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# May the day be well
and the night be well.

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# May the midday hour
bring happiness, too.

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# In every minute and every second,

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# may the day and night be well.

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# By the blessing of the Triple Gem,

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# may all things be protected and safe.

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# May all beings born
in each of the four ways

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# live in a land of purity.

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# May all in the Three Realms
be born upon Lotus Thrones.

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# May countless wandering souls

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# realize the three virtuous positions
of the Bodhisattva Path.

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# May all living beings,
with grace and ease,

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# fulfill the Bodhisattva Stages.

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# The countenance
of the World-Honored One,

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# like the full moon,
or like the orb of the sun,

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# shines with the light of clarity.

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# A halo of wisdom
spreads in every direction,

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enveloping all with love and compassion,
joy and equanimity.

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# Namo Shakyamunaye Buddhaya,

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# Namo Shakyamunaye Buddhaya,

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# Namo Shakyamunaye Buddhaya. #

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(Bell)

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#From the depths of understanding,

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# a flower of great eloquence blooms:

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# The Bodhisattva stands majestically

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# upon the waves of birth and death,
free from all afflictions.

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# Her great compassion
eliminates all sickness,

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# even that once thought of as incurable.

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# Her wondrous light sweeps away
all obstacles and dangers.

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# Her willow branch, once waved,
reveals countless Buddha Lands.

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# Her lotus flower blossoms
a multitude of practice centers.

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# We bow to her.

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# We see her true presence
in the here and the now.

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# We offer her
the incense of our hearts.

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# May the Bodhisattva of Deep Listening
embrace us all with Great Compassion.

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# Namo 'valokiteshvaraya,

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# Namo 'valokiteshvaraya,

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# Namo 'valokiteshvaraya. #

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(Bell)

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Good morning, dear friends.

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I hope everyone can hear clearly enough.

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I began the practice of mindfulness
at the age of 16.

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I was ordained as a novice monk
at the age of 16.

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And the first book, 
text of mindfulness,

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contains a number of verses.

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Each verse has 4 lines.

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And each line has 5 words.

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It was written in classical Chinese.

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When I woke up in the morning,

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I was supposed to read
the first line of a verse

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and then breathe.

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When I breathed in,

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I read the first line

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silently, inside.

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When I breathed out,

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I read the second line.

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Then, one in-breath for the third line

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and one in-breath for the fourth line.

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That is a verse that helps me
to be mindful when I wake up.

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The first gatha, the fist verse,
goes like this:

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"Waking up in the morning, I smile".

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The first thing you do in the morning
is to smile.

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"Waking up in the morning, I smile."

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You breathe in and you smile.

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Then, when you breathe out
you read the second line:

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"I have 24 brand new hours to live."

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That is a gift of life.

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24 brand new hours to live!

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That is a lot.

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Then, when I breathe in again
I read the third line:

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"I vow to live these 24 hours deeply."

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Each hour deeply,
I will not waste them.

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I don't allow anger, fear and jealousy

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to prevent me from living deeply
these 24 hours given to me.

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And the last line is:

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"I make the vow to learn
to look at the people around me

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with the eyes of compassion."

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That is the first verse.

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A novice has to memorize
all these verses

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in order to practice mindfulness.

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"Waking up in the morning, I smile.

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I have 24 brand new hours to live.

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I vow to live them deeply

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and learn to look at the people around me
with the eyes of compassion."

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There is no thinking,
just breathing

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and remembering to live in such a way

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that you will not waste your life.

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When you brush your teeth,

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there is one verse for you
to brush your teeth.

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So while you are brushing your teeth
you can be happy,

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you can be mindful.

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You appreciate the water,

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you appreciate the time that you have
in order to brush your teeth.

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When you put on your robe,

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there is one verse for you to practice.

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When you sit down,

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there is a verse for you to sit down.

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A novice, before he sits down,
he breathes and reads a verse.

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You don't hear anything,

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but a novice is supposed to practice

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mindfulness of breathing
while sitting down.

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It goes like this:

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"Sitting down here is like
sitting at the foot of the Bodhi tree

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and wake up like a Buddha."

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I am sitting down
and allow myself to be free,

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not to be bound by afflictions
like anger and fear.

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I sit down as a free person.

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So there are about 50 verses like that
for a novice to learn by heart

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so that he or she can practice
mindfulness throughout the day

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and enjoy every moment of his daily life.

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We have translated these verses
into English, French and so on.

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You may like to use them

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in order to practice
mindfulness of breathing

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so that you improve the quality
of your daily life.

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We have invented new verses,

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like "Riding a Bicycle",

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because the text is very ancient,

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there is no verse
for riding a bicycle.

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(Laughter)

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So I invented a verse to ride a bicycle.

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It may be interesting for you to know

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that I am one of the first Buddhists monks
in Vietnam to ride on a bicycle.

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(Laughter)

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That is very modern.

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(Laughter)

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Now people drive a car,

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use scooters,

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but at that time,
for a monk to ride on a bicycle

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was something very new.

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Now, we have also a verse

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for you to use when you are about
to make a phone call,

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called "telephone meditation".

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(Laughter)

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You are holding the phone,

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and you want to call him or her.

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So you breathe in with one line,

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and breathe out with the second line,

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and breathe in with the third line

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and breathe out with the fourth line.

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And you are calm after that.

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The quality of the talk will be better.

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"Words can travel thousands of kilometers,

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they can build more
understanding and love.

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I vow that what I am going to say

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will promote
mutual understanding and love.

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Every word I say will be beautiful
like flowers or embroideries."

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So before you compose the number,

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you hold the telephone

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and you enjoy breathing in and out
two times reading that.

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And you are fresh enough
to make the telephone call.

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And when you hear the sound
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you know that the other person
is not answering you right away,

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because she is practicing breathing also.

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(Laughter)

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Yes, in Plum Village,
when you hear the telephone

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you are not supposed to answer right away.

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The sound of the telephone
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a bell of mindfulness.

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Because if you don't practice,

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the sound of the telephone
may disturb you a little bit.

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Who is calling?
Good news or bad news?

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But if you are a practitioner
of the telephone meditation,

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then, you stay where you are

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you listen to the sound of the telephone

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and you breathe in and out,
you calm yourself.

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So next time,
when you call to Plum Village,

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if you don't get an answer right away...

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(Laughter)

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you know that
they are breathing in and out!

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(Laughter)

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If you know that
they are breathing in and out,

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you tell yourself:

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"They are breathing in and out.
Why not me?"

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(Laughter)

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So you don't wait.

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You just enjoy
breathing in and out again

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until the other person
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That is called telephone meditation.

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There is a lay Dharma teacher
in India, Shantum.

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His mother was
the president of the Supreme Court.

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When we visited her,
we talked about telephone meditation.

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She found it very helpful.

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So she uses the practice
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Imagine, in the city of Barcelona,

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everyone practicing
telephone meditation.

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There will be
much more peace, happiness,

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mutual understanding and love,

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because we have the time
to refresh ourselves,

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to improve the quality of our talking.

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By talking you can promote
more understanding, love and so on.

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In the Plum Village's Chanting Book

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you can find a few dozens
of verses like that.

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If you want, you can memorize them

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and enjoy practicing them
in your daily life.

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"Sitting Down", "Beginning to Walk".

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There is one for you
to wash your dishes.

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Because it may be pleasant
to do the dishes.

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You can enjoy washing the dishes,

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breathing and using a gatha.

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Everything done in mindfulness
can bring you joy and happiness.

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Including starting a car.

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There is one for you to start your car.

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Of course, when an unpleasant feeling
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you have a gatha in order to practice

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to take care of the painful feeling
that is going up.

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These verses are very helpful
for the life of a practitioner.

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The practice of mindfulness
can be very concrete.

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There are five areas
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The first is to protect life.

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Protecting life.

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Because life is so precious!

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You have to protect your own life.

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Protect yourself.

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Protect the life
of the people you love.

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And protect the lives
of other living beings,

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including animals, plants and minerals.

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And to protect the planet Earth.

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That is the first mindfulness training.

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Reverence for life,
protecting life.

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(1. Protecting LIFE)

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There are many young people

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who kill themselves every day.

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Because they do not know
how to handle a strong emotion.

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The practice of mindfulness
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not to destroy themselves like that.

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I think that
if schoolteachers and parents

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know the practice,

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they can transmit it
to the young people.

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In countries like Japan,

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every year, about 30.000
people commit suicide.

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30.000!
That is a lot.

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In Hong Kong,
in the UK, in America,

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everywhere, young people
are killing themselves

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because they don't know
how to handle a strong emotion.

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The practice of mindful breathing,
mindful walking,

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can help us
to handle a strong emotion.

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We should know how to do it

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and tell the young people
how to do it.

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We would save their life.

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When a strong emotion is coming,

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we know it is coming.

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We are aware that it is coming.

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So we stop doing things

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and we stop thinking.

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Because if we continue to think,
the emotion becomes stronger.

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We go back to the practice
of mindful breathing right away.

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Whether you are in a sitting position
or you are in a lying position,

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you practice mindful deep breathing.

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Bring your mind down

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to the level of the stomach.

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Focus your attention on the rising
and falling of the stomach.

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Breathing in, I know it is rising.

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Breathing out, I know it is falling.

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If you are in a lying position,

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you may like to put
your hand on your stomach

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and breathing in you feel
that your stomach is rising,

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breathing out you feel
that your stomach is falling.

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Try to breathe as deeply as possible

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and focus your attention only
on the rising and falling of the stomach.

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You maintain this insight:

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that a strong emotion

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is something that comes,

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stays for a while and goes.

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It is impermanent.

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You are much more than an emotion.

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An emotion is just a tiny thing.

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But you are much more
than an emotion.

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You are made of body,
feelings, perceptions,

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mental formations, consciousness.

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The territory of your being is large,

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and an emotion is just
a little bit of you.

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Why do you have to die
because of one emotion?

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An emotion is like a storm.

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If you know how to handle a storm,
you survive very well.

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That kind of insight
should be maintained alive

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during the time you handle the emotion.

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(Bell)

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(Bell)

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The practice is easy enough:

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stop the thinking,

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bring your attention down
to the level of the navel,

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practice breathing in and out

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and become aware of the rising
and falling of your abdomen.

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Maintain that insight alive:

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an emotion is just an emotion.

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I don't have to die
just because of one emotion.

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It comes and it will go away.

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If you focus your attention
only on the in-breath and out-breath,

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the rising and falling of the abdomen,

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you are safe.

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Mindfulness is protecting you.

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There is no thinking.

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There is only
the breathing and the calming.

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5 minutes later, or 8,
it will go away

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and you will survive the emotion.

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Next time,
when the emotion comes,

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you are no longer afraid.

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"I know how to handle it.
I'm not afraid."

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But we should not wait
until a strong emotion comes

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in order to begin the practice,

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because, naturally,
we will forget to practice.

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And you allow yourself
to be carried away by the strong emotion.

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We have to practice
mindful breathing every day.

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The practice of deep breathing,

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belly breathing, abdomen breathing,

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a few minutes a day.

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In a few weeks it will become a habit,

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and when a strong emotion,
a painful feeling comes,

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we will remember to practice.

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We will be able
to survive the emotion very well.

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Your little boy, your little girl,
may get into a crisis

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with a strong emotion.

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You may like
to hold his hand and say:

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"Darling, breathe in with mummy.

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Don't you see that when we breathe in,
our stomach is rising?

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And when we breathe out
our stomach is falling?"

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So you do
a guided meditation for the child.

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As you have the energy of mindfulness,

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you transmit it
to the little boy, to the little girl.

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You train your little boy or little girl
to breathe in and out

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and to take care of the strong emotion.

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This is possible.

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Later on,

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the boy, the girl,
can do it by himself.

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As schoolteachers,

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we may like to do that
for our students who are in trouble,

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who have been carried away
by a strong emotion.

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We can also ask other children,
other students, to help.

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Suppose in the class
there is a boy who is in crisis.

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It does not seem
that we can calm him down.

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So we ask the whole class
to practice to support the boy.

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You can prepare so that
you and your students

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can practice mindful breathing,

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generating that collective
energy of mindfulness and peace

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and help the boy that is in crisis.

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He is aware of the love, the compassion
of the whole group, the whole class,

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and he will suffer less.

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So parents and teachers
should master the practice

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and transmit the practice
of deep abdomen breathing

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to the young people.
It is very important.

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That is something
that should be taught in school.

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The second realm of the practice

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is the realm of true happiness.

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Practicing True Happiness.

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I think a discussion on true happiness
should be taken up

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as a topic.

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Because so many people believe

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that happiness is made
of fame, power, money

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and sensual pleasures.

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We know that there are many people
who have plenty of these things

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and they suffer very deeply.

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Many of them
commit suicide also.

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So we should try
to help the young people

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to see that true happiness
is made of understanding and love.

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In fact, love is born
from understanding.

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If you do not understand someone,
you cannot love him or her,

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or make him or her happy.

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So it may be helpful
to ask the other person:

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"Darling, do you think
that I understand you?

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Do you think that
I have understood you enough?

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If not, please, help me."

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We know that understanding ourselves

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will help to understand
the other person.

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We need to understand our own suffering,

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our own difficulties,

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before we can understand

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the suffering and difficulties
of the other person.

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When you feel understood,
you feel loved.

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So what you can offer
to the person you love

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is understanding.

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Understanding is something
that can grow every day.

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In true love, understanding
is growing every day.

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You have to feed your love
with understanding.

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You have try to understand
the other person.

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Specially the difficulties,
the suffering in him or in her.

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And if needed, you can
ask that person to help.

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A father may be motivated
by making his son happy,

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but if the father does not understand

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00:41:26,359 --> 00:41:29,449
the suffering
and the difficulties of the son,

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the more he tries,

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00:41:32,030 --> 00:41:34,955
the more he makes his son suffer.

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Because understanding
is very important.

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That is why the father
should ask the son:

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"My son, do you think
I understand your problems,

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I understand your difficulties?"

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And the son,
in order to be able to love his father,

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should do the same:

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"Father, do you think
that I understand you,

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your suffering, your difficulties?

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00:42:03,543 --> 00:42:05,536
Please, tell me."

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00:42:05,799 --> 00:42:08,631
So understanding is a practice.

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00:42:10,589 --> 00:42:16,003
Last night we have talked

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00:42:16,223 --> 00:42:20,556
about the practice of deep listening
and loving speech

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00:42:21,231 --> 00:42:26,793
that can help us
to understand the suffering

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00:42:27,264 --> 00:42:30,332
and to restore communication.

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00:42:31,832 --> 00:42:35,103
So to love means to understand.

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00:42:37,362 --> 00:42:40,772
Understanding
is the other word for love.

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00:42:40,949 --> 00:42:46,838
If you don't understand someone

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00:42:47,287 --> 00:42:50,272
you cannot love him or her.

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00:42:50,686 --> 00:42:53,419
Cultivating understanding

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00:42:54,568 --> 00:42:58,297
and creating love and compassion,

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that is the true element of happiness.

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00:43:03,775 --> 00:43:09,101
A person without understanding and love
cannot be a happy person.

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00:43:10,406 --> 00:43:13,023
With plenty of understanding and love,

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00:43:13,288 --> 00:43:16,363
even if you don't have
a lot of money, fame, profit,

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you are a happy person anyway.

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00:43:20,196 --> 00:43:22,086
That is why

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00:43:22,613 --> 00:43:27,037
mindfulness is a kind of practice
that can help us to understand

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what is true happiness.

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00:43:30,632 --> 00:43:34,749
True happiness is not made
with the objects of craving,

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00:43:34,993 --> 00:43:37,096
like fame,

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00:43:39,097 --> 00:43:42,903
power, wealth and sensual pleasures,

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00:43:43,129 --> 00:43:46,211
but with understanding
and compassion.

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00:43:48,625 --> 00:43:51,274
The Kingdom of God is a place

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00:43:51,452 --> 00:43:54,774
where there is
a lot of understanding and love.

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00:43:55,302 --> 00:44:01,122
We can contribute into generating
more understanding and love

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00:44:01,507 --> 00:44:07,965
and make the place
a real Kingdom for all of us.

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00:44:17,398 --> 00:44:22,376
The third area of practice of mindfulness

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00:44:22,596 --> 00:44:25,659
is the practice of True Love.

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(3. Practicing True Love)

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00:44:37,885 --> 00:44:39,838
We learn

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00:44:42,190 --> 00:44:46,148
that sexual desire is not true love.

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00:44:50,247 --> 00:44:54,248
People mix up the two,
love and sexual desire.

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00:44:55,427 --> 00:44:59,235
Sexual desires very often destroy love,

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00:45:00,325 --> 00:45:02,956
and create a lot of suffering.

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00:45:04,852 --> 00:45:10,864
Most young people
don't know what is true love.

436
00:45:14,948 --> 00:45:18,827
As schoolteachers, as parents,
we have to help them.

437
00:45:37,103 --> 00:45:39,631
Girls and boys in high school,

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00:45:40,234 --> 00:45:42,293
they suffer a lot.

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00:45:42,501 --> 00:45:45,111
Because they do not know
what is true love.

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00:45:48,998 --> 00:45:52,859
They are losing the most precious thing
within themselves.

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00:45:53,068 --> 00:45:56,632
They continue to suffer
for all their lives,

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00:45:56,862 --> 00:46:00,498
because they do not know
exactly what is true love.

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00:46:23,463 --> 00:46:27,695
A boy asked his girlfriend

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00:46:27,989 --> 00:46:34,468
to send him a picture of her nude.

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00:46:41,491 --> 00:46:44,516
And the girl did not want to do it.

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00:46:54,693 --> 00:46:56,558
But she was afraid

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00:46:56,856 --> 00:47:01,922
that the boy would abandon her.

448
00:47:05,293 --> 00:47:10,665
So she had to send him her picture,

449
00:47:11,925 --> 00:47:15,864
taken with her own telephone.

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00:47:17,213 --> 00:47:21,187
And the boy
showed that picture to his friends.

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00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,158
Small things like that
happen everywhere

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00:47:27,318 --> 00:47:31,791
and make the young people
suffer very deeply.

453
00:47:32,235 --> 00:47:36,162
That is what is going on
with the younger generation.

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00:47:36,533 --> 00:47:39,432
They don't know exactly
what is true love.

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00:47:45,096 --> 00:47:46,491
That is why

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00:47:46,732 --> 00:47:50,500
teaching True Love to the young people
is very important.

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00:47:53,985 --> 00:47:57,519
Tell them that sexual desire is not love.

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00:47:57,956 --> 00:48:01,223
Tell them that true love
is made of compassion,

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00:48:01,667 --> 00:48:05,897
loving kindness, joy
and non discrimination.

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00:48:14,958 --> 00:48:20,566
Maitri is the Sanskrit word
for loving kindness.

461
00:48:21,226 --> 00:48:24,226
(maitri: loving kindness)

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00:48:27,323 --> 00:48:30,494
It is very much like friendship.

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00:48:35,353 --> 00:48:38,772
Maitri is the first element of true love.

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00:48:41,097 --> 00:48:45,239
That is friendship,
brotherhood, sisterhood.

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00:48:46,269 --> 00:48:50,768
It has the power
to offer happiness.

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00:48:56,397 --> 00:49:00,356
You can generate joy and happiness,

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00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,274
you can help generate

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00:49:04,462 --> 00:49:07,991
a feeling of joy and happiness
in him or in her.

469
00:49:08,244 --> 00:49:10,303
That is maitri.

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00:49:11,158 --> 00:49:14,104
True love should offer happiness.

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00:49:19,451 --> 00:49:22,176
Not the intention to offer happiness.

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00:49:22,550 --> 00:49:26,091
Because you may have a lot of intention
to make someone happy,

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00:49:26,410 --> 00:49:30,246
but the way you do it
makes him or her suffer.

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00:49:30,363 --> 00:49:36,593
So it is not the intention to love,
but the capacity to make someone happy.

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00:49:41,795 --> 00:49:45,807
If you practice
mindful breathing, mindful walking,

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00:49:46,359 --> 00:49:51,024
and restore your freshness,

477
00:49:52,207 --> 00:49:54,901
your beauty, your calm,

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00:49:57,836 --> 00:50:02,487
you can offer
these elements to him, to her.

479
00:50:02,663 --> 00:50:04,755
That is maitri.

480
00:50:05,866 --> 00:50:07,859
You are so pleasant,

481
00:50:08,090 --> 00:50:10,026
you are so fresh,

482
00:50:10,529 --> 00:50:12,718
so pleasant to be with,

483
00:50:14,883 --> 00:50:18,706
you can generate
joy, happiness and peace

484
00:50:18,906 --> 00:50:23,628
and you can help him or her
to generate joy, happiness and peace.

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00:50:23,868 --> 00:50:25,500
That is maitri.

486
00:50:25,671 --> 00:50:28,096
That is true love.

487
00:50:29,067 --> 00:50:31,000
And that is a practice,

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00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:34,533
that is possible as a practice.

489
00:50:35,193 --> 00:50:37,866
The young people can do it.

490
00:50:48,152 --> 00:50:55,503
The second element
of true love is karuna,

491
00:50:58,507 --> 00:51:01,093
which is compassion.

492
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,120
(karuna: compassion)

493
00:51:09,832 --> 00:51:16,733
Karuna is the capacity
to help someone to suffer less,

494
00:51:19,364 --> 00:51:22,461
to remove the suffering in him or her,

495
00:51:24,501 --> 00:51:27,901
to transform the suffering
in him or in her.

496
00:51:29,626 --> 00:51:34,823
We know that the practice
of compassionate listening

497
00:51:36,364 --> 00:51:39,424
can make a person suffer less.

498
00:51:47,634 --> 00:51:51,270
You understand
the suffering in him or in her,

499
00:51:52,903 --> 00:51:57,094
you help him or her
to empty his heart

500
00:51:58,870 --> 00:52:01,334
and suffer less.

501
00:52:01,974 --> 00:52:06,886
If you know how to help
a person to suffer less,

502
00:52:07,090 --> 00:52:12,261
you have the element
of karuna in your love.

503
00:52:14,328 --> 00:52:17,191
True love should have karuna.

504
00:52:17,361 --> 00:52:22,856
The capacity to help someone
to suffer less.

505
00:52:36,821 --> 00:52:41,266
With the energy of mindfulness
and compassion in you,

506
00:52:41,862 --> 00:52:44,551
you can do a lot of things.

507
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,301
You can help a person to suffer less

508
00:52:48,502 --> 00:52:51,264
just by sitting close to him or her,

509
00:52:51,514 --> 00:52:56,029
or just saying something
full of compassion and understanding.

510
00:52:59,465 --> 00:53:06,394
Just show her the way
to restore joy and happiness.

511
00:53:06,624 --> 00:53:08,620
We can do many things

512
00:53:08,767 --> 00:53:11,867
in order to help a person
to suffer less.

513
00:53:17,026 --> 00:53:19,798
The third element is mudita,

514
00:53:25,677 --> 00:53:28,106
which is joy.

515
00:53:30,203 --> 00:53:32,903
(mudita: joy)

516
00:53:33,733 --> 00:53:38,726
If when loving someone
you make him or her suffer

517
00:53:38,928 --> 00:53:40,860
and cry every day,

518
00:53:41,062 --> 00:53:42,999
that is not true love.

519
00:53:43,168 --> 00:53:45,897
True love should offer joy.

520
00:53:46,353 --> 00:53:49,530
Joy is a mark of true love.

521
00:53:51,435 --> 00:53:53,899
True love should generate joy,

522
00:53:54,170 --> 00:53:56,870
for yourself and for him, for her.

523
00:53:56,899 --> 00:53:59,532
If you make him or her cry and suffer,

524
00:53:59,694 --> 00:54:01,499
that is not true love.

525
00:54:03,401 --> 00:54:06,692
The joy is of both of you.

526
00:54:11,330 --> 00:54:15,792
The fourth element
of true love is upeksa.

527
00:54:16,020 --> 00:54:21,832
Upeksa is
non discrimination, inclusiveness.

528
00:54:32,300 --> 00:54:34,893
Equanimity.

529
00:54:38,361 --> 00:54:41,361
(upeksa: equanimity)

530
00:54:44,167 --> 00:54:47,422
In true love,
there is no longer any frontier

531
00:54:47,628 --> 00:54:52,103
between you and her, and him.

532
00:54:55,894 --> 00:54:58,331
Your suffering is his suffering.

533
00:54:59,233 --> 00:55:02,232
Her happiness is your happiness.

534
00:55:03,195 --> 00:55:05,767
You cannot say:
"Darling, that is your problem."

535
00:55:06,018 --> 00:55:07,718
No.

536
00:55:07,930 --> 00:55:10,495
Your problem is my problem, darling.

537
00:55:11,066 --> 00:55:14,155
In true love
there is no longer discrimination

538
00:55:14,362 --> 00:55:18,267
between the lover and the beloved one.

539
00:55:21,539 --> 00:55:25,239
Your happiness is her happiness.

540
00:55:26,130 --> 00:55:29,281
Your suffering is his suffering.

541
00:55:31,425 --> 00:55:35,713
No discrimination.
You include everyone.

542
00:55:36,762 --> 00:55:39,472
You include each other.

543
00:55:40,343 --> 00:55:43,062
If it is true love,

544
00:55:44,394 --> 00:55:47,594
it continues to grow every day.

545
00:55:49,119 --> 00:55:52,312
The moment when love stops growing,

546
00:55:52,468 --> 00:55:54,658
it begins to die.

547
00:55:57,626 --> 00:56:01,333
We have witnessed
the death of love several times.

548
00:56:01,556 --> 00:56:04,405
Love turning into hate and anger

549
00:56:05,006 --> 00:56:09,139
because you don't know
how to feed your love.

550
00:56:11,494 --> 00:56:14,860
The Buddha said that
nothing can survive without food.

551
00:56:18,124 --> 00:56:20,533
Our depression also.

552
00:56:21,104 --> 00:56:23,426
If our depression continues,

553
00:56:23,626 --> 00:56:27,036
it is because we keep
feeding our depression.

554
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:36,593
If we know how to
stop feeding our depression,

555
00:56:36,793 --> 00:56:39,079
our depression will have to die,

556
00:56:39,392 --> 00:56:41,630
it will go away.

557
00:56:42,533 --> 00:56:44,537
The same thing is true with our love.

558
00:56:44,909 --> 00:56:48,176
If we do not know
how to feed our love daily,

559
00:56:48,806 --> 00:56:50,964
it will stop growing,

560
00:56:51,131 --> 00:56:53,626
it will die, slowly.

561
00:56:54,935 --> 00:56:57,068
That is why

562
00:57:02,759 --> 00:57:07,585
to practice in order to help our love
to grow every day

563
00:57:10,998 --> 00:57:15,487
is to guarantee happiness,
continued happiness.

564
00:57:21,359 --> 00:57:25,329
With the practice
of upeksa, inclusiveness,

565
00:57:26,092 --> 00:57:29,664
your love continues to grow every day.

566
00:57:29,833 --> 00:57:31,920
It begins with two persons,

567
00:57:32,644 --> 00:57:35,233
but as you are happy 
in that true love,

568
00:57:35,438 --> 00:57:39,489
your love very soon
includes a third, a fourth person.

569
00:57:42,216 --> 00:57:44,794
You don't discriminate anymore.

570
00:57:46,063 --> 00:57:48,412
You don't love a person

571
00:57:48,613 --> 00:57:52,912
just because she comes
from the same country,

572
00:57:54,500 --> 00:57:59,031
because she follows
the same religious belief.

573
00:58:00,297 --> 00:58:04,757
There is no discrimination whatsoever
in true love.

574
00:58:05,530 --> 00:58:08,341
Everyone will be
included in your love.

575
00:58:08,564 --> 00:58:13,284
Your love continues to grow
and embraces everyone,

576
00:58:13,418 --> 00:58:15,627
not only humans,

577
00:58:15,813 --> 00:58:19,162
but also animals, plants and minerals.

578
00:58:19,461 --> 00:58:24,715
That is the love of a great being.

579
00:58:27,985 --> 00:58:35,038
Including everything,
that is upeksa.

580
00:58:39,571 --> 00:58:43,197
The practice of true love
has to be taught in school.

581
00:58:48,889 --> 00:58:54,269
Schoolteachers should embody true love.

582
00:59:27,433 --> 00:59:41,001
(4. Practicing Loving Speech
and Deep Listening)

583
00:59:43,196 --> 00:59:46,280
The fourth area of the practice

584
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:50,016
is the practice of loving speech

585
00:59:50,253 --> 00:59:54,358
and deep listening.

586
00:59:55,630 --> 00:59:59,326
This is the fourth mindfulness training.

587
01:00:00,085 --> 01:00:04,524
Yesterday we spoke a little
about that practice already.

588
01:00:08,233 --> 01:00:11,280
If we know how to use loving speech,

589
01:00:13,006 --> 01:00:17,729
if we can talk lovingly
and compassionately to another person,

590
01:00:18,423 --> 01:00:21,192
that person will open her heart

591
01:00:21,367 --> 01:00:25,736
and tell us about the suffering,
the difficulties that she has.

592
01:00:28,597 --> 01:00:31,671
If you know how to
listen with compassion,

593
01:00:33,984 --> 01:00:37,523
then you can restore communication

594
01:00:38,690 --> 01:00:41,627
and bring about reconciliation.

595
01:00:45,901 --> 01:00:48,862
In the case of schoolteachers,

596
01:00:49,095 --> 01:00:53,620
this practice should be done
with the people in the family first.

597
01:00:58,735 --> 01:01:03,449
When we have succeeded
with the members of our family,

598
01:01:03,862 --> 01:01:06,792
we can bring the practice to the school.

599
01:01:08,181 --> 01:01:12,330
If we have difficulties
with our colleagues,

600
01:01:13,625 --> 01:01:18,229
then we can
restore communication and reconcile.

601
01:01:20,303 --> 01:01:24,167
Finally, we can bring that
into our school.

602
01:01:28,647 --> 01:01:30,779
Without these practices,

603
01:01:30,994 --> 01:01:33,971
teachers can make students suffer

604
01:01:34,370 --> 01:01:37,941
and students can make
teachers suffer.

605
01:01:38,784 --> 01:01:43,439
There is a gap
between the two generations.

606
01:01:51,884 --> 01:01:53,600
We can imagine

607
01:01:54,784 --> 01:01:57,856
teachers and students sitting together,

608
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:02,278
talking to each other about
the suffering they have gone through.

609
01:02:05,765 --> 01:02:09,641
Teachers have to be able
to tell the students:

610
01:02:10,933 --> 01:02:13,241
"I know you have suffered.

611
01:02:13,475 --> 01:02:17,094
I know you may have
difficulties in your family."

612
01:02:18,098 --> 01:02:19,893
And so on.

613
01:02:20,140 --> 01:02:23,153
"If you don't make
much progress in your studies,

614
01:02:23,552 --> 01:02:27,113
it is due to these difficulties.

615
01:02:27,514 --> 01:02:30,308
So please, tell me, tell us."

616
01:02:32,046 --> 01:02:36,370
The whole class can sit
and listen with compassion.

617
01:02:37,507 --> 01:02:40,812
That will transform the students.

618
01:02:42,442 --> 01:02:46,707
Because other students
may have the same kind of suffering.

619
01:02:49,169 --> 01:02:50,946
It would be lovely

620
01:02:51,212 --> 01:02:53,244
if schoolteachers can sit down

621
01:02:53,410 --> 01:02:58,291
and listen to the suffering
of their own students.

622
01:03:00,224 --> 01:03:03,120
We should have the time to do it.

623
01:03:09,464 --> 01:03:14,092
Last week, in a retreat at Madrid,

624
01:03:14,957 --> 01:03:18,836
during a session
of questions and answers,

625
01:03:19,427 --> 01:03:24,894
a boy of 11 came up
and asked a question.

626
01:03:26,090 --> 01:03:31,944
He suffered, he begins to have
difficulties in sleeping.

627
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:36,506
He blamed everything on his mother.

628
01:03:43,464 --> 01:03:47,448
I believe that all mothers want
their sons and daughters to be happy.

629
01:03:47,856 --> 01:03:49,765
They have a plan,

630
01:03:49,958 --> 01:03:53,794
they have ideas as how their sons
and daughters can be happy.

631
01:03:54,010 --> 01:03:57,712
They just deliver that kind of message.

632
01:04:00,635 --> 01:04:02,361
The boy suffered,

633
01:04:02,453 --> 01:04:05,032
even when his mother
said goodnight.

634
01:04:05,213 --> 01:04:08,964
Why do you suffer
when your mother says goodnight?

635
01:04:09,155 --> 01:04:11,825
Because your mother
may mean by "Goodnight":

636
01:04:12,957 --> 01:04:15,804
"Don't stay up late,

637
01:04:15,999 --> 01:04:18,701
don't play electronic games!"

638
01:04:18,877 --> 01:04:22,438
There is a blaming
in that kind of things.

639
01:04:23,742 --> 01:04:28,190
The relationship between mother and son
has become difficult.

640
01:04:29,006 --> 01:04:30,633
So he came up,

641
01:04:30,803 --> 01:04:34,290
and in front of 600 people
he asked the question:

642
01:04:34,475 --> 01:04:36,037
"Dear Thay,

643
01:04:36,258 --> 01:04:39,851
I start having difficulties in sleeping.

644
01:04:40,128 --> 01:04:42,803
My mother is always like that,

645
01:04:43,667 --> 01:04:46,816
imposing things on me."

646
01:04:47,616 --> 01:04:49,458
And so on.

647
01:04:50,803 --> 01:04:54,571
The mother believes that
she is acting out of love.

648
01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:59,164
She is prescribing the right thing
for his son to do.

649
01:05:00,658 --> 01:05:03,191
Like a teacher.

650
01:05:08,348 --> 01:05:14,321
But the way she does it,

651
01:05:15,388 --> 01:05:17,843
did not work.

652
01:05:18,877 --> 01:05:24,903
Because she does not feel
well in herself.

653
01:05:26,643 --> 01:05:29,349
So I answered the boy:

654
01:05:30,425 --> 01:05:34,980
"You know that mothers have
their own difficulties and suffering.

655
01:05:37,065 --> 01:05:41,161
You believe that
you are the only one who suffers.

656
01:05:41,491 --> 01:05:43,321
But you don't know

657
01:05:43,508 --> 01:05:46,110
that your mother
has difficulties and suffering also.

658
01:05:46,284 --> 01:05:48,832
You have not had the time

659
01:05:49,068 --> 01:05:52,580
to think about the difficulties
and suffering of your mother.

660
01:05:52,755 --> 01:05:55,335
You have not helped
your mother to suffer less.

661
01:05:55,486 --> 01:05:57,781
In fact,
you have reacted in such a way

662
01:05:57,988 --> 01:06:01,130
that makes your mother suffer more.

663
01:06:02,499 --> 01:06:05,997
Please, think about her, her suffering,

664
01:06:06,182 --> 01:06:09,073
and not just your suffering.

665
01:06:10,836 --> 01:06:14,338
You should go and ask your mother

666
01:06:15,133 --> 01:06:19,321
what kind of suffering
she is undergoing,

667
01:06:19,717 --> 01:06:23,577
what kind of difficulties
she has in herself.

668
01:06:25,718 --> 01:06:27,455
Maybe she does not know

669
01:06:27,632 --> 01:06:29,687
how to handle the suffering in herself.

670
01:06:29,879 --> 01:06:31,386
That is why,

671
01:06:31,544 --> 01:06:34,021
the way she tells you
what to do and not to do

672
01:06:34,254 --> 01:06:36,510
makes you irritated."

673
01:06:36,671 --> 01:06:41,573
Why I was giving that answer
to the young men?

674
01:06:41,772 --> 01:06:45,273
Many mothers down there were crying.

675
01:06:46,090 --> 01:06:49,802
Because we, mothers,
we also have our own suffering.

676
01:06:49,970 --> 01:06:53,305
And our sons and daughters
do not know that we suffer.

677
01:06:53,508 --> 01:06:55,637
They just blame us.

678
01:07:01,251 --> 01:07:04,295
Your students, they suffer.

679
01:07:05,170 --> 01:07:07,994
They have difficulties
with their mother,

680
01:07:08,296 --> 01:07:11,362
their father and so on.

681
01:07:15,170 --> 01:07:18,343
Talking to them
showing them the practice,

682
01:07:18,630 --> 01:07:21,227
can help them to suffer less.

683
01:07:21,633 --> 01:07:24,172
And you can do better.

684
01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:27,653
Because these young people,

685
01:07:28,018 --> 01:07:30,636
when they have overcome the difficulties,

686
01:07:30,636 --> 01:07:34,014
when they have understood
the suffering of their parents,

687
01:07:34,134 --> 01:07:35,972
they go back and help their parents.

688
01:07:37,994 --> 01:07:43,157
We have organized retreats
of mindfulness for young people.

689
01:07:45,886 --> 01:07:49,510
In Europe, in America, in Asia.

690
01:07:50,242 --> 01:07:52,536
And many young people

691
01:07:52,775 --> 01:07:55,748
get transformation and healing
during the retreat.

692
01:07:56,186 --> 01:08:00,149
When they went home,
they helped their parents

693
01:08:01,319 --> 01:08:09,363
and they were able to restore
communication with their parents,

694
01:08:10,588 --> 01:08:14,813
and many of them are able
to invite their parents to join a retreat.

695
01:08:15,638 --> 01:08:18,396
Schoolteachers can do the same.

696
01:08:18,870 --> 01:08:22,307
We can help students to suffer less,

697
01:08:23,166 --> 01:08:25,085
to understand,

698
01:08:25,296 --> 01:08:26,995
to suffer less.

699
01:08:27,213 --> 01:08:29,510
And that student can go home

700
01:08:29,714 --> 01:08:33,460
and help his parents
to suffer less also.

701
01:08:34,654 --> 01:08:39,229
This has been possible
with the practice of mindfulness.

702
01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:48,360
(Bell)

703
01:08:49,370 --> 01:08:50,984
(Bell)

704
01:08:54,113 --> 01:09:00,173
(Bell)

705
01:09:22,519 --> 01:09:26,121
A retreat of mindfulness
usually lasts 6 days.

706
01:09:26,584 --> 01:09:30,289
Our retreat has only 2 days and a half.

707
01:09:32,348 --> 01:09:35,181
During the first 3, 4 days

708
01:09:39,267 --> 01:09:49,400
we learn how to water the seeds
of understanding and compassion in us.

709
01:09:50,217 --> 01:09:56,167
We learn how to calm down
our emotions and feelings.

710
01:09:57,901 --> 01:10:03,285
We try to touch the wonders of life,
refreshing and healing,

711
01:10:03,545 --> 01:10:05,830
to heal ourselves.

712
01:10:06,576 --> 01:10:08,384
And that is why

713
01:10:08,580 --> 01:10:10,836
on the 5th day
we can put into practice

714
01:10:11,026 --> 01:10:16,616
the teaching of
deep listening and loving speech.

715
01:10:19,786 --> 01:10:24,498
The miracle of reconciliation
always takes place in our retreats.

716
01:10:27,892 --> 01:10:30,505
If the other person is in the retreat

717
01:10:30,685 --> 01:10:32,994
that will be easy.

718
01:10:33,296 --> 01:10:37,125
Because he or she has been exposed
to the teachings and the practice.

719
01:10:38,187 --> 01:10:43,097
The seeds of understanding and compassion
have been watered

720
01:10:43,478 --> 01:10:45,325
by the Dharma talks,

721
01:10:45,557 --> 01:10:49,418
by the practice of mindful breathing
and looking deeply.

722
01:10:50,799 --> 01:10:53,550
But if the other person
is not in the retreat

723
01:10:53,691 --> 01:10:58,281
you can use your
portable telephone to practice.

724
01:10:58,977 --> 01:11:06,472
Usually, we encourage
the people to do it

725
01:11:09,734 --> 01:11:14,209
before the end of the retreat.

726
01:11:14,678 --> 01:11:21,320
They have until midnight of the 5th day
in order to do it.

727
01:11:22,049 --> 01:11:24,725
Many people have used the telephone

728
01:11:24,885 --> 01:11:26,961
and it works very well.

729
01:11:27,135 --> 01:11:30,992
Many people report
on the last day of the retreat

730
01:11:31,476 --> 01:11:36,369
that the night before have telephoned
their parents, their partner,

731
01:11:37,789 --> 01:11:43,158
using the techniques of
compassionate listening and loving speech,

732
01:11:44,886 --> 01:11:47,585
restore communication and reconcile.

733
01:11:48,766 --> 01:11:53,021
So the miracle of reconciliation
always takes place in our retreats.

734
01:11:54,649 --> 01:11:58,176
And this can be done in the classroom.

735
01:12:03,242 --> 01:12:06,840
I believe that, as schoolteachers,

736
01:12:07,016 --> 01:12:08,878
we have to tell our students

737
01:12:09,089 --> 01:12:12,244
about our difficulties
and our suffering.

738
01:12:13,047 --> 01:12:15,337
Schoolteachers do suffer

739
01:12:16,608 --> 01:12:20,786
and we have the right
to tell our students about that.

740
01:12:22,641 --> 01:12:25,333
We can begin our class by saying

741
01:12:27,374 --> 01:12:34,175
that in order to improve the quality
of the teaching and the learning,

742
01:12:40,881 --> 01:12:44,334
so that the teachers
enjoy teaching

743
01:12:44,804 --> 01:12:48,146
and the students enjoy learning,

744
01:12:49,477 --> 01:12:52,410
we have to do something.

745
01:12:52,623 --> 01:12:55,896
Otherwise, both sides will suffer.

746
01:12:56,063 --> 01:12:59,309
So would you agree that we do something

747
01:12:59,985 --> 01:13:04,002
in order for the schoolteachers
enjoy the teaching

748
01:13:04,369 --> 01:13:06,878
and the students enjoy the learning?

749
01:13:07,012 --> 01:13:10,376
Because the suffering in us
prevents us from doing so.

750
01:13:10,768 --> 01:13:16,211
So I should tell you
my suffering, my difficulties

751
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:21,079
and you should also tell me
your difficulties, your suffering.

752
01:13:22,079 --> 01:13:24,199
We should understand each other.

753
01:13:24,292 --> 01:13:26,940
And after we have mutual understanding,

754
01:13:27,568 --> 01:13:29,798
we don't blame each other any more,

755
01:13:29,934 --> 01:13:32,769
we don't make it difficult
for each other any more,

756
01:13:32,909 --> 01:13:40,312
and we can go more easily and quickly

757
01:13:40,943 --> 01:13:44,973
on the path of teaching and learning.

758
01:13:53,003 --> 01:13:56,752
There are many things
that we can do in the classroom

759
01:13:57,086 --> 01:14:00,403
in order to help students
to suffer less.

760
01:14:01,959 --> 01:14:08,635
Like schoolteachers leading sessions
of total, deep relaxation.

761
01:14:13,737 --> 01:14:20,886
Because the young people have tension
in their body and in their feelings also.

762
01:14:23,953 --> 01:14:27,206
A good student can also learn

763
01:14:27,334 --> 01:14:32,843
how to lead a session of
total relaxation for the whole class,

764
01:14:34,693 --> 01:14:36,732
lying on the grass

765
01:14:39,619 --> 01:14:40,989
and so on.

766
01:14:46,732 --> 01:14:48,686
If you notice

767
01:14:49,286 --> 01:14:54,386
that a boy or a girl
suffers in the class,

768
01:14:56,229 --> 01:14:59,412
she seems to be very upset,
her mind is not there,

769
01:14:59,606 --> 01:15:02,470
how can she learn?

770
01:15:03,788 --> 01:15:06,359
So we can address her

771
01:15:09,990 --> 01:15:13,054
and ask what is wrong.

772
01:15:14,756 --> 01:15:16,250
And she may say:

773
01:15:16,464 --> 01:15:21,732
"My mother
was hospitalized this morning,

774
01:15:22,696 --> 01:15:26,432
and I don't know
if she can survive or not."

775
01:15:26,822 --> 01:15:30,962
With that kind of feeling,
how can she learn?

776
01:15:31,864 --> 01:15:35,956
You cannot impose
your will on her.

777
01:15:42,758 --> 01:15:46,253
So the teacher can address
the whole class and say:

778
01:15:46,416 --> 01:15:56,653
"We have a student
whose mother is hospitalized

779
01:15:56,795 --> 01:15:59,384
and she worries much about that.

780
01:15:59,492 --> 01:16:01,553
Shall we, the whole class,

781
01:16:01,658 --> 01:16:06,095
practice breathing together, mindfully?

782
01:16:08,667 --> 01:16:12,383
We will send this energy
of mindfulness and compassion

783
01:16:12,508 --> 01:16:14,625
to her mother."

784
01:16:15,925 --> 01:16:19,449
Using that kind of
collective energy of mindfulness

785
01:16:19,509 --> 01:16:25,055
generated by the breathing
done by teachers and other students,

786
01:16:25,790 --> 01:16:33,870
you can help calm down that student

787
01:16:36,489 --> 01:16:39,925
and she may be able to follow the class.

788
01:16:41,918 --> 01:16:44,125
There are things like that

789
01:16:44,302 --> 01:16:46,819
that schoolteachers can do.

790
01:16:48,989 --> 01:16:52,940
There are
difficult elements in the class.

791
01:16:53,715 --> 01:16:55,196
If we look deeply,

792
01:16:55,377 --> 01:16:59,324
we will see why
that young man, young woman

793
01:16:59,818 --> 01:17:02,592
behaves in that way.

794
01:17:02,989 --> 01:17:06,033
If we have enough compassion to inquire,

795
01:17:06,215 --> 01:17:08,014
we find out

796
01:17:08,137 --> 01:17:10,723
and the whole class
may come and help.

797
01:17:12,490 --> 01:17:14,354
So listening to each other

798
01:17:14,508 --> 01:17:17,026
and understanding
the suffering of each other

799
01:17:22,440 --> 01:17:27,248
we can calm down
the feelings, the emotions.

800
01:17:29,003 --> 01:17:32,434
We can promote mutual understanding

801
01:17:33,639 --> 01:17:36,184
and we don't make
each other suffer any more.

802
01:17:36,284 --> 01:17:38,786
We make it easier for everyone

803
01:17:38,988 --> 01:17:42,995
in the task of teaching and learning.

804
01:17:49,287 --> 01:17:52,656
Henri, who was a
professor of mathematics

805
01:17:53,556 --> 01:17:57,362
in the French school of Toronto,

806
01:17:57,786 --> 01:18:00,366
after having spent
three weeks in Plum Village,

807
01:18:00,552 --> 01:18:03,010
he went back to his school

808
01:18:03,162 --> 01:18:06,278
and practiced mindfulness
with his students.

809
01:18:07,796 --> 01:18:11,283
He walks slowly
and mindfully into the class.

810
01:18:12,115 --> 01:18:16,224
He begins to erase what is
on the blackboard mindfully

811
01:18:16,584 --> 01:18:17,953
and they say:

812
01:18:18,073 --> 01:18:20,059
"Dear teacher,
are you sick?"

813
01:18:20,262 --> 01:18:21,838
(Laughter)

814
01:18:21,940 --> 01:18:23,747
He says: "No, I am not sick.

815
01:18:23,906 --> 01:18:26,266
I just practice mindful walking,

816
01:18:26,356 --> 01:18:27,803
mindful...

817
01:18:29,033 --> 01:18:30,782
I enjoy that.

818
01:18:31,186 --> 01:18:33,352
I feel a lot of peace.

819
01:18:33,595 --> 01:18:37,466
I am very relaxed
because I have learned mindfulness.

820
01:18:38,581 --> 01:18:42,269
Would you like me
to tell you what I did in Plum Village?"

821
01:18:42,971 --> 01:18:44,894
And they listened.

822
01:18:46,406 --> 01:18:50,625
They agreed that every 15 minutes,

823
01:18:51,356 --> 01:18:56,269
a boy would clap his hands,

824
01:18:58,425 --> 01:19:01,527
because they did not have
a bell of mindfulness,

825
01:19:01,745 --> 01:19:03,800
and every one,
including the teacher,

826
01:19:03,976 --> 01:19:06,631
would practice
mindful breathing and relax.

827
01:19:06,779 --> 01:19:08,768
Stop the thinking.

828
01:19:10,789 --> 01:19:14,730
And that helped
very much in the learning.

829
01:19:17,637 --> 01:19:20,802
In the beginning,
it was like a play,

830
01:19:21,171 --> 01:19:24,142
but finally it worked very well.

831
01:19:27,064 --> 01:19:29,829
Transformation and healing took place

832
01:19:30,199 --> 01:19:33,192
and the class made a lot of progress.

833
01:19:39,827 --> 01:19:43,461
Other classes followed their example.

834
01:19:52,288 --> 01:19:56,515
And when he came
to the age of retirement,

835
01:19:57,537 --> 01:20:03,255
the administration asked him
to stay for a few more years.

836
01:20:05,035 --> 01:20:08,802
He was able to bring the practice
of mindfulness into the school

837
01:20:08,980 --> 01:20:13,278
and improve the quality
of teaching and learning in the school.

838
01:20:26,836 --> 01:20:30,093
So the practice of loving speech
and deep listening

839
01:20:31,870 --> 01:20:36,964
should create an atmosphere
of mutual understanding in the class

840
01:20:39,243 --> 01:20:43,442
and the students will not
make it difficult for teachers.

841
01:20:46,243 --> 01:20:50,626
The quality of teaching
and learning will be improved.

842
01:21:00,336 --> 01:21:04,302
Mindfulness can be practiced
in the realm

843
01:21:06,954 --> 01:21:13,233
of mindful consumption.

844
01:21:14,782 --> 01:21:21,114
(5. Practicing Mindful Consumption)

845
01:21:30,746 --> 01:21:33,636
Our society is a society of consumption.

846
01:21:33,815 --> 01:21:41,606
We believe that happiness
is to have enough money

847
01:21:41,673 --> 01:21:44,507
to buy whatever you want to buy.

848
01:21:47,951 --> 01:21:50,662
That is an idea about happiness.

849
01:21:52,544 --> 01:21:54,007
But we already know

850
01:21:54,169 --> 01:21:58,118
that true happiness
is made of understanding and love.

851
01:21:59,636 --> 01:22:03,914
You cannot buy understanding
and love in the supermarket.

852
01:22:04,993 --> 01:22:10,380
You have to generate these two things
by the practice.

853
01:22:20,337 --> 01:22:23,758
This, again,
should be taught in the school.

854
01:22:26,451 --> 01:22:28,181
The first...

855
01:22:29,197 --> 01:22:30,993
The kind of...

856
01:22:31,333 --> 01:22:33,386
In the Buddhist tradition,

857
01:22:33,541 --> 01:22:36,842
we speak about
the four kinds of nutriments.

858
01:22:37,327 --> 01:22:39,382
Four kinds of food.

859
01:22:40,961 --> 01:22:43,618
Four kinds of consumption.

860
01:22:44,217 --> 01:22:46,133
First of all,

861
01:22:46,369 --> 01:22:48,955
there is the edible food.

862
01:22:58,771 --> 01:23:00,858
(edible food)

863
01:23:01,097 --> 01:23:02,816
That is the kind of food

864
01:23:02,941 --> 01:23:05,389
that we consume by the way of the mouth.

865
01:23:05,529 --> 01:23:15,412
Your health depends very much
on what you eat.

866
01:23:19,305 --> 01:23:22,857
We should eat in such a way

867
01:23:24,516 --> 01:23:29,905
that can preserve
compassion in our heart,

868
01:23:31,421 --> 01:23:35,343
helps living beings
to suffer less,

869
01:23:36,445 --> 01:23:39,622
and helps to protect our planet.

870
01:23:43,133 --> 01:23:47,246
The consumption of meat and alcohol

871
01:23:48,056 --> 01:23:55,857
has destroyed much of
our environment and our health.

872
01:23:58,780 --> 01:24:04,566
We have learned that eating meat
is more polluting than driving a car.

873
01:24:06,790 --> 01:24:11,824
The meat and alcohol industries
have caused a lot of damage

874
01:24:12,017 --> 01:24:14,328
to our environment.

875
01:24:20,702 --> 01:24:30,840
We have learned that
the amount of grain used to make alcohol

876
01:24:32,925 --> 01:24:37,222
and feed the livestock is huge.

877
01:24:39,216 --> 01:24:42,757
Tens of thousands of people die every day

878
01:24:42,903 --> 01:24:45,545
because of the lack of food.

879
01:24:50,997 --> 01:24:54,778
The Buddha told
the story of a young couple

880
01:24:54,902 --> 01:24:59,481
who tried to flee from their country

881
01:25:00,292 --> 01:25:03,412
to take refuge in another country.

882
01:25:09,224 --> 01:25:12,600
They brought their little boy with them.

883
01:25:15,145 --> 01:25:17,198
They had to cross a desert

884
01:25:17,323 --> 01:25:23,153
in order to go to the other country
to take political asylum.

885
01:25:24,957 --> 01:25:28,281
But they did not calculate well.

886
01:25:28,426 --> 01:25:31,388
Half way to the desert,
they ran out of food.

887
01:25:32,083 --> 01:25:35,349
They knew that
the three of them were going to die.

888
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:40,816
So finally they made a terrible decision:

889
01:25:41,457 --> 01:25:46,213
to kill the little boy
and eat the flesh to survive,

890
01:25:46,437 --> 01:25:49,654
hoping to get out of the desert.

891
01:25:50,845 --> 01:25:57,424
So after having killed the boy,
they ate one morsel of that flesh

892
01:25:58,017 --> 01:26:01,710
and preserved the rest
on their shoulder, to dry.

893
01:26:02,748 --> 01:26:09,634
Every time after having eaten
a piece of that flesh

894
01:26:09,715 --> 01:26:14,911
they asked: "Where is now
our beloved little boy?"

895
01:26:16,187 --> 01:26:19,315
They pulled their hair,
they beat their chest,

896
01:26:20,112 --> 01:26:22,259
they suffered quite a lot.

897
01:26:22,440 --> 01:26:26,092
But finally they got out of the desert
and were accepted as refugees.

898
01:26:29,966 --> 01:26:37,088
The Buddha must have heard that story
directly from that couple.

899
01:26:38,431 --> 01:26:40,997
He told the people listening to him:

900
01:26:41,124 --> 01:26:42,434
"Dear friends,

901
01:26:42,551 --> 01:26:44,689
do you think that the couple

902
01:26:45,048 --> 01:26:50,487
enjoyed eating the flesh
of their little boy?"

903
01:26:51,204 --> 01:26:53,442
And they said: "No, dear teacher.

904
01:26:53,535 --> 01:26:58,783
It is impossible for you to enjoy
eating the flesh of your own boy."

905
01:27:01,154 --> 01:27:03,230
The Buddha then said:

906
01:27:03,339 --> 01:27:05,113
"In that case, my friends,

907
01:27:05,176 --> 01:27:09,013
let us eat in such a way

908
01:27:09,649 --> 01:27:13,943
that we will not eat the flesh
of our sons and daughters."

909
01:27:17,818 --> 01:27:24,350
The 40.000 children who die every day
because of the lack of food and nutrition,

910
01:27:25,781 --> 01:27:27,416
who are they?

911
01:27:27,482 --> 01:27:30,432
They are our sons and daughters.

912
01:27:31,174 --> 01:27:37,805
The amount of grain that is used
to make alcohol and meat

913
01:27:38,579 --> 01:27:44,984
should have been used
to save the lives of these children.

914
01:27:47,129 --> 01:27:50,339
So practicing eating
and drinking mindfully

915
01:27:50,489 --> 01:27:54,004
we can preserve our compassion,
protect life.

916
01:27:55,766 --> 01:27:58,659
If there is no compassion in our heart

917
01:27:58,791 --> 01:28:01,719
we cannot be a happy person.

918
01:28:02,004 --> 01:28:06,484
Our students can understand this.

919
01:28:08,066 --> 01:28:12,763
We learn that
if we can reduce the eating of meat

920
01:28:13,195 --> 01:28:18,181
and the drinking of alcohol
in the developed countries,

921
01:28:19,094 --> 01:28:23,286
we can already transform
the situation of the Earth.

922
01:28:24,974 --> 01:28:29,173
So stopping eating meat,
stopping drinking alcohol,

923
01:28:29,394 --> 01:28:35,303
or reducing it significantly,

924
01:28:35,436 --> 01:28:39,131
we can save our planet,
we can save lives,

925
01:28:39,999 --> 01:28:48,204
we can preserve our compassion.

926
01:28:50,547 --> 01:28:54,010
That is the first source of nutriment:

927
01:28:54,286 --> 01:28:56,477
edible food.

928
01:29:03,893 --> 01:29:12,902
(senses impressions)

929
01:29:17,662 --> 01:29:24,099
The second source of nutriment
is the sense impressions.

930
01:29:24,800 --> 01:29:28,108
You consume not only with your mouth,

931
01:29:28,269 --> 01:29:34,812
but with your eyes, ears,
nose, body, mind.

932
01:29:38,263 --> 01:29:44,601
When you read a newspaper,
you consume.

933
01:29:47,421 --> 01:29:49,861
When you watch television, you consume.

934
01:29:50,017 --> 01:29:55,262
When you listen to a conversation,
to music, you consume.

935
01:29:56,802 --> 01:30:00,825
And what you consume every day

936
01:30:01,222 --> 01:30:04,611
may contain a lot of poisons, toxins.

937
01:30:05,219 --> 01:30:07,985
That is not good for your health.

938
01:30:09,558 --> 01:30:13,831
Our children consume television
several hours a day.

939
01:30:15,669 --> 01:30:20,702
Many boys and girls spend
5 hours or more with electronic games.

940
01:30:25,404 --> 01:30:29,669
There is a lot of violence, craving
fear and anger

941
01:30:29,989 --> 01:30:32,660
in what they consume.

942
01:30:33,087 --> 01:30:36,751
So consuming that amount
of toxins and poisons

943
01:30:37,918 --> 01:30:43,583
will not be good
for our physical and mental health.

944
01:30:48,243 --> 01:30:53,959
Even psychotherapists,
they are supposed to help patients.

945
01:30:54,910 --> 01:30:59,105
But they spend a lot of time
listening to stories of suffering,

946
01:31:01,565 --> 01:31:04,698
a lot of despair, hate and sorrow.

947
01:31:06,146 --> 01:31:09,456
If psychotherapists
don't know how to practice

948
01:31:10,340 --> 01:31:13,971
generating joy, happiness,
compassion,

949
01:31:17,352 --> 01:31:19,514
they will lose their balance

950
01:31:19,757 --> 01:31:22,227
and they will get sick.

951
01:31:25,474 --> 01:31:29,596
We should know our limits

952
01:31:32,010 --> 01:31:37,215
so that we can continue for a long time

953
01:31:37,438 --> 01:31:41,253
in our efforts to help others.

954
01:31:43,369 --> 01:31:47,337
A conversation can also be highly toxic.

955
01:31:48,235 --> 01:31:51,040
What the other person tells you

956
01:31:51,203 --> 01:31:56,908
may be full of anger,
despair, violence.

957
01:31:58,366 --> 01:32:01,548
During the hour
you are listening to him or to her.

958
01:32:01,548 --> 01:32:03,662
you consume.

959
01:32:07,044 --> 01:32:10,296
That is not healthy for you.

960
01:32:13,406 --> 01:32:18,804
The young people are consuming
a lot of poisons and toxins

961
01:32:19,201 --> 01:32:23,946
including violence, fear,
despair and anger.

962
01:32:26,593 --> 01:32:28,281
That is why,

963
01:32:29,656 --> 01:32:32,951
in the family and in the classroom

964
01:32:33,059 --> 01:32:37,351
we have to discuss about the practice
of the fifth mindfulness training:

965
01:32:37,995 --> 01:32:40,194
mindful consumption.

966
01:32:40,481 --> 01:32:43,223
Mindful consumption is the way out.

967
01:32:45,022 --> 01:32:51,087
To ensure a physical and mental health

968
01:32:51,392 --> 01:32:54,890
you have to practice
mindfulness of consumption.

969
01:33:02,650 --> 01:33:04,822
When you watch a film,

970
01:33:05,025 --> 01:33:09,816
they stop the film
from time to time for advertisement.

971
01:33:10,491 --> 01:33:14,191
You consume advertisements.

972
01:33:14,798 --> 01:33:16,828
They want you to buy.

973
01:33:19,801 --> 01:33:24,749
That touches
the seed of craving in you.

974
01:33:25,290 --> 01:33:27,450
You don't need to buy,

975
01:33:27,652 --> 01:33:29,971
but they urge you to buy.

976
01:33:30,143 --> 01:33:32,161
And they think
that if you don't buy it,

977
01:33:32,306 --> 01:33:35,282
you don't have happiness.

978
01:33:37,614 --> 01:33:39,784
They make you believe

979
01:33:39,953 --> 01:33:44,588
that happiness is possible
when you have money to buy things.

980
01:33:49,366 --> 01:33:53,983
But that is not
a right view about happiness.

981
01:33:54,718 --> 01:34:01,202
True happiness is made of
understanding and love.

982
01:34:04,578 --> 01:34:10,275
Our students, our children
have to learn about true happiness.

983
01:34:13,065 --> 01:34:15,922
We should sit down
as a family, as a classroom,

984
01:34:16,034 --> 01:34:19,470
to discuss about
right, mindful consumption.

985
01:34:31,350 --> 01:34:36,148
There are articles
in the magazines, in the newspapers,

986
01:34:36,430 --> 01:34:40,369
that are full of anger, fear, violence.

987
01:34:43,970 --> 01:34:49,595
And journalists don't report enough
about the healthy things,

988
01:34:50,847 --> 01:34:53,053
like this retreat.

989
01:34:53,674 --> 01:34:55,244
(Laughter)

990
01:34:55,344 --> 01:34:59,165
It is not sensational
the breathing in and out,

991
01:34:59,508 --> 01:35:01,840
walking peacefully.

992
01:35:08,400 --> 01:35:13,902
The stories they cover
and the stories that we read

993
01:35:14,903 --> 01:35:24,354
always contain a lot of anger,
despair, violence and so on.

994
01:35:38,104 --> 01:35:45,279
That day was the day to commemorate
the death of Mahatma Gandhi.

995
01:35:46,652 --> 01:35:48,625
I was in New Delhi,

996
01:35:49,508 --> 01:35:54,639
and a newspaper,
The Times of India,

997
01:35:54,743 --> 01:36:01,205
invited me to be 
guess editor of that day.

998
01:36:03,405 --> 01:36:06,149
A peace edition.

999
01:36:07,271 --> 01:36:11,051
So we brought
a number of monastics

1000
01:36:11,112 --> 01:36:14,855
to come to the headquarters
of The Times of India

1001
01:36:15,268 --> 01:36:18,292
and prepared a peace edition.

1002
01:36:19,756 --> 01:36:23,045
That morning bad news came.

1003
01:36:23,360 --> 01:36:29,160
There was a bombing in a city nearby.

1004
01:36:31,231 --> 01:36:35,292
We and other editors
of The Times of India

1005
01:36:35,393 --> 01:36:38,392
were sitting around a big table.

1006
01:36:38,545 --> 01:36:40,040
They asked:

1007
01:36:40,175 --> 01:36:44,525
"Dear Thay, what journalists
should do on a morning like this?

1008
01:36:47,128 --> 01:36:50,287
Terrorist attacks, bombing."

1009
01:36:54,479 --> 01:36:58,260
I advised everyone
to practice mindful breathing

1010
01:36:58,376 --> 01:37:00,382
and calm down.

1011
01:37:03,823 --> 01:37:06,542
We should not say something right away.

1012
01:37:09,967 --> 01:37:13,771
We have to say it with calm inside.

1013
01:37:14,773 --> 01:37:18,352
After a few minutes
of mindful breathing, I said:

1014
01:37:18,899 --> 01:37:22,651
"Of course, we have to report the news.

1015
01:37:23,358 --> 01:37:25,802
But we have to report in such a way,

1016
01:37:26,567 --> 01:37:31,039
that we will not water
the seeds of anger, fear and violence.

1017
01:37:31,317 --> 01:37:33,618
That would be destructive.

1018
01:37:34,172 --> 01:37:36,881
We report about the truth,

1019
01:37:37,084 --> 01:37:39,046
but help people to understand

1020
01:37:39,221 --> 01:37:42,144
why people do things like these.

1021
01:37:42,429 --> 01:37:46,070
They are victims of misunderstanding.

1022
01:37:51,847 --> 01:37:54,522
They are motivated by anger, fear

1023
01:37:54,621 --> 01:37:57,886
and the desire to punish.

1024
01:37:59,038 --> 01:38:00,650
They don't see

1025
01:38:00,911 --> 01:38:08,590
that people do not need punishment.

1026
01:38:09,189 --> 01:38:11,751
They need help.

1027
01:38:12,516 --> 01:38:15,300
We should report.

1028
01:38:16,278 --> 01:38:19,057
But there is a way of reporting

1029
01:38:19,133 --> 01:38:22,259
that can water the seeds
of understanding and compassion

1030
01:38:22,995 --> 01:38:25,444
in the heart of the readers.

1031
01:38:25,862 --> 01:38:27,503
So in that day,

1032
01:38:27,676 --> 01:38:31,401
we tried to write a report
on the terrorist attack in such a way

1033
01:38:32,174 --> 01:38:34,871
that helped people to know

1034
01:38:35,481 --> 01:38:39,945
why people have done 
such a thing to their own countrymen.

1035
01:38:41,193 --> 01:38:43,357
When you read it you can see

1036
01:38:43,497 --> 01:38:46,176
that we water understanding
and compassion in you.

1037
01:38:53,264 --> 01:38:57,292
If we consume without mindfulness,

1038
01:38:57,723 --> 01:39:00,814
we get a lot of toxins and poisons

1039
01:39:00,990 --> 01:39:02,394
and we get sick.

1040
01:39:02,580 --> 01:39:05,624
Our family will get sick,
our city gets sick,

1041
01:39:05,776 --> 01:39:07,960
our country gets sick.

1042
01:39:08,078 --> 01:39:11,802
And we can easily
involve ourselves into a war.

1043
01:39:23,505 --> 01:39:27,364
(volition)

1044
01:39:29,904 --> 01:39:34,259
The third kind of nutriment
is volition.

1045
01:39:34,659 --> 01:39:38,977
It means our aspiration,
our deepest desire.

1046
01:39:41,253 --> 01:39:45,086
Each one of us wants to do
something with his life.

1047
01:39:48,858 --> 01:39:51,757
Each one of us should have
the time to sit down

1048
01:39:51,919 --> 01:39:53,472
and ask himself:

1049
01:39:53,588 --> 01:39:55,973
What do I want to do with my life?

1050
01:39:56,105 --> 01:39:59,173
What is my deepest aspiration?

1051
01:40:00,528 --> 01:40:03,077
Because there are those who think

1052
01:40:03,206 --> 01:40:05,979
that their deepest desire
is to have a lot of money,

1053
01:40:07,887 --> 01:40:09,974
to be number one

1054
01:40:12,611 --> 01:40:16,139
in their business.

1055
01:40:21,454 --> 01:40:26,160
To have a lot of power, fame, and sex,

1056
01:40:26,201 --> 01:40:28,364
sensual pleasures.

1057
01:40:29,068 --> 01:40:32,802
But running after
these objects of craving

1058
01:40:32,982 --> 01:40:36,811
can bring destruction
to our body and mind.

1059
01:40:38,452 --> 01:40:43,096
So that is not
my deepest aspiration.

1060
01:40:45,364 --> 01:40:47,239
The terrorists,

1061
01:40:47,338 --> 01:40:50,059
what they want to do most
is to punish.

1062
01:40:51,861 --> 01:40:57,436
They may believe that they do so
in the name of justice, of God.

1063
01:40:59,069 --> 01:41:02,636
But it is motivated
by the desire to punish,

1064
01:41:03,387 --> 01:41:05,495
to destroy.

1065
01:41:05,697 --> 01:41:08,238
That is not good food.

1066
01:41:08,631 --> 01:41:11,204
When you are motivated by anger,

1067
01:41:14,667 --> 01:41:16,973
by the desire to punish,

1068
01:41:18,054 --> 01:41:20,927
your nutriment is not healthy.

1069
01:41:22,252 --> 01:41:24,550
But if you are motivated

1070
01:41:24,662 --> 01:41:28,791
by the desire to help
young people to suffer less,

1071
01:41:29,613 --> 01:41:31,948
that is good nutriment.

1072
01:41:32,821 --> 01:41:36,540
If your desire is to change the world
in a better direction,

1073
01:41:40,913 --> 01:41:43,236
that is good food.

1074
01:41:43,367 --> 01:41:46,721
If your desire is
to help people to suffer less,

1075
01:41:47,709 --> 01:41:50,126
to know how to practice true love,

1076
01:41:50,200 --> 01:41:53,299
to promote mutual
understanding and reconciliation

1077
01:41:53,431 --> 01:41:55,544
that is good food.

1078
01:41:56,780 --> 01:42:00,436
When you have
that block of energy in you,

1079
01:42:00,941 --> 01:42:02,819
you are strong enough

1080
01:42:03,046 --> 01:42:08,794
to overcome
whatever obstacles on your path.

1081
01:42:18,201 --> 01:42:20,815
So the third kind of nutriment

1082
01:42:21,207 --> 01:42:24,977
is... (Vietnamese)

1083
01:42:26,166 --> 01:42:29,941
The third kind of nutriment
is a source of energy.

1084
01:42:30,174 --> 01:42:32,498
We have to find it out.

1085
01:42:33,203 --> 01:42:37,295
If our deepest desire
is to protect the environment,

1086
01:42:38,533 --> 01:42:40,186
to protect Mother Earth,

1087
01:42:40,387 --> 01:42:43,097
that is a good desire,
that is good food.

1088
01:42:43,828 --> 01:42:46,264
You have a good motivation.

1089
01:42:46,494 --> 01:42:50,757
What you want to do with your life

1090
01:42:50,827 --> 01:42:54,045
is the third nutriment,
volition.

1091
01:42:57,828 --> 01:43:00,931
We have to help the young people

1092
01:43:03,113 --> 01:43:05,354
to have a good aspiration,

1093
01:43:06,474 --> 01:43:08,963
finding the meaning of life,

1094
01:43:09,430 --> 01:43:12,722
making their lives meaningful,

1095
01:43:14,105 --> 01:43:16,874
giving them a lot of energy

1096
01:43:17,913 --> 01:43:24,193
so that they have something meaningful
to do with their lives.

1097
01:43:24,752 --> 01:43:27,392
If schoolteachers have it,

1098
01:43:27,801 --> 01:43:30,359
have that source
of energy in themselves,

1099
01:43:30,442 --> 01:43:33,630
they can transmit it
to their students.

1100
01:43:35,170 --> 01:43:37,698
I am also a teacher.

1101
01:43:38,851 --> 01:43:42,233
Every day I transmit to my students,

1102
01:43:43,297 --> 01:43:45,356
monastic and lay people,

1103
01:43:45,475 --> 01:43:48,162
that kind of energy.

1104
01:43:50,691 --> 01:43:52,519
My students

1105
01:43:52,666 --> 01:43:56,496
have a very simple life,

1106
01:43:58,543 --> 01:44:01,174
specially the monastics.

1107
01:44:02,071 --> 01:44:04,463
No one of them

1108
01:44:06,899 --> 01:44:09,434
have a bank account.

1109
01:44:09,524 --> 01:44:12,987
No one of them have a salary.

1110
01:44:14,078 --> 01:44:17,933
No one of them have
a private home, private car.

1111
01:44:19,455 --> 01:44:22,514
And yet,
they are happy people.

1112
01:44:23,577 --> 01:44:27,312
They spend time
building brotherhood, sisterhood,

1113
01:44:27,530 --> 01:44:29,520
a community of practice.

1114
01:44:29,696 --> 01:44:32,913
They have organized retreats
to help people to suffer less.

1115
01:44:33,088 --> 01:44:37,527
We operate not as individuals,

1116
01:44:37,844 --> 01:44:40,460
but as a community.

1117
01:44:41,084 --> 01:44:43,773
Joy, happiness, compassion,

1118
01:44:45,286 --> 01:44:48,501
are possible with a simple life,

1119
01:44:48,938 --> 01:44:53,924
provided that you have
a source of aspiration.

1120
01:44:54,606 --> 01:44:57,142
That is the third nutriment:

1121
01:44:57,285 --> 01:45:01,331
the ideal to serve and
to help people to suffer less.

1122
01:45:01,796 --> 01:45:04,658
So teachers should,
first of all,

1123
01:45:05,157 --> 01:45:07,770
have that kind of aspiration.

1124
01:45:09,153 --> 01:45:11,460
And then, they can
transmit to their students

1125
01:45:11,648 --> 01:45:14,196
the same kind of energy.

1126
01:45:14,419 --> 01:45:17,620
When the students
have that kind of energy,

1127
01:45:17,802 --> 01:45:19,647
they suffer less.

1128
01:45:19,764 --> 01:45:21,886
They know where to go.

1129
01:45:22,773 --> 01:45:25,106
In what direction to go

1130
01:45:25,240 --> 01:45:28,176
and not to destroy their body and mind

1131
01:45:29,575 --> 01:45:33,197
looking for sensual pleasures and so on.

1132
01:45:39,353 --> 01:45:43,815
The last source of nutriment
is consciousness.

1133
01:45:50,828 --> 01:45:56,856
(consciousness)

1134
01:46:08,511 --> 01:46:11,771
We consume our own consciousness.

1135
01:46:12,760 --> 01:46:16,177
There are good things
in our consciousness to consume.

1136
01:46:20,271 --> 01:46:23,398
In our consciousness there is a Hell.

1137
01:46:24,755 --> 01:46:28,622
There is also a Paradise,
the Kingdom of God.

1138
01:46:30,720 --> 01:46:32,886
In Buddhism,
we speak about consciousness

1139
01:46:33,042 --> 01:46:35,238
in terms of seeds.

1140
01:46:42,193 --> 01:46:46,491
(seeds)

1141
01:46:51,456 --> 01:46:55,053
There is a seed of love.

1142
01:46:55,838 --> 01:46:58,311
There is a seed of compassion,

1143
01:46:58,432 --> 01:47:02,250
the seed of joy, of happiness,

1144
01:47:02,608 --> 01:47:05,000
the seed of brotherhood, sisterhood,

1145
01:47:05,154 --> 01:47:06,939
forgiveness,

1146
01:47:07,085 --> 01:47:09,862
there are many good things
in our consciousness.

1147
01:47:09,976 --> 01:47:15,831
If we know how to water
the seeds every day,

1148
01:47:16,588 --> 01:47:18,797
they will grow.

1149
01:47:19,077 --> 01:47:20,988
The Paradise,

1150
01:47:21,574 --> 01:47:24,600
the Kingdom of God
will be for us to consume.

1151
01:47:29,473 --> 01:47:32,855
When you listen to a talk like this,

1152
01:47:34,952 --> 01:47:38,067
when you have a discussion
about compassion,

1153
01:47:38,289 --> 01:47:41,380
how to help people
to suffer less,

1154
01:47:45,833 --> 01:47:48,632
you water the good seeds in you.

1155
01:47:50,064 --> 01:47:51,954
It means that the Paradise,

1156
01:47:52,067 --> 01:47:54,724
the Kingdom of God
is in you.

1157
01:47:55,588 --> 01:47:58,388
You help it to manifest

1158
01:47:58,841 --> 01:48:02,162
for yourself and for your beloved ones.

1159
01:48:02,786 --> 01:48:05,723
But there is also Hell inside.

1160
01:48:07,492 --> 01:48:11,605
The suffering transmitted to us

1161
01:48:11,715 --> 01:48:14,650
by our parents and ancestors.

1162
01:48:17,264 --> 01:48:20,557
Suffering that has not been understood,

1163
01:48:21,127 --> 01:48:23,768
that has not been transformed

1164
01:48:24,011 --> 01:48:26,332
and that has been transmitted to you,

1165
01:48:27,103 --> 01:48:28,902
to us.

1166
01:48:29,750 --> 01:48:32,202
If we know the practice,

1167
01:48:32,772 --> 01:48:34,457
we can transform them.

1168
01:48:34,595 --> 01:48:36,196
Otherwise,

1169
01:48:36,415 --> 01:48:39,237
they are always there,
in our consciousness.

1170
01:48:40,984 --> 01:48:44,819
The sufferings of our ancestors
are still there, in us.

1171
01:48:45,991 --> 01:48:49,688
We continue to suffer
the suffering of our ancestors.

1172
01:48:51,503 --> 01:48:54,529
Their frustration,
their anger, their fear,

1173
01:48:55,352 --> 01:48:57,698
are still in us.

1174
01:48:58,478 --> 01:49:02,179
Also during our childhood
we may have suffered.

1175
01:49:02,777 --> 01:49:05,174
We may have been abused

1176
01:49:06,096 --> 01:49:09,480
with violence.

1177
01:49:12,115 --> 01:49:14,890
Many of us tend to go back

1178
01:49:14,944 --> 01:49:17,837
to that dark corner
in our consciousness

1179
01:49:18,828 --> 01:49:23,455
and experience again
the suffering of the past.

1180
01:49:25,710 --> 01:49:29,474
We know that life
in the present moment is wonderful.

1181
01:49:30,141 --> 01:49:31,768
The blue sky,

1182
01:49:31,857 --> 01:49:34,692
the beautiful trees.

1183
01:49:36,113 --> 01:49:39,005
Flowers, children.

1184
01:49:39,498 --> 01:49:42,203
But we are not capable

1185
01:49:42,388 --> 01:49:46,169
of being established
in the present moment.

1186
01:49:47,032 --> 01:49:50,625
Because we have a painful past.

1187
01:49:51,075 --> 01:49:56,090
Many of us are drawn back
to that dark corner of the past

1188
01:49:56,748 --> 01:49:59,275
and watch again and again

1189
01:49:59,385 --> 01:50:02,444
the projections
of the films of the past

1190
01:50:02,925 --> 01:50:07,414
in order to experience again
the suffering of the past.

1191
01:50:07,971 --> 01:50:10,503
That is a kind of prison.

1192
01:50:12,767 --> 01:50:14,381
If the other person,

1193
01:50:14,511 --> 01:50:18,078
if your partner uses to do that,

1194
01:50:18,158 --> 01:50:20,540
you have to help him or her to get out.

1195
01:50:20,710 --> 01:50:22,114
"Darling,

1196
01:50:22,231 --> 01:50:24,788
life is beautiful out here
in the present moment.

1197
01:50:24,929 --> 01:50:30,006
Why do you go always back
to that dark place?

1198
01:50:30,734 --> 01:50:32,832
That is only the past.

1199
01:50:34,291 --> 01:50:36,814
The past is already gone."

1200
01:50:37,666 --> 01:50:40,080
With mindfulness, with joy

1201
01:50:40,202 --> 01:50:42,862
you can help bring him or her

1202
01:50:43,008 --> 01:50:46,921
out of that dark corner
of consciousness.

1203
01:50:49,676 --> 01:50:52,433
Because there is a Paradise,

1204
01:50:52,711 --> 01:50:54,947
there is a Kingdom of God
in the present moment

1205
01:50:55,136 --> 01:50:56,881
for you to enjoy.

1206
01:50:57,011 --> 01:51:00,527
Why do you have
to go back to the past,

1207
01:51:00,756 --> 01:51:02,834
to that corner?

1208
01:51:04,153 --> 01:51:06,111
Of course,

1209
01:51:06,199 --> 01:51:10,708
psychotherapists are trying
to help us to do the same.

1210
01:51:12,237 --> 01:51:15,586
But if psychotherapists
can do it by themselves,

1211
01:51:15,981 --> 01:51:20,210
then they can help
their patients to do the same.

1212
01:51:22,871 --> 01:51:24,806
Then,

1213
01:51:26,509 --> 01:51:29,484
there is the collective consciousness.

1214
01:51:30,479 --> 01:51:32,573
As food.

1215
01:51:33,439 --> 01:51:37,271
We know that there are
very angry groups of people.

1216
01:51:43,169 --> 01:51:46,065
Full of despair, and violence,

1217
01:51:46,235 --> 01:51:48,239
and anger.

1218
01:51:48,328 --> 01:51:50,624
There are neighborhoods like that,

1219
01:51:51,039 --> 01:51:54,703
where children are born and grow.

1220
01:51:56,825 --> 01:52:03,348
Everyone in that neighborhood
is generating hate, anger,

1221
01:52:04,349 --> 01:52:07,534
fear, despair and violence every day.

1222
01:52:07,905 --> 01:52:10,228
And as you are born and grown in that,

1223
01:52:10,455 --> 01:52:12,349
you consume every day.

1224
01:52:12,451 --> 01:52:14,724
You cannot be a happy person

1225
01:52:14,869 --> 01:52:19,834
if you consume that collective energy
of hate, anger, violence.

1226
01:52:22,281 --> 01:52:25,381
If you happen to live
in that neighborhood,

1227
01:52:26,478 --> 01:52:28,507
you should wake up

1228
01:52:28,650 --> 01:52:32,031
and know that this is not
a healthy environment.

1229
01:52:32,413 --> 01:52:35,991
You have to pull out
as soon as possible

1230
01:52:36,226 --> 01:52:39,148
and look for
a healthier environment

1231
01:52:39,214 --> 01:52:42,142
to heal yourself
and help heal your children.

1232
01:52:43,913 --> 01:52:46,227
Because you do not want to consume

1233
01:52:46,373 --> 01:52:49,480
that collective energy
of anger and hate.

1234
01:52:53,770 --> 01:52:56,380
After having practiced
and healed ourselves

1235
01:52:56,484 --> 01:53:00,251
we can come back
as a community to help.

1236
01:53:01,520 --> 01:53:03,798
But not before.

1237
01:53:07,339 --> 01:53:11,082
I think that as a minister of environment,

1238
01:53:11,320 --> 01:53:16,408
a minister of education,

1239
01:53:20,452 --> 01:53:22,878
taking care of urbanism,

1240
01:53:23,034 --> 01:53:26,480
we have to meditate on these matters.

1241
01:53:26,610 --> 01:53:30,861
How to transform
these violent neighborhoods,

1242
01:53:31,352 --> 01:53:33,797
full of fear and anger.

1243
01:53:33,944 --> 01:53:36,864
What kind of practice
can help to heal.

1244
01:53:36,993 --> 01:53:39,814
This is a very important issue.

1245
01:53:45,360 --> 01:53:48,505
To create a community

1246
01:53:49,802 --> 01:53:53,081
where there is brotherhood, 
sisterhood and joy,

1247
01:53:54,882 --> 01:53:58,046
is to create a healthy environment.

1248
01:53:58,183 --> 01:54:00,616
That is the most wonderful thing.

1249
01:54:00,830 --> 01:54:04,301
If you put yourself in that atmosphere,

1250
01:54:04,864 --> 01:54:11,253
if your children have the opportunity
to live in such a healthy atmosphere,

1251
01:54:11,378 --> 01:54:14,799
they will grow up as happy people.

1252
01:54:15,242 --> 01:54:18,681
So community building
is very important.

1253
01:54:23,044 --> 01:54:25,383
Belonging to a group of people,

1254
01:54:25,514 --> 01:54:29,004
we try to practice in such a way

1255
01:54:29,821 --> 01:54:32,544
that shows the people how to consume.

1256
01:54:34,513 --> 01:54:36,368
We should not allow ourselves

1257
01:54:36,520 --> 01:54:38,944
to consume the collective
energy of anger.

1258
01:54:39,112 --> 01:54:41,315
That is not good for our health,

1259
01:54:41,436 --> 01:54:43,961
for the health of our nation.

1260
01:54:46,334 --> 01:54:49,958
We should have compassion
and understanding.

1261
01:54:50,759 --> 01:54:52,674
That will heal us

1262
01:54:52,878 --> 01:54:57,777
and help heal the people
whom we think to be our enemies.

1263
01:55:04,415 --> 01:55:08,606
We know that if we have
enough peace, joy and compassion,

1264
01:55:09,022 --> 01:55:11,597
we can serve many people.

1265
01:55:11,771 --> 01:55:13,724
We don't need

1266
01:55:14,580 --> 01:55:20,019
to think of divorce,
separation, anymore.

1267
01:55:20,800 --> 01:55:25,034
We don't need to establish
a separate country anymore.

1268
01:55:25,891 --> 01:55:30,187
Because there is enough compassion,
understanding and happiness.

1269
01:55:33,918 --> 01:55:37,754
If we are thinking
of divorcing, separating,

1270
01:55:38,381 --> 01:55:41,940
setting up a separate nation,

1271
01:55:42,856 --> 01:55:46,401
it is because we do not have
enough compassion,

1272
01:55:47,329 --> 01:55:50,061
understanding,
brotherhood and sisterhood,

1273
01:55:50,197 --> 01:55:52,327
joy and happiness.

1274
01:55:52,464 --> 01:55:56,029
With the practice of mindfulness
we will have enough of these things

1275
01:55:56,288 --> 01:56:01,040
and we don't have
to think about other things.

1276
01:56:04,805 --> 01:56:07,108
So the five mindfulness trainings

1277
01:56:07,261 --> 01:56:12,337
are the very concrete expression

1278
01:56:13,292 --> 01:56:15,734
of the practice of mindfulness.

1279
01:56:16,082 --> 01:56:19,459
If we ourselves,
and the young people

1280
01:56:19,631 --> 01:56:24,572
live according to
the five practices of mindfulness,

1281
01:56:24,681 --> 01:56:29,397
then happiness is possible,
compassion is possible,

1282
01:56:29,628 --> 01:56:32,660
healing is possible.

1283
01:56:33,980 --> 01:56:39,574
A schoolteacher should embody

1284
01:56:39,899 --> 01:56:42,672
that kind of mindful living,

1285
01:56:42,844 --> 01:56:45,622
that kind of compassion
and understanding.

1286
01:56:46,036 --> 01:56:52,686
They will help
the young generation tremendously

1287
01:56:53,151 --> 01:56:56,049
in their transformation and healing.

1288
01:56:58,182 --> 01:57:00,959
We will continue tomorrow.

1289
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