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Doing Calligraphy for Thay is a practice of meditation

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Each session of calligraphy begins with the tea

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I never write calligraphy without having a cup of tea first

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I always mix...

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tea with ink

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Therefore when you look deeply into the ink

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you see the tea inside

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and when I hold the brush

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I begin to breath in

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and for making this circle I begin here,

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and I breath in mindfully

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so you can see my in breath

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in this circle

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there is a calm, there is a concentration

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there is mindfulness and there is love

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The 'me' is made up of 'non me' elements

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and that is why when you practice calligraphy

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you can touch the insight of no self

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of interbeing

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because you can not be by yourself alone

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you have to inter-be with the whole cosmos

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and that is why calligraphy can be a deep practice

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and while you do calligraphy you get concentration

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you get mindfulness

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you get the insight

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and the insight of interbeing, the insight on no-self

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has the power to liberate us

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from fear, anger, suffering, separation

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and discrimination