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[bell rings]

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[inaudible] is the name of a person

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who knows how to listen very deeply

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and to understand.

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By listening deeply

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she can

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bring a lot of relief to people.

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And the practice is called
the practice of compassionate listening.

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The bodhisattva avalokiteshvara.

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In Vietnamese, nam mo bo tat quan the am

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Guanyin in Chinese.

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With compassion in our heart

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we can listen to the other person.

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Even if the other person has a lot of suffering

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has a lot of wrong perceptions,
a lot of anger, you can still listen to him or her.

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And by doing so we help him or her
to suffer less,

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The bodhisattva avalokiteshvara
is not exactly someone outside of us.

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Every one of us has

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the seed of compassion,

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understanding.

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And if we allow the seed of understanding and compassion in us to be watered,

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the energy of compassion
and understanding will manifest.

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And we shall be able to listen also with

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compassion

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and understanding.

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So, during the time of chanting,

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the collective energy of mindfulness
will be generated.

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And it helps us

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to water the seed of

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compassion and understanding in us.

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And the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara can

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manifest

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from us.

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So, please enjoy, the chanting.

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Bring the attention
to your inbreath and outbreath,

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allow your body to relax.

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And for the energy of the sangha 
to penetrate

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freely

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into our body, you know,
into our mind

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for our nourishment and healing

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because the collective energy
of compassion in the sangha

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bodhisattva has the power of healing.

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In addition, we don't have to do anything.

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Just allow the energy to penetrate

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by the chanting.

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We allow our body

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to relax.

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And we bring our attention
to the sound of chanting.

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[bell rings]

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[singing]

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Dear friends,

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whenever we hear
the sound of the bell,

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we practice listening to the bell deeply.

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Usually when someone

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invites the bell to sound...

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We don't say "hit" the bell,

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we say

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invite

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the bell to sound.

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...He or she should

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wake the bell up first

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with a half sound

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like this

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[bell rings].

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That is a half sound.

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But before he does that, she does that,

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she has to practice
mindful breathing first

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to prepare himself.

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And there is a verse
for the bell master to use,

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for breathing in and breathing out
and to make himself or herself

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available to the bell,

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qualified

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as a bell master.

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You just cannot pick up

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the instrument and then make the sound
you have to prepare yourself.

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So holding the...

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May I borrow it?

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...holding the stick like this

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he will practice mindful breathing

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a few times
in order to calm himself down,

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to make him or her
into a real bell master.

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And the verse is like this:

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"Body, speech and mind
in perfect oneness.

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I send my heart along
with the sound of this bell.

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May the hearers awaken
from their forgetfulness

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and transcend the path
of anxiety and sorrow."

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That is a four-line verse

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for you to breathe and to become

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a real bell master.

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"Body, speech, and mind
in perfect oneness.

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I send my heart along
with the sound of this bell.

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May the hearers awaken
from their forgetfulness

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and transcend the path
of anxiety and sorrow."

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And then you're calm,

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you are fully aware,
you are fully present.

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And now you can

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invite the bell to sound.

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You invite,
you offer half a sound

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so that the whole community

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become aware that a real sound,
a full sound is going to be heard.

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And everyone stop thinking,
stop talking,

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prepare themselves
to receive the full sound.

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The voice of the Buddha

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calling you back to your true home.

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In a practice center,

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the sound of the bell
is the voice of the Buddha from within

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calling you back
to your true home.

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And so the bell master
make a half sound

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and allow you the time

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to prepare yourself

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for the reception of the full sound,
the voice of the Buddha.

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You stop what you are saying.

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You finish what you were saying
in a few seconds.

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You stop your thinking.

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Not only your talking 
but you stop also your thinking.

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You go home

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to yourself,
with your inbreath.

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And you enjoy breathing

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to get prepared for the sound,

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the sound as the voice
of the Buddha from within

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calling you back
to your true home.

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And then the bell master
will allow you the time to

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for one inbreath or one outbreath at least
and then he or she will invite the bell

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so that a full sound will be offered
to the whole community.

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And then everyone

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will enjoy

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breathing in and breathing out
at least three times.

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And when you breathe in,
you say: "I listen,

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I listen".

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And when you breathe out,

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you say: "this wonderful sound
brings me back to my true home".

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"Listen,

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listen.

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This wonderful sound
brings me back to my true home."

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No thinking.

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Just listening,

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listening very deeply
to the sound of the bell

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that will bring you back to your true home,
in the here and now.

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And the one who speaks

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stops speaking
and thinking about what to say next

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and enjoy deeply his or her

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inbreath and outbreath,

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enjoy

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his being in his true home.

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That is the living dharma:

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being in your true home.

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And the one who listened to the talk
also stops listening

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and enjoys

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her inbreath and outbreath.

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Very nourishing.

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In Plum Village, in France,

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not only we enjoy the sound

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of the great bell within our center

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but whenever the bell,
the church bell nearby

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sounds we also stop
and enjoy the church bell.

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Not only we enjoy the church bell,

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but every time the clock
play the music,

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every quarter of the hour,
we also stop

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thinking, stop talking
and we go back to our breath

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and we enjoy breathing in and out

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whether we are in...

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the dining hall or in the kitchen
we do the same.

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So, the clock,
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is like

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the mindfulness may help us
to come home

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and to enjoy our home.

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Also when you hear
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you practice.

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You are supposed
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You're supposed to stay
wherever you are

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because the sound of the telephone
is also the voice of the Buddha

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calling you back
to your true home.

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Stay wherever you are
and go back to your inbreath.

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Listen, listen.

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This wonderful sound
brings me back to my true home.

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And then after having

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practiced like that two times,

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you do walking meditation
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or you take the telephone out

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and answer.

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And if you are the one

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who is called
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you prepare yourself

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before making

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the number.

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You practice
going home to yourself.

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And there is also a verse

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for you to practice.

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Verses, words
can travel

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thousands of kilometres.

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They are to bring about
more understanding,

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"mucho" understanding.

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I vow that
what I am going to say

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will be

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beautiful

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like flowers and

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embroideries.

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I vow that
everything I'm going to say

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will help with more mature
understanding and compassion.

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And then,
now you are qualified

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to make a phone call.

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And when you hear

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you hear the sound

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at the end of the line,

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you know that

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the other person is listening

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breathing in and out

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and you know that you have a chance
to practice breathing in and out with her

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so both of you

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are breathing in and out mindfully
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It's a very beautiful practice.

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We call it telephone meditation.

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And then, in Plum Village,

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in the Deerpark Monastery also,

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if we use the computer,

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the computer is programmed
so that every quarter of the hour

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there will be a bell of mindfulness,

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so that you can stop your work
and go home

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and enjoy your inbreath and outbreath.

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And you know that when you call
Plum Village or Deerpark

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you don't expect them to answer
right away after the first ring.

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They are breathing in and out.

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Listen, listen. This wonderful sound
brings me back to my true home.

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And you enjoy

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deeply your inbreath
and outbreath three times.

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The bell master tonight

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is a monk

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from

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New Zealand:

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Marda Fabvian,

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the field of the Dharma.

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Enjoy

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the mindfulness bell, enjoy your inbreath
and outbreath three times.

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If you'd like to use
different kind of verses,

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you might use the verse:
"I have arrived.

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I'm home."

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"I have arrived.

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I'm home."

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Or you might like to say:

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"I listen,

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I listen deeply".

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This wonderful sound brings me back
to my true home.

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Or you may say:

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"Breathing in,
I feel calm

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and relaxed,

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breathing out,
I smile."

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Calming.

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Smiling.

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Breathing in, I establish myself
in the present moment.

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Breathing out, I know
this is a wonderful moment.

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Calming,

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smiling.

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Present moment,

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wonderful moment.

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When you come home
to the present moment

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with your inbreath

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you become fully alive,
fully present.

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You can touch

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life in the here and the now.

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You feel that you are alive.

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You touch the miracle
that you are alive.

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Because to be alive
that is the greatest of all miracles.

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And with only one inbreath
you can touch that miracle.

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That is why
you can say:

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"Present moment,

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wonderful moment."

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If someone asks you:

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"My dear friend,

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Has the most wonderful moment
of your life arrived?"

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He wants to know whether the most 
wonderful moment of your life has arrived.

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It would be a pity if
such a moment

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does not arrive at all.

273
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,460
Then, you may have
the tendency to say:

274
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,040
"Oh, it does not seem
that it has arrived

275
00:44:02,180 --> 00:44:03,860
that wonderful moment,

276
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:08,640
but I am sure that it will arrive soon,
sometime in the future.

277
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That is our tendency to answer.

278
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,480
But if we keep living

279
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:23,760
like the way we have lived our life
in the past 20 years,

280
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,800
it will not arrive

281
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:27,800
in the next 20 years.

282
00:44:29,460 --> 00:44:31,040
It might not arrive at all

283
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:35,460
that moment we call
the most wonderful moment of our life.

284
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,120
And for many, many of us,
that moment

285
00:44:44,060 --> 00:44:45,380
does not arrive

286
00:44:46,060 --> 00:44:47,040
at all

287
00:44:51,460 --> 00:44:52,980
until we die.

288
00:44:55,420 --> 00:44:57,060
The Buddha said:

289
00:44:57,079 --> 00:45:01,779
"You have to make the present moment
into the most wonderful moment of your life."

290
00:45:02,930 --> 00:45:04,930
And this is possible.

291
00:45:05,860 --> 00:45:07,540
Because if you

292
00:45:07,540 --> 00:45:11,220
are able to go home to the present moment
to the here and the now,

293
00:45:11,220 --> 00:45:13,120
become fully alive,

294
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,000
become fully present,

295
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:19,580
you can touch all the wonders of life
within yourself and around you.

296
00:45:19,580 --> 00:45:22,020
Everything belonging to you
is a wonder:

297
00:45:22,660 --> 00:45:24,700
your eye, your ear, your nose,

298
00:45:25,180 --> 00:45:26,960
your body, your mind.

299
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,300
And because you are not mindful,

300
00:45:32,180 --> 00:45:36,360
you don't touch them deeply,
you don't know that they are wonders

301
00:45:37,300 --> 00:45:42,180
until you die and you begin to regret
that you have not lived at all.

302
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:46,800
That is why our true home
must be sought in the here and the now.

303
00:45:46,980 --> 00:45:48,920
It can be touched
in the here and now.

304
00:46:40,660 --> 00:46:42,040
My true home

305
00:46:43,820 --> 00:46:45,960
is not limited to...

306
00:46:48,940 --> 00:46:50,120
...to a place,

307
00:46:59,340 --> 00:47:00,740
to a time.

308
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,580
My true home is not Vietnam,

309
00:47:04,780 --> 00:47:08,600
my true home is not France,
my true home is not America.

310
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,180
my true home is not Africa,

311
00:47:11,180 --> 00:47:14,000
my true home is not the Palestine,

312
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,440
my true home is not Israel.

313
00:47:26,620 --> 00:47:28,180
Although they don't

314
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:33,680
let me go back to Vietnam, I still have
my true home in the here and the now.

315
00:47:38,420 --> 00:47:43,440
And maybe they are in vietnam
but they don't have a home.

316
00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:50,200
That is why I don't feel

317
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:51,660
as a victim.

318
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,300
And I don't feel
that they are my enemies.

319
00:48:01,380 --> 00:48:03,460
They are victims of fear.

320
00:48:07,980 --> 00:48:10,580
They believe that if I go home

321
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,100
I will create an atmosphere of...

322
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:25,920
...of solidarity,

323
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,740
of friendship, of brotherhood

324
00:48:29,860 --> 00:48:32,460
that may be threatening to their power.

325
00:48:36,420 --> 00:48:38,160
And it is fear

326
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,600
that is an obstacle.

327
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,820
And I want to help them
to be free from fear.

328
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:54,320
They are not my enemies,
they are the ones I want to help.

329
00:48:55,540 --> 00:48:59,960
They're objects of my practice
of compassion and understanding.

330
00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:01,740
I have no enemies.

331
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:07,380
During the war,

332
00:49:08,740 --> 00:49:10,040
during the Vietnam War

333
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:26,400
it was so difficult for us

334
00:49:26,580 --> 00:49:27,960
to voice our concern...

335
00:49:28,940 --> 00:49:32,800
Many of us, most of us
did not want the war.

336
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:43,380
The war put us in a situation
where brothers have to kill brothers.

337
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,780
And kill with foreign weapons

338
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:50,800
and ideologies.

339
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,900
Communism and anti-communism
imported

340
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:58,400
were imported.

341
00:49:58,700 --> 00:50:00,080
Also weapons

342
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,660
used by the communists were imported.

343
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:09,020
Weapons used by the anti-communists
were imported.

344
00:50:12,240 --> 00:50:13,620
They gave us

345
00:50:14,580 --> 00:50:15,440
guns

346
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,700
and ideologies and urge us
to fight each other and kill each other.

347
00:50:21,820 --> 00:50:23,800
We started a movement called

348
00:50:23,940 --> 00:50:25,540
"Don't shoot your brother".

349
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,820
And our voice was silenced by

350
00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:33,800
both sides

351
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,100
both warring parties.

352
00:50:38,580 --> 00:50:40,100
We try to speak out.

353
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:44,180
We try to tell you, in a word,
that we don't want the war.

354
00:50:45,300 --> 00:50:48,380
We don't want
the killing of each other

355
00:50:48,380 --> 00:50:51,540
with foreign weapons
and foreign ideologies.

356
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,660
And yet we were forced

357
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:57,360
to do so.

358
00:50:58,220 --> 00:51:00,880
So those of us
who practiced mindfulness,

359
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:04,260
understanding and compassion

360
00:51:04,460 --> 00:51:06,620
we did not want
to accept the war.

361
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:07,980
We wanted

362
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:10,800
to reconcile.

363
00:51:14,900 --> 00:51:16,900
And our voice was not

364
00:51:17,420 --> 00:51:19,420
allowed to be heard.

365
00:51:20,020 --> 00:51:22,820
Sometimes we had
to burn ourselves alive

366
00:51:22,820 --> 00:51:25,540
in order to get
the message across.

367
00:51:27,060 --> 00:51:28,240
*Vietnamese name*

368
00:51:29,860 --> 00:51:31,020
a friend of mine

369
00:51:32,940 --> 00:51:33,620
one day

370
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:36,660
he burnt himself.

371
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:41,540
And his picture

372
00:51:42,460 --> 00:51:45,060
appeared in the international press.

373
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:48,240
I was in New York.

374
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:55,020
And I saw that picture
on the New York Times front page.

375
00:51:56,300 --> 00:51:58,060
He's a friend of mine.

376
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,040
*Vietnamese name*

377
00:52:01,720 --> 00:52:06,120
one of the first six members
of the Order of Interbeing,

378
00:52:07,740 --> 00:52:09,000
my disciple,

379
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:14,100
she burnt herself
calling for reconciliation.

380
00:52:16,060 --> 00:52:18,680
She went to the *Temple name"

381
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,240
very early in the morning

382
00:52:24,060 --> 00:52:26,180
about two three o'clock
in the morning,

383
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,400
she put a statue of the Virgin Mary.

384
00:52:29,540 --> 00:52:31,300
And *Vietnamese name"

385
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,680
she left behind
a set of letters

386
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:36,820
calling for

387
00:52:39,700 --> 00:52:41,700
the President of North Vietnam,

388
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,460
the President of South Vietnam,

389
00:52:44,820 --> 00:52:47,800
for everyone
to come together and stop

390
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,820
the act of killing each other.

391
00:52:50,820 --> 00:52:55,040
And then she doused herself with gasoline
and she burnt herself.

392
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:57,420
*Vietnamese name"
is a very close

393
00:52:58,220 --> 00:53:03,600
sister, close friend of sukkot uncle
sister jane come to emptiness.

394
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,000
I was embarrassed.

395
00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:11,260
She left behind
a letter for me:

396
00:53:11,260 --> 00:53:13,140
"Thai, don't worry,

397
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:15,340
peace will come.

398
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,020
Don't suffer too much,
don't worry."

399
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:22,260
She was about to die

400
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,440
but she tried
to comfort me, her teacher.

401
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:34,340
It's very, very difficult for us
to voice our concern

402
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,600
although we were the majority

403
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:42,680
in the country.

404
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,020
We didn't want the war.

405
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:51,480
My book of poetry,

406
00:53:53,940 --> 00:53:55,460
peace poetry,

407
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,920
I like to call it peace poetry

408
00:53:59,920 --> 00:54:02,800
rather than anti-war poetry:

409
00:54:05,260 --> 00:54:10,340
"He was condemned by the North
and confiscated by the South."

410
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:19,280
So, when Cornell University
invited me to come

411
00:54:22,780 --> 00:54:25,260
and gave a series of lectures,

412
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:31,060
I took the opportunity to go out

413
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:33,320
and to call for peace.

414
00:54:51,260 --> 00:54:54,340
And in June the 1st

415
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:57,740
in the year

416
00:55:00,620 --> 00:55:01,520
1966

417
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:24,200
I met Martin Luther King in Chicago.

418
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,560
Exactly one year before,

419
00:55:46,940 --> 00:55:48,940
really one year before,

420
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,400
on June the first

421
00:55:57,400 --> 00:55:59,400
1965, I wrote him a letter

422
00:56:01,820 --> 00:56:04,820
explaining to him why
we had burnt ourselves.

423
00:56:06,020 --> 00:56:08,920
This is not an act of suicide,

424
00:56:09,660 --> 00:56:11,660
this is an act of love.

425
00:56:20,820 --> 00:56:23,400
You want to transmit a message

426
00:56:25,820 --> 00:56:28,320
but you have no other ways,

427
00:56:28,660 --> 00:56:32,320
you have to burn yourself
in order for your message to get across.

428
00:56:32,700 --> 00:56:37,620
So, the suffering of the monk who
burnt herself to get the message across,

429
00:56:37,720 --> 00:56:40,260
a message of love and compassion,

430
00:56:42,060 --> 00:56:47,720
is of the same nature of the act
of Jesus Christ dying on the cross.

431
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,600
Dying with no hate

432
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:54,660
no anger

433
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:56,660
only with compassion.

434
00:56:58,260 --> 00:56:59,460
Leaving behind

435
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:03,120
a compassionate call

436
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:06,560
for peace,

437
00:57:06,900 --> 00:57:08,140
for brotherhood.

438
00:57:09,500 --> 00:57:14,480
So, exactly one year after,
I met him in Chicago.

439
00:57:15,780 --> 00:57:17,840
We talked for some time

440
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,200
and then, after that,

441
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:24,580
we went out to meet with the press.

442
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:31,020
And that day he came out
against the war in Vietnam.

443
00:57:33,780 --> 00:57:35,320
That is the day when

444
00:57:35,900 --> 00:57:37,600
we combined our efforts

445
00:57:39,020 --> 00:57:40,960
of working for peace in Vietnam

446
00:57:41,100 --> 00:57:45,600
and fighting for civil rights in America.

447
00:58:03,500 --> 00:58:05,840
Two years later I met him again

448
00:58:06,020 --> 00:58:07,120
in Geneva

449
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,340
in a conference call opossum in terrace

450
00:58:16,340 --> 00:58:20,080
organized by the World Council of Churches.

451
00:58:21,940 --> 00:58:24,840
There're people like Linus Pauling

452
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:27,900
at the conference.

453
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,960
He [MLK] stayed
in the 11th floor.

454
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:41,940
I was on the 4th floor.
He invited me up for breakfast.

455
00:59:02,900 --> 00:59:05,500
I was retained by the press,

456
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:07,920
I came up late.

457
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:14,060
And he kept the breakfast warm for me.
He waited for me.

458
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:23,980
I told him: "Martin, you know something,
in Vietnam they call you a bodhisattva".

459
00:59:24,420 --> 00:59:26,420
[person in crowd] A what?

460
00:59:26,980 --> 00:59:29,080
They call you a bodhisattva:

461
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:31,480
an enlightened being

462
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,540
trying to awaken other living beings

463
00:59:40,940 --> 00:59:46,080
and help them go in a direction
of compassion and understanding.

464
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,620
I'm glad I had the chance to tell him

465
00:59:57,180 --> 01:00:01,240
because a few months later
he was assassinated in Memphis.

466
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:19,480
We were in France

467
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:23,840
we had a bureau office

468
01:00:24,340 --> 01:00:28,100
representing the Buddhist community
in Vietnam.

469
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:40,280
We wanted to represent the mass of people
who did not have a voice,

470
01:00:40,820 --> 01:00:43,600
who did not have a chance to speak out.

471
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:47,520
So we live as a community

472
01:00:48,180 --> 01:00:49,260
in Paris

473
01:00:50,660 --> 01:00:52,020
and our office

474
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,600
in a poor quarter of Paris

475
01:00:57,300 --> 01:00:58,680
number eleven

476
01:01:00,420 --> 01:01:01,540
*street name".

477
01:01:04,700 --> 01:01:06,700
And that quarters

478
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:11,060
were inhabited more by people

479
01:01:12,420 --> 01:01:14,000
of Arab origin.

480
01:01:25,700 --> 01:01:30,740
Every time I applied for a visa to go to America
it was turned down.

481
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:32,480
Automatically.

482
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:36,020
They didn't want me to come to America

483
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:39,580
because they believed that

484
01:01:41,020 --> 01:01:43,740
I harm, I might be harmful,

485
01:01:43,740 --> 01:01:47,520
I may be an obstacle
for the war efforts in Vietnam.

486
01:01:49,300 --> 01:01:52,340
I was not allowed to go to America,

487
01:01:52,340 --> 01:01:55,540
I wasn't allowed to go to England!

488
01:02:00,580 --> 01:02:02,580
Every time I wanted

489
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:06,860
to go to America on a speaking tour,
I had

490
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:09,940
to write a letter

491
01:02:10,820 --> 01:02:13,460
to someone like Senator McGovern

492
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:17,960
or Senator

493
01:02:18,300 --> 01:02:19,840
Robert Kennedy

494
01:02:20,380 --> 01:02:23,600
asking them to send me
a letter of invitation.

495
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,040
And the letter is something like this:

496
01:02:29,060 --> 01:02:33,940
"Dear Thich Nhat Hanh, I'd like to know more about
the situation of the war in Vietnam.

497
01:02:33,940 --> 01:02:35,760
Please come and inform me.

498
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:40,580
And if you have difficulties concerning the visa,
please telephone me at this number.

499
01:02:41,340 --> 01:02:44,080
Only with such a letter that I could

500
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:46,420
have a visa

501
01:02:46,420 --> 01:02:49,920
otherwise, it's no way.

502
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:58,700
I remember one day I flew from Japan
back to Paris

503
01:02:58,700 --> 01:03:00,700
I did not have a visa

504
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:05,740
for transit

505
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:09,480
in Seattle.

506
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:12,700
I flew from Tokyo

507
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:16,760
to New York via Seattle
and then to Paris.

508
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:22,180
I want to stop in New York to meet
with a friend in the peace movement

509
01:03:22,180 --> 01:03:25,460
Alfred Hassler, 
of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

510
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,780
And when I landed in Seattle

511
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:36,100
I was locked in a place

512
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:39,580
where I could not see anyone.

513
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:45,000
I look around and see many pictures hang:
"Wanted" "Wanted" "Wanted"

514
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:51,420
They took my passport.

515
01:03:53,340 --> 01:03:55,340
They didn't allow me

516
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:06,440
to be in touch with anyone.

517
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:08,800
And then,

518
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:18,840
when the plane is about to take off
they gave my passport back.

519
01:04:19,860 --> 01:04:21,860
It's very difficult.

520
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:26,920
One day when I was in Washington DC,

521
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:31,100
I told you already

522
01:04:31,420 --> 01:04:33,100
the Baltimore Sun

523
01:04:34,220 --> 01:04:37,240
reporter came and informed me that

524
01:04:38,900 --> 01:04:42,400
there's a dispatch from Saigon

525
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:47,000
informing the government
of the United States of America,

526
01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:51,360
of France, of England

527
01:04:52,220 --> 01:04:54,520
United Kingdom and of Japan

528
01:04:55,140 --> 01:04:58,560
asking them not to honor
the passport of Thich Nhat Hanh

529
01:04:59,780 --> 01:05:03,380
because he has been saying things
that are not helpful

530
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:06,560
to the war efforts against communism.

531
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:12,980
And in Vietnam

532
01:05:12,980 --> 01:05:14,620
my books, my articles

533
01:05:15,500 --> 01:05:17,500
my poetry was banned

534
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:20,480
by both the communists
and the anti-communists.

535
01:05:27,300 --> 01:05:29,300
I risk deportation

536
01:05:31,700 --> 01:05:33,420
and put in jail

537
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:36,580
because of what I had done:

538
01:05:37,260 --> 01:05:39,240
calling for peace

539
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:40,900
and speaking

540
01:05:41,340 --> 01:05:43,340
against the war.

541
01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:57,380
It was my intention to

542
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:05,620
go only

543
01:06:05,620 --> 01:06:07,280
three months

544
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:10,760
to give the series of lectures in Cornell

545
01:06:10,780 --> 01:06:13,080
and then to make a tour

546
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:16,460
of America and Europe and go home.

547
01:06:17,300 --> 01:06:18,300
I was

548
01:06:20,180 --> 01:06:24,080
working with my friends
in a school of youth for social service

549
01:06:26,380 --> 01:06:31,740
the Van Hahn Buddhist University
that I had founded in 1964.

550
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,080
All my friends,

551
01:06:35,980 --> 01:06:37,840
co-workers were in Vietnam.

552
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:40,280
I didn't want to go very long.

553
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:41,480
I intended

554
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:45,920
to come here only for three months.

555
01:06:47,940 --> 01:06:53,300
But it has been 38 years already.
I have not been able to go home 38 years.

556
01:06:57,600 --> 01:06:59,600
And that is why I have been

557
01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:01,380
sharing the practice

558
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:05,060
with friends in Europe, in America,

559
01:07:05,620 --> 01:07:07,460
in other countries.

560
01:07:10,900 --> 01:07:14,500
But because I have found
my true home

561
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:16,940
I don't suffer.

562
01:07:27,900 --> 01:07:33,280
The truth is that during the first year
of my exile, it was difficult,

563
01:07:34,460 --> 01:07:35,940
quite difficult.

564
01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:42,480
Although I was already 40,

565
01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:52,380
although I was already a dharma teacher

566
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:55,760
having many monks and nuns

567
01:08:00,700 --> 01:08:02,960
as students, disciples

568
01:08:03,460 --> 01:08:07,080
and yet I had not found my true home.

569
01:08:09,060 --> 01:08:14,080
I can give very good lectures on Buddhism,
on the practice of Buddhism

570
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:22,620
But I

571
01:08:24,660 --> 01:08:26,660
had not trully arrived.

572
01:08:28,700 --> 01:08:31,960
Intellectually, I had a lot of Buddhism

573
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:36,439
I had been trained

574
01:08:37,260 --> 01:08:40,180
several years in a Buddhist institute

575
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:43,520
and practiced since the time I was 16.

576
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:52,340
During the time I was a young monk,
I try my best to renew Buddhism,

577
01:08:53,100 --> 01:08:56,319
update Buddhism so that it can respond

578
01:08:57,160 --> 01:09:00,000
to the real situation of suffering.

579
01:09:02,939 --> 01:09:05,080
Called Engaged Buddhism.

580
01:09:06,319 --> 01:09:09,800
The kind of Buddhism that can offer you
the answers

581
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:13,160
to the burning questions of society

582
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:18,020
questions like war, social injustice,

583
01:09:18,020 --> 01:09:20,580
political suppression, poverty,

584
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:24,279
violence and so on.

585
01:09:30,020 --> 01:09:32,300
It was very difficult for me

586
01:09:32,300 --> 01:09:34,580
during the first two years

587
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:41,319
because my intention was
to bring about informations to the world,

588
01:09:41,540 --> 01:09:44,580
the kind of information
that were not available

589
01:09:47,140 --> 01:09:52,800
to people because the warring parties
had all the mass media.

590
01:09:59,880 --> 01:10:01,620
In speaking tour,

591
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:05,080
either I slept

592
01:10:07,440 --> 01:10:09,500
one or two night in each city,

593
01:10:10,440 --> 01:10:12,200
in America, in Europe,

594
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:14,380
in Australia,

595
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:15,840
and so on.

596
01:10:15,980 --> 01:10:17,400
The whole time

597
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:20,040
when I woke up

598
01:10:20,500 --> 01:10:23,340
at night I did not know where I was.

599
01:10:24,620 --> 01:10:27,020
Very difficult, very hard.

600
01:10:27,880 --> 01:10:28,780
And after,

601
01:10:31,780 --> 01:10:35,980
I had to breathe in and out
and to find out where I was,

602
01:10:37,540 --> 01:10:39,020
what city, what country.

603
01:10:41,180 --> 01:10:43,900
And I dreamt of going home

604
01:10:44,340 --> 01:10:49,300
to my root temple in central Vietnam
climbing a hill,

605
01:10:52,480 --> 01:10:53,860
a green hill,

606
01:10:54,940 --> 01:10:56,340
beautiful trees.

607
01:10:57,220 --> 01:11:01,560
And half the way to the top of the hill
I woke up

608
01:11:02,480 --> 01:11:04,760
and realized that I was in exile.

609
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:11,020
And the same kind of dream
repeated again and again.

610
01:11:14,460 --> 01:11:16,220
I was very active.

611
01:11:16,420 --> 01:11:18,600
I was making friends

612
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:20,840
with many people:

613
01:11:22,740 --> 01:11:24,160
Catholic priests,

614
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:26,240
Protestant ministers,

615
01:11:28,840 --> 01:11:29,960
professors,

616
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:32,200
young people,

617
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:34,380
children.

618
01:11:35,580 --> 01:11:39,100
And my practice was the practice
of mindfulness. I try

619
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:45,600
to live in the here and the now
and touch the wonders of life in my daily life.

620
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:49,160
I survived by that practice.

621
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:55,240
The trees in Europe were so different
from the trees in Vietnam:

622
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:59,380
the fruits, the flowers, they're all different.
And the people also.

623
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:01,900
So I learnt to make friends

624
01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:09,940
and play with German children,
French children,

625
01:12:10,100 --> 01:12:11,600
African children,

626
01:12:13,260 --> 01:12:14,480
British children.

627
01:12:14,500 --> 01:12:16,480
I big friend with

628
01:12:17,980 --> 01:12:20,420
Anglican priest, Catholic priest,

629
01:12:20,740 --> 01:12:22,860
Protestant ministers and so on.

630
01:12:29,380 --> 01:12:31,240
But thanks to that practice

631
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:35,960
I was able

632
01:12:36,660 --> 01:12:39,700
to find my true home
in the here and the now.

633
01:12:44,620 --> 01:12:46,220
And I stop suffering

634
01:12:46,580 --> 01:12:50,180
and the dream
did not come back anymore.

635
01:12:56,760 --> 01:13:01,400
People think that I suffer
when I cannot go back to Vetnam, but

636
01:13:02,620 --> 01:13:03,960
that's not the case.

637
01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:07,800
If I go to Vietnam,
that will be a joy.

638
01:13:08,780 --> 01:13:13,980
To be able to offer the teaching to
the monks, the nuns and lay people there

639
01:13:13,980 --> 01:13:15,460
and talk to the artists,

640
01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:21,080
to the writers and others.

641
01:13:21,260 --> 01:13:23,240
But if I cannot go,

642
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:25,240
I don't have to suffer.

643
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:29,560
I can meet with people, other people

644
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:31,060
in other countries,

645
01:13:31,060 --> 01:13:37,280
like in China, in Korea,
in Japan, in Spain, in England,

646
01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:40,600
in Canada

647
01:13:41,900 --> 01:13:42,880
and so on.

648
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:54,300
And the formula:

649
01:13:54,540 --> 01:13:56,140
"I have arrived,

650
01:13:57,900 --> 01:13:58,900
I'm home"

651
01:14:04,060 --> 01:14:04,860
is

652
01:14:09,420 --> 01:14:13,460
the embodiment,
the expression of my practice.

653
01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:23,500
It express my understanding
of the teaching of the Buddha.

654
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:24,460
It is

655
01:14:25,260 --> 01:14:28,180
the cream of my practice:
I have arrived, I'm home.

656
01:14:29,100 --> 01:14:34,100
And since the time I've found
my true home, I did not suffer anymore.

657
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:43,540
The past is longer a prison for me.

658
01:14:46,300 --> 01:14:47,320
The future

659
01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:52,640
is no longer a prison

660
01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:54,580
for me.

661
01:14:56,420 --> 01:14:59,140
I'm able to live
in the here and the now.

662
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,580
I'm able to touch my true home.

663
01:15:04,480 --> 01:15:06,220
And I know that

664
01:15:07,840 --> 01:15:08,720
the future

665
01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:11,740
is available

666
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:14,960
through the present.

667
01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:19,360
This is what I have found.

668
01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:24,480
When you touch
the present moment deeply,

669
01:15:27,340 --> 01:15:28,820
you touch the past.

670
01:15:29,980 --> 01:15:33,360
And if you know how to handle
the present moment properly,

671
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:35,140
you heal the past.

672
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:47,940
Many think that the past is already gone,
you cannot do anything.

673
01:15:47,940 --> 01:15:51,920
You cannot go back to the past
and fix things and repair things.

674
01:15:52,180 --> 01:15:54,840
But according to this teaching
of the Buddha

675
01:15:56,740 --> 01:16:00,040
the past is still there
with all the pain and suffering.

676
01:16:02,300 --> 01:16:05,500
If you know how to come home
to the present moment

677
01:16:05,500 --> 01:16:08,220
and touch the present moment deeply

678
01:16:08,220 --> 01:16:09,700
you touch the past,

679
01:16:10,420 --> 01:16:12,420
and you can heal the past.

680
01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:18,160
And when you heal yourself,
you heal your ancestors.

681
01:16:18,860 --> 01:16:20,220
And this is possible.

682
01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:24,040
My ancestors have suffered in me.

683
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:26,060
I've also suffered.

684
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:28,680
And since I am able to

685
01:16:29,300 --> 01:16:30,260
touch

686
01:16:30,920 --> 01:16:34,340
the present moment deeply,
I heal myself

687
01:16:34,500 --> 01:16:37,880
and I heal my ancestors
including my

688
01:16:38,940 --> 01:16:39,800
parents,

689
01:16:40,080 --> 01:16:41,440
my father,

690
01:16:41,440 --> 01:16:42,940
my mother,

691
01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:48,940
my brother, my sister,
my grandfather, my grandmother.

692
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:51,560
When I practice walking,

693
01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:54,620
I generate energy of freedom

694
01:16:57,700 --> 01:16:59,080
and solidity.

695
01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:03,020
And I feel that all my ancestors

696
01:17:04,960 --> 01:17:10,140
enjoy the freedom and the solidity
that I generate with the practice of walk.

697
01:17:15,060 --> 01:17:16,760
Because, to me,

698
01:17:19,580 --> 01:17:23,160
my ancestors are always alive in me,

699
01:17:27,340 --> 01:17:30,980
fully present in me,
in every cell of my body.

700
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:33,880
And if I'm free, they're free.

701
01:17:34,220 --> 01:17:36,020
If I heal, they heal.

702
01:17:37,460 --> 01:17:40,280
When I take a step
with solidity and freedom,

703
01:17:40,280 --> 01:17:42,460
all of them take the step with me.

704
01:17:46,460 --> 01:17:49,680
And you have to take that step
with all your being.

705
01:17:51,940 --> 01:17:55,740
full awareness, full concentration
in order for the step

706
01:17:57,980 --> 01:18:00,160
to be a really solid,
to be free.

707
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:06,380
In order for you to be able to touch life,
the oneness of life in that moment.

708
01:18:06,940 --> 01:18:08,940
That is healing and

709
01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:10,340
nourishing.

710
01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:15,500
So the act of making a step
is an act of freedom,

711
01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:17,500
act of liberation.

712
01:18:17,860 --> 01:18:21,160
You liberate yourself,
you liberate your ancestors.

713
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:25,480
It's an act of revolution.

714
01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:27,920
Please, believe me.

715
01:18:30,220 --> 01:18:35,540
You cannot make such a step unless 
you invest entirely your body and your mind

716
01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:37,240
100%

717
01:18:39,340 --> 01:18:41,120
When you breathe in,

718
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:42,880
you bring

719
01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:44,080
all yourself together,

720
01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:45,900
body and mind.

721
01:18:46,660 --> 01:18:48,180
You become one.

722
01:18:49,860 --> 01:18:53,560
And equipped with that energy
of mindfulness and concentration,

723
01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:55,520
you make a step

724
01:18:56,600 --> 01:18:58,600
and you have inside that

725
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:01,840
this is your true home.

726
01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:08,060
You are alive, you are fully present,
you are touching life

727
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:10,100
as a reality.

728
01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:17,700
Your true home
is not an abstract idea,

729
01:19:17,940 --> 01:19:21,060
it is as a solid reality
that you can touch

730
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:25,240
with your feet
with your hand

731
01:19:26,980 --> 01:19:28,640
and with your mind.

732
01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:37,080
The kingdom of God
or the pure land of Buddha

733
01:19:37,080 --> 01:19:38,760
for me
they are not

734
01:19:39,860 --> 01:19:41,020
abstract ideas.

735
01:19:41,940 --> 01:19:45,240
It's something you can touch
in every moment, you can live

736
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:48,220
in every moment.

737
01:19:49,540 --> 01:19:51,820
It is available
in the here and the now.

738
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:56,320
If you know
how to make yourself available

739
01:19:56,320 --> 01:19:58,300
then the kingdom
is available,

740
01:19:58,300 --> 01:20:00,000
the pure land is available,

741
01:20:00,140 --> 01:20:02,760
your true home is available.

742
01:20:03,080 --> 01:20:05,000
And nobody can

743
01:20:05,580 --> 01:20:07,580
take away that true home.

744
01:20:12,580 --> 01:20:15,120
They can occupy your country,
yes.

745
01:20:17,740 --> 01:20:20,340
They can put you in prison,
yes.

746
01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:24,940
But they cannot take away
your true home, your freedom.

747
01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:42,200
So, it's very important
it's very...

748
01:20:42,920 --> 01:20:44,900
fundamental, it's very basic

749
01:20:46,100 --> 01:20:48,300
that you touch your true home.

750
01:20:50,420 --> 01:20:52,880
And you'll realize your true home

751
01:20:52,880 --> 01:20:54,580
in the here and the now.

752
01:20:55,120 --> 01:20:59,360
And the energy with which
you can do so is mindfulness

753
01:20:59,760 --> 01:21:01,140
and concentration.

754
01:21:01,580 --> 01:21:04,020
And these are energies of the Buddha.

755
01:21:06,200 --> 01:21:08,000
All of us have

756
01:21:08,020 --> 01:21:08,880
the seed

757
01:21:09,380 --> 01:21:12,540
of mindfulness and concentration in us.

758
01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:19,520
This is a fact.

759
01:21:20,220 --> 01:21:23,780
Because all of us
are capable of drinking

760
01:21:24,640 --> 01:21:26,260
our tea mindfully.

761
01:21:32,420 --> 01:21:36,180
When I drink my tea,
I want to really drink my tea.

762
01:21:45,700 --> 01:21:50,560
I might like to breathe in 
to bring my mind home to my body

763
01:21:51,900 --> 01:21:54,960
and establish myself fully 
in the here and the now.

764
01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:57,240
You have to be there,

765
01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:00,160
fully

766
01:22:01,340 --> 01:22:03,340
and when you are there fully

767
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:07,420
the tea will be there for your fully.

768
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:12,820
If you are not there,
the tea is just

769
01:22:18,200 --> 01:22:20,420
something like a...

770
01:22:20,940 --> 01:22:21,900
ghost

771
01:22:22,020 --> 01:22:23,480
not very real.

772
01:22:27,820 --> 01:22:29,820
Mindfulness help you

773
01:22:32,740 --> 01:22:34,500
to become fully...

774
01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:36,420
present

775
01:22:36,740 --> 01:22:39,140
and fully alive
in the here and the now.

776
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:45,520
It does not take long
it might take just one step

777
01:22:45,520 --> 01:22:47,100
one inbreath.

778
01:22:48,340 --> 01:22:53,780
And by making a step or breathing in
you bring your mind back to your body.

779
01:22:55,680 --> 01:22:57,080
In your daily life

780
01:22:58,860 --> 01:23:00,820
your body may be here

781
01:23:01,620 --> 01:23:03,420
but your mind may be...

782
01:23:04,280 --> 01:23:05,220
there.

783
01:23:05,320 --> 01:23:07,560
They go in two different directions.

784
01:23:10,760 --> 01:23:14,080
And you are in a state of distraction:

785
01:23:16,100 --> 01:23:17,600
mind and body

786
01:23:18,420 --> 01:23:20,260
are away from each other.

787
01:23:20,520 --> 01:23:23,160
Your mind may be occupied,

788
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:27,320
preoccupied by
your project, your fear, your anger.

789
01:23:30,300 --> 01:23:33,300
Caught in the past,
caught in the future.

790
01:23:33,540 --> 01:23:36,920
But between your mind
and your body there is something:

791
01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:39,480
your breath.

792
01:23:46,460 --> 01:23:53,300
And as soon as you go home to your breath:
breathing in I know I am getting in,

793
01:23:54,780 --> 01:23:57,680
and then your body and your mind
come together

794
01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:00,760
very quickly.

795
01:24:01,420 --> 01:24:04,320
While breathing in,
you don't think of anything

796
01:24:04,320 --> 01:24:07,360
you just focus your attention
to your inbreath.

797
01:24:07,980 --> 01:24:09,000
You focus.

798
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:15,500
You invest 100% of yourself into your inbreath,
you become your inbreath.

799
01:24:16,580 --> 01:24:19,500
There is a concentration
mindfulness of your inbreath

800
01:24:19,500 --> 01:24:24,280
concentration and your inbreath
that will make body and mind come together

801
01:24:24,860 --> 01:24:26,440
in just one moment.

802
01:24:27,020 --> 01:24:30,920
And suddenly you become
fully present, fully alive.

803
01:24:35,360 --> 01:24:37,620
In the state of being

804
01:24:37,620 --> 01:24:39,660
you pick up your tea

805
01:24:40,240 --> 01:24:42,800
and the tea
become a reality,

806
01:24:46,060 --> 01:24:47,240
not a ghost.

807
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:51,840
And when you drink your tea
you are just drinking your tea.

808
01:24:53,500 --> 01:24:55,500
That's called "mindful drinking".

809
01:24:56,780 --> 01:24:58,560
There's no thinking.

810
01:24:58,880 --> 01:25:01,240
Just drinking, deep drinking.

811
01:25:01,860 --> 01:25:05,620
You are real
and the tea is real.

812
01:25:06,820 --> 01:25:10,720
And when you are real,
the tea is real, life is real.

813
01:25:14,240 --> 01:25:16,420
And many people live

814
01:25:16,740 --> 01:25:18,380
in a dream

815
01:25:20,400 --> 01:25:21,540
because

816
01:25:23,080 --> 01:25:27,000
they are not in the present moment,
they don't know what is

817
01:25:27,920 --> 01:25:29,560
going on in the present moment.

818
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:33,980
But because you're able to bring
your mind back to your body

819
01:25:33,980 --> 01:25:38,120
you are fully present and
you become aware of what is going on.

820
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:41,240
What is going on is that I

821
01:25:41,240 --> 01:25:42,800
enjoy my tea

822
01:25:44,860 --> 01:25:47,500
There is no thinking at all,
it's only

823
01:25:49,340 --> 01:25:51,120
drinking of tea.

824
01:25:51,400 --> 01:25:55,180
In that moment I live deeply
the moment of drinking my tea.

825
01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:02,800
When I breath in,

826
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:07,520
I become fully aware of my inbreath.

827
01:26:09,340 --> 01:26:12,120
My inbreath becomes
the object of mindfulness.

828
01:26:12,780 --> 01:26:15,960
My inbreath becomes
the object of my concentration.

829
01:26:16,520 --> 01:26:20,180
And that's why
my body comes home to my...

830
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:21,420
mind.

831
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:24,380
My mind comes home
to my body right away.

832
01:26:25,080 --> 01:26:27,760
Then I become fully present.

833
01:26:33,140 --> 01:26:36,000
Suppose you,
a group of people,

834
01:26:37,640 --> 01:26:40,540
stand there and contemplate

835
01:26:40,720 --> 01:26:42,700
a beautiful sunset.

836
01:26:50,080 --> 01:26:52,420
If you keep thinking about the past

837
01:26:52,920 --> 01:26:55,200
or thinking about the future

838
01:26:55,840 --> 01:26:57,140
and your project,

839
01:26:57,360 --> 01:27:00,900
you're are not really there
contemplating the sunset.

840
01:27:06,800 --> 01:27:08,720
The sunset is not for you.

841
01:27:09,480 --> 01:27:13,180
So if you practice breathing in and out
become and become

842
01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:20,380
available in the here and the now
and this beautiful sunset is for you.

843
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:23,980
Breathing in I know the sunset is there.

844
01:27:24,020 --> 01:27:26,980
Breathing out I smile
to the beautiful sunset.

845
01:27:27,280 --> 01:27:29,360
In that moment,
life is real.

846
01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:37,880
And you have your true home.

847
01:28:19,260 --> 01:28:21,860
When you go back
to the present moment,

848
01:28:22,200 --> 01:28:25,240
you might encounter
the wonders of life

849
01:28:25,640 --> 01:28:29,220
that are refreshing and healing.
You might encounter

850
01:28:30,580 --> 01:28:31,480
suffering,

851
01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:36,160
violence,

852
01:28:37,260 --> 01:28:38,200
hate,

853
01:28:38,860 --> 01:28:39,800
fear,

854
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:41,340
discrimination.

855
01:28:53,640 --> 01:28:56,160
And if you are a good practitioner,

856
01:28:57,020 --> 01:28:59,840
you have enough mindfulness in order to

857
01:29:06,540 --> 01:29:07,420
handle

858
01:29:09,920 --> 01:29:12,920
whatever need to be handled.

859
01:29:15,780 --> 01:29:19,680
Suppose anger is coming up
in you

860
01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:21,120
as an energy.

861
01:29:24,980 --> 01:29:29,100
As a practitioner,
you don't allow anger to be alone

862
01:29:30,740 --> 01:29:31,400
in you.

863
01:29:32,020 --> 01:29:38,140
Because if you let anger to be alone in you,
anger will cause a lot of damage

864
01:29:39,280 --> 01:29:41,060
in your body, in your mind

865
01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:43,360
and maybe around you.

866
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:47,100
That is why we practice
mindfulness of anger:

867
01:29:48,780 --> 01:29:50,640
breathing in I know

868
01:29:50,800 --> 01:29:52,800
anger is in me,

869
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:54,160
breathing out

870
01:29:54,320 --> 01:29:56,320
I smile to my anger,

871
01:29:56,740 --> 01:29:58,420
I embrace my anger.

872
01:30:06,880 --> 01:30:08,980
You have a seed of anger

873
01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:11,900
deep in yourself.

874
01:30:15,700 --> 01:30:19,140
But you also have a seed
of mindfulness deep in yourself ,

875
01:30:19,880 --> 01:30:22,060
you have a seed of compassion
in yourself.

876
01:30:25,300 --> 01:30:29,600
When anger is touched,
when the seed of anger is touched,

877
01:30:30,240 --> 01:30:32,280
it manifests in through

878
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:36,000
a kind of energy
called anger.

879
01:30:45,240 --> 01:30:47,860
Suppose this is your consciousness.

880
01:30:49,280 --> 01:30:51,280
It has two layers.

881
01:30:52,040 --> 01:30:56,300
The lower layers co is called
store consciousness.

882
01:31:00,020 --> 01:31:03,960
And the upper layer is called
mind consciousness.

883
01:31:07,060 --> 01:31:09,060
You have a seed of anger here.

884
01:31:10,120 --> 01:31:13,200
You also have a seed of joy,

885
01:31:13,240 --> 01:31:15,160
of mindfulness,

886
01:31:15,160 --> 01:31:17,920
of compassion, of non-discrimination.

887
01:31:18,340 --> 01:31:23,380
You have a seed of anger, of despair,
of jealousy, of discrimination

888
01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:25,920
in the depth of your consciousness.

889
01:31:27,860 --> 01:31:29,700
But when the seed of anger

890
01:31:30,160 --> 01:31:32,600
is left alone there,

891
01:31:33,220 --> 01:31:35,020
in the store consciousness,

892
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:40,200
you don't water it, no one come
and touch it, you're okay.

893
01:31:41,160 --> 01:31:44,300
You can laugh you,
you may have a good time,

894
01:31:45,420 --> 01:31:49,440
but that does not mean that
you don't have the seed of anger in you.

895
01:31:51,560 --> 01:31:54,320
As soon you hear
someone saying something

896
01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:58,380
or doing something
the seed of anger in you is touched.

897
01:31:59,460 --> 01:32:02,560
And it become a zone of energy

898
01:32:02,900 --> 01:32:06,060
under the realm of mind consciousness.

899
01:32:10,620 --> 01:32:11,940
In Buddhism

900
01:32:11,940 --> 01:32:14,340
we call it a mental formation.

901
01:32:16,840 --> 01:32:19,060
Anger is a mental formation.

902
01:32:28,940 --> 01:32:32,280
In my tradition we speak of 51

903
01:32:33,020 --> 01:32:36,060
categories of mental formations,

904
01:32:40,480 --> 01:32:43,020
We have a seed
of discrimination in us.

905
01:32:43,720 --> 01:32:47,760
We have a seed
of non-discrimination in us.

906
01:32:52,840 --> 01:32:53,900
That is true.

907
01:32:57,040 --> 01:33:01,560
If the seed of discrimination is watered
every day becomes very important.

908
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:08,680
And it doesn't allow the seed
of non-discrimination to manifest.

909
01:33:09,320 --> 01:33:10,760
If the seed of anger

910
01:33:11,700 --> 01:33:15,380
becomes stronger and stronger
every day, the seed of compassion

911
01:33:16,500 --> 01:33:18,500
have less chance.

912
01:33:19,600 --> 01:33:21,100
And that is why

913
01:33:22,760 --> 01:33:26,000
every time a negative seed
is touched

914
01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:27,980
and manifest

915
01:33:29,440 --> 01:33:31,440
we have to take care of it.

916
01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:34,920
That is why

917
01:33:35,480 --> 01:33:38,240
I spoke about mindfulness of anger.

918
01:33:40,660 --> 01:33:44,020
Mindfulness is the capacity of knowing
what is happening

919
01:33:44,020 --> 01:33:47,760
what is happening is
anger has manifested.

920
01:33:49,200 --> 01:33:51,260
So as a practitioner

921
01:33:51,260 --> 01:33:55,080
you ask the seed of mindfulness
to manifest at the same time.

922
01:33:57,520 --> 01:34:00,720
And if you are a diligent practitioner

923
01:34:02,160 --> 01:34:05,340
the seed of mindfulness in you
is strong enough

924
01:34:07,800 --> 01:34:11,700
and it's very easy for you
to touch and invite it to come up

925
01:34:12,880 --> 01:34:16,080
and it come up
become a zone of energy.

926
01:34:21,520 --> 01:34:24,340
Suppose anger is energy 1.

927
01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:28,180
Mindfulness is energy 2.

928
01:34:32,280 --> 01:34:35,200
Mindfulness is
mindfulness of something.

929
01:34:37,020 --> 01:34:38,040
And here

930
01:34:38,360 --> 01:34:40,240
mindfulness of anger.

931
01:34:41,740 --> 01:34:43,740
Mindfulness here has

932
01:34:45,460 --> 01:34:48,020
the following function:
recognizing

933
01:34:56,280 --> 01:34:58,380
anger as anger.

934
01:35:00,940 --> 01:35:05,000
Mindfulness of breathing:
breathing in I know this is my inbreath.

935
01:35:06,080 --> 01:35:08,720
Breathing out
I know this is my outbreath.

936
01:35:09,040 --> 01:35:11,700
Recognizing inbreath as inbreath,

937
01:35:11,840 --> 01:35:14,260
recognizing outbreath as outbreath.

938
01:35:15,380 --> 01:35:18,080
Recognizing drinking as drinking,

939
01:35:18,560 --> 01:35:21,040
recognizing walking as walking.

940
01:35:21,080 --> 01:35:23,980
That's the function of mindfulness.

941
01:35:24,080 --> 01:35:29,060
So, the energy of mindfulness
generated by your breathing, your walking

942
01:35:29,260 --> 01:35:32,580
has the capacity of recognizing
anger as anger.

943
01:35:32,760 --> 01:35:34,000
Breathing in

944
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:35,140
I know

945
01:35:35,280 --> 01:35:37,080
anger is in me.

946
01:35:37,500 --> 01:35:39,040
Breathing out

947
01:35:39,300 --> 01:35:41,440
I take good care of my anger.

948
01:35:43,680 --> 01:35:45,360
Recognising anger

949
01:35:45,440 --> 01:35:47,440
and embracing

950
01:35:47,620 --> 01:35:48,620
anger.

951
01:35:54,920 --> 01:35:56,920
This is an art.

952
01:35:57,220 --> 01:35:58,440
This is a practice,

953
01:35:58,920 --> 01:36:00,620
there's no fighting.

954
01:36:00,820 --> 01:36:01,860
Mindfulness

955
01:36:02,120 --> 01:36:05,080
is generated not to fight anger

956
01:36:05,100 --> 01:36:08,740
but to recognize anger
and to hold anger

957
01:36:08,740 --> 01:36:10,700
very tenderly.

958
01:36:11,880 --> 01:36:13,880
That is Buddhist practice.

959
01:36:14,580 --> 01:36:17,460
You do not transform yourself
into a battlefield:

960
01:36:17,620 --> 01:36:20,920
the good fighting the ego.
That's not Buddhism.

961
01:36:23,100 --> 01:36:26,760
Because you are mindfulness
but you are also anger

962
01:36:27,500 --> 01:36:30,280
and mindfulness play
the role of a big sister,

963
01:36:31,800 --> 01:36:35,760
holding the angry,
the suffering younger sister

964
01:36:35,860 --> 01:36:37,600
and help her to transform.

965
01:36:46,940 --> 01:36:48,120
A mother

966
01:36:49,320 --> 01:36:51,320
is working in the kitchen

967
01:36:52,380 --> 01:36:54,380
and she hear the baby crying.

968
01:36:55,300 --> 01:36:57,500
She very much care for the baby.

969
01:36:58,420 --> 01:37:00,260
So she stop,

970
01:37:00,260 --> 01:37:02,740
walk in the kitchen
she put down

971
01:37:03,040 --> 01:37:07,040
whatever she's holding
and she goes to the room of the baby.

972
01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:13,220
The first thing she does is to pick her up
and hold her tenderly into her arms.

973
01:37:13,400 --> 01:37:15,040
That's the mother.

974
01:37:16,720 --> 01:37:19,820
She doesn't know
what's wrong with the baby yet

975
01:37:19,840 --> 01:37:24,920
but the first thing she does 
is to pick up the baby and hold her

976
01:37:25,400 --> 01:37:26,400
mindfully.

977
01:37:26,720 --> 01:37:29,160
We do the same thing as a practitioner.

978
01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:32,200
Every time anger or despair come up,

979
01:37:34,220 --> 01:37:35,820
we generate

980
01:37:36,620 --> 01:37:38,820
the energy of mindfulness

981
01:37:38,820 --> 01:37:40,600
in order to recognize

982
01:37:41,120 --> 01:37:43,120
and to embrace tenderly.

983
01:37:43,740 --> 01:37:44,740
Tenderly.

984
01:37:49,980 --> 01:37:54,100
And if we know how to practice
mindful walking or mindful breathing

985
01:37:54,160 --> 01:37:56,720
we continue to generate mindfulness.

986
01:37:56,720 --> 01:37:57,700
And we

987
01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:02,060
hand that energy
in order to recognize and to embrace.

988
01:38:02,460 --> 01:38:03,260
And

989
01:38:03,260 --> 01:38:05,120
we can bring relief

990
01:38:05,940 --> 01:38:06,780
because

991
01:38:06,900 --> 01:38:08,900
mindfulness as an energy

992
01:38:09,020 --> 01:38:12,860
embracing anger as another
source of energy tenderly.

993
01:38:12,860 --> 01:38:15,140
Big brother, younger brother.

994
01:38:17,720 --> 01:38:19,720
Although the mother has not

995
01:38:20,560 --> 01:38:25,460
realized what's wrong, but the fact
that she's holding the baby tenderly

996
01:38:25,900 --> 01:38:30,360
can already bring a relief to the baby
and the baby may stop crying.

997
01:38:31,040 --> 01:38:35,360
If the mother continue to hold
the baby tenderly with mindfulness

998
01:38:35,360 --> 01:38:37,180
she'll find out what's wrong.

999
01:38:38,080 --> 01:38:40,000
The baby may be hungry,

1000
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:42,000
the baby may have

1001
01:38:42,700 --> 01:38:43,780
fever,

1002
01:38:44,060 --> 01:38:46,440
or the diaper may be too tight.

1003
01:38:47,180 --> 01:38:48,920
As a mother

1004
01:38:49,120 --> 01:38:51,440
she can find it out very quickly.

1005
01:38:51,440 --> 01:38:53,000
As practitioner

1006
01:38:54,260 --> 01:38:57,140
you can find out very easily

1007
01:38:58,120 --> 01:39:00,120
why this anger.

1008
01:39:01,780 --> 01:39:04,480
And you can see the roots
of that anger.

1009
01:39:05,240 --> 01:39:08,960
You find out the nature,
the root of that anger.

1010
01:39:14,240 --> 01:39:17,680
If the mother found out
what is wrong with the baby

1011
01:39:17,800 --> 01:39:19,800
she can fix the situation

1012
01:39:20,060 --> 01:39:21,120
very quickly.

1013
01:39:21,240 --> 01:39:24,600
If the baby is hungry,
she give her some milk,

1014
01:39:27,180 --> 01:39:29,720
if the diaper is too tight,
she just

1015
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:33,000
undo it and do it again.

1016
01:39:34,740 --> 01:39:38,240
So, after having embraced tenderly

1017
01:39:39,380 --> 01:39:41,380
your anger,

1018
01:39:44,400 --> 01:39:46,400
you might like to continue

1019
01:39:47,020 --> 01:39:51,040
the practice of mindful breathing,
the practice of mindful walking

1020
01:39:51,380 --> 01:39:52,760
and look deeply

1021
01:39:52,760 --> 01:39:55,720
into the nature of your anger

1022
01:39:55,720 --> 01:39:58,700
and find out
what is the root of your anger.

1023
01:39:59,740 --> 01:40:02,780
Recognizing, embracing
and looking deeply.

1024
01:40:08,720 --> 01:40:10,740
Because mindfulness

1025
01:40:11,040 --> 01:40:13,240
is the kind of energy

1026
01:40:15,140 --> 01:40:17,680
carrying with her

1027
01:40:17,780 --> 01:40:19,780
the energy of concentration.

1028
01:40:23,360 --> 01:40:27,040
Wherever mindfulness is,
concentration is also.

1029
01:40:27,420 --> 01:40:30,400
When you are mindful of your inbreath,

1030
01:40:30,620 --> 01:40:33,020
you are concentrated in your inbreath.

1031
01:40:34,200 --> 01:40:38,060
When you are mindful of your tea,
you concentrate on the tea.

1032
01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:41,140
That is why

1033
01:40:42,140 --> 01:40:45,020
the more powerful mindfulness is,

1034
01:40:45,040 --> 01:40:47,820
the more concentration you get.

1035
01:40:47,940 --> 01:40:51,960
With that mindfulness and concentration,
you practice looking deeply

1036
01:40:51,980 --> 01:40:53,980
and you get insight.

1037
01:41:06,360 --> 01:41:09,480
And that insight
is going to liberate you

1038
01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:12,000
transform your anger.

1039
01:41:16,620 --> 01:41:18,100
There is a story

1040
01:41:18,860 --> 01:41:20,480
of a young boy

1041
01:41:21,900 --> 01:41:25,280
who used to come to Plum Village
every summer

1042
01:41:25,340 --> 01:41:27,460
with his younger sister.

1043
01:41:30,500 --> 01:41:35,020
And they practiced mindfulness
as children.

1044
01:41:36,520 --> 01:41:39,740
The boy had difficulty with his father.

1045
01:41:43,700 --> 01:41:45,380
He blamed his father.

1046
01:41:46,900 --> 01:41:51,880
Every time he fall down and get hurt
his father always shouted at him

1047
01:41:51,880 --> 01:41:53,780
instead of coming and help him.

1048
01:41:55,640 --> 01:41:59,160
So, his relationship with his father
was difficult.

1049
01:42:00,020 --> 01:42:03,920
And he vowed that when he grew up
he would not be like his father.

1050
01:42:03,920 --> 01:42:06,060
If he has children and then if

1051
01:42:06,580 --> 01:42:10,700
his child fell down and get hurt
he will not shout at him,

1052
01:42:10,700 --> 01:42:12,620
instead he'll come and try to help.

1053
01:42:12,620 --> 01:42:14,900
That was his determination.

1054
01:42:16,360 --> 01:42:18,360
One day, he was playing

1055
01:42:18,780 --> 01:42:21,940
in the Lower Hamlet of Plum Village

1056
01:42:22,120 --> 01:42:26,800
and her sister were playing
with another little girl on a hammock.

1057
01:42:27,080 --> 01:42:30,560
The girl fell down and get hurt

1058
01:42:30,760 --> 01:42:32,120
and the blood was

1059
01:42:32,460 --> 01:42:33,900
coming down .

1060
01:42:33,900 --> 01:42:36,780
Suddenly, he found himself very angry

1061
01:42:39,720 --> 01:42:45,600
He wanted to shout: "Stupid!
How could you do something like that?"

1062
01:42:50,860 --> 01:42:55,880
And because he had been practicing
mindfulness, he was able

1063
01:42:56,860 --> 01:42:58,860
to refrain from shouting

1064
01:43:00,060 --> 01:43:01,840
and he recognized

1065
01:43:02,440 --> 01:43:05,000
that he was exactly like his father.

1066
01:43:08,720 --> 01:43:10,720
Instead of trying

1067
01:43:11,960 --> 01:43:14,840
to come and help his sister

1068
01:43:16,360 --> 01:43:19,500
he had the tendency to shout at her.

1069
01:43:20,580 --> 01:43:21,460
He hate

1070
01:43:22,640 --> 01:43:24,920
what he has within himself.

1071
01:43:26,640 --> 01:43:29,140
So when he practice

1072
01:43:30,340 --> 01:43:32,540
mindful breathing,
he knew

1073
01:43:32,840 --> 01:43:37,140
that this is the continuation
of his father inside of him.

1074
01:43:38,500 --> 01:43:40,860
He's not different from his father.

1075
01:43:41,240 --> 01:43:42,960
And with that insight

1076
01:43:43,780 --> 01:43:47,420
he turned around
and practiced slow walking

1077
01:43:47,900 --> 01:43:51,420
when he had seen someone coming
to help his sister.

1078
01:43:51,580 --> 01:43:55,460
And during slow walking
he recognized that

1079
01:43:55,920 --> 01:43:57,920
he's a continuation of his father.

1080
01:43:58,340 --> 01:44:02,500
The energy of anger
has been transmitted by his father.

1081
01:44:03,120 --> 01:44:04,820
And if he does not practice

1082
01:44:04,820 --> 01:44:07,900
he's going to become
exactly like his father.

1083
01:44:08,060 --> 01:44:10,000
And he will treat

1084
01:44:10,020 --> 01:44:11,580
his children

1085
01:44:11,620 --> 01:44:13,560
in the future
in the same way.

1086
01:44:13,940 --> 01:44:16,060
That is called Samsara:

1087
01:44:16,720 --> 01:44:17,820
continuation.

1088
01:44:19,340 --> 01:44:22,040
And suddenly he had a desire

1089
01:44:22,440 --> 01:44:27,000
to go home and tell his father
that he has the same kind of energy

1090
01:44:27,000 --> 01:44:30,200
and he would invite his father
to practice with him.

1091
01:44:31,660 --> 01:44:34,000
And when that intention was born in him

1092
01:44:34,000 --> 01:44:38,840
his anger resentment towards his father
began to dissolve.

1093
01:44:43,280 --> 01:44:46,900
What kind of insight did he get?

1094
01:44:47,380 --> 01:44:48,820
He got the insight that

1095
01:44:49,360 --> 01:44:54,220
he is exactly like his father.
He has the same kind of habit energy.

1096
01:44:56,200 --> 01:45:01,540
That is why he wanted to practice and he see
himself as a victim of that energy,

1097
01:45:01,920 --> 01:45:03,640
victim of the transmission

1098
01:45:04,240 --> 01:45:05,880
of that habit energy.

1099
01:45:05,920 --> 01:45:09,480
And he saw that his father
also was a victim of that

1100
01:45:10,280 --> 01:45:11,300
transmission.

1101
01:45:11,580 --> 01:45:14,340
His father may have got it from

1102
01:45:14,340 --> 01:45:16,010
his own father.

1103
01:45:16,740 --> 01:45:19,780
And when he had that insight, his anger...

1104
01:45:22,920 --> 01:45:25,000
vis-a-vis father just...

1105
01:45:27,000 --> 01:45:27,900
stopped.

1106
01:45:28,440 --> 01:45:30,020
He got a transformation.

1107
01:45:30,040 --> 01:45:30,800
I think for...

1108
01:45:31,760 --> 01:45:35,100
a young man of 12
that is a remarkable

1109
01:45:36,940 --> 01:45:37,880
achievement.

1110
01:45:39,200 --> 01:45:43,140
It is inside
that transform our afflictions.

1111
01:45:46,480 --> 01:45:48,880
And mindfulness has the power

1112
01:45:48,880 --> 01:45:52,020
of recognizing, embracing,
looking deeply

1113
01:45:52,120 --> 01:45:56,020
getting the insight
that transform your depth,

1114
01:45:58,100 --> 01:46:00,100
that get you free.

1115
01:46:04,940 --> 01:46:06,260
Transformation

1116
01:46:07,040 --> 01:46:09,040
and healing and freedom.

1117
01:46:20,580 --> 01:46:25,800
And when a young man is liberated
the father in him is liberated

1118
01:46:26,260 --> 01:46:28,400
and the ancestors in him are liberated

1119
01:46:30,260 --> 01:46:32,960
and the circle around samsara.

1120
01:46:44,940 --> 01:46:47,640
What the young man realized

1121
01:46:47,900 --> 01:46:48,940
is that...

1122
01:46:51,980 --> 01:46:53,980
he's not a victim of his father,

1123
01:46:55,880 --> 01:46:58,620
he's a victim of that habit energy.

1124
01:46:59,020 --> 01:47:03,060
And his father also
is a victim of that habit energy.

1125
01:47:05,520 --> 01:47:08,680
And when you are able
to transform you,

1126
01:47:10,420 --> 01:47:14,020
you are in a situation
to help transform him or her.

1127
01:47:14,160 --> 01:47:15,240
The one...

1128
01:47:16,340 --> 01:47:20,060
that you have you have believed
to be your oppressor,

1129
01:47:20,940 --> 01:47:22,940
the source of your suffering.

1130
01:47:26,840 --> 01:47:29,200
And that is my my practice.

1131
01:47:29,820 --> 01:47:31,800
I do not have enemies.

1132
01:47:37,020 --> 01:47:38,060
Even...

1133
01:47:38,360 --> 01:47:44,020
they've created a lot of suffering,
a lot of injustice, they've tried to kill me,

1134
01:47:46,240 --> 01:47:47,700
to supress me.

1135
01:47:50,880 --> 01:47:55,220
But they are not my enemies.
They are those I want to help.

1136
01:47:57,580 --> 01:48:02,200
Because I have become free, I have
changed myself, I have transformed myself.

1137
01:48:02,400 --> 01:48:03,480
That's why...

1138
01:48:05,480 --> 01:48:07,380
I do no longer

1139
01:48:08,500 --> 01:48:10,500
see myself as a victim.

1140
01:48:12,000 --> 01:48:17,000
I know that if I can transform myself,
I can help transform them.

1141
01:48:20,740 --> 01:48:22,600
If you practice

1142
01:48:22,600 --> 01:48:26,680
and if you can transform
your mind, your heart

1143
01:48:26,900 --> 01:48:28,900
you become a boddhisatva.

1144
01:48:29,720 --> 01:48:31,180
And then...

1145
01:48:33,420 --> 01:48:37,340
you will be in a position
to help them transform

1146
01:48:37,680 --> 01:48:38,580
those

1147
01:48:41,920 --> 01:48:45,140
you used to consider as oppressors...

1148
01:48:50,220 --> 01:48:51,160
abusers.

1149
01:48:54,880 --> 01:48:59,000
Those you considered to be
the one who discriminate against you

1150
01:49:01,360 --> 01:49:04,540
trying to suppress you,
and kill you and so on.

1151
01:49:05,180 --> 01:49:08,460
They're also
victims of their own ignorance,

1152
01:49:08,860 --> 01:49:12,000
their own anger.
They don't know how to handle

1153
01:49:12,440 --> 01:49:14,940
their craving, their anger,

1154
01:49:16,940 --> 01:49:18,280
their violence,

1155
01:49:18,660 --> 01:49:19,880
their fear.

1156
01:49:22,600 --> 01:49:24,220
So the path...

1157
01:49:24,220 --> 01:49:27,960
is to transform yourself
into a bodhisattva

1158
01:49:28,820 --> 01:49:30,820
with plenty of

1159
01:49:30,820 --> 01:49:33,880
understanding, insight
and compassion

1160
01:49:35,560 --> 01:49:39,200
And when you have these energies,
you are free

1161
01:49:39,920 --> 01:49:43,480
and you are in a position of helping

1162
01:49:44,480 --> 01:49:46,560
other people to become free also.

1163
01:49:48,280 --> 01:49:49,740
This is the path...

1164
01:49:52,420 --> 01:49:54,560
shown to us by the Buddha.

1165
01:49:55,240 --> 01:49:57,240
And every one of us

1166
01:49:57,900 --> 01:50:01,800
has the seed of mindfulness,
concentration and insight

1167
01:50:01,800 --> 01:50:03,800
in himself or in herself.

1168
01:50:04,280 --> 01:50:08,400
You are able to cultivate
these three kinds of energies

1169
01:50:08,400 --> 01:50:10,660
for our own liberation and healing.

1170
01:50:12,040 --> 01:50:17,700
And we shall use the same kind of energy
to help the transformation and healing

1171
01:50:18,620 --> 01:50:20,200
of the world.

1172
01:50:20,960 --> 01:50:22,620
When you look up,

1173
01:50:22,660 --> 01:50:23,860
you see

1174
01:50:25,760 --> 01:50:27,760
a temple.

1175
01:50:28,740 --> 01:50:32,220
The temple is in your heart,
the lotus in your heart.

1176
01:50:32,800 --> 01:50:38,360
Underneath there was the word "smurty".
"Smurty" means mindfulness.

1177
01:50:40,440 --> 01:50:43,680
And then there is the word "samadhi".
It means concentration.

1178
01:50:44,800 --> 01:50:46,800
And there's the word "prashna",

1179
01:50:47,240 --> 01:50:48,760
that is insight.

1180
01:50:49,260 --> 01:50:52,720
And that is the kind of energy
that are in us

1181
01:50:53,260 --> 01:50:55,840
to be cultivated, to develop.

1182
01:50:56,440 --> 01:50:59,080
That is the energy
of the Buddha in us,

1183
01:51:01,640 --> 01:51:03,960
the energy of transformation

1184
01:51:04,820 --> 01:51:06,320
and healing.

1185
01:51:10,620 --> 01:51:12,720
During our retreat

1186
01:51:14,320 --> 01:51:16,200
we practice mindful breathing

1187
01:51:16,540 --> 01:51:17,960
mindful walking.

1188
01:51:19,680 --> 01:51:21,100
That is why

1189
01:51:22,140 --> 01:51:24,580
we are encouraged to use our time

1190
01:51:26,360 --> 01:51:27,840
for the practice.

1191
01:51:27,980 --> 01:51:31,080
If we talk a lot,
there will be no time to...

1192
01:51:32,220 --> 01:51:35,480
enjoy our inbreath-outbreath,
our walking.

1193
01:51:36,300 --> 01:51:41,120
There will be time when we
are encouraged to talk to each other:

1194
01:51:42,020 --> 01:51:43,700
dharma discussions.

1195
01:51:44,580 --> 01:51:47,260
We will be sharing our insights,

1196
01:51:49,700 --> 01:51:52,920
our way of overcoming our suffering.

1197
01:51:57,880 --> 01:52:01,900
And when we practice eating
our lunch, our breakfast,

1198
01:52:02,940 --> 01:52:04,780
we refrain from thinking.

1199
01:52:04,920 --> 01:52:08,000
We establish ourselves
in the here and the now.

1200
01:52:08,760 --> 01:52:12,240
We pay attention only
to the food that we eat.

1201
01:52:13,260 --> 01:52:16,060
When you pick up a piece of bread,

1202
01:52:17,740 --> 01:52:20,800
you do not think of the past,
of the future,

1203
01:52:20,800 --> 01:52:22,360
you just touch the piece of bread...

1204
01:52:22,800 --> 01:52:23,740
deeply.

1205
01:52:24,600 --> 01:52:27,180
And we are able to see
that piece of bread.

1206
01:52:27,660 --> 01:52:32,040
So, if you look deeply into the piece
of bread, you see everything in it.

1207
01:52:32,940 --> 01:52:37,680
The piece of bread you hold
in your hand is the body of the cosmos.

1208
01:52:37,760 --> 01:52:41,080
With a little bit of mindfulness,
you can see

1209
01:52:41,400 --> 01:52:46,920
that the piece of bread is an ambassador
form of the cosmos coming to you.

1210
01:52:47,720 --> 01:52:50,680
And if you can see the piece of bread

1211
01:52:51,260 --> 01:52:55,300
in its true nature,
and then you can put it in your mouth.

1212
01:52:59,160 --> 01:53:02,960
Don't put anything else in your mouth,
like your projects,

1213
01:53:02,960 --> 01:53:06,560
your fear, your anger.
It's not healthy. Just put the bread.

1214
01:53:07,360 --> 01:53:09,880
Just chew the bread,

1215
01:53:09,880 --> 01:53:11,880
mindfully, with joy.

1216
01:53:11,900 --> 01:53:16,020
Don't chew your sorrow, your anger.
It's not good for your health.

1217
01:53:16,720 --> 01:53:18,300
There's no thinking,

1218
01:53:18,300 --> 01:53:19,240
just...

1219
01:53:19,600 --> 01:53:21,900
the process of mindfulness
as chewing.

1220
01:53:25,060 --> 01:53:28,060
We take our time
to enjoy our breakfast

1221
01:53:29,260 --> 01:53:32,020
from time to time,
repose and smile.

1222
01:53:33,260 --> 01:53:35,980
The brother in front of you is you,

1223
01:53:35,980 --> 01:53:38,620
the sister on your left is you.

1224
01:53:39,080 --> 01:53:41,320
They all belong to the sangha.

1225
01:53:42,220 --> 01:53:44,000
And together we generate

1226
01:53:45,560 --> 01:53:47,560
the energy of mindfulness.

1227
01:53:47,560 --> 01:53:51,440
The collective energy of mindfulness
while walking, while sitting,

1228
01:53:51,440 --> 01:53:53,740
while eating,
will be powerful

1229
01:53:53,980 --> 01:53:56,960
and it will penetrate
into each of us.

1230
01:53:58,120 --> 01:54:02,560
We'll be healed by the collective energy
and nourished by the...

1231
01:54:02,860 --> 01:54:04,260
collective energy.

1232
01:54:04,320 --> 01:54:06,300
Alone in our living room

1233
01:54:06,900 --> 01:54:08,880
we can generate

1234
01:54:08,880 --> 01:54:10,720
the energy of mindfulness.

1235
01:54:12,660 --> 01:54:16,040
But compared
to the collective energy of mindfulness,

1236
01:54:16,640 --> 01:54:17,500
well,

1237
01:54:17,860 --> 01:54:19,060
it's not much.

1238
01:54:19,300 --> 01:54:21,560
Therefore, to be in a sangha

1239
01:54:23,100 --> 01:54:27,340
and to allow ourselves to be penetrated
by the collective energy

1240
01:54:27,340 --> 01:54:30,300
of mindfulness with sangha
is very important.

1241
01:54:31,120 --> 01:54:35,480
So, the coming together of a sangha
is a very important fact,

1242
01:54:36,320 --> 01:54:38,600
is a miracle.
And we should

1243
01:54:39,700 --> 01:54:41,840
profit from the opportunity,

1244
01:54:41,840 --> 01:54:46,040
allow ouselves to be transported
by the collective energy of the sangha,

1245
01:54:46,060 --> 01:54:48,060
allow the sangha to embrace our...

1246
01:54:49,660 --> 01:54:50,760
afflictions,

1247
01:54:51,280 --> 01:54:53,280
our pain, our sorrow.

1248
01:54:54,260 --> 01:54:56,260
The sangha is the boat

1249
01:54:57,120 --> 01:54:59,820
that help you to float
on the river of suffering.

1250
01:55:00,460 --> 01:55:02,280
Allow yourself to be

1251
01:55:02,280 --> 01:55:06,960
transported by the sangha
by the collective energy of mindfulness.

1252
01:55:08,540 --> 01:55:11,080
And while eating you enjoy

1253
01:55:11,300 --> 01:55:13,840
the time being with the sangha.

1254
01:55:13,840 --> 01:55:17,940
You smile to your brother and sister
in the practice.

1255
01:55:18,580 --> 01:55:23,300
You allow yourself to be nourished
by the collective energy of the sangha.

1256
01:55:25,160 --> 01:55:27,400
Every moment of our daily life

1257
01:55:27,400 --> 01:55:30,800
mindfulness help us to be
in the here and now.

1258
01:55:30,800 --> 01:55:33,380
And the real practice,
the true practice...

1259
01:55:35,400 --> 01:55:40,160
is to allow every moment of our life
to be a joyful movement.

1260
01:55:43,280 --> 01:55:45,220
That will be

1261
01:55:45,220 --> 01:55:49,160
possible thanks to the power
of mindfulness and concentration

1262
01:55:49,700 --> 01:55:53,180
generated by yourself
and generated by the sangha.

1263
01:55:55,760 --> 01:55:57,760
Tomorrow we shall have a...

1264
01:56:02,440 --> 01:56:07,300
mindfulness walk in the morning,
we shall be walking together.

1265
01:56:07,300 --> 01:56:10,740
We'll walk in such a way
that make the kingdom of God...

1266
01:56:10,740 --> 01:56:13,440
real, available in the here and now.

1267
01:56:13,440 --> 01:56:17,320
There're several of us
that are very used to the practice.

1268
01:56:17,320 --> 01:56:19,700
We'll walk together and generate...

1269
01:56:19,700 --> 01:56:21,180
the collective...

1270
01:56:21,420 --> 01:56:23,400
energy of mindfulness together.

1271
01:56:23,400 --> 01:56:28,040
And you wil see that the kingdom,
the pure land is available.