 but we think that it will bring us happiness. 00:40:55.521 --> 00:40:58.491 And we have to be courageous to let 00:40:59.096 --> 00:41:00.616 them . . . . go away. 00:41:01.937 --> 00:41:03.657 We have to let go. NOTE Paragraph 00:41:08.675 --> 00:41:11.399 It is the same with the material things 00:41:13.691 --> 00:41:15.861 and spiritual things also. 00:41:16.384 --> 00:41:17.884 We have to let go. 00:41:23.300 --> 00:41:25.050 So . . . 00:41:25.864 --> 00:41:27.574 when we look deeply 00:41:27.881 --> 00:41:30.536 into the things and we can realize that 00:41:30.853 --> 00:41:33.749 maybe the simple life is the best for us. 00:41:34.391 --> 00:41:37.080 We don't need to have much things to be happy. 00:41:41.098 --> 00:41:42.518 We live simply, 00:41:42.860 --> 00:41:45.260 where we have time for ourselves, 00:41:45.653 --> 00:41:48.132 we have time for our beloved one. NOTE Paragraph 00:41:51.273 --> 00:41:53.919 Sometimes we feel tense. 00:41:54.282 --> 00:41:55.692 We feel stressful 00:41:57.598 --> 00:41:59.888 but we don't have time to relax. 00:42:02.560 --> 00:42:04.453 We do thing after thing. 00:42:06.248 --> 00:42:10.409 And we think that when we finish these things we have opportunity to relax, 00:42:10.487 --> 00:42:11.857 to rest. 00:42:11.965 --> 00:42:15.713 But in fact when we finish one thing we have another thing to do. 00:42:15.814 --> 00:42:18.584 And we never had the chance 00:42:18.763 --> 00:42:21.602 to relax and to rest. NOTE Paragraph 00:42:25.491 --> 00:42:28.701 And even when we go to the vacation, 00:42:29.169 --> 00:42:31.729 we also do a lot of things, 00:42:32.935 --> 00:42:34.705 arrange a lot of things, 00:42:34.819 --> 00:42:38.169 for us to relax, but in fact we accumulate more 00:42:38.279 --> 00:42:42.233 tension . . . in our body and in our mind. NOTE Paragraph 00:42:55.583 --> 00:42:57.918 We want to have a big house 00:43:00.589 --> 00:43:02.739 but in fact that when we have a big house 00:43:02.993 --> 00:43:04.493 we are not happy. 00:43:08.747 --> 00:43:10.747 But if you have time 00:43:10.830 --> 00:43:12.690 you have everything. 00:43:22.650 --> 00:43:25.291 And people say time is gold, 00:43:26.677 --> 00:43:29.847 but our teacher says that time is our life. 00:43:32.438 --> 00:43:34.488 We have to enjoy our time 00:43:35.576 --> 00:43:37.406 as we enjoy our life. NOTE Paragraph 00:43:53.736 --> 00:43:55.976 And the second thing that we 00:43:56.067 --> 00:43:57.990 want to cut through is 00:43:58.907 --> 00:44:00.357 anger, 00:44:04.230 --> 00:44:05.764 or hatred. 00:44:10.309 --> 00:44:12.928 Anger is a big thing that. we have to deal with NOTE Paragraph 00:44:16.248 --> 00:44:20.878 Because of anger we also create a lot of suffering 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:22.660 for each other. 00:44:28.832 --> 00:44:30.802 And when we are angry 00:44:31.041 --> 00:44:32.870 we think that we are right 00:44:33.420 --> 00:44:36.484 so it is why we're angry with other people. 00:44:36.750 --> 00:44:39.820 They did something wrong they make us suffer. 00:44:39.965 --> 00:44:42.942 Why they do like this? Why they say like that? 00:44:43.725 --> 00:44:46.330 and because of that we're angry with that. NOTE Paragraph 00:44:46.542 --> 00:44:50.074 But the same method to go back to our home 00:44:50.214 --> 00:44:52.024 to our body and feel it. 00:44:52.085 --> 00:44:55.715 To take care of our body and feelings. 00:44:55.775 --> 00:44:58.483 We take good care of our anger. 00:44:58.615 --> 00:45:01.005 We embrace our anger, 00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:03.255 calm down our anger, 00:45:03.812 --> 00:45:05.572 and to free ourself. NOTE Paragraph 00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:13.540 When I do sitting meditation 00:45:14.448 --> 00:45:16.358 I scan my whole body. 00:45:18.303 --> 00:45:20.593 Aware of my whole body 00:45:21.447 --> 00:45:23.087 from my breathing, 00:45:23.996 --> 00:45:25.506 to my face, 00:45:25.665 --> 00:45:27.221 my shoulders, 00:45:27.481 --> 00:45:28.521 my arms, 00:45:29.286 --> 00:45:31.226 my back, my legs, 00:45:31.689 --> 00:45:33.136 my fingers, 00:45:33.321 --> 00:45:34.701 my toes, 00:45:36.742 --> 00:45:38.332 my intestines, 00:45:38.706 --> 00:45:40.528 my liver, my heart. 00:45:40.678 --> 00:45:43.197 So I scan my whole body. NOTE Paragraph 00:45:44.605 --> 00:45:46.605 And then I scan all 00:45:47.753 --> 00:45:49.163 members 00:45:50.344 --> 00:45:52.004 in the community. 00:45:52.186 --> 00:45:53.666 In my sangha, 00:45:53.755 --> 00:45:56.056 to see if I'm angry with anyone. NOTE Paragraph 00:45:58.525 --> 00:46:01.605 And then I scan all the people 00:46:01.736 --> 00:46:04.096 with other hamlets with other sanghas. 00:46:05.041 --> 00:46:07.681 With my family to see if I'm angry, 00:46:07.781 --> 00:46:09.791 if I'm angry with anyone. 00:46:10.610 --> 00:46:15.221 And the moment that I feel I'm not angry with anyone I feel so happy. 00:46:16.011 --> 00:46:17.681 I feel so free. 00:46:19.373 --> 00:46:22.733 So just the fact that we are not angry with anyone, 00:46:23.611 --> 00:46:25.141 we're already happy. NOTE Paragraph 00:46:29.824 --> 00:46:31.234 So you may 00:46:32.417 --> 00:46:33.737 do the same 00:46:35.782 --> 00:46:37.761 when you have free time. 00:46:38.135 --> 00:46:41.226 To think of yourself, think of other people 00:46:42.083 --> 00:46:44.473 and see if you are angry with anyone. 00:46:45.515 --> 00:46:49.536 And then the moment you feel that you are not angry with anyone, 00:46:50.407 --> 00:46:51.907 you free yourself. 00:46:53.166 --> 00:46:54.856 You liberate yourself, 00:46:56.588 --> 00:46:58.387 and you become happy, 00:46:59.163 --> 00:47:01.797 like you are the happiest person in the world. NOTE Paragraph 00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:08.286 And the same with the other mind. 00:47:08.887 --> 00:47:10.687 If you have the jealousy, 00:47:11.747 --> 00:47:14.647 and when you do sitting meditation you also scan 00:47:15.663 --> 00:47:17.386 everyone 00:47:17.540 --> 00:47:20.358 in your family or in the community. 00:47:20.487 --> 00:47:23.887 And that moment you don't feel jealous with anyone, 00:47:24.588 --> 00:47:26.248 you feel so happy. NOTE Paragraph 00:47:29.558 --> 00:47:32.964 And you can do like that with any kind of mind 00:47:33.112 --> 00:47:36.882 that bothers you, that makes you unhappy. 00:47:37.803 --> 00:47:41.945 And then you sustain the sitting meditation time, 00:47:42.394 --> 00:47:44.124 all of the day. 00:47:44.710 --> 00:47:46.456 Like when you do the work, 00:47:46.985 --> 00:47:48.875 when you cook in the kitchen, 00:47:49.710 --> 00:47:51.390 when you do washing, 00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:53.789 when you take a walk. 00:47:54.774 --> 00:47:56.504 So you sustain it 00:47:57.139 --> 00:47:59.015 and you also feel happy, 00:48:00.091 --> 00:48:02.421 and your happiness becomes huge. 00:48:04.118 --> 00:48:07.538 And all day long you feel happy. 00:48:07.727 --> 00:48:09.827 And if you can do for one day, 00:48:09.967 --> 00:48:13.529 you can do for the second day, the third day, the fourth day, 00:48:14.191 --> 00:48:15.480 a month, a year 00:48:16.141 --> 00:48:18.131 and maybe forever. 00:48:18.631 --> 00:48:20.708 And you can master yourself. NOTE Paragraph 00:48:22.371 --> 00:48:23.981 So . . . 00:48:24.623 --> 00:48:27.930 anger or hatred is only ,one kind of mind 00:48:28.043 --> 00:48:31.633 but with every kind of mind you can do the same. NOTE Paragraph 00:48:40.160 --> 00:48:42.460 And the third is ignorance. 00:48:56.696 --> 00:48:59.892 With the insight of wisdom 00:49:00.297 --> 00:49:02.906 we have to look deeply into things. 00:49:03.889 --> 00:49:06.459 We have to look deeply into the situation 00:49:06.872 --> 00:49:09.402 to understand the situation better. 00:49:12.952 --> 00:49:15.072 And when we understand 00:49:15.829 --> 00:49:17.269 the situation 00:49:17.887 --> 00:49:19.893 we can free ourselves. NOTE Paragraph 00:49:24.160 --> 00:49:26.950 We suffer because we don't see things clearly. 00:49:29.227 --> 00:49:30.917 We know nothing. 00:49:32.530 --> 00:49:34.275 We're ignorant 00:49:34.556 --> 00:49:36.080 about things, 00:49:36.380 --> 00:49:37.840 about reality. 00:49:41.380 --> 00:49:44.990 So we have to cut through ignorance. 00:49:45.090 --> 00:49:47.403 We have to cut through ignorance 00:49:47.535 --> 00:49:50.220 in order that we can free ourselves. NOTE Paragraph 00:49:59.922 --> 00:50:02.758 Sometimes we need friends to help us 00:50:03.794 --> 00:50:06.094 because we don't see things clearly. 00:50:06.265 --> 00:50:08.997 But we thought that we see things clearly. 00:50:09.417 --> 00:50:13.490 It is very dangerous s.ometimes we need help 00:50:17.641 --> 00:50:21.611 We can ask our friend who has experience in the practice 00:50:21.965 --> 00:50:24.393 to show us the way, to help us. 00:50:30.568 --> 00:50:34.568 In our community we say that 00:50:36.262 --> 00:50:38.492 the individual insight 00:50:39.596 --> 00:50:41.884 is not 00:50:42.571 --> 00:50:45.909 as good as community insight. 00:50:52.693 --> 00:50:55.487 So we need the collective insight to help us. 00:50:59.025 --> 00:51:02.709 So when we have the difficulty please ask for help. 00:51:09.215 --> 00:51:11.709 Because the (inaudible) is very dangerous. 00:51:11.995 --> 00:51:14.145 We think that they are wrong, 00:51:14.286 --> 00:51:17.154 and we are right. It's very dangerous, 00:51:20.248 --> 00:51:21.896 so please ask for help. NOTE Paragraph 00:51:36.366 --> 00:51:39.677 So we go back to ourself 00:51:39.996 --> 00:51:41.846 go back to our home 00:51:44.476 --> 00:51:47.940 to see what kind of garbage 00:51:48.346 --> 00:51:50.756 that you want (to) throw them away 00:51:51.131 --> 00:51:53.049 by this kind of method. 00:51:53.696 --> 00:51:56.727 And what kind of flower you want to plant 00:52:00.506 --> 00:52:03.486 in order that we can welcome the new year. NOTE Paragraph 00:52:13.497 --> 00:52:15.697 (Bell rings gently) 00:52:19.668 --> 00:52:28.028 (Bell rings) NOTE Paragraph 00:53:12.366 --> 00:53:14.520 Sometimes we can 00:53:16.326 --> 00:53:18.346 we can let go of the big thing 00:53:19.372 --> 00:53:21.862 but we cannot let go of the small thing. 00:53:24.300 --> 00:53:30.360 And we turn the small thing into the big thing, the big deal. 00:53:33.740 --> 00:53:36.649 I don't know if you read the magazines 00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:38.599 New . . . . 00:53:41.161 --> 00:53:42.949 New York Times 00:53:43.082 --> 00:53:44.702 There is an article 00:53:46.640 --> 00:53:50.030 with the title "Is he ever going to put away that shirt?" 00:53:52.671 --> 00:53:54.632 It's very interesting. 00:53:56.893 --> 00:53:58.863 It is written by 00:53:58.998 --> 00:54:01.959 Brenda Chadowitz. NOTE Paragraph 00:54:05.039 --> 00:54:08.439 She tells about the shirt 00:54:08.918 --> 00:54:10.378 of her husband. 00:54:13.307 --> 00:54:15.288 The shirt was left 00:54:16.911 --> 00:54:19.883 on the . . .upstairs in the hallway 00:54:20.214 --> 00:54:21.700 for many days 00:54:23.869 --> 00:54:26.839 and he didn't take it away. 00:54:29.913 --> 00:54:32.143 And when she saw the shirt 00:54:32.365 --> 00:54:34.745 she felt very irritated. 00:54:36.453 --> 00:54:39.103 She says that "Why, my husband 00:54:39.151 --> 00:54:41.261 didn't clean up, 00:54:41.468 --> 00:54:43.058 didn't take it away?" 00:54:46.883 --> 00:54:50.031 And she wanted to clean up she wanted to take it away. 00:54:51.033 --> 00:54:53.090 And it only took a few steps 00:54:54.213 --> 00:54:56.513 to take it, to put it in the cabinet. 00:54:56.643 --> 00:54:58.663 But she didn't do it 00:54:59.914 --> 00:55:03.668 because she didn't want to become the person who 00:55:03.757 --> 00:55:05.307 cleans up after him, 00:55:06.688 --> 00:55:08.508 to pick up after him. 00:55:09.292 --> 00:55:11.352 Because she has two children 00:55:11.743 --> 00:55:13.533 to take care of 00:55:13.805 --> 00:55:15.405 and she always 00:55:15.548 --> 00:55:18.928 cleaned up things for her children. 00:55:20.310 --> 00:55:22.837 Pick up after her children. 00:55:23.434 --> 00:55:26.042 So, it is why she doesn't want 00:55:26.396 --> 00:55:28.394 to pick up things after him. NOTE Paragraph 00:55:29.933 --> 00:55:31.503 But everyday 00:55:33.056 --> 00:55:35.726 she became more and more irritated. 00:55:37.519 --> 00:55:39.265 And she told her Mom 00:55:39.954 --> 00:55:43.173 and her Mom said that because her husband is the doctor 00:55:43.275 --> 00:55:45.506 and he's busy so take it away. 00:55:46.658 --> 00:55:48.612 But she doesn't want to 00:55:49.825 --> 00:55:51.953 and she come to the therapy 00:55:52.649 --> 00:55:53.649 (Laughs) 00:55:55.215 --> 00:55:57.335 but it doesn't help. 00:55:58.242 --> 00:56:00.412 She told her friend 00:56:01.432 --> 00:56:03.162 it also doesn't help. NOTE Paragraph 00:56:07.135 --> 00:56:09.565 And she remembered the moment that 00:56:09.975 --> 00:56:11.185 her husband 00:56:11.911 --> 00:56:13.411 did a lot of things. 00:56:13.610 --> 00:56:15.220 Clean up the house, 00:56:15.364 --> 00:56:16.984 throw the garbage, 00:56:18.551 --> 00:56:19.601 (inaudible). 00:56:19.914 --> 00:56:22.921 And there were some very difficult moments. 00:56:23.771 --> 00:56:25.121 Her husband 00:56:25.227 --> 00:56:26.897 comfort her, 00:56:27.343 --> 00:56:30.200 help her to go out of the fear 00:56:31.554 --> 00:56:32.934 of the suffering, 00:56:33.560 --> 00:56:35.112 of the worries. 00:56:35.958 --> 00:56:37.618 But still 00:56:40.500 --> 00:56:42.941 she still suffered because of that shirt. NOTE Paragraph 00:56:47.731 --> 00:56:51.777 And she paid attention to that shirt to see if it's moved 00:56:52.785 --> 00:56:55.080 (Laughs) But it's difficult, huh? 00:56:55.497 --> 00:56:56.917 Day by day, 00:56:57.439 --> 00:56:58.849 for six minutes. 00:56:59.278 --> 00:57:00.948 (Audience laughs) NOTE Paragraph 00:57:02.874 --> 00:57:05.239 And one day she saw it was gone. 00:57:08.376 --> 00:57:13.686 And she asked her husband "You took the shirt away?" 00:57:14.894 --> 00:57:16.777 And her husband said that 00:57:17.870 --> 00:57:19.893 "What . . . what kind of shirt?" 00:57:20.144 --> 00:57:21.754 (Gentle laughter) 00:57:21.867 --> 00:57:24.374 And he said "That shirt on the upstairs? 00:57:25.066 --> 00:57:26.510 And he said, "Yes" 00:57:29.668 --> 00:57:32.582 I cleaned up this morning I took them away. NOTE Paragraph 00:57:33.510 --> 00:57:34.880 And I also 00:57:35.020 --> 00:57:36.900 took off the socks. NOTE Paragraph 00:57:40.515 --> 00:57:41.875 And she asked 00:57:42.610 --> 00:57:44.090 "What kind of socks?" 00:57:44.190 --> 00:57:47.123 (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:57:48.555 --> 00:57:52.795 In fact the socks that she wants to wear when she do exercise 00:57:53.689 --> 00:57:55.379 She put the . . . 00:57:57.382 --> 00:57:59.964 aside and she didn't use it and she 00:58:00.476 --> 00:58:02.716 leave them there for many days. 00:58:02.845 --> 00:58:04.625 Maybe many months. 00:58:07.350 --> 00:58:09.980 But before that she so surprised why 00:58:10.503 --> 00:58:13.051 her husband didn't pay attention 00:58:13.335 --> 00:58:14.785 to the shirt. 00:58:15.165 --> 00:58:18.155 And she feel that it seemed that it like nothing 00:58:18.245 --> 00:58:20.665 but it has become a big deal for her. NOTE Paragraph 00:58:25.772 --> 00:58:27.454 But when she realized that 00:58:28.491 --> 00:58:30.521 I think she feel free. 00:58:30.913 --> 00:58:33.068 She may laugh to herself. 00:58:39.215 --> 00:58:41.125 It is very human, huh? 00:58:42.265 --> 00:58:43.905 It's very mundane 00:58:44.857 --> 00:58:47.323 but sometimes it's very . . . NOTE Paragraph 00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:51.899 I think that everyone, 00:58:52.022 --> 00:58:53.409 sometimes we 00:58:53.559 --> 00:58:55.822 share the same situation 00:58:55.913 --> 00:58:57.703 with her. 00:58:58.878 --> 00:59:01.498 Sometimes we can deal with the big thing 00:59:02.683 --> 00:59:05.971 but with the small thing. We cannot overcome it, 00:59:10.116 --> 00:59:12.433 and it causes us a lot of suffering. NOTE Paragraph 00:59:13.069 --> 00:59:16.079 Why we have to worry until six months 00:59:16.703 --> 00:59:18.454 to liberate ourselves? 00:59:19.046 --> 00:59:21.976 Instead it can take 00:59:23.166 --> 00:59:24.626 few seconds 00:59:25.523 --> 00:59:26.933 to take it away 00:59:27.169 --> 00:59:29.649 and we free ourselves of six months. NOTE Paragraph 00:59:36.374 --> 00:59:38.434 So maybe it is an invitation. 00:59:39.609 --> 00:59:41.739 That I would like to invite you 00:59:43.251 --> 00:59:45.651 to look deeply into yourself. 00:59:46.609 --> 00:59:50.286 To see what bothers you, what ties you up 00:59:51.105 --> 00:59:54.265 that allows you to be happy, to be free. 00:59:57.687 --> 00:59:59.207 And we don't worry 01:00:01.121 --> 01:00:04.286 until six months later to free ourselves. NOTE Paragraph 01:00:04.951 --> 01:00:06.908 We don't worry until 01:00:07.571 --> 01:00:12.791 our husband took away the shirt for us to be free. 01:00:13.341 --> 01:00:16.522 We can do it because it's very little thing. NOTE Paragraph 01:00:27.567 --> 01:00:30.262 Sometimes, there is something happen 01:00:30.911 --> 01:00:33.629 that we don't like it. 01:00:35.421 --> 01:00:37.669 Our mind attaches to that. 01:00:38.211 --> 01:00:40.658 Our mind goes right to the object. 01:00:41.918 --> 01:00:45.858 And it carries us away and it prevent us to be happy. 01:00:49.403 --> 01:00:52.479 So we have to go back to ourself 01:00:54.699 --> 01:00:57.058 and concentrate on our breathing. 01:00:57.313 --> 01:00:59.725 Concentrate on our mind, 01:01:02.090 --> 01:01:03.470 in our body, 01:01:05.153 --> 01:01:07.645 in order that we can stop thinking. 01:01:08.730 --> 01:01:13.727 We can stop directing our mind to the object that we don't like. 01:01:15.673 --> 01:01:17.233 We cut off 01:01:19.646 --> 01:01:22.856 the thing that prevents us to be happy. 01:01:25.267 --> 01:01:28.116 Direct our mind back to our body. NOTE Paragraph 01:01:30.808 --> 01:01:33.176 And when we go back to our body, 01:01:33.643 --> 01:01:36.320 we also see clearly 01:01:36.554 --> 01:01:39.184 that we also have some mistakes. 01:01:44.863 --> 01:01:45.863 In the . . . 01:01:47.264 --> 01:01:50.174 Dhammapada Sutra (Vietnamese words) 01:01:50.694 --> 01:01:52.899 the Buddha also said that 01:01:53.686 --> 01:01:58.046 Easy seeing . . . . easy seeing are others faults. 01:02:00.075 --> 01:02:04.075 Hard indeed to see one's own. 01:02:05.086 --> 01:02:07.486 Like just one 01:02:08.348 --> 01:02:10.998 we know others faults 01:02:13.028 --> 01:02:17.028 but one's own faults, one hides. 01:02:18.733 --> 01:02:20.413 As the crafty 01:02:21.263 --> 01:02:22.263 gambler 01:02:22.882 --> 01:02:25.672 conceals his gambling scars. 01:02:31.272 --> 01:02:44.562 (Speaking vietnamese) 01:02:47.186 --> 01:02:50.151 So easy to see the mistakes 01:02:50.253 --> 01:02:51.893 of other people. 01:02:52.759 --> 01:02:55.987 But for our own it's really difficult to see it. NOTE Paragraph 01:02:59.298 --> 01:03:01.548 So during the daily life 01:03:02.422 --> 01:03:06.126 if you only see the mistakes of the other people. 01:03:07.181 --> 01:03:09.584 So maybe our practice is strong, 01:03:10.628 --> 01:03:14.664 you have to go back to ourselves to see our mistakes. 01:03:15.373 --> 01:03:17.883 And the more mistakes we see, 01:03:18.324 --> 01:03:20.254 the better we are. 01:03:20.384 --> 01:03:22.299 Because we see 01:03:22.454 --> 01:03:24.324 ourselves clearly. 01:03:24.796 --> 01:03:28.426 Not because the more we practice the more mistakes we create 01:03:28.704 --> 01:03:30.974 but the more practice, the more 01:03:31.456 --> 01:03:33.777 clearly we see ourselves. 01:03:36.797 --> 01:03:39.189 And when we see ourselves clearly 01:03:39.485 --> 01:03:42.227 it's really easy for us to 01:03:42.315 --> 01:03:44.125 forgive other people. NOTE Paragraph 01:03:49.116 --> 01:03:51.909 So mistakes are sometimes very precious. 01:03:54.017 --> 01:03:57.867 If you don't do mistakes 01:03:58.661 --> 01:04:04.225 maybe it's really difficult for you to forgive other people. 01:04:06.335 --> 01:04:08.308 But when you have the mistake 01:04:09.838 --> 01:04:12.848 it's easy for you to forgive 01:04:13.048 --> 01:04:14.468 other people. 01:04:20.329 --> 01:04:23.422 So it is why the Buddha always 01:04:25.915 --> 01:04:28.645 advises us to go back to ourselves 01:04:30.049 --> 01:04:32.120 to see ourselves clearly. 01:04:43.313 --> 01:04:45.983 And if we see ourselves clearly 01:04:46.634 --> 01:04:50.679 we can help other people to see themselves clearly too. NOTE Paragraph 01:04:53.214 --> 01:04:55.233 Outside it's very beautiful 01:04:56.131 --> 01:04:58.642 Today we are lucky to have the sunshine 01:05:00.908 --> 01:05:02.978 so maybe . . . 01:05:03.367 --> 01:05:06.064 we stop here to enjoy the sunshine. 01:05:06.413 --> 01:05:08.583 (Laughter). NOTE Paragraph 01:05:08.950 --> 01:05:13.168 But one more time, I would like to invite you to go back home 01:05:14.094 --> 01:05:15.514 the physical home, 01:05:16.154 --> 01:05:18.214 home here and home 01:05:18.877 --> 01:05:20.497 in your family. 01:05:20.595 --> 01:05:22.125 To clean up 01:05:22.710 --> 01:05:26.070 your home and to plant a flower 01:05:26.446 --> 01:05:28.899 in your garden to welcome the new year. NOTE Paragraph 01:05:30.096 --> 01:05:31.736 And . . . 01:05:33.563 --> 01:05:36.400 of course we can plan.t many kinds of flowers 01:05:36.645 --> 01:05:39.202 And every kind of flower they need different water, 01:05:39.445 --> 01:05:41.745 different ingredients, 01:05:42.555 --> 01:05:44.075 different manure. 01:05:44.255 --> 01:05:47.539 So we can learn in order that we can plant 01:05:48.883 --> 01:05:50.473 good flowers. NOTE Paragraph 01:05:50.815 --> 01:05:52.505 So we can do the same 01:05:52.635 --> 01:05:55.875 we can plant in the garden of our mind 01:05:56.182 --> 01:05:59.073 many kinds of flowers. Flowers of compassion, 01:05:59.210 --> 01:06:01.519 of love, of forgiveness. 01:06:02.157 --> 01:06:06.327 Of peace, joy, harmony, (unaudible) 01:06:07.166 --> 01:06:10.176 and then we can plant a garden. NOTE Paragraph 01:06:10.385 --> 01:06:13.735 And sometimes our garden is not so 01:06:13.961 --> 01:06:16.518 clean. It's not so in order 01:06:18.077 --> 01:06:21.052 because we don't take good care of our garden. 01:06:22.653 --> 01:06:24.383 And it becomes wiry. 01:06:24.643 --> 01:06:27.139 And sometimes we go back to our garden 01:06:27.415 --> 01:06:30.022 and our garden becomes 01:06:30.632 --> 01:06:32.172 very dirty. 01:06:33.244 --> 01:06:36.624 And we become bored when we see our garden. 01:06:38.832 --> 01:06:40.392 And we worry 01:06:40.619 --> 01:06:43.222 we don't know where we can start. 01:06:47.080 --> 01:06:50.540 So if this is your situation, 01:06:51.016 --> 01:06:52.896 to smile to your garden. 01:06:55.061 --> 01:06:57.358 And we can be brave, 01:06:57.817 --> 01:07:00.476 we can be courageous. to take care of that 01:07:01.331 --> 01:07:03.963 And we look around to see in the garden 01:07:04.777 --> 01:07:07.174 if there are any trees still alive. 01:07:07.789 --> 01:07:10.086 So we can start from that tree. 01:07:14.328 --> 01:07:17.774 And we take good care of that tree and we enjoy that tree. 01:07:18.356 --> 01:07:20.312 And then from that tree 01:07:20.671 --> 01:07:22.901 so we can sustain 01:07:22.999 --> 01:07:26.896 to take care of other places in the garden. 01:07:27.692 --> 01:07:30.808 So it is the same with the garden of our mind. NOTE Paragraph 01:07:31.152 --> 01:07:33.732 Sometimes we feel 01:07:34.391 --> 01:07:36.749 unease with our mind. 01:07:37.547 --> 01:07:40.758 But if we see that we still have the compassion. 01:07:41.136 --> 01:07:42.968 it's good already. 01:07:43.300 --> 01:07:47.398 If it's still alive we go back to take care of our compassion. 01:07:48.307 --> 01:07:51.131 And make it bigger, make it stronger. 01:07:53.008 --> 01:07:57.008 We can love, share our love to other people. 01:07:58.760 --> 01:08:01.370 Feel compassionate to other people. 01:08:01.528 --> 01:08:03.420 Feel compassionate to other's suffering, 01:08:03.567 --> 01:08:05.657 other people's suffering. NOTE Paragraph 01:08:07.037 --> 01:08:09.757 And then we sustain to 01:08:10.051 --> 01:08:13.941 other trees, love, forgiveness 01:08:14.052 --> 01:08:18.052 understanding actual, and we make our 01:08:18.222 --> 01:08:22.222 garden become more beautiful. 01:08:23.922 --> 01:08:25.772 Become bright. NOTE Paragraph 01:08:26.403 --> 01:08:28.693 So I wish you a safe trip home 01:08:30.310 --> 01:08:32.520 to take good care of your garden. 01:08:33.862 --> 01:08:35.722 To clean up your 01:08:36.520 --> 01:08:37.900 home, 01:08:38.080 --> 01:08:39.791 with joy and happiness 01:08:40.003 --> 01:08:42.068 to celebrate a new year. 01:08:43.698 --> 01:08:45.571 Wherever you are NOTE Paragraph 01:08:46.422 --> 01:08:49.011 and enjoy the happy new year. NOTE Paragraph 01:08:49.443 --> 01:08:52.930 Thank you so much for your listening. 01:08:54.697 --> 01:08:58.697 (Bell rings) 01:09:01.229 --> 01:09:05.229 (Bell rings) 01:09:13.145 --> 01:09:17.145 (Silence) 01:09:49.069 --> 01:09:53.069 (Bell rings) 01:10:04.296 --> 01:10:08.296 (Silence) 01:10:34.656 --> 01:10:40.326 (Bell rings) 01:10:56.223 --> 01:11:00.223 (Silence) 01:11:20.551 --> 01:11:22.941 (Light bell rings)