0:00:31.408,0:00:36.561
Doing Calligraphy for Thay is a practice of meditation

0:00:38.429,0:00:42.451
Each session of calligraphy begins with the tea

0:00:42.581,0:00:47.002
I never write calligraphy without having a cup of tea first

0:00:48.779,0:00:50.655
I always mix...

0:00:51.845,0:00:54.014
tea with ink

0:00:54.681,0:00:58.268
Therefore when you look deeply into the ink

0:00:58.268,0:01:00.145
you see the tea inside

0:01:03.924,0:01:06.051
and when I hold the brush

0:01:07.115,0:01:08.992
I begin to breath in

0:01:09.764,0:01:14.935
and for making this circle I begin here,

0:01:15.959,0:01:18.086
and I breath in mindfully

0:01:19.623,0:01:22.626
so you can see my in breath

0:01:23.632,0:01:25.133
in this circle

0:01:26.260,0:01:28.924
there is a calm, there is a concentration

0:01:28.924,0:01:31.927
there is mindfulness and there is love

0:03:30.748,0:03:33.501
The 'me' is made up of 'non me' elements

0:03:34.466,0:03:37.344
and that is why when you practice calligraphy

0:03:37.344,0:03:40.347
you can touch the insight of no self

0:03:40.347,0:03:42.933
of interbeing

0:03:43.391,0:03:46.603
because you can not be by yourself alone

0:03:47.062,0:03:50.148
you have to inter-be with the whole cosmos

0:03:51.149,0:03:56.947
and that is why calligraphy can be a deep practice

0:03:57.364,0:04:00.408
and while you do calligraphy you get concentration

0:04:00.534,0:04:02.119
you get mindfulness

0:04:02.119,0:04:04.287
you get the insight

0:04:04.913,0:04:08.792
and the insight of interbeing, the insight on no-self

0:04:09.464,0:04:12.295
has the power to liberate us

0:04:12.295,0:04:16.091
from fear, anger, suffering, separation

0:04:16.091,0:04:19.469
and discrimination