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most respected Thai dear Sangha wherever

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you are this wonderful to be connected

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with each other in many different places

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and now we want to come back to our

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breathing and really feel our connection

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with everyone else who is there to the

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edge of the Dharma talk and first of all

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in order to bring us together we are

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going to sing a song for you from the

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New Hamlet in Plum Village

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[Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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most respected Thay, dear Sangha

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everywhere, today is the 26th of April in

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the year 2020 and we are in the New

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Hamlet of Plum village sending out a

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Dharma talk online, we are very lucky that

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we have ways of communicating when we

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cannot be physically together, we have

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the telephone, we have the internet so

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that we can we can be together in a

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sense, we can see each other, we can hear

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each other, but before these things were

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invented people also had the need to be

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together with those who were far away

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and they were also able to do that, we

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have a way in which we can send our love

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there is a way in which we are connected

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and recently with the discovery of how

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how the nature of the particle the

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sub-atomic particle

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the scientists have discovered something

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called "non-local" it means in a sense we

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can be where we are not. In Plum Village

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on the day of mindfulness we often

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practice sending energy sending our love

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to people who are not there in Plum

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Village people who may be in the

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hospital, people who maybe have died

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already, we say their name we concentrate

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on our breathing we concentrate on the

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Bodhisattva of compassion who is in us

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and in our Sangha, and we use that energy

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in order to send it to the one whose

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name we have mentioned and we know that

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this is effective because I have heard

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people say at the very time when we said

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the name of the person and concentrated

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on the Bodhisattvas maybe someone who

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was dying and not at peace became

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peaceful while someone who was not dying

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but not at peace also became peaceful at

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that very moment, although there were

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hundreds of kilometers away, so we know

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both from science and from our own

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experience it is possible to send love

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is possible to send peace

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and it's possible to send your smile to

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those who need it, you just need to say

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the name of the person and smile, and say

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dear whatever the name is I'm smiling

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for you this is the smile of compassion

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a smile of relaxation of peace but of

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course the important thing is that the

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one who is sending the love

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this smile

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has to feel peace, has to be peace, and

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that is what is essential and all of us

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who have met the practice we know how to

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do that say that even you were in the

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same room as the person who is sick or

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dying it would be so important that you

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could feel peace, if you were afraid if

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you were crying at that time it would

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not help the person who needs your help

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and now though you cannot be in the same

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room still your peace can reach the

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person you wanted to reach you only need

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to say their name

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you only need to feel the deep peace

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within you and to feel also that you are

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a Bodhisattva that means you are someone

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who has the mind of love, the mind

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awakening, and that Bodhisattva is in you

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is not someone outside of you, maybe in

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the beginning the Bodhisattva you

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visualize outside of you, you visualize

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that great being who is full of

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compassion and understanding as being

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outside of you, but as you go deeper into

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your concentration you will see the

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Bodhisattva is inside of you and another

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wonderful thing that you may see is that

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the Bodhisattva is inside of the person

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you are sending your energy to, the

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Bodhisattva is also non-local. Many of us

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now we find ourselves in confinement I

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don't know whether you feel that you are

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in a prison, you may do, when we first

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published in English the manual for

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novices with the code of discipline for

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novices somehow it got that book got

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inside the walls of a prison

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and a prisoner who had a very long

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sentence to serve read the book from

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cover to cover and said to himself I can

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become a novice in prison the prison can

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become my monastery

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he shaved his head (you don't need to

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shave your head) he recited the novice

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precept for himself and he decided that

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he's become a novice and every day from

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the moment he woke up he could use the

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poems that the novice uses in order to

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be able to feel that he is really in a

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monastery, his prison has become his

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monastery, so this is something that we

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can, we can do we can make our

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environment a monastery, we can make our

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environment the house of the Buddha, the

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house of Jesus Christ, where we can enjoy

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our breathing

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enjoy our mindful walking at every

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moment of the day... do you know the little

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poem waking up I smile I have 24

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brand-new hours I vow to live them fully

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looking at life with the eyes of love

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someone is translating into Vietnamese

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and there's no word I in Vietnamese

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waking up smile, no I, 24 brand-new hours

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even if you don't feel like smiling it

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doesn't have to be I that smiles there

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just has to be a smile and the smile is

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wonderful the smile is the kind of mouth

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yoga, that can transform our state of

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mind when we smile we send a message to

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the nerves in our brain and the message

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is something like it's alright

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everything is going to be okay

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so we need that smile very much at this

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time, so that we can take care of the

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present moment don't think there's an

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I who is smiling, when you smile your

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ancestors your mother and your father

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are smiling with you your children are

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smiling with you you inter-are that is

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the most wonderful teaching that we have

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it is the teaching that we need most in

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our time interbeing, I am NOT a separate

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self, but in order to be able to touch

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deeply the true nature of interbeing we

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have to be very much there in the

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present moment, not carried away by what

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is happening around us

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some people say that in this time when

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they are in good health

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when their loved ones are also in good

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health when they have financial

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resources they have everything they need

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they feel all the same

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they do not have the right to be happy

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when so many others are suffering

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but please remember that the world needs

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your happiness not the happiness of

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indulging your sense pleasures but the

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happiness that comes from being at peace

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from being able to accept, from being

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able to breathe and to walk, this

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happiness is very important for the

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world at this time and out of this

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happiness you can bring happiness to

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others you can console those who

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are mourning, who are afraid, so allow

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yourself to enjoy the true happiness as

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a gift to the world. So what we want to

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be, what we need to do to reestablish

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peace is to be able to come back to

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ourselves. We just sang for you being an

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island unto myself this means I have the

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capacity to come back to my body as it

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is in the present moment and your body

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may be in good shape your body may not

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be in good shape

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but all the same it's doing its best and

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you can come back to it and when you

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come back to your body

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you can help your body your body will

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feel happy when your mind comes back to

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it and that is why we say breathing in

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I'm aware of my whole body it's to be

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able to come back and for your mind rest

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peacefully in every cell of your body

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and in the Sutras they use the example of

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a turtle, a turtle has its four legs its

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head and its tail, and when the turtle

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needs to it will withdraw its legs its

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head and its tail under its shell, and

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there it is perfectly safe in its shell

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and many times in the Sutra we are

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reminded that we should pull in our six

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senses our eyes ears nose etc. bring them

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back on mind bring them back to the

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island of our self it's like on a windy

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day if you leave all the doors open

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everything in the room will be blown

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around it will be cold in the room so we

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need to close the doors we need to close

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the windows and although it's wonderful

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to have the Internet as a means of

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connection as a way of being with our

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Sangha it can also pull us out of ourself

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if we don't use it in the right way

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so we should be very careful how we use

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the Internet and we should always know

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how not to get lost in it, carried away

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by it, to come back into our shell and

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take care of our body and our mind as

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they are in the present moment. Now we

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enjoy the bell to do just that

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[Music]

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You know that we are made up of what are

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called five skandhas: our body, our

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feelings, perceptions, mental formations

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and consciousness. What this means is

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that sometimes you identify yourself

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with your body you feel I am my body

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sometimes you identify yourself with

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your feeling with your thinking with

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your emotions and with your consciousness

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all these things you can call myself

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because we have the practice of

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mindfulness we are able to take good

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care of these five rivers that are

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always flowing in us and changing at

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every moment so the first step is to

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come back to yourself and the second

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step is to take care of

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yourself and don't feel that that

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is selfish because taking care of

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yourself you are taking care of your

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ancestors who gave you who transmited

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to you

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your body and your mind

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you are taking care of your descendants

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to whom you have transmitted your body

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and your mind, and something else: you are

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taking care of Mother Earth because you

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are a child of the Earth and when you

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take care of yourself

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it's no different from taking care of

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the earth. If you are environmentalist

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and you don't take care of your body you

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are not really taking care of the Earth

0:27:24.660,0:27:31.780
if you do not call yourself an

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environmentalist but you take good care

0:27:31.780,0:27:38.230
of your body

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you are taking care of the Earth and you will

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love the Earth every time you walk on

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the Earth

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recently they've done, scientists have

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done much research on what kind of diet

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is best for the human being and they

0:28:05.830,0:28:17.049
have discovered that the best diet for a

0:28:11.860,0:28:21.850
human being is also the diet which will

0:28:17.049,0:28:26.790
help preserve Mother Earth for the

0:28:21.850,0:28:32.020
longest time that is a diet without

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animal products so we can see even from

0:28:32.020,0:28:39.400
a scientific point of view that taking

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care of ourselves is taking care of the

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Earth

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so we come back to our five skandhas and

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we see that our body needs our love and our

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care some people say that when they

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become sick they lose confidence in

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their body "I don't trust my body anymore"

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because it has become sick but in fact I

0:29:30.600,0:29:40.810
have more trust in my body when I become

0:29:34.960,0:29:47.550
sick because I have to go back to my

0:29:40.810,0:29:50.200
body I have to watch it very carefully I

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have to be aware of it

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at every moment and I see how it's doing

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its best

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I see how it's changing at every moment

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and it's trying to deal with the

0:30:05.260,0:30:11.020
situation it has, so in fact my

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confidence

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increases, so we come back and we take

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take care we are aware and they have

0:30:26.230,0:30:35.740
discovered that relaxation is a

0:30:29.620,0:30:40.660
wonderful way of healing you don't

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really have to do very much except allow

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your body to relax allow your body to to

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get back its strength to rest

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sometimes when we get sick it's because our

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body is wanting us to do just that to

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relax and to rest so it want to give us

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it wants to give us that message it's

0:31:19.690,0:31:34.150
also an opportunity for us to be able to

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look deeply at how we've been living our

0:31:34.150,0:31:46.780
life and to make changes and now we have

0:31:41.350,0:31:51.659
to go through this pandemic it's an

0:31:46.780,0:31:57.580
opportunity for all of us to look deeply

0:31:51.659,0:32:01.690
and to see how we've been living because

0:31:57.580,0:32:05.200
surely what we are going through now has

0:32:01.690,0:32:11.340
something to do with how we have lived

0:32:05.200,0:32:15.809
as a human species and when it is over

0:32:11.340,0:32:19.590
how are we going to be are we going to

0:32:15.809,0:32:22.929
are we going to live differently

0:32:19.590,0:32:28.440
otherwise we cannot avoid having more

0:32:22.929,0:32:33.250
pandemics so in a way this is a an

0:32:28.440,0:32:36.990
opportunity for us to wake up as a human

0:32:33.250,0:32:43.270
species and to begin to do things

0:32:36.990,0:32:46.440
differently and the first thing that we

0:32:43.270,0:32:55.240
will learn is to come back to ourselves

0:32:46.440,0:33:00.250
to rest to do less to have more time for

0:32:55.240,0:33:08.289
our family now we are forced to do less

0:33:00.250,0:33:11.190
we are forced to be with our family to

0:33:08.289,0:33:16.740
be with the earth

0:33:11.190,0:33:26.220
take care of the earth these are all

0:33:16.740,0:33:28.830
things we can do better so we come back

0:33:26.220,0:33:33.860
first of all to our body and we take

0:33:28.830,0:33:37.740
care and by coming back to our body

0:33:33.860,0:33:44.910
understanding our body we understand how

0:33:37.740,0:33:51.660
it's not a separate self entity it inter

0:33:44.910,0:33:55.640
is first of all your body into is with

0:33:51.660,0:34:01.080
the body of your mother and your father

0:33:55.640,0:34:06.780
and then of your grandparents and after

0:34:01.080,0:34:11.520
that your body into is with the forests

0:34:06.780,0:34:17.690
the air that you breathe the food that

0:34:11.520,0:34:17.690
you eat the water that you drink

0:34:22.179,0:34:28.690
and after we have come back to our body

0:34:24.940,0:34:32.139
and recognize its interbeing nature and

0:34:28.690,0:34:38.649
we take better care of our body we

0:34:32.139,0:34:42.879
recognize our feelings we really want to

0:34:38.649,0:34:47.919
have pleasant feelings we don't want to

0:34:42.879,0:34:51.399
have unpleasant feelings but for as long

0:34:47.919,0:34:55.899
as there are pleasant feelings there

0:34:51.399,0:34:59.829
will also be unpleasant feelings so we

0:34:55.899,0:35:05.140
cannot hope one day there will be no

0:34:59.829,0:35:09.819
more unpleasant feeling once somebody

0:35:05.140,0:35:13.210
said to me or you'd say if you don't

0:35:09.819,0:35:16.390
have unpleasant feelings you can't have

0:35:13.210,0:35:19.720
Pleasant feelings then I don't mind not

0:35:16.390,0:35:22.800
having Pleasant feelings as long as I

0:35:19.720,0:35:28.750
don't have to have unpleasant feelings

0:35:22.800,0:35:31.420
but who is going to be God and organize

0:35:28.750,0:35:41.680
the species that doesn't have feelings

0:35:31.420,0:35:44.140
anymore that is not possible so we we

0:35:41.680,0:35:48.640
know that unpleasant feelings are part

0:35:44.140,0:35:57.549
of life and they need our care and our

0:35:48.640,0:36:04.210
attention they don't need us to push

0:35:57.549,0:36:07.150
them out of the door say you are in

0:36:04.210,0:36:11.079
confinement you are sitting in your flat

0:36:07.150,0:36:15.040
and in the flat there's a lot of

0:36:11.079,0:36:20.819
unpleasant feelings what are you going

0:36:15.040,0:36:25.349
to do open the window and shoo them out

0:36:20.819,0:36:25.349
they won't they won't go away

0:36:25.740,0:36:33.980
first of all unpleasant feelings need to

0:36:30.280,0:36:38.600
be heard then

0:36:33.980,0:36:46.660
to be recognized they need to be

0:36:38.600,0:36:46.660
acknowledged so you say my dear little

0:36:48.790,0:36:58.550
frustration I know you're there I accept

0:36:57.920,0:37:09.680
you

0:36:58.550,0:37:12.340
oh my dear lack of energy someone said

0:37:09.680,0:37:18.710
to me in the beginning of the

0:37:12.340,0:37:24.550
confinement she had so much energy she

0:37:18.710,0:37:30.380
wanted to do so many things to help like

0:37:24.550,0:37:33.230
organizing online Sangha practicing

0:37:30.380,0:37:39.260
diligently every day listening to Dharma

0:37:33.230,0:37:47.300
talks but after a while there's no more

0:37:39.260,0:37:54.590
energy left no more desire to no more

0:37:47.300,0:37:58.030
desire to listen to Dharma dogs so that

0:37:54.590,0:38:02.690
is something only normal because

0:37:58.030,0:38:05.990
everything is impermanent everything is

0:38:02.690,0:38:10.970
in a wonderful state of change at every

0:38:05.990,0:38:15.020
moment and sometimes we grasp hold of a

0:38:10.970,0:38:19.750
moment and we want it to be like that

0:38:15.020,0:38:28.700
forever but that is not the nature of

0:38:19.750,0:38:32.869
how things are going to change so the

0:38:28.700,0:38:37.210
first thing is to recognize that I don't

0:38:32.869,0:38:41.350
have energy I'm tired

0:38:37.210,0:38:46.090
what is the point of fighting against it

0:38:41.350,0:38:51.000
it'll only make me more tired

0:38:46.090,0:38:58.230
so I accept like that but just as the

0:38:51.000,0:39:05.200
moment when the wave is at its highest

0:38:58.230,0:39:12.090
it can feel happy but also when it's at

0:39:05.200,0:39:15.390
its worst it can also feel at peace

0:39:12.090,0:39:21.310
because it knows that this is

0:39:15.390,0:39:28.350
impermanent and it knows that whether it

0:39:21.310,0:39:35.380
is high or whether it is low it is water

0:39:28.350,0:39:40.590
all the same so when we are able to

0:39:35.380,0:39:43.000
accept our tiredness our lack of energy

0:39:40.590,0:39:49.620
we just live with it

0:39:43.000,0:39:55.020
follow our breathing and quite naturally

0:39:49.620,0:39:58.960
it will change the energy will come back

0:39:55.020,0:40:03.820
the peace will come back and then you

0:39:58.960,0:40:08.280
can continue to do the work you want to

0:40:03.820,0:40:08.280
do to help others

0:40:14.140,0:40:22.450
this has something to do with the

0:40:16.569,0:40:30.190
practice of contentment the practice of

0:40:22.450,0:40:37.359
knowing that I have inner maybe in your

0:40:30.190,0:40:38.940
flat you have a plant which has green

0:40:37.359,0:40:44.019
leaves

0:40:38.940,0:40:48.940
you cannot go outside and you cannot be

0:40:44.019,0:40:54.640
in touch with nature outside but you can

0:40:48.940,0:40:56.739
be in touch with the plant you might be

0:40:54.640,0:41:00.789
able to touch it gently with your

0:40:56.739,0:41:07.180
fingers you can look at it you can

0:41:00.789,0:41:10.559
contemplate it you can see that the

0:41:07.180,0:41:15.009
plant is coming from the whole universe

0:41:10.559,0:41:21.690
it coming from the rain is coming from

0:41:15.009,0:41:27.009
the earth and when you look at that leaf

0:41:21.690,0:41:31.749
you can also see that you are a kind of

0:41:27.009,0:41:37.869
leaf you also come from the sunshine and

0:41:31.749,0:41:43.470
you come from the rain so you and the

0:41:37.869,0:41:47.559
leaf you have a great deal in common and

0:41:43.470,0:41:51.160
if you look even more deeply you will

0:41:47.559,0:41:55.720
see that you in turn are because the

0:41:51.160,0:41:59.499
plant is also breathing and helping to

0:41:55.720,0:42:03.299
give more oxygen for you to breathe in

0:41:59.499,0:42:08.700
and you breathe out the carbon dioxide

0:42:03.299,0:42:14.680
for the plant so feeling our oneness

0:42:08.700,0:42:19.569
with the with the universe feeling our

0:42:14.680,0:42:23.859
oneness with nature it's something that

0:42:19.569,0:42:26.340
the human being can do because the human

0:42:23.859,0:42:33.660
being is just part of nature

0:42:26.340,0:42:38.820
it's not something different so touching

0:42:33.660,0:42:43.800
a leaf you also touch the non beginning

0:42:38.820,0:42:48.720
and the non ending you see that the leaf

0:42:43.800,0:42:52.560
does not really have a beginning the

0:42:48.720,0:42:57.900
plant comes from a seed and the seed

0:42:52.560,0:43:07.590
comes from the plant that that was there

0:42:57.900,0:43:13.320
before it and in the same way you have

0:43:07.590,0:43:20.480
no beginning and you have no end before

0:43:13.320,0:43:25.560
we said that when you cannot see someone

0:43:20.480,0:43:30.330
you cannot hear someone you think that

0:43:25.560,0:43:35.550
they do not exist when someone you love

0:43:30.330,0:43:40.710
dies you cannot see them you cannot hear

0:43:35.550,0:43:47.190
them in Vietnamese when someone dies

0:43:40.710,0:43:49.560
they say hiding behind the mountain but

0:43:47.190,0:43:53.490
hiding behind the mountain doesn't mean

0:43:49.560,0:43:58.550
to say that that person is not it's not

0:43:53.490,0:44:03.420
there it just means to say oh we can't

0:43:58.550,0:44:15.200
see you anymore we can't hear you

0:44:03.420,0:44:19.800
anymore and we can experience that for

0:44:15.200,0:44:27.210
ourself how to be in touch with someone

0:44:19.800,0:44:31.700
who has who has died because that person

0:44:27.210,0:44:35.390
is always there in our consciousness is

0:44:31.700,0:44:35.390
available to us

0:44:37.180,0:44:47.780
and it may take a long time to really be

0:44:44.930,0:44:53.630
in touch with your loved one who has

0:44:47.780,0:44:59.270
died it may take years three years or

0:44:53.630,0:45:04.700
four years so we do not need to be in a

0:44:59.270,0:45:06.890
hurry in order to end our grief we

0:45:04.700,0:45:11.720
should recognize that grief is something

0:45:06.890,0:45:19.190
natural but all the time when we feel

0:45:11.720,0:45:26.270
grief we are practicing to be able to go

0:45:19.190,0:45:33.260
beyond the idea of being and bonding to

0:45:26.270,0:45:39.320
go beyond the idea of the and and so to

0:45:33.260,0:45:44.090
be able to see that even when we thought

0:45:39.320,0:45:49.010
that person existed and was alive they

0:45:44.090,0:45:55.420
weren't really alive in the way that we

0:45:49.010,0:46:02.680
thought they were they were manifesting

0:45:55.420,0:46:10.820
to our consciousness manifesting to our

0:46:02.680,0:46:14.090
visual cortex to Audio cortex but they

0:46:10.820,0:46:18.080
were not real in the way that we thought

0:46:14.090,0:46:22.730
they were real and now when they have

0:46:18.080,0:46:33.490
died they are not going out of being

0:46:22.730,0:46:38.090
into internal nandi so that is our our

0:46:33.490,0:46:45.260
practice of looking deeply our practice

0:46:38.090,0:46:50.070
of inter interview when you touch the

0:46:45.260,0:46:54.360
leaf you look at the leaf deeply

0:46:50.070,0:46:59.690
you recognize that if your consciousness

0:46:54.360,0:47:03.960
was not if there was not consciousness

0:46:59.690,0:47:09.540
your eye consciousness your mind

0:47:03.960,0:47:15.660
consciousness then the leaf would not be

0:47:09.540,0:47:20.310
manifesting and at the same time you

0:47:15.660,0:47:24.750
recognize that the leaf has

0:47:20.310,0:47:30.480
consciousness that the consciousness is

0:47:24.750,0:47:33.720
in the leaf and not just in you and this

0:47:30.480,0:47:38.910
is also something that science is able

0:47:33.720,0:47:41.910
to demonstrate because someone who is

0:47:38.910,0:47:47.700
observing who thinks they are observing

0:47:41.910,0:47:52.580
a particle outside of them actually

0:47:47.700,0:47:57.440
changes the nature of the particle as

0:47:52.580,0:48:01.710
soon as you begin to observe a particle

0:47:57.440,0:48:04.440
the particle changes so the

0:48:01.710,0:48:10.680
consciousness is not just in you is also

0:48:04.440,0:48:17.870
in the particle this is also an aspect

0:48:10.680,0:48:22.320
of interbeing for us all to be able to

0:48:17.870,0:48:28.100
look deeply into and to be able to

0:48:22.320,0:48:31.080
overcome our our fear that we have

0:48:28.100,0:48:39.810
because we see that we are a separate

0:48:31.080,0:48:43.050
self in in the suture there is the

0:48:39.810,0:48:53.670
example of clapping clapping with your

0:48:43.050,0:48:57.570
hands and obviously you cannot clap with

0:48:53.670,0:49:08.220
one hand

0:48:57.570,0:49:19.320
you need to have two hands so there is

0:49:08.220,0:49:27.540
not a one hand that can tempt left there

0:49:19.320,0:49:33.720
is not an I who can clap we could say

0:49:27.540,0:49:41.700
that the two hands clap but when we look

0:49:33.720,0:49:45.570
deeply into our hands what do we see we

0:49:41.700,0:49:51.930
see another system we see the bones you

0:49:45.570,0:49:55.200
see the skin the flesh and if we go even

0:49:51.930,0:50:00.380
deeper and we look into the cells of all

0:49:55.200,0:50:05.210
these things we will see that there are

0:50:00.380,0:50:11.270
mitochondria in each of this cell and

0:50:05.210,0:50:17.610
those mitochondria they do not share our

0:50:11.270,0:50:23.280
DNA our genes they are not really our

0:50:17.610,0:50:30.600
self they come from bacteria a long time

0:50:23.280,0:50:36.440
ago so we will find out that there is no

0:50:30.600,0:50:36.440
separate cell that is that is clapping

0:50:44.119,0:50:53.999
similarly the Buddha said do you want to

0:50:48.359,0:50:59.210
overcome your fear of sickness old age

0:50:53.999,0:51:05.579
and death do you want to see the end of

0:50:59.210,0:51:14.190
sickness old age and death then ask the

0:51:05.579,0:51:22.819
question who is it who grows sick who is

0:51:14.190,0:51:29.749
it who grows old who is it who dies and

0:51:22.819,0:51:39.869
normally we say I grow sick I grow old I

0:51:29.749,0:51:46.589
die oh you and with that thought I grow

0:51:39.869,0:51:51.900
old I die we become afraid but if we

0:51:46.589,0:51:57.859
look deeply we will see there is no one

0:51:51.900,0:52:03.319
who grows old there is no one who dies

0:51:57.859,0:52:09.469
there is growing old there is sickness

0:52:03.319,0:52:13.739
there is death but there is no one who

0:52:09.469,0:52:15.869
grows old who is he yeah and that is

0:52:13.739,0:52:19.680
what I like to practice when I am NOT

0:52:15.869,0:52:22.859
well I asked myself who is it who is

0:52:19.680,0:52:26.819
sick and I see there is no one who is

0:52:22.859,0:52:34.769
see there is sickness but there is no

0:52:26.819,0:52:39.289
one who is sick times often told us when

0:52:34.769,0:52:43.950
I was a novice in the do heal temple

0:52:39.289,0:52:46.109
practicing under his teacher the master

0:52:43.950,0:52:48.589
whose first name is Tong Lu second name

0:52:46.109,0:52:48.589
is green

0:52:49.630,0:53:03.530
one day they were in the garden hoeing

0:52:56.180,0:53:11.960
the earth to plant the taters and ties

0:53:03.530,0:53:14.570
Master was already advanced in age but

0:53:11.960,0:53:27.290
he still insisted on helping in the

0:53:14.570,0:53:34.310
garden and he he was tired and he put

0:53:27.290,0:53:40.010
the hole aside and said that soon I will

0:53:34.310,0:53:43.760
not be tired anymore and then after a

0:53:40.010,0:53:48.650
moment of reflection he looked at Ty and

0:53:43.760,0:53:59.000
he said but who is it who will not be

0:53:48.650,0:54:04.250
tired anymore we have the idea I am here

0:53:59.000,0:54:09.250
now I'm tired and I'm not going to live

0:54:04.250,0:54:14.390
much longer and when I'm not alive I

0:54:09.250,0:54:19.310
will not be tired and all these ideas

0:54:14.390,0:54:23.750
they come from the idea of a separate

0:54:19.310,0:54:29.660
self but when you look at deeply at that

0:54:23.750,0:54:33.200
separate self you can't find it and it's

0:54:29.660,0:54:33.980
changing at every moment from one second

0:54:33.200,0:54:39.230
to the next

0:54:33.980,0:54:42.890
it's not the same so even though I was

0:54:39.230,0:54:46.340
only a novice he received the

0:54:42.890,0:54:50.560
transmission of that teaching it went

0:54:46.340,0:54:50.560
very deep in the life

0:55:08.220,0:55:11.460
[Music]

0:55:16.589,0:55:45.150
I have seen people die and I have seen

0:55:41.039,0:55:53.309
that the moment of death can be a moment

0:55:45.150,0:55:59.269
of deep peace and sometimes before that

0:55:53.309,0:55:59.269
moment comes there is quite a struggle

0:56:01.130,0:56:09.539
it's difficult sometimes for the body to

0:56:05.969,0:56:13.319
give up but maybe it's even more

0:56:09.539,0:56:21.089
difficult for for for the mind from

0:56:13.319,0:56:29.219
Manas to give up but with the practice

0:56:21.089,0:56:33.809
of breathing the practice of recognizing

0:56:29.219,0:56:41.779
there is death but there is no one who

0:56:33.809,0:56:48.479
who dies is possible - to let go and

0:56:41.779,0:56:52.170
even if someone has not practiced those

0:56:48.479,0:56:58.319
who are with the dying person can

0:56:52.170,0:57:08.219
practice for them so that is another

0:56:58.319,0:57:13.559
wonderful aspect of into being that the

0:57:08.219,0:57:22.229
way our state of mind is is able to

0:57:13.559,0:57:26.279
influence those who we are with that is

0:57:22.229,0:57:30.000
why we need the Sangha and you really

0:57:26.279,0:57:34.830
need your online Sangha

0:57:30.000,0:57:39.510
this time you do not have to be with

0:57:34.830,0:57:50.369
somebody in the same room in order to be

0:57:39.510,0:57:55.800
able to connect with that person I think

0:57:50.369,0:58:01.080
that now we can we can sit still we can

0:57:55.800,0:58:08.940
enjoy our breathing and if we light we

0:58:01.080,0:58:16.740
can close our eyes we can feel how we

0:58:08.940,0:58:20.130
are connected with our large Sangha we

0:58:16.740,0:58:24.660
can feel how we are connected to the

0:58:20.130,0:58:31.320
monks and nuns in plum village as we

0:58:24.660,0:58:38.940
breathe in and out we can feel the

0:58:31.320,0:58:44.730
energy of those who are practicing with

0:58:38.940,0:58:51.990
us at this moment and we can use that

0:58:44.730,0:58:59.580
energy in order to be able to send it to

0:58:51.990,0:59:04.640
our loved ones who need it we can say to

0:58:59.580,0:59:11.660
our loved ones who need our energy I'm

0:59:04.640,0:59:15.180
sending the Sangha energy to you I'm

0:59:11.660,0:59:17.450
sending the energy of plum village to

0:59:15.180,0:59:17.450
you

0:59:25.860,0:59:34.310
and when we hear the sound of the Bell

0:59:29.180,0:59:38.750
all together we will be feeling our

0:59:34.310,0:59:47.280
interconnectedness and sending our love

0:59:38.750,0:59:51.500
our peace and our smile to support you

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in sending your image

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energy moving across the continent to

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those who need it

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dear Sangha one of the attributes of the

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human mind is called grasping tomahto we

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have two arms two two hands to grasp

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things but there are certain things that

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we cannot grasp cannot grasp the the

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spring breeze and with our mind it's not

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only with our hands that we try and

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grasp things we also try and grasp them

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with our with our mind and a grasping

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like that it causes us to suffer

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especially when we find that we cannot

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grasp what we wanted to grasp you know

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that plum village is in a wine growing

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area so we have many vineyards around

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and most of them they are not organic

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vineyards where I am staying we have

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been yard on two sides and other fields

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on other side and at this time of year

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the farmers come on their big large

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tractors and spray a lot of toxins

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insecticide fungicide

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outside herbicide and the air is not

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good after they've in spray and I find

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that I grasp to this situation I grasped

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to it as something that has to end as

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soon as possible

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but obviously that is not going to

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happen if I look deeply I will see that

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it's going to take time for the human

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species not wanting to drink wine

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anymore

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and for the farmers not wanting to make

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their money in that way

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so this is what I know is that I can

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take care of Mother Earth with every

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step and with every breath and I can

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accept the human species as not being

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perfect in accepting that the human

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species is not perfect I also accept

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that I am not perfect but I'm very lucky

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that I have the mindfulness trainings

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you have the five mindfulness trainings

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so you can be the kind of human being

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that can take care of the earth

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I learned the verse when I was just

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beginning to be interested in Buddhism

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nothing whatsoever to remove from this

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not a single thing there on to add

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nothing to take away no increase no

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degree not a single thing to add

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properly beholding properly looking at

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the true nature when truly seen complete

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liberation

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from this no single thing there are

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property holding true nature

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when truly seen completely nothing to

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remove from this no single thing they're

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holding true nature

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when truly seemed completely variation

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and this is what we mean when we talk

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about the ultimate dimension in the

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historical dimension the human species

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goes up and goes down begins and ends

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and that is something we have to accept

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that is the impermanence but in the

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ultimate dimension nothing is lost but

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nothing is added every compassionate

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thought every smile and does not stay

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with you

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becomes part of a wonderful energy which

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cannot be lost every day with our

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practice of mindfulness our practice of

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mindful walking of mindful breathing we

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are able to touch the ultimate dimension

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and touching the ultimate dimension we

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can be ourselves we can be the best kind

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of human being

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in order to touch the ultimate dimension

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we practice to be aware of interbeing

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we practice mindfulness

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once you are no longer in confinement

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you will really have an opportunity to

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enjoy Mother Earth as you never enjoyed

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her before but maybe while you are still

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in confinement you don't need to go up

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onto the high mountain you can enjoy

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Mother Earth right away because she is

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there in the food you eat in the sky and

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the clouds outside of your window she is

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there under your feet whether the floor

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is made of wood or made of Earth it's

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still mad at her every step that we make

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can be a peaceful step when you go from

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your kitchen to the your bedroom from

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your bedroom to the bathroom every step

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can bring peace to yourself bring peace

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to your loved ones and bring peace to

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the world

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not a he even a walking on the walking

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on the earth and that doesn't media only

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there

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it also means walking from your bedroom

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to the bathroom walking on the earth is

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to realize a miracle every

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awaitin every awaitin step manifests the

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madonna tire the ultimate dimension we

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have another song which before we end I

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will sing to you suddenly

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I'm aware of every step I take through I

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follow the little

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piglets Oh child suddenly I'm aware of

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every step I take and this is our don't

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drama I'm aware I yeah I'm very careful

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and very heedful of every step and it

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happened suddenly suddenly I'm

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completely there in the present moment

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because I have done my best to follow my

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breathing to follow my steps I now find

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myself in the present moment well

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there's nothing to add on nothing to

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take away and liberation from sorrow and

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suffering

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[Music]

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[Music]

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you