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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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(Bell)

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(Bell)

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(Bell)

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(Bell)

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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
on the other end of the line,

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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
is considered to be

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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
answers the phone.

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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
of telephone meditation.

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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
is coming up,

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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
of practicing mindfulness.

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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
can help them

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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.

00:31:34.071 --> 00:31:38.655
If you know how to handle a storm,
you survive very well.

00:31:39.923 --> 00:31:43.156
That kind of insight
should be maintained alive

00:31:43.368 --> 00:31:47.921
during the time you handle the emotion.

00:31:57.287 --> 00:31:59.030
(Bell)

00:32:02.493 --> 00:32:08.555
(Bell)

00:32:31.592 --> 00:32:34.537
The practice is easy enough:

00:32:34.822 --> 00:32:36.520
stop the thinking,

00:32:36.690 --> 00:32:41.223
bring your attention down
to the level of the navel,

00:32:42.216 --> 00:32:45.163
practice breathing in and out

00:32:45.343 --> 00:32:48.399
and become aware of the rising
and falling of your abdomen.

00:32:48.594 --> 00:32:50.727
Maintain that insight alive:

00:32:50.900 --> 00:32:53.399
an emotion is just an emotion.

00:32:53.580 --> 00:32:57.765
I don't have to die
just because of one emotion.

00:32:59.721 --> 00:33:02.897
It comes and it will go away.

00:33:05.966 --> 00:33:11.099
If you focus your attention
only on the in-breath and out-breath,

00:33:11.541 --> 00:33:14.425
the rising and falling of the abdomen,

00:33:14.571 --> 00:33:16.367
you are safe.

00:33:16.560 --> 00:33:18.765
Mindfulness is protecting you.

00:33:19.002 --> 00:33:20.462
There is no thinking.

00:33:20.634 --> 00:33:23.560
There is only
the breathing and the calming.

00:33:24.719 --> 00:33:28.527
5 minutes later, or 8,
it will go away

00:33:28.693 --> 00:33:31.732
and you will survive the emotion.

00:33:32.508 --> 00:33:34.657
Next time,
when the emotion comes,

00:33:34.827 --> 00:33:36.959
you are no longer afraid.

00:33:37.167 --> 00:33:40.346
"I know how to handle it.
I'm not afraid."

00:33:46.537 --> 00:33:51.192
But we should not wait
until a strong emotion comes

00:33:51.499 --> 00:33:53.517
in order to begin the practice,

00:33:53.742 --> 00:33:57.149
because, naturally,
we will forget to practice.

00:33:57.350 --> 00:34:01.031
And you allow yourself
to be carried away by the strong emotion.

00:34:01.232 --> 00:34:04.203
We have to practice
mindful breathing every day.

00:34:05.363 --> 00:34:08.128
The practice of deep breathing,

00:34:08.563 --> 00:34:12.027
belly breathing, abdomen breathing,

00:34:12.525 --> 00:34:14.668
a few minutes a day.

00:34:14.885 --> 00:34:17.454
In a few weeks it will become a habit,

00:34:17.695 --> 00:34:21.630
and when a strong emotion,
a painful feeling comes,

00:34:21.830 --> 00:34:24.428
we will remember to practice.

00:34:25.999 --> 00:34:30.628
We will be able
to survive the emotion very well.

00:34:35.368 --> 00:34:40.486
Your little boy, your little girl,
may get into a crisis

00:34:41.429 --> 00:34:44.218
with a strong emotion.

00:34:44.736 --> 00:34:47.329
You may like
to hold his hand and say:

00:34:47.595 --> 00:34:50.762
"Darling, breathe in with mummy.

00:34:52.253 --> 00:34:57.090
Don't you see that when we breathe in,
our stomach is rising?

00:34:58.767 --> 00:35:03.858
And when we breathe out
our stomach is falling?"

00:35:04.442 --> 00:35:09.107
So you do
a guided meditation for the child.

00:35:09.531 --> 00:35:12.048
As you have the energy of mindfulness,

00:35:12.225 --> 00:35:16.631
you transmit it
to the little boy, to the little girl.

00:35:16.938 --> 00:35:21.455
You train your little boy or little girl
to breathe in and out

00:35:22.857 --> 00:35:27.198
and to take care of the strong emotion.

00:35:28.948 --> 00:35:31.086
This is possible.

00:35:31.221 --> 00:35:33.251
Later on,

00:35:34.018 --> 00:35:37.125
the boy, the girl,
can do it by himself.

00:35:38.558 --> 00:35:41.426
As schoolteachers,

00:35:42.104 --> 00:35:48.762
we may like to do that
for our students who are in trouble,

00:35:49.174 --> 00:35:52.986
who have been carried away
by a strong emotion.

00:35:54.331 --> 00:35:59.690
We can also ask other children,
other students, to help.

00:36:01.916 --> 00:36:07.403
Suppose in the class
there is a boy who is in crisis.

00:36:08.630 --> 00:36:12.097
It does not seem
that we can calm him down.

00:36:12.720 --> 00:36:18.370
So we ask the whole class
to practice to support the boy.

00:36:21.419 --> 00:36:24.562
You can prepare so that
you and your students

00:36:24.725 --> 00:36:27.389
can practice mindful breathing,

00:36:27.581 --> 00:36:31.859
generating that collective
energy of mindfulness and peace

00:36:32.067 --> 00:36:38.359
and help the boy that is in crisis.

00:36:39.461 --> 00:36:47.256
He is aware of the love, the compassion
of the whole group, the whole class,

00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:50.265
and he will suffer less.

00:36:55.628 --> 00:37:02.362
So parents and teachers
should master the practice

00:37:03.332 --> 00:37:08.001
and transmit the practice
of deep abdomen breathing

00:37:08.529 --> 00:37:11.215
to the young people.
It is very important.

00:37:11.349 --> 00:37:15.578
That is something
that should be taught in school.

00:37:33.355 --> 00:37:36.225
The second realm of the practice

00:37:36.469 --> 00:37:40.822
is the realm of true happiness.

00:37:46.154 --> 00:37:53.994
Practicing True Happiness.

00:38:02.310 --> 00:38:07.987
I think a discussion on true happiness
should be taken up

00:38:13.220 --> 00:38:15.265
as a topic.

00:38:18.813 --> 00:38:21.134
Because so many people believe

00:38:21.335 --> 00:38:27.494
that happiness is made
of fame, power, money

00:38:27.726 --> 00:38:29.984
and sensual pleasures.

00:38:35.333 --> 00:38:39.358
We know that there are many people
who have plenty of these things

00:38:39.543 --> 00:38:41.741
and they suffer very deeply.

00:38:42.008 --> 00:38:45.235
Many of them
commit suicide also.

00:38:48.438 --> 00:38:53.233
So we should try
to help the young people

00:38:53.497 --> 00:38:58.926
to see that true happiness
is made of understanding and love.

00:39:14.894 --> 00:39:19.250
In fact, love is born
from understanding.

00:39:23.345 --> 00:39:27.479
If you do not understand someone,
you cannot love him or her,

00:39:27.665 --> 00:39:29.888
or make him or her happy.

00:39:35.476 --> 00:39:37.853
So it may be helpful
to ask the other person:

00:39:38.065 --> 00:39:42.503
"Darling, do you think
that I understand you?

00:39:48.066 --> 00:39:51.164
Do you think that
I have understood you enough?

00:39:51.372 --> 00:39:53.464
If not, please, help me."

00:39:57.568 --> 00:40:01.288
We know that understanding ourselves

00:40:04.123 --> 00:40:07.130
will help to understand
the other person.

00:40:08.839 --> 00:40:11.459
We need to understand our own suffering,

00:40:12.619 --> 00:40:15.823
our own difficulties,

00:40:17.395 --> 00:40:19.792
before we can understand

00:40:19.938 --> 00:40:23.723
the suffering and difficulties
of the other person.

00:40:27.197 --> 00:40:30.912
When you feel understood,
you feel loved.

00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:35.737
So what you can offer
to the person you love

00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:38.483
is understanding.

00:40:39.598 --> 00:40:43.942
Understanding is something
that can grow every day.

00:40:44.129 --> 00:40:48.721
In true love, understanding
is growing every day.

00:40:51.602 --> 00:40:54.440
You have to feed your love
with understanding.

00:40:54.617 --> 00:40:57.789
You have try to understand
the other person.

00:40:58.003 --> 00:41:01.430
Specially the difficulties,
the suffering in him or in her.

00:41:02.128 --> 00:41:07.518
And if needed, you can
ask that person to help.

00:41:13.337 --> 00:41:21.695
A father may be motivated
by making his son happy,

00:41:23.563 --> 00:41:26.106
but if the father does not understand

00:41:26.359 --> 00:41:29.449
the suffering
and the difficulties of the son,

00:41:29.602 --> 00:41:31.862
the more he tries,

00:41:32.030 --> 00:41:34.955
the more he makes his son suffer.

00:41:35.109 --> 00:41:38.495
Because understanding
is very important.

00:41:38.736 --> 00:41:41.375
That is why the father
should ask the son:

00:41:41.591 --> 00:41:44.331
"My son, do you think
I understand your problems,

00:41:44.539 --> 00:41:46.698
I understand your difficulties?"

00:41:50.544 --> 00:41:54.195
And the son,
in order to be able to love his father,

00:41:54.404 --> 00:41:56.531
should do the same:

00:41:56.891 --> 00:42:00.770
"Father, do you think
that I understand you,

00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:03.453
your suffering, your difficulties?

00:42:03.543 --> 00:42:05.536
Please, tell me."

00:42:05.799 --> 00:42:08.631
So understanding is a practice.

00:42:10.589 --> 00:42:16.003
Last night we have talked

00:42:16.223 --> 00:42:20.556
about the practice of deep listening
and loving speech

00:42:21.231 --> 00:42:26.793
that can help us
to understand the suffering

00:42:27.264 --> 00:42:30.332
and to restore communication.

00:42:31.832 --> 00:42:35.103
So to love means to understand.

00:42:37.362 --> 00:42:40.772
Understanding
is the other word for love.

00:42:40.949 --> 00:42:46.838
If you don't understand someone

00:42:47.287 --> 00:42:50.272
you cannot love him or her.

00:42:50.686 --> 00:42:53.419
Cultivating understanding

00:42:54.568 --> 00:42:58.297
and creating love and compassion,

00:42:58.793 --> 00:43:02.971
that is the true element of happiness.

00:43:03.775 --> 00:43:09.101
A person without understanding and love
cannot be a happy person.

00:43:10.406 --> 00:43:13.023
With plenty of understanding and love,

00:43:13.288 --> 00:43:16.363
even if you don't have
a lot of money, fame, profit,

00:43:16.563 --> 00:43:19.233
you are a happy person anyway.

00:43:20.196 --> 00:43:22.086
That is why

00:43:22.613 --> 00:43:27.037
mindfulness is a kind of practice
that can help us to understand

00:43:28.158 --> 00:43:30.434
what is true happiness.

00:43:30.632 --> 00:43:34.749
True happiness is not made
with the objects of craving,

00:43:34.993 --> 00:43:37.096
like fame,

00:43:39.097 --> 00:43:42.903
power, wealth and sensual pleasures,

00:43:43.129 --> 00:43:46.211
but with understanding
and compassion.

00:43:48.625 --> 00:43:51.274
The Kingdom of God is a place

00:43:51.452 --> 00:43:54.774
where there is
a lot of understanding and love.

00:43:55.302 --> 00:44:01.122
We can contribute into generating
more understanding and love

00:44:01.507 --> 00:44:07.965
and make the place
a real Kingdom for all of us.

00:44:17.398 --> 00:44:22.376
The third area of practice of mindfulness

00:44:22.596 --> 00:44:25.659
is the practice of True Love.

00:44:27.338 --> 00:44:32.528
(3. Practicing True Love)

00:44:37.885 --> 00:44:39.838
We learn

00:44:42.190 --> 00:44:46.148
that sexual desire is not true love.

00:44:50.247 --> 00:44:54.248
People mix up the two,
love and sexual desire.

00:44:55.427 --> 00:44:59.235
Sexual desires very often destroy love,

00:45:00.325 --> 00:45:02.956
and create a lot of suffering.

00:45:04.852 --> 00:45:10.864
Most young people
don't know what is true love.

00:45:14.948 --> 00:45:18.827
As schoolteachers, as parents,
we have to help them.

00:45:37.103 --> 00:45:39.631
Girls and boys in high school,

00:45:40.234 --> 00:45:42.293
they suffer a lot.

00:45:42.501 --> 00:45:45.111
Because they do not know
what is true love.

00:45:48.998 --> 00:45:52.859
They are losing the most precious thing
within themselves.

00:45:53.068 --> 00:45:56.632
They continue to suffer
for all their lives,

00:45:56.862 --> 00:46:00.498
because they do not know
exactly what is true love.

00:46:23.463 --> 00:46:27.695
A boy asked his girlfriend

00:46:27.989 --> 00:46:34.468
to send him a picture of her nude.

00:46:41.491 --> 00:46:44.516
And the girl did not want to do it.

00:46:54.693 --> 00:46:56.558
But she was afraid

00:46:56.856 --> 00:47:01.922
that the boy would abandon her.

00:47:05.293 --> 00:47:10.665
So she had to send him her picture,

00:47:11.925 --> 00:47:15.864
taken with her own telephone.

00:47:17.213 --> 00:47:21.187
And the boy
showed that picture to his friends.

00:47:21.800 --> 00:47:25.158
Small things like that
happen everywhere

00:47:27.318 --> 00:47:31.791
and make the young people
suffer very deeply.

00:47:32.235 --> 00:47:36.162
That is what is going on
with the younger generation.

00:47:36.533 --> 00:47:39.432
They don't know exactly
what is true love.

00:47:45.096 --> 00:47:46.491
That is why

00:47:46.732 --> 00:47:50.500
teaching True Love to the young people
is very important.

00:47:53.985 --> 00:47:57.519
Tell them that sexual desire is not love.

00:47:57.956 --> 00:48:01.223
Tell them that true love
is made of compassion,

00:48:01.667 --> 00:48:05.897
loving kindness, joy
and non discrimination.

00:48:14.958 --> 00:48:20.566
Maitri is the Sanskrit word
for loving kindness.

00:48:21.226 --> 00:48:24.226
(maitri: loving kindness)

00:48:27.323 --> 00:48:30.494
It is very much like friendship.

00:48:35.353 --> 00:48:38.772
Maitri is the first element of true love.

00:48:41.097 --> 00:48:45.239
That is friendship,
brotherhood, sisterhood.

00:48:46.269 --> 00:48:50.768
It has the power
to offer happiness.

00:48:56.397 --> 00:49:00.356
You can generate joy and happiness,

00:49:01.960 --> 00:49:04.274
you can help generate

00:49:04.462 --> 00:49:07.991
a feeling of joy and happiness
in him or in her.

00:49:08.244 --> 00:49:10.303
That is maitri.

00:49:11.158 --> 00:49:14.104
True love should offer happiness.

00:49:19.451 --> 00:49:22.176
Not the intention to offer happiness.

00:49:22.550 --> 00:49:26.091
Because you may have a lot of intention
to make someone happy,

00:49:26.410 --> 00:49:30.246
but the way you do it
makes him or her suffer.

00:49:30.363 --> 00:49:36.593
So it is not the intention to love,
but the capacity to make someone happy.

00:49:41.795 --> 00:49:45.807
If you practice
mindful breathing, mindful walking,

00:49:46.359 --> 00:49:51.024
and restore your freshness,

00:49:52.207 --> 00:49:54.901
your beauty, your calm,

00:49:57.836 --> 00:50:02.487
you can offer
these elements to him, to her.

00:50:02.663 --> 00:50:04.755
That is maitri.

00:50:05.866 --> 00:50:07.859
You are so pleasant,

00:50:08.090 --> 00:50:10.026
you are so fresh,

00:50:10.529 --> 00:50:12.718
so pleasant to be with,

00:50:14.883 --> 00:50:18.706
you can generate
joy, happiness and peace

00:50:18.906 --> 00:50:23.628
and you can help him or her
to generate joy, happiness and peace.

00:50:23.868 --> 00:50:25.500
That is maitri.

00:50:25.671 --> 00:50:28.096
That is true love.

00:50:29.067 --> 00:50:31.000
And that is a practice,

00:50:31.200 --> 00:50:34.533
that is possible as a practice.

00:50:35.193 --> 00:50:37.866
The young people can do it.

00:50:48.152 --> 00:50:55.503
The second element
of true love is karuna,

00:50:58.507 --> 00:51:01.093
which is compassion.

00:51:06.120 --> 00:51:09.120
(karuna: compassion)

00:51:09.832 --> 00:51:16.733
Karuna is the capacity
to help someone to suffer less,

00:51:19.364 --> 00:51:22.461
to remove the suffering in him or her,

00:51:24.501 --> 00:51:27.901
to transform the suffering
in him or in her.

00:51:29.626 --> 00:51:34.823
We know that the practice
of compassionate listening

00:51:36.364 --> 00:51:39.424
can make a person suffer less.

00:51:47.634 --> 00:51:51.270
You understand
the suffering in him or in her,

00:51:52.903 --> 00:51:57.094
you help him or her
to empty his heart

00:51:58.870 --> 00:52:01.334
and suffer less.

00:52:01.974 --> 00:52:06.886
If you know how to help
a person to suffer less,

00:52:07.090 --> 00:52:12.261
you have the element
of karuna in your love.

00:52:14.328 --> 00:52:17.191
True love should have karuna.

00:52:17.361 --> 00:52:22.856
The capacity to help someone
to suffer less.

00:52:36.821 --> 00:52:41.266
With the energy of mindfulness
and compassion in you,

00:52:41.862 --> 00:52:44.551
you can do a lot of things.

00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:48.301
You can help a person to suffer less

00:52:48.502 --> 00:52:51.264
just by sitting close to him or her,

00:52:51.514 --> 00:52:56.029
or just saying something
full of compassion and understanding.

00:52:59.465 --> 00:53:06.394
Just show her the way
to restore joy and happiness.

00:53:06.624 --> 00:53:08.620
We can do many things

00:53:08.767 --> 00:53:11.867
in order to help a person
to suffer less.

00:53:17.026 --> 00:53:19.798
The third element is mudita,

00:53:25.677 --> 00:53:28.106
which is joy.

00:53:30.203 --> 00:53:32.903
(mudita: joy)

00:53:33.733 --> 00:53:38.726
If when loving someone
you make him or her suffer

00:53:38.928 --> 00:53:40.860
and cry every day,

00:53:41.062 --> 00:53:42.999
that is not true love.

00:53:43.168 --> 00:53:45.897
True love should offer joy.

00:53:46.353 --> 00:53:49.530
Joy is a mark of true love.

00:53:51.435 --> 00:53:53.899
True love should generate joy,

00:53:54.170 --> 00:53:56.870
for yourself and for him, for her.

00:53:56.899 --> 00:53:59.532
If you make him or her cry and suffer,

00:53:59.694 --> 00:54:01.499
that is not true love.

00:54:03.401 --> 00:54:06.692
The joy is of both of you.

00:54:11.330 --> 00:54:15.792
The fourth element
of true love is upeksa.

00:54:16.020 --> 00:54:21.832
Upeksa is
non discrimination, inclusiveness.

00:54:32.300 --> 00:54:34.893
Equanimity.

00:54:38.361 --> 00:54:41.361
(upeksa: equanimity)

00:54:44.167 --> 00:54:47.422
In true love,
there is no longer any frontier

00:54:47.628 --> 00:54:52.103
between you and her, and him.

00:54:55.894 --> 00:54:58.331
Your suffering is his suffering.

00:54:59.233 --> 00:55:02.232
Her happiness is your happiness.

00:55:03.195 --> 00:55:05.767
You cannot say:
"Darling, that is your problem."

00:55:06.018 --> 00:55:07.718
No.

00:55:07.930 --> 00:55:10.495
Your problem is my problem, darling.

00:55:11.066 --> 00:55:14.155
In true love
there is no longer discrimination

00:55:14.362 --> 00:55:18.267
between the lover and the beloved one.

00:55:21.539 --> 00:55:25.239
Your happiness is her happiness.

00:55:26.130 --> 00:55:29.281
Your suffering is his suffering.

00:55:31.425 --> 00:55:35.713
No discrimination.
You include everyone.

00:55:36.762 --> 00:55:39.472
You include each other.

00:55:40.343 --> 00:55:43.062
If it is true love,

00:55:44.394 --> 00:55:47.594
it continues to grow every day.

00:55:49.119 --> 00:55:52.312
The moment when love stops growing,

00:55:52.468 --> 00:55:54.658
it begins to die.

00:55:57.626 --> 00:56:01.333
We have witnessed
the death of love several times.

00:56:01.556 --> 00:56:04.405
Love turning into hate and anger

00:56:05.006 --> 00:56:09.139
because you don't know
how to feed your love.

00:56:11.494 --> 00:56:14.860
The Buddha said that
nothing can survive without food.

00:56:18.124 --> 00:56:20.533
Our depression also.

00:56:21.104 --> 00:56:23.426
If our depression continues,

00:56:23.626 --> 00:56:27.036
it is because we keep
feeding our depression.

00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:36.593
If we know how to
stop feeding our depression,

00:56:36.793 --> 00:56:39.079
our depression will have to die,

00:56:39.392 --> 00:56:41.630
it will go away.

00:56:42.533 --> 00:56:44.537
The same thing is true with our love.

00:56:44.909 --> 00:56:48.176
If we do not know
how to feed our love daily,

00:56:48.806 --> 00:56:50.964
it will stop growing,

00:56:51.131 --> 00:56:53.626
it will die, slowly.

00:56:54.935 --> 00:56:57.068
That is why

00:57:02.759 --> 00:57:07.585
to practice in order to help our love
to grow every day

00:57:10.998 --> 00:57:15.487
is to guarantee happiness,
continued happiness.

00:57:21.359 --> 00:57:25.329
With the practice
of upeksa, inclusiveness,

00:57:26.092 --> 00:57:29.664
your love continues to grow every day.

00:57:29.833 --> 00:57:31.920
It begins with two persons,

00:57:32.644 --> 00:57:35.233
but as you are happy 
in that true love,

00:57:35.438 --> 00:57:39.489
your love very soon
includes a third, a fourth person.

00:57:42.216 --> 00:57:44.794
You don't discriminate anymore.

00:57:46.063 --> 00:57:48.412
You don't love a person

00:57:48.613 --> 00:57:52.912
just because she comes
from the same country,

00:57:54.500 --> 00:57:59.031
because she follows
the same religious belief.

00:58:00.297 --> 00:58:04.757
There is no discrimination whatsoever
in true love.

00:58:05.530 --> 00:58:08.341
Everyone will be
included in your love.

00:58:08.564 --> 00:58:13.284
Your love continues to grow
and embraces everyone,

00:58:13.418 --> 00:58:15.627
not only humans,

00:58:15.813 --> 00:58:19.162
but also animals, plants and minerals.

00:58:19.461 --> 00:58:24.715
That is the love of a great being.

00:58:27.985 --> 00:58:35.038
Including everything,
that is upeksa.

00:58:39.571 --> 00:58:43.197
The practice of true love
has to be taught in school.

00:58:48.889 --> 00:58:54.269
Schoolteachers should embody true love.

00:59:27.433 --> 00:59:41.001
(4. Practicing Loving Speech
and Deep Listening)

00:59:43.196 --> 00:59:46.280
The fourth area of the practice

00:59:46.520 --> 00:59:50.016
is the practice of loving speech

00:59:50.253 --> 00:59:54.358
and deep listening.

00:59:55.630 --> 00:59:59.326
This is the fourth mindfulness training.

01:00:00.085 --> 01:00:04.524
Yesterday we spoke a little
about that practice already.

01:00:08.233 --> 01:00:11.280
If we know how to use loving speech,

01:00:13.006 --> 01:00:17.729
if we can talk lovingly
and compassionately to another person,

01:00:18.423 --> 01:00:21.192
that person will open her heart

01:00:21.367 --> 01:00:25.736
and tell us about the suffering,
the difficulties that she has.

01:00:28.597 --> 01:00:31.671
If you know how to
listen with compassion,

01:00:33.984 --> 01:00:37.523
then you can restore communication

01:00:38.690 --> 01:00:41.627
and bring about reconciliation.

01:00:45.901 --> 01:00:48.862
In the case of schoolteachers,

01:00:49.095 --> 01:00:53.620
this practice should be done
with the people in the family first.

01:00:58.735 --> 01:01:03.449
When we have succeeded
with the members of our family,

01:01:03.862 --> 01:01:06.792
we can bring the practice to the school.

01:01:08.181 --> 01:01:12.330
If we have difficulties
with our colleagues,

01:01:13.625 --> 01:01:18.229
then we can
restore communication and reconcile.

01:01:20.303 --> 01:01:24.167
Finally, we can bring that
into our school.

01:01:28.647 --> 01:01:30.779
Without these practices,

01:01:30.994 --> 01:01:33.971
teachers can make students suffer

01:01:34.370 --> 01:01:37.941
and students can make
teachers suffer.

01:01:38.784 --> 01:01:43.439
There is a gap
between the two generations.

01:01:51.884 --> 01:01:53.600
We can imagine

01:01:54.784 --> 01:01:57.856
teachers and students sitting together,

01:01:58.240 --> 01:02:02.278
talking to each other about
the suffering they have gone through.

01:02:05.765 --> 01:02:09.641
Teachers have to be able
to tell the students:

01:02:10.933 --> 01:02:13.241
"I know you have suffered.

01:02:13.475 --> 01:02:17.094
I know you may have
difficulties in your family."

01:02:18.098 --> 01:02:19.893
And so on.

NOTE Paragraph

01:02:20.140 --> 01:02:23.153
"If you don't make
much progress in your studies,

01:02:23.552 --> 01:02:27.113
it is due to these difficulties.

01:02:27.514 --> 01:02:30.308
So please, tell me, tell us."

01:02:32.046 --> 01:02:36.370
The whole class can sit
and listen with compassion.

01:02:37.507 --> 01:02:40.812
That will transform the students.

01:02:42.442 --> 01:02:46.707
Because other students
may have the same kind of suffering.

01:02:49.169 --> 01:02:50.946
It would be lovely

01:02:51.212 --> 01:02:53.244
if schoolteachers can sit down

01:02:53.410 --> 01:02:58.291
and listen to the suffering
of their own students.

01:03:00.224 --> 01:03:03.120
We should have the time to do it.

01:03:09.464 --> 01:03:14.092
Last week, in a retreat at Madrid,

01:03:14.957 --> 01:03:18.836
during a session
of questions and answers,

01:03:19.427 --> 01:03:24.894
a boy of 11 came up
and asked a question.

01:03:26.090 --> 01:03:31.944
He suffered, he begins to have
difficulties in sleeping.

01:03:33.080 --> 01:03:36.506
He blamed everything on his mother.

01:03:43.464 --> 01:03:47.448
I believe that all mothers want
their sons and daughters to be happy.

01:03:47.856 --> 01:03:49.765
They have a plan,

01:03:49.958 --> 01:03:53.794
they have ideas as how their sons
and daughters can be happy.

01:03:54.010 --> 01:03:57.712
They just deliver that kind of message.

01:04:00.635 --> 01:04:02.361
The boy suffered,

01:04:02.453 --> 01:04:05.032
even when his mother
said goodnight.

01:04:05.213 --> 01:04:08.964
Why do you suffer
when your mother says goodnight?

01:04:09.155 --> 01:04:11.825
Because your mother
may mean by "Goodnight":

01:04:12.957 --> 01:04:15.804
"Don't stay up late,

01:04:15.999 --> 01:04:18.701
don't play electronic games!"

01:04:18.877 --> 01:04:22.438
There is a blaming
in that kind of things.

01:04:23.742 --> 01:04:28.190
The relationship between mother and son
has become difficult.

01:04:29.006 --> 01:04:30.633
So he came up,

01:04:30.803 --> 01:04:34.290
and in front of 600 people
he asked the question:

01:04:34.475 --> 01:04:36.037
"Dear Thay,

01:04:36.258 --> 01:04:39.851
I start having difficulties in sleeping.

01:04:40.128 --> 01:04:42.803
My mother is always like that,

01:04:43.667 --> 01:04:46.816
imposing things on me."

01:04:47.616 --> 01:04:49.458
And so on.

01:04:50.803 --> 01:04:54.571
The mother believes that
she is acting out of love.

01:04:54.760 --> 01:04:59.164
She is prescribing the right thing
for his son to do.

01:05:00.658 --> 01:05:03.191
Like a teacher.

01:05:08.348 --> 01:05:14.321
But the way she does it,

01:05:15.388 --> 01:05:17.843
did not work.

01:05:18.877 --> 01:05:24.903
Because she does not feel
well in herself.

01:05:26.643 --> 01:05:29.349
So I answered the boy:

01:05:30.425 --> 01:05:34.980
"You know that mothers have
their own difficulties and suffering.

01:05:37.065 --> 01:05:41.161
You believe that
you are the only one who suffers.

01:05:41.491 --> 01:05:43.321
But you don't know

01:05:43.508 --> 01:05:46.110
that your mother
has difficulties and suffering also.

01:05:46.284 --> 01:05:48.832
You have not had the time

01:05:49.068 --> 01:05:52.580
to think about the difficulties
and suffering of your mother.

01:05:52.755 --> 01:05:55.335
You have not helped
your mother to suffer less.

01:05:55.486 --> 01:05:57.781
In fact,
you have reacted in such a way

01:05:57.988 --> 01:06:01.130
that makes your mother suffer more.

01:06:02.499 --> 01:06:05.997
Please, think about her, her suffering,

01:06:06.182 --> 01:06:09.073
and not just your suffering.

01:06:10.836 --> 01:06:14.338
You should go and ask your mother

01:06:15.133 --> 01:06:19.321
what kind of suffering
she is undergoing,

01:06:19.717 --> 01:06:23.577
what kind of difficulties
she has in herself.

01:06:25.718 --> 01:06:27.455
Maybe she does not know

01:06:27.632 --> 01:06:29.687
how to handle the suffering in herself.

01:06:29.879 --> 01:06:31.386
That is why,

01:06:31.544 --> 01:06:34.021
the way she tells you
what to do and not to do

01:06:34.254 --> 01:06:36.510
makes you irritated."

01:06:36.671 --> 01:06:41.573
Why I was giving that answer
to the young men?

01:06:41.772 --> 01:06:45.273
Many mothers down there were crying.

01:06:46.090 --> 01:06:49.802
Because we, mothers,
we also have our own suffering.

01:06:49.970 --> 01:06:53.305
And our sons and daughters
do not know that we suffer.

01:06:53.508 --> 01:06:55.637
They just blame us.

01:07:01.251 --> 01:07:04.295
Your students, they suffer.

01:07:05.170 --> 01:07:07.994
They have difficulties
with their mother,

01:07:08.296 --> 01:07:11.362
their father and so on.

01:07:15.170 --> 01:07:18.343
Talking to them
showing them the practice,

01:07:18.630 --> 01:07:21.227
can help them to suffer less.

01:07:21.633 --> 01:07:24.172
And you can do better.

01:07:25.120 --> 01:07:27.653
Because these young people,

01:07:28.018 --> 01:07:30.636
when they have overcome the difficulties,

01:07:30.636 --> 01:07:34.014
when they have understood
the suffering of their parents,

01:07:34.134 --> 01:07:35.972
they go back and help their parents.

01:07:37.994 --> 01:07:43.157
We have organized retreats
of mindfulness for young people.

01:07:45.886 --> 01:07:49.510
In Europe, in America, in Asia.

01:07:50.242 --> 01:07:52.536
And many young people

01:07:52.775 --> 01:07:55.748
get transformation and healing
during the retreat.

01:07:56.186 --> 01:08:00.149
When they went home,
they helped their parents

01:08:01.319 --> 01:08:09.363
and they were able to restore
communication with their parents,

01:08:10.588 --> 01:08:14.813
and many of them are able
to invite their parents to join a retreat.

01:08:15.638 --> 01:08:18.396
Schoolteachers can do the same.

01:08:18.870 --> 01:08:22.307
We can help students to suffer less,

01:08:23.166 --> 01:08:25.085
to understand,

01:08:25.296 --> 01:08:26.995
to suffer less.

01:08:27.213 --> 01:08:29.510
And that student can go home

01:08:29.714 --> 01:08:33.460
and help his parents
to suffer less also.

01:08:34.654 --> 01:08:39.229
This has been possible
with the practice of mindfulness.

01:08:46.720 --> 01:08:48.360
(Bell)

01:08:49.370 --> 01:08:50.984
(Bell)

01:08:54.113 --> 01:09:00.173
(Bell)

01:09:22.519 --> 01:09:26.121
A retreat of mindfulness
usually lasts 6 days.

01:09:26.584 --> 01:09:30.289
Our retreat has only 2 days and a half.

01:09:32.348 --> 01:09:35.181
During the first 3, 4 days

01:09:39.267 --> 01:09:49.400
we learn how to water the seeds
of understanding and compassion in us.

01:09:50.217 --> 01:09:56.167
We learn how to calm down
our emotions and feelings.

01:09:57.901 --> 01:10:03.285
We try to touch the wonders of life,
refreshing and healing,

01:10:03.545 --> 01:10:05.830
to heal ourselves.

01:10:06.576 --> 01:10:08.384
And that is why

01:10:08.580 --> 01:10:10.836
on the 5th day
we can put into practice

01:10:11.026 --> 01:10:16.616
the teaching of
deep listening and loving speech.

01:10:19.786 --> 01:10:24.498
The miracle of reconciliation
always takes place in our retreats.

01:10:27.892 --> 01:10:30.505
If the other person is in the retreat

01:10:30.685 --> 01:10:32.994
that will be easy.

01:10:33.296 --> 01:10:37.125
Because he or she has been exposed
to the teachings and the practice.

01:10:38.187 --> 01:10:43.097
The seeds of understanding and compassion
have been watered

01:10:43.478 --> 01:10:45.325
by the Dharma talks,

01:10:45.557 --> 01:10:49.418
by the practice of mindful breathing
and looking deeply.

01:10:50.799 --> 01:10:53.550
But if the other person
is not in the retreat

01:10:53.691 --> 01:10:58.281
you can use your
portable telephone to practice.

01:10:58.977 --> 01:11:06.472
Usually, we encourage
the people to do it

01:11:09.734 --> 01:11:14.209
before the end of the retreat.

01:11:14.678 --> 01:11:21.320
They have until midnight of the 5th day
in order to do it.

01:11:22.049 --> 01:11:24.725
Many people have used the telephone

01:11:24.885 --> 01:11:26.961
and it works very well.

01:11:27.135 --> 01:11:30.992
Many people report
on the last day of the retreat

01:11:31.476 --> 01:11:36.369
that the night before have telephoned
their parents, their partner,

01:11:37.789 --> 01:11:43.158
using the techniques of
compassionate listening and loving speech,

01:11:44.886 --> 01:11:47.585
restore communication and reconcile.

01:11:48.766 --> 01:11:53.021
So the miracle of reconciliation
always takes place in our retreats.

01:11:54.649 --> 01:11:58.176
And this can be done in the classroom.

01:12:03.242 --> 01:12:06.840
I believe that, as schoolteachers,

01:12:07.016 --> 01:12:08.878
we have to tell our students

01:12:09.089 --> 01:12:12.244
about our difficulties
and our suffering.

01:12:13.047 --> 01:12:15.337
Schoolteachers do suffer

01:12:16.608 --> 01:12:20.786
and we have the right
to tell our students about that.

01:12:22.641 --> 01:12:25.333
We can begin our class by saying

01:12:27.374 --> 01:12:34.175
that in order to improve the quality
of the teaching and the learning,

01:12:40.881 --> 01:12:44.334
so that the teachers
enjoy teaching

01:12:44.804 --> 01:12:48.146
and the students enjoy learning,

01:12:49.477 --> 01:12:52.410
we have to do something.

01:12:52.623 --> 01:12:55.896
Otherwise, both sides will suffer.

01:12:56.063 --> 01:12:59.309
So would you agree that we do something

01:12:59.985 --> 01:13:04.002
in order for the schoolteachers
enjoy the teaching

01:13:04.369 --> 01:13:06.878
and the students enjoy the learning?

01:13:07.012 --> 01:13:10.376
Because the suffering in us
prevents us from doing so.

01:13:10.768 --> 01:13:16.211
So I should tell you
my suffering, my difficulties

01:13:17.080 --> 01:13:21.079
and you should also tell me
your difficulties, your suffering.

01:13:22.079 --> 01:13:24.199
We should understand each other.

01:13:24.292 --> 01:13:26.940
And after we have mutual understanding,

01:13:27.568 --> 01:13:29.798
we don't blame each other any more,

01:13:29.934 --> 01:13:32.769
we don't make it difficult
for each other any more,

01:13:32.909 --> 01:13:40.312
and we can go more easily and quickly

01:13:40.943 --> 01:13:44.973
on the path of teaching and learning.

01:13:53.003 --> 01:13:56.752
There are many things
that we can do in the classroom

01:13:57.086 --> 01:14:00.403
in order to help students
to suffer less.

01:14:01.959 --> 01:14:08.635
Like schoolteachers leading sessions
of total, deep relaxation.

01:14:13.737 --> 01:14:20.886
Because the young people have tension
in their body and in their feelings also.

01:14:23.953 --> 01:14:27.206
A good student can also learn

01:14:27.334 --> 01:14:32.843
how to lead a session of
total relaxation for the whole class,

01:14:34.693 --> 01:14:36.732
lying on the grass

01:14:39.619 --> 01:14:40.989
and so on.

01:14:46.732 --> 01:14:48.686
If you notice

01:14:49.286 --> 01:14:54.386
that a boy or a girl
suffers in the class,

01:14:56.229 --> 01:14:59.412
she seems to be very upset,
her mind is not there,

01:14:59.606 --> 01:15:02.470
how can she learn?

01:15:03.788 --> 01:15:06.359
So we can address her

01:15:09.990 --> 01:15:13.054
and ask what is wrong.

01:15:14.756 --> 01:15:16.250
And she may say:

01:15:16.464 --> 01:15:21.732
"My mother
was hospitalized this morning,

01:15:22.696 --> 01:15:26.432
and I don't know
if she can survive or not."

01:15:26.822 --> 01:15:30.962
With that kind of feeling,
how can she learn?

01:15:31.864 --> 01:15:35.956
You cannot impose
your will on her.

01:15:42.758 --> 01:15:46.253
So the teacher can address
the whole class and say:

01:15:46.416 --> 01:15:56.653
"We have a student
whose mother is hospitalized

01:15:56.795 --> 01:15:59.384
and she worries much about that.

01:15:59.492 --> 01:16:01.553
Shall we, the whole class,

01:16:01.658 --> 01:16:06.095
practice breathing together, mindfully?

01:16:08.667 --> 01:16:12.383
We will send this energy
of mindfulness and compassion

01:16:12.508 --> 01:16:14.625
to her mother."

01:16:15.925 --> 01:16:19.449
Using that kind of
collective energy of mindfulness

01:16:19.509 --> 01:16:25.055
generated by the breathing
done by teachers and other students,

01:16:25.790 --> 01:16:33.870
you can help calm down that student

01:16:36.489 --> 01:16:39.925
and she may be able to follow the class.

01:16:41.918 --> 01:16:44.125
There are things like that

01:16:44.302 --> 01:16:46.819
that schoolteachers can do.

01:16:48.989 --> 01:16:52.940
There are
difficult elements in the class.

01:16:53.715 --> 01:16:55.196
If we look deeply,

01:16:55.377 --> 01:16:59.324
we will see why
that young man, young woman

01:16:59.818 --> 01:17:02.592
behaves in that way.

01:17:02.989 --> 01:17:06.033
If we have enough compassion to inquire,

01:17:06.215 --> 01:17:08.014
we find out

01:17:08.137 --> 01:17:10.723
and the whole class
may come and help.

01:17:12.490 --> 01:17:14.354
So listening to each other

01:17:14.508 --> 01:17:17.026
and understanding
the suffering of each other

01:17:22.440 --> 01:17:27.248
we can calm down
the feelings, the emotions.

01:17:29.003 --> 01:17:32.434
We can promote mutual understanding

01:17:33.639 --> 01:17:36.184
and we don't make
each other suffer any more.

01:17:36.284 --> 01:17:38.786
We make it easier for everyone

01:17:38.988 --> 01:17:42.995
in the task of teaching and learning.

01:17:49.287 --> 01:17:52.656
Henri, who was a
professor of mathematics

01:17:53.556 --> 01:17:57.362
in the French school of Toronto,

01:17:57.786 --> 01:18:00.366
after having spent
three weeks in Plum Village,

01:18:00.552 --> 01:18:03.010
he went back to his school

01:18:03.162 --> 01:18:06.278
and practiced mindfulness
with his students.

01:18:07.796 --> 01:18:11.283
He walks slowly
and mindfully into the class.

01:18:12.115 --> 01:18:16.224
He begins to erase what is
on the blackboard mindfully

01:18:16.584 --> 01:18:17.953
and they say:

01:18:18.073 --> 01:18:20.059
"Dear teacher,
are you sick?"

01:18:20.262 --> 01:18:21.838
(Laughter)

01:18:21.940 --> 01:18:23.747
He says: "No, I am not sick.

01:18:23.906 --> 01:18:26.266
I just practice mindful walking,

01:18:26.356 --> 01:18:27.803
mindful...

01:18:29.033 --> 01:18:30.782
I enjoy that.

01:18:31.186 --> 01:18:33.352
I feel a lot of peace.

01:18:33.595 --> 01:18:37.466
I am very relaxed
because I have learned mindfulness.

01:18:38.581 --> 01:18:42.269
Would you like me
to tell you what I did in Plum Village?"

01:18:42.971 --> 01:18:44.894
And they listened.

01:18:46.406 --> 01:18:50.625
They agreed that every 15 minutes,

01:18:51.356 --> 01:18:56.269
a boy would clap his hands,

01:18:58.425 --> 01:19:01.527
because they did not have
a bell of mindfulness,

01:19:01.745 --> 01:19:03.800
and every one,
including the teacher,

01:19:03.976 --> 01:19:06.631
would practice
mindful breathing and relax.

01:19:06.779 --> 01:19:08.768
Stop the thinking.

01:19:10.789 --> 01:19:14.730
And that helped
very much in the learning.

01:19:17.637 --> 01:19:20.802
In the beginning,
it was like a play,

01:19:21.171 --> 01:19:24.142
but finally it worked very well.

01:19:27.064 --> 01:19:29.829
Transformation and healing took place

01:19:30.199 --> 01:19:33.192
and the class made a lot of progress.

01:19:39.827 --> 01:19:43.461
Other classes followed their example.

01:19:52.288 --> 01:19:56.515
And when he came
to the age of retirement,

01:19:57.537 --> 01:20:03.255
the administration asked him
to stay for a few more years.

01:20:05.035 --> 01:20:08.802
He was able to bring the practice
of mindfulness into the school

01:20:08.980 --> 01:20:13.278
and improve the quality
of teaching and learning in the school.

01:20:26.836 --> 01:20:30.093
So the practice of loving speech
and deep listening

01:20:31.870 --> 01:20:36.964
should create an atmosphere
of mutual understanding in the class

01:20:39.243 --> 01:20:43.442
and the students will not
make it difficult for teachers.

01:20:46.243 --> 01:20:50.626
The quality of teaching
and learning will be improved.

01:21:00.336 --> 01:21:04.302
Mindfulness can be practiced
in the realm

01:21:06.954 --> 01:21:13.233
of mindful consumption.

01:21:14.782 --> 01:21:21.114
(5. Practicing Mindful Consumption)

01:21:30.746 --> 01:21:33.636
Our society is a society of consumption.

01:21:33.815 --> 01:21:41.606
We believe that happiness
is to have enough money

01:21:41.673 --> 01:21:44.507
to buy whatever you want to buy.

01:21:47.951 --> 01:21:50.662
That is an idea about happiness.

01:21:52.544 --> 01:21:54.007
But we already know

01:21:54.169 --> 01:21:58.118
that true happiness
is made of understanding and love.

01:21:59.636 --> 01:22:03.914
You cannot buy understanding
and love in the supermarket.

01:22:04.993 --> 01:22:10.380
You have to generate these two things
by the practice.

01:22:20.337 --> 01:22:23.758
This, again,
should be taught in the school.

01:22:26.451 --> 01:22:28.181
The first...

01:22:29.197 --> 01:22:30.993
The kind of...

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In the Buddhist tradition,

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we speak about
the four kinds of nutriments.

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Four kinds of food.

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Four kinds of consumption.

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First of all,

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there is the edible food.

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(edible food)

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That is the kind of food

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that we consume by the way of the mouth.

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Your health depends very much
on what you eat.

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We should eat in such a way

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that can preserve
compassion in our heart,

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helps living beings
to suffer less,

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and helps to protect our planet.

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The consumption of meat and alcohol

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has destroyed much of
our environment and our health.

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We have learned that eating meat
is more polluting than driving a car.

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The meat and alcohol industries
have caused a lot of damage

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to our environment.

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We have learned that
the amount of grain used to make alcohol

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and feed the livestock is huge.

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Tens of thousands of people die every day

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because of the lack of food.

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The Buddha told
the story of a young couple

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who tried to flee from their country

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to take refuge in another country.

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They brought their little boy with them.

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They had to cross a desert

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in order to go to the other country
to take political asylum.

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But they did not calculate well.

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Half way to the desert,
they ran out of food.

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They knew that
the three of them were going to die.

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So finally they made a terrible decision:

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to kill the little boy
and eat the flesh to survive,

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hoping to get out of the desert.

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So after having killed the boy,
they ate one morsel of that flesh

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and preserved the rest
on their shoulder, to dry.

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Every time after having eaten
a piece of that flesh

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they asked: "Where is now
our beloved little boy?"

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They pulled their hair,
they beat their chest,

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they suffered quite a lot.

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But finally they got out of the desert
and were accepted as refugees.

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The Buddha must have heard that story
directly from that couple.

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He told the people listening to him:

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"Dear friends,

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do you think that the couple

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enjoyed eating the flesh
of their little boy?"

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And they said: "No, dear teacher.

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It is impossible for you to enjoy
eating the flesh of your own boy."

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The Buddha then said:

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"In that case, my friends,

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let us eat in such a way

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that we will not eat the flesh
of our sons and daughters."

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The 40.000 children who die every day
because of the lack of food and nutrition,

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who are they?

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They are our sons and daughters.

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The amount of grain that is used
to make alcohol and meat

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should have been used
to save the lives of these children.

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So practicing eating
and drinking mindfully

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we can preserve our compassion,
protect life.

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If there is no compassion in our heart

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we cannot be a happy person.

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Our students can understand this.

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We learn that
if we can reduce the eating of meat

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and the drinking of alcohol
in the developed countries,

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we can already transform
the situation of the Earth.

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So stopping eating meat,
stopping drinking alcohol,

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or reducing it significantly,

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we can save our planet,
we can save lives,

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we can preserve our compassion.

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That is the first source of nutriment:

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edible food.

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(senses impressions)

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The second source of nutriment
is the sense impressions.

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You consume not only with your mouth,

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but with your eyes, ears,
nose, body, mind.

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When you read a newspaper,
you consume.

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When you watch television, you consume.

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When you listen to a conversation,
to music, you consume.

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And what you consume every day

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may contain a lot of poisons, toxins.

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That is not good for your health.

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Our children consume television
several hours a day.

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Many boys and girls spend
5 hours or more with electronic games.

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There is a lot of violence, craving
fear and anger

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in what they consume.

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So consuming that amount
of toxins and poisons

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will not be good
for our physical and mental health.

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Even psychotherapists,
they are supposed to help patients.

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But they spend a lot of time
listening to stories of suffering,

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a lot of despair, hate and sorrow.

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If psychotherapists
don't know how to practice

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generating joy, happiness,
compassion,

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they will lose their balance

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and they will get sick.

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We should know our limits

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so that we can continue for a long time

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in our efforts to help others.

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A conversation can also be highly toxic.

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What the other person tells you

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may be full of anger,
despair, violence.

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During the hour
you are listening to him or to her.

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you consume.

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That is not healthy for you.

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The young people are consuming
a lot of poisons and toxins

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including violence, fear,
despair and anger.

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That is why,

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in the family and in the classroom

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we have to discuss about the practice
of the fifth mindfulness training:

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mindful consumption.

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Mindful consumption is the way out.

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To ensure a physical and mental health

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you have to practice
mindfulness of consumption.

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When you watch a film,

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they stop the film
from time to time for advertisement.

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You consume advertisements.

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They want you to buy.

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That touches
the seed of craving in you.

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You don't need to buy,

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but they urge you to buy.

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And they think
that if you don't buy it,

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you don't have happiness.

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They make you believe

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that happiness is possible
when you have money to buy things.

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But that is not
a right view about happiness.

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True happiness is made of
understanding and love.

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Our students, our children
have to learn about true happiness.

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We should sit down
as a family, as a classroom,

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to discuss about
right, mindful consumption.

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There are articles
in the magazines, in the newspapers,

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that are full of anger, fear, violence.

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And journalists don't report enough
about the healthy things,

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like this retreat.

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(Laughter)

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It is not sensational
the breathing in and out,

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walking peacefully.

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The stories they cover
and the stories that we read

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always contain a lot of anger,
despair, violence and so on.

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That day was the day to commemorate
the death of Mahatma Gandhi.

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I was in New Delhi,

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and a newspaper,
The Times of India,

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invited me to be 
guess editor of that day.

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A peace edition.

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So we brought
a number of monastics

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to come to the headquarters
of The Times of India

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and prepared a peace edition.

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That morning bad news came.

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There was a bombing in a city nearby.

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We and other editors
of The Times of India

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were sitting around a big table.

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They asked:

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"Dear Thay, what journalists
should do on a morning like this?

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Terrorist attacks, bombing."

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I advised everyone
to practice mindful breathing

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and calm down.

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We should not say something right away.

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We have to say it with calm inside.

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After a few minutes
of mindful breathing, I said:

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"Of course, we have to report the news.

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But we have to report in such a way,

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that we will not water
the seeds of anger, fear and violence.

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That would be destructive.

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We report about the truth,

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but help people to understand

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why people do things like these.

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They are victims of misunderstanding.

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They are motivated by anger, fear

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and the desire to punish.

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They don't see

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that people do not need punishment.

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They need help.

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We should report.

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But there is a way of reporting

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that can water the seeds
of understanding and compassion

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in the heart of the readers.

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So in that day,

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we tried to write a report
on the terrorist attack in such a way

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that helped people to know

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why people have done 
such a thing to their own countrymen.

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When you read it you can see

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that we water understanding
and compassion in you.

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If we consume without mindfulness,

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we get a lot of toxins and poisons

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and we get sick.

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Our family will get sick,
our city gets sick,

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our country gets sick.

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And we can easily
involve ourselves into a war.

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(volition)

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The third kind of nutriment
is volition.

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It means our aspiration,
our deepest desire.

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Each one of us wants to do
something with his life.

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Each one of us should have
the time to sit down

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and ask himself:

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What do I want to do with my life?

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What is my deepest aspiration?

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Because there are those who think

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that their deepest desire
is to have a lot of money,

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to be number one

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in their business.

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To have a lot of power, fame, and sex,

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sensual pleasures.

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But running after
these objects of craving

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can bring destruction
to our body and mind.

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So that is not
my deepest aspiration.

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The terrorists,

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what they want to do most
is to punish.

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They may believe that they do so
in the name of justice, of God.

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But it is motivated
by the desire to punish,

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to destroy.

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That is not good food.

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When you are motivated by anger,

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by the desire to punish,

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your nutriment is not healthy.

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But if you are motivated

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by the desire to help
young people to suffer less,

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that is good nutriment.

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If your desire is to change the world
in a better direction,

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that is good food.

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If your desire is
to help people to suffer less,

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to know how to practice true love,

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to promote mutual
understanding and reconciliation

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that is good food.

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When you have
that block of energy in you,

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you are strong enough

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to overcome
whatever obstacles on your path.

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So the third kind of nutriment

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is... (Vietnamese)

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The third kind of nutriment
is a source of energy.

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We have to find it out.

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If our deepest desire
is to protect the environment,

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to protect Mother Earth,

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that is a good desire,
that is good food.

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You have a good motivation.

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What you want to do with your life

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is the third nutriment,
volition.

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We have to help the young people

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to have a good aspiration,

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finding the meaning of life,

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making their lives meaningful,

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giving them a lot of energy

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so that they have something meaningful
to do with their lives.

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If schoolteachers have it,

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have that source
of energy in themselves,

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they can transmit it
to their students.

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I am also a teacher.

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Every day I transmit to my students,

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monastic and lay people,

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that kind of energy.

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My students

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have a very simple life,

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specially the monastics.

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No one of them

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have a bank account.

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No one of them have a salary.

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No one of them have
a private home, private car.

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And yet,
they are happy people.

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They spend time
building brotherhood, sisterhood,

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a community of practice.

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They have organized retreats
to help people to suffer less.

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We operate not as individuals,

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but as a community.

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Joy, happiness, compassion,

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are possible with a simple life,

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provided that you have
a source of aspiration.

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That is the third nutriment:

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the ideal to serve and
to help people to suffer less.

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So teachers should,
first of all,

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have that kind of aspiration.

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And then, they can
transmit to their students

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the same kind of energy.

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When the students
have that kind of energy,

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they suffer less.

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They know where to go.

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In what direction to go

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and not to destroy their body and mind

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looking for sensual pleasures and so on.

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The last source of nutriment
is consciousness.

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(consciousness)

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We consume our own consciousness.

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There are good things
in our consciousness to consume.

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In our consciousness there is a Hell.

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There is also a Paradise,
the Kingdom of God.

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In Buddhism,
we speak about consciousness

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in terms of seeds.

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(seeds)

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There is a seed of love.

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There is a seed of compassion,

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the seed of joy, of happiness,

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the seed of brotherhood, sisterhood,

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forgiveness,

01:47:07.085 --> 01:47:09.862
there are many good things
in our consciousness.

01:47:09.976 --> 01:47:15.831
If we know how to water
the seeds every day,

01:47:16.588 --> 01:47:18.797
they will grow.

01:47:19.077 --> 01:47:20.988
The Paradise,

01:47:21.574 --> 01:47:24.600
the Kingdom of God
will be for us to consume.

01:47:29.473 --> 01:47:32.855
When you listen to a talk like this,

01:47:34.952 --> 01:47:38.067
when you have a discussion
about compassion,

01:47:38.289 --> 01:47:41.380
how to help people
to suffer less,

01:47:45.833 --> 01:47:48.632
you water the good seeds in you.

01:47:50.064 --> 01:47:51.954
It means that the Paradise,

01:47:52.067 --> 01:47:54.724
the Kingdom of God
is in you.

01:47:55.588 --> 01:47:58.388
You help it to manifest

01:47:58.841 --> 01:48:02.162
for yourself and for your beloved ones.

01:48:02.786 --> 01:48:05.723
But there is also Hell inside.

01:48:07.492 --> 01:48:11.605
The suffering transmitted to us

01:48:11.715 --> 01:48:14.650
by our parents and ancestors.

01:48:17.264 --> 01:48:20.557
Suffering that has not been understood,

01:48:21.127 --> 01:48:23.768
that has not been transformed

01:48:24.011 --> 01:48:26.332
and that has been transmitted to you,

01:48:27.103 --> 01:48:28.902
to us.

01:48:29.750 --> 01:48:32.202
If we know the practice,

01:48:32.772 --> 01:48:34.457
we can transform them.

01:48:34.595 --> 01:48:36.196
Otherwise,

01:48:36.415 --> 01:48:39.237
they are always there,
in our consciousness.

01:48:40.984 --> 01:48:44.819
The sufferings of our ancestors
are still there, in us.

01:48:45.991 --> 01:48:49.688
We continue to suffer
the suffering of our ancestors.

01:48:51.503 --> 01:48:54.529
Their frustration,
their anger, their fear,

01:48:55.352 --> 01:48:57.698
are still in us.

01:48:58.478 --> 01:49:02.179
Also during our childhood
we may have suffered.

01:49:02.777 --> 01:49:05.174
We may have been abused

01:49:06.096 --> 01:49:09.480
with violence.

01:49:12.115 --> 01:49:14.890
Many of us tend to go back

01:49:14.944 --> 01:49:17.837
to that dark corner
in our consciousness

01:49:18.828 --> 01:49:23.455
and experience again
the suffering of the past.

01:49:25.710 --> 01:49:29.474
We know that life
in the present moment is wonderful.

01:49:30.141 --> 01:49:31.768
The blue sky,

01:49:31.857 --> 01:49:34.692
the beautiful trees.

01:49:36.113 --> 01:49:39.005
Flowers, children.

01:49:39.498 --> 01:49:42.203
But we are not capable

01:49:42.388 --> 01:49:46.169
of being established
in the present moment.

01:49:47.032 --> 01:49:50.625
Because we have a painful past.

01:49:51.075 --> 01:49:56.090
Many of us are drawn back
to that dark corner of the past

01:49:56.748 --> 01:49:59.275
and watch again and again

01:49:59.385 --> 01:50:02.444
the projections
of the films of the past

01:50:02.925 --> 01:50:07.414
in order to experience again
the suffering of the past.

01:50:07.971 --> 01:50:10.503
That is a kind of prison.

01:50:12.767 --> 01:50:14.381
If the other person,

01:50:14.511 --> 01:50:18.078
if your partner uses to do that,

01:50:18.158 --> 01:50:20.540
you have to help him or her to get out.

01:50:20.710 --> 01:50:22.114
"Darling,

01:50:22.231 --> 01:50:24.788
life is beautiful out here
in the present moment.

01:50:24.929 --> 01:50:30.006
Why do you go always back
to that dark place?

01:50:30.734 --> 01:50:32.832
That is only the past.

01:50:34.291 --> 01:50:36.814
The past is already gone."

01:50:37.666 --> 01:50:40.080
With mindfulness, with joy

01:50:40.202 --> 01:50:42.862
you can help bring him or her

01:50:43.008 --> 01:50:46.921
out of that dark corner
of consciousness.

01:50:49.676 --> 01:50:52.433
Because there is a Paradise,

01:50:52.711 --> 01:50:54.947
there is a Kingdom of God
in the present moment

01:50:55.136 --> 01:50:56.881
for you to enjoy.

01:50:57.011 --> 01:51:00.527
Why do you have
to go back to the past,

01:51:00.756 --> 01:51:02.834
to that corner?

01:51:04.153 --> 01:51:06.111
Of course,

01:51:06.199 --> 01:51:10.708
psychotherapists are trying
to help us to do the same.

01:51:12.237 --> 01:51:15.586
But if psychotherapists
can do it by themselves,

01:51:15.981 --> 01:51:20.210
then they can help
their patients to do the same.

01:51:22.871 --> 01:51:24.806
Then,

01:51:26.509 --> 01:51:29.484
there is the collective consciousness.

01:51:30.479 --> 01:51:32.573
As food.

01:51:33.439 --> 01:51:37.271
We know that there are
very angry groups of people.

01:51:43.169 --> 01:51:46.065
Full of despair, and violence,

01:51:46.235 --> 01:51:48.239
and anger.

01:51:48.328 --> 01:51:50.624
There are neighborhoods like that,

01:51:51.039 --> 01:51:54.703
where children are born and grow.

01:51:56.825 --> 01:52:03.348
Everyone in that neighborhood
is generating hate, anger,

01:52:04.349 --> 01:52:07.534
fear, despair and violence every day.

01:52:07.905 --> 01:52:10.228
And as you are born and grown in that,

01:52:10.455 --> 01:52:12.349
you consume every day.

01:52:12.451 --> 01:52:14.724
You cannot be a happy person

01:52:14.869 --> 01:52:19.834
if you consume that collective energy
of hate, anger, violence.

01:52:22.281 --> 01:52:25.381
If you happen to live
in that neighborhood,

01:52:26.478 --> 01:52:28.507
you should wake up

01:52:28.650 --> 01:52:32.031
and know that this is not
a healthy environment.

01:52:32.413 --> 01:52:35.991
You have to pull out
as soon as possible

01:52:36.226 --> 01:52:39.148
and look for
a healthier environment

01:52:39.214 --> 01:52:42.142
to heal yourself
and help heal your children.

01:52:43.913 --> 01:52:46.227
Because you do not want to consume

01:52:46.373 --> 01:52:49.480
that collective energy
of anger and hate.

01:52:53.770 --> 01:52:56.380
After having practiced
and healed ourselves

01:52:56.484 --> 01:53:00.251
we can come back
as a community to help.

01:53:01.520 --> 01:53:03.798
But not before.

01:53:07.339 --> 01:53:11.082
I think that as a minister of environment,

01:53:11.320 --> 01:53:16.408
a minister of education,

01:53:20.452 --> 01:53:22.878
taking care of urbanism,

01:53:23.034 --> 01:53:26.480
we have to meditate on these matters.

01:53:26.610 --> 01:53:30.861
How to transform
these violent neighborhoods,

01:53:31.352 --> 01:53:33.797
full of fear and anger.

01:53:33.944 --> 01:53:36.864
What kind of practice
can help to heal.

01:53:36.993 --> 01:53:39.814
This is a very important issue.

01:53:45.360 --> 01:53:48.505
To create a community

01:53:49.802 --> 01:53:53.081
where there is brotherhood, 
sisterhood and joy,

01:53:54.882 --> 01:53:58.046
is to create a healthy environment.

01:53:58.183 --> 01:54:00.616
That is the most wonderful thing.

01:54:00.830 --> 01:54:04.301
If you put yourself in that atmosphere,

01:54:04.864 --> 01:54:11.253
if your children have the opportunity
to live in such a healthy atmosphere,

01:54:11.378 --> 01:54:14.799
they will grow up as happy people.

01:54:15.242 --> 01:54:18.681
So community building
is very important.

01:54:23.044 --> 01:54:25.383
Belonging to a group of people,

01:54:25.514 --> 01:54:29.004
we try to practice in such a way

01:54:29.821 --> 01:54:32.544
that shows the people how to consume.

01:54:34.513 --> 01:54:36.368
We should not allow ourselves

01:54:36.520 --> 01:54:38.944
to consume the collective
energy of anger.

01:54:39.112 --> 01:54:41.315
That is not good for our health,

01:54:41.436 --> 01:54:43.961
for the health of our nation.

01:54:46.334 --> 01:54:49.958
We should have compassion
and understanding.

01:54:50.759 --> 01:54:52.674
That will heal us

01:54:52.878 --> 01:54:57.777
and help heal the people
whom we think to be our enemies.

01:55:04.415 --> 01:55:08.606
We know that if we have
enough peace, joy and compassion,

01:55:09.022 --> 01:55:11.597
we can serve many people.

01:55:11.771 --> 01:55:13.724
We don't need

01:55:14.580 --> 01:55:20.019
to think of divorce,
separation, anymore.

01:55:20.800 --> 01:55:25.034
We don't need to establish
a separate country anymore.

01:55:25.891 --> 01:55:30.187
Because there is enough compassion,
understanding and happiness.

01:55:33.918 --> 01:55:37.754
If we are thinking
of divorcing, separating,

01:55:38.381 --> 01:55:41.940
setting up a separate nation,

01:55:42.856 --> 01:55:46.401
it is because we do not have
enough compassion,

01:55:47.329 --> 01:55:50.061
understanding,
brotherhood and sisterhood,

01:55:50.197 --> 01:55:52.327
joy and happiness.

01:55:52.464 --> 01:55:56.029
With the practice of mindfulness
we will have enough of these things

01:55:56.288 --> 01:56:01.040
and we don't have
to think about other things.

01:56:04.805 --> 01:56:07.108
So the five mindfulness trainings

01:56:07.261 --> 01:56:12.337
are the very concrete expression

01:56:13.292 --> 01:56:15.734
of the practice of mindfulness.

01:56:16.082 --> 01:56:19.459
If we ourselves,
and the young people

01:56:19.631 --> 01:56:24.572
live according to
the five practices of mindfulness,

01:56:24.681 --> 01:56:29.397
then happiness is possible,
compassion is possible,

01:56:29.628 --> 01:56:32.660
healing is possible.

01:56:33.980 --> 01:56:39.574
A schoolteacher should embody

01:56:39.899 --> 01:56:42.672
that kind of mindful living,

01:56:42.844 --> 01:56:45.622
that kind of compassion
and understanding.

01:56:46.036 --> 01:56:52.686
They will help
the young generation tremendously

01:56:53.151 --> 01:56:56.049
in their transformation and healing.

01:56:58.182 --> 01:57:00.959
We will continue tomorrow.

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01:57:09.669 --> 01:57:16.554
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01:57:29.349 --> 01:57:36.115
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