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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,
the music of 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
the telephone ringing,

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you practice.

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You are supposed
not to run to the telephone.

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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
to the telephone,

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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
or who want to make a phone call,

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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
at the same time.

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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.

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Then, you may have
the tendency to say:

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"Oh, it does not seem
that it has arrived

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that wonderful moment,

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but I am sure that it will arrive soon,
sometime in the future.

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That is our tendency to answer.

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But if we keep living

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like the way we have lived our life
in the past 20 years,

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it will not arrive

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in the next 20 years.

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It might not arrive at all

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that moment we call
the most wonderful moment of our life.

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And for many, many of us,
that moment

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does not arrive

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at all

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until we die.

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The Buddha said:

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"You have to make the present moment
into the most wonderful moment of your life."

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And this is possible.

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Because if you

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are able to go home to the present moment
to the here and the now,

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become fully alive,

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become fully present,

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you can touch all the wonders of life
within yourself and around you.

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Everything belonging to you
is a wonder:

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your eye, your ear, your nose,

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your body, your mind.

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And because you are not mindful,

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you don't touch them deeply,
you don't know that they are wonders

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until you die and you begin to regret
that you have not lived at all.

00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:46.800
That is why our true home
must be sought in the here and the now.

00:45:46.980 --> 00:45:48.920
It can be touched
in the here and now.

00:46:40.660 --> 00:46:42.040
My true home

00:46:43.820 --> 00:46:45.960
is not limited to...

00:46:48.940 --> 00:46:50.120
...to a place,

00:46:59.340 --> 00:47:00.740
to a time.

00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:03.580
My true home is not Vietnam,

00:47:04.780 --> 00:47:08.600
my true home is not France,
my true home is not America.

00:47:09.120 --> 00:47:11.180
my true home is not Africa,

00:47:11.180 --> 00:47:14.000
my true home is not the Palestine,

00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:18.440
my true home is not Israel.

00:47:26.620 --> 00:47:28.180
Although they don't

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.

00:47:38.420 --> 00:47:43.440
And maybe they are in vietnam
but they don't have a home.

00:47:48.240 --> 00:47:50.200
That is why I don't feel

00:47:50.640 --> 00:47:51.660
as a victim.

00:47:56.440 --> 00:47:59.300
And I don't feel
that they are my enemies.

00:48:01.380 --> 00:48:03.460
They are victims of fear.

00:48:07.980 --> 00:48:10.580
They believe that if I go home

00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:17.100
I will create an atmosphere of...

00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:25.920
...of solidarity,

00:48:26.560 --> 00:48:28.740
of friendship, of brotherhood

00:48:29.860 --> 00:48:32.460
that may be threatening to their power.

00:48:36.420 --> 00:48:38.160
And it is fear

00:48:43.600 --> 00:48:45.600
that is an obstacle.

00:48:46.760 --> 00:48:49.820
And I want to help them
to be free from fear.

00:48:50.120 --> 00:48:54.320
They are not my enemies,
they are the ones I want to help.

00:48:55.540 --> 00:48:59.960
They're objects of my practice
of compassion and understanding.

00:48:59.960 --> 00:49:01.740
I have no enemies.

00:49:06.200 --> 00:49:07.380
During the war,

00:49:08.740 --> 00:49:10.040
during the Vietnam War

00:49:24.240 --> 00:49:26.400
it was so difficult for us

00:49:26.580 --> 00:49:27.960
to voice our concern...

00:49:28.940 --> 00:49:32.800
Many of us, most of us
did not want the war.

00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:43.380
The war put us in a situation
where brothers have to kill brothers.

00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:48.780
And kill with foreign weapons

00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:50.800
and ideologies.

00:49:52.680 --> 00:49:55.900
Communism and anti-communism
imported

00:49:57.080 --> 00:49:58.400
were imported.

00:49:58.700 --> 00:50:00.080
Also weapons

00:50:01.160 --> 00:50:03.660
used by the communists were imported.

00:50:05.040 --> 00:50:09.020
Weapons used by the anti-communists
were imported.

00:50:12.240 --> 00:50:13.620
They gave us

00:50:14.580 --> 00:50:15.440
guns

00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:20.700
and ideologies and urge us
to fight each other and kill each other.

00:50:21.820 --> 00:50:23.800
We started a movement called

00:50:23.940 --> 00:50:25.540
"Don't shoot your brother".

00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:29.820
And our voice was silenced by

00:50:32.720 --> 00:50:33.800
both sides

00:50:33.800 --> 00:50:36.100
both warring parties.

00:50:38.580 --> 00:50:40.100
We try to speak out.

00:50:40.600 --> 00:50:44.180
We try to tell you, in a word,
that we don't want the war.

00:50:45.300 --> 00:50:48.380
We don't want
the killing of each other

00:50:48.380 --> 00:50:51.540
with foreign weapons
and foreign ideologies.

00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:55.660
And yet we were forced

00:50:56.440 --> 00:50:57.360
to do so.

00:50:58.220 --> 00:51:00.880
So those of us
who practiced mindfulness,

00:51:02.200 --> 00:51:04.260
understanding and compassion

00:51:04.460 --> 00:51:06.620
we did not want
to accept the war.

00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:07.980
We wanted

00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:10.800
to reconcile.

00:51:14.900 --> 00:51:16.900
And our voice was not

00:51:17.420 --> 00:51:19.420
allowed to be heard.

00:51:20.020 --> 00:51:22.820
Sometimes we had
to burn ourselves alive

00:51:22.820 --> 00:51:25.540
in order to get
the message across.

00:51:27.060 --> 00:51:28.240
*Vietnamese name*

00:51:29.860 --> 00:51:31.020
a friend of mine

00:51:32.940 --> 00:51:33.620
one day

00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:36.660
he burnt himself.

00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:41.540
And his picture

00:51:42.460 --> 00:51:45.060
appeared in the international press.

00:51:46.360 --> 00:51:48.240
I was in New York.

00:51:51.040 --> 00:51:55.020
And I saw that picture
on the New York Times front page.

00:51:56.300 --> 00:51:58.060
He's a friend of mine.

00:51:59.600 --> 00:52:01.040
*Vietnamese name*

00:52:01.720 --> 00:52:06.120
one of the first six members
of the Order of Interbeing,

00:52:07.740 --> 00:52:09.000
my disciple,

00:52:10.600 --> 00:52:14.100
she burnt herself
calling for reconciliation.

00:52:16.060 --> 00:52:18.680
She went to the *Temple name"

00:52:19.200 --> 00:52:21.240
very early in the morning

00:52:24.060 --> 00:52:26.180
about two three o'clock
in the morning,

00:52:26.480 --> 00:52:29.400
she put a statue of the Virgin Mary.

00:52:29.540 --> 00:52:31.300
And *Vietnamese name"

00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:34.680
she left behind
a set of letters

00:52:35.520 --> 00:52:36.820
calling for

00:52:39.700 --> 00:52:41.700
the President of North Vietnam,

00:52:42.320 --> 00:52:44.460
the President of South Vietnam,

00:52:44.820 --> 00:52:47.800
for everyone
to come together and stop

00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:50.820
the act of killing each other.

00:52:50.820 --> 00:52:55.040
And then she doused herself with gasoline
and she burnt herself.

00:52:55.440 --> 00:52:57.420
*Vietnamese name"
is a very close

00:52:58.220 --> 00:53:03.600
sister, close friend of sukkot uncle
sister jane come to emptiness.

00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:08.000
I was embarrassed.

00:53:08.720 --> 00:53:11.260
She left behind
a letter for me:

00:53:11.260 --> 00:53:13.140
"Thai, don't worry,

00:53:13.600 --> 00:53:15.340
peace will come.

00:53:17.080 --> 00:53:20.020
Don't suffer too much,
don't worry."

00:53:20.640 --> 00:53:22.260
She was about to die

00:53:23.400 --> 00:53:26.440
but she tried
to comfort me, her teacher.

00:53:29.560 --> 00:53:34.340
It's very, very difficult for us
to voice our concern

00:53:36.160 --> 00:53:38.600
although we were the majority

00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:42.680
in the country.

00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:46.020
We didn't want the war.

00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:51.480
My book of poetry,

00:53:53.940 --> 00:53:55.460
peace poetry,

00:53:56.960 --> 00:53:59.920
I like to call it peace poetry

00:53:59.920 --> 00:54:02.800
rather than anti-war poetry:

00:54:05.260 --> 00:54:10.340
"He was condemned by the North
and confiscated by the South."

00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:19.280
So, when Cornell University
invited me to come

00:54:22.780 --> 00:54:25.260
and gave a series of lectures,

00:54:27.360 --> 00:54:31.060
I took the opportunity to go out

00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:33.320
and to call for peace.

00:54:51.260 --> 00:54:54.340
And in June the 1st

00:54:56.640 --> 00:54:57.740
in the year

00:55:00.620 --> 00:55:01.520
1966

00:55:21.280 --> 00:55:24.200
I met Martin Luther King in Chicago.

00:55:31.360 --> 00:55:33.560
Exactly one year before,

00:55:46.940 --> 00:55:48.940
really one year before,

00:55:53.040 --> 00:55:55.400
on June the first

00:55:57.400 --> 00:55:59.400
1965, I wrote him a letter

00:56:01.820 --> 00:56:04.820
explaining to him why
we had burnt ourselves.

00:56:06.020 --> 00:56:08.920
This is not an act of suicide,

00:56:09.660 --> 00:56:11.660
this is an act of love.

00:56:20.820 --> 00:56:23.400
You want to transmit a message

00:56:25.820 --> 00:56:28.320
but you have no other ways,

00:56:28.660 --> 00:56:32.320
you have to burn yourself
in order for your message to get across.

00:56:32.700 --> 00:56:37.620
So, the suffering of the monk who
burnt herself to get the message across,

00:56:37.720 --> 00:56:40.260
a message of love and compassion,

00:56:42.060 --> 00:56:47.720
is of the same nature of the act
of Jesus Christ dying on the cross.

00:56:49.160 --> 00:56:51.600
Dying with no hate

00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:54.660
no anger

00:56:55.040 --> 00:56:56.660
only with compassion.

00:56:58.260 --> 00:56:59.460
Leaving behind

00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:03.120
a compassionate call

00:57:05.640 --> 00:57:06.560
for peace,

00:57:06.900 --> 00:57:08.140
for brotherhood.

00:57:09.500 --> 00:57:14.480
So, exactly one year after,
I met him in Chicago.

00:57:15.780 --> 00:57:17.840
We talked for some time

00:57:18.600 --> 00:57:20.200
and then, after that,

00:57:22.360 --> 00:57:24.580
we went out to meet with the press.

00:57:26.880 --> 00:57:31.020
And that day he came out
against the war in Vietnam.

00:57:33.780 --> 00:57:35.320
That is the day when

00:57:35.900 --> 00:57:37.600
we combined our efforts

00:57:39.020 --> 00:57:40.960
of working for peace in Vietnam

00:57:41.100 --> 00:57:45.600
and fighting for civil rights in America.

00:58:03.500 --> 00:58:05.840
Two years later I met him again

00:58:06.020 --> 00:58:07.120
in Geneva

00:58:13.520 --> 00:58:16.340
in a conference call opossum in terrace

00:58:16.340 --> 00:58:20.080
organized by the World Council of Churches.

00:58:21.940 --> 00:58:24.840
There're people like Linus Pauling

00:58:26.240 --> 00:58:27.900
at the conference.

00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:35.960
He [MLK] stayed
in the 11th floor.

00:58:37.160 --> 00:58:41.940
I was on the 4th floor.
He invited me up for breakfast.

00:59:02.900 --> 00:59:05.500
I was retained by the press,

00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:07.920
I came up late.

00:59:10.640 --> 00:59:14.060
And he kept the breakfast warm for me.
He waited for me.

00:59:18.760 --> 00:59:23.980
I told him: "Martin, you know something,
in Vietnam they call you a bodhisattva".

00:59:24.420 --> 00:59:26.420
[person in crowd] A what?

00:59:26.980 --> 00:59:29.080
They call you a bodhisattva:

00:59:29.480 --> 00:59:31.480
an enlightened being

00:59:33.840 --> 00:59:36.540
trying to awaken other living beings

00:59:40.940 --> 00:59:46.080
and help them go in a direction
of compassion and understanding.

00:59:52.560 --> 00:59:55.620
I'm glad I had the chance to tell him

00:59:57.180 --> 01:00:01.240
because a few months later
he was assassinated in Memphis.

01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:19.480
We were in France

01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:23.840
we had a bureau office

01:00:24.340 --> 01:00:28.100
representing the Buddhist community
in Vietnam.

01:00:35.160 --> 01:00:40.280
We wanted to represent the mass of people
who did not have a voice,

01:00:40.820 --> 01:00:43.600
who did not have a chance to speak out.

01:00:45.520 --> 01:00:47.520
So we live as a community

01:00:48.180 --> 01:00:49.260
in Paris

01:00:50.660 --> 01:00:52.020
and our office

01:00:54.200 --> 01:00:56.600
in a poor quarter of Paris

01:00:57.300 --> 01:00:58.680
number eleven

01:01:00.420 --> 01:01:01.540
*street name".

01:01:04.700 --> 01:01:06.700
And that quarters

01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:11.060
were inhabited more by people

01:01:12.420 --> 01:01:14.000
of Arab origin.

01:01:25.700 --> 01:01:30.740
Every time I applied for a visa to go to America
it was turned down.

01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:32.480
Automatically.

01:01:33.680 --> 01:01:36.020
They didn't want me to come to America

01:01:36.520 --> 01:01:39.580
because they believed that

01:01:41.020 --> 01:01:43.740
I harm, I might be harmful,

01:01:43.740 --> 01:01:47.520
I may be an obstacle
for the war efforts in Vietnam.

01:01:49.300 --> 01:01:52.340
I was not allowed to go to America,

01:01:52.340 --> 01:01:55.540
I wasn't allowed to go to England!

01:02:00.580 --> 01:02:02.580
Every time I wanted

01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:06.860
to go to America on a speaking tour,
I had

01:02:08.200 --> 01:02:09.940
to write a letter

01:02:10.820 --> 01:02:13.460
to someone like Senator McGovern

01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:17.960
or Senator

01:02:18.300 --> 01:02:19.840
Robert Kennedy

01:02:20.380 --> 01:02:23.600
asking them to send me
a letter of invitation.

01:02:26.600 --> 01:02:29.040
And the letter is something like this:

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.

01:02:33.940 --> 01:02:35.760
Please come and inform me.

01:02:35.760 --> 01:02:40.580
And if you have difficulties concerning the visa,
please telephone me at this number.

01:02:41.340 --> 01:02:44.080
Only with such a letter that I could

01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:46.420
have a visa

01:02:46.420 --> 01:02:49.920
otherwise, it's no way.

01:02:54.640 --> 01:02:58.700
I remember one day I flew from Japan
back to Paris

01:02:58.700 --> 01:03:00.700
I did not have a visa

01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:05.740
for transit

01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:09.480
in Seattle.

01:03:10.560 --> 01:03:12.700
I flew from Tokyo

01:03:13.360 --> 01:03:16.760
to New York via Seattle
and then to Paris.

01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:22.180
I want to stop in New York to meet
with a friend in the peace movement

01:03:22.180 --> 01:03:25.460
Alfred Hassler, 
of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

01:03:26.720 --> 01:03:29.780
And when I landed in Seattle

01:03:33.520 --> 01:03:36.100
I was locked in a place

01:03:36.200 --> 01:03:39.580
where I could not see anyone.

01:03:40.640 --> 01:03:45.000
I look around and see many pictures hang:
"Wanted" "Wanted" "Wanted"

01:03:49.680 --> 01:03:51.420
They took my passport.

01:03:53.340 --> 01:03:55.340
They didn't allow me

01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:06.440
to be in touch with anyone.

01:04:07.800 --> 01:04:08.800
And then,

01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:18.840
when the plane is about to take off
they gave my passport back.

01:04:19.860 --> 01:04:21.860
It's very difficult.

01:04:23.960 --> 01:04:26.920
One day when I was in Washington DC,

01:04:29.360 --> 01:04:31.100
I told you already

01:04:31.420 --> 01:04:33.100
the Baltimore Sun

01:04:34.220 --> 01:04:37.240
reporter came and informed me that

01:04:38.900 --> 01:04:42.400
there's a dispatch from Saigon

01:04:42.760 --> 01:04:47.000
informing the government
of the United States of America,

01:04:49.080 --> 01:04:51.360
of France, of England

01:04:52.220 --> 01:04:54.520
United Kingdom and of Japan

01:04:55.140 --> 01:04:58.560
asking them not to honor
the passport of Thich Nhat Hanh

01:04:59.780 --> 01:05:03.380
because he has been saying things
that are not helpful

01:05:04.560 --> 01:05:06.560
to the war efforts against communism.

01:05:11.200 --> 01:05:12.980
And in Vietnam

01:05:12.980 --> 01:05:14.620
my books, my articles

01:05:15.500 --> 01:05:17.500
my poetry was banned

01:05:17.640 --> 01:05:20.480
by both the communists
and the anti-communists.

01:05:27.300 --> 01:05:29.300
I risk deportation

01:05:31.700 --> 01:05:33.420
and put in jail

01:05:33.800 --> 01:05:36.580
because of what I had done:

01:05:37.260 --> 01:05:39.240
calling for peace

01:05:39.240 --> 01:05:40.900
and speaking

01:05:41.340 --> 01:05:43.340
against the war.

01:05:55.160 --> 01:05:57.380
It was my intention to

01:06:04.120 --> 01:06:05.620
go only

01:06:05.620 --> 01:06:07.280
three months

01:06:07.840 --> 01:06:10.760
to give the series of lectures in Cornell

01:06:10.780 --> 01:06:13.080
and then to make a tour

01:06:13.080 --> 01:06:16.460
of America and Europe and go home.

01:06:17.300 --> 01:06:18.300
I was

01:06:20.180 --> 01:06:24.080
working with my friends
in a school of youth for social service

01:06:26.380 --> 01:06:31.740
the Van Hahn Buddhist University
that I had founded in 1964.

01:06:33.480 --> 01:06:35.080
All my friends,

01:06:35.980 --> 01:06:37.840
co-workers were in Vietnam.

01:06:38.200 --> 01:06:40.280
I didn't want to go very long.

01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:41.480
I intended

01:06:43.680 --> 01:06:45.920
to come here only for three months.

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.

01:06:57.600 --> 01:06:59.600
And that is why I have been

01:06:59.600 --> 01:07:01.380
sharing the practice

01:07:02.280 --> 01:07:05.060
with friends in Europe, in America,

01:07:05.620 --> 01:07:07.460
in other countries.

01:07:10.900 --> 01:07:14.500
But because I have found
my true home

01:07:15.400 --> 01:07:16.940
I don't suffer.

01:07:27.900 --> 01:07:33.280
The truth is that during the first year
of my exile, it was difficult,

01:07:34.460 --> 01:07:35.940
quite difficult.

01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:42.480
Although I was already 40,

01:07:49.080 --> 01:07:52.380
although I was already a dharma teacher

01:07:52.640 --> 01:07:55.760
having many monks and nuns

01:08:00.700 --> 01:08:02.960
as students, disciples

01:08:03.460 --> 01:08:07.080
and yet I had not found my true home.

01:08:09.060 --> 01:08:14.080
I can give very good lectures on Buddhism,
on the practice of Buddhism

01:08:21.720 --> 01:08:22.620
But I

01:08:24.660 --> 01:08:26.660
had not trully arrived.

01:08:28.700 --> 01:08:31.960
Intellectually, I had a lot of Buddhism

01:08:34.439 --> 01:08:36.439
I had been trained

01:08:37.260 --> 01:08:40.180
several years in a Buddhist institute

01:08:40.600 --> 01:08:43.520
and practiced since the time I was 16.

01:08:47.200 --> 01:08:52.340
During the time I was a young monk,
I try my best to renew Buddhism,

01:08:53.100 --> 01:08:56.319
update Buddhism so that it can respond

01:08:57.160 --> 01:09:00.000
to the real situation of suffering.

01:09:02.939 --> 01:09:05.080
Called Engaged Buddhism.

01:09:06.319 --> 01:09:09.800
The kind of Buddhism that can offer you
the answers

01:09:10.240 --> 01:09:13.160
to the burning questions of society

01:09:14.800 --> 01:09:18.020
questions like war, social injustice,

01:09:18.020 --> 01:09:20.580
political suppression, poverty,

01:09:22.600 --> 01:09:24.279
violence and so on.

01:09:30.020 --> 01:09:32.300
It was very difficult for me

01:09:32.300 --> 01:09:34.580
during the first two years

01:09:36.439 --> 01:09:41.319
because my intention was
to bring about informations to the world,

01:09:41.540 --> 01:09:44.580
the kind of information
that were not available

01:09:47.140 --> 01:09:52.800
to people because the warring parties
had all the mass media.

01:09:59.880 --> 01:10:01.620
In speaking tour,

01:10:02.840 --> 01:10:05.080
either I slept

01:10:07.440 --> 01:10:09.500
one or two night in each city,

01:10:10.440 --> 01:10:12.200
in America, in Europe,

01:10:12.920 --> 01:10:14.380
in Australia,

01:10:14.840 --> 01:10:15.840
and so on.

01:10:15.980 --> 01:10:17.400
The whole time

01:10:18.320 --> 01:10:20.040
when I woke up

01:10:20.500 --> 01:10:23.340
at night I did not know where I was.

01:10:24.620 --> 01:10:27.020
Very difficult, very hard.

01:10:27.880 --> 01:10:28.780
And after,

01:10:31.780 --> 01:10:35.980
I had to breathe in and out
and to find out where I was,

01:10:37.540 --> 01:10:39.020
what city, what country.

01:10:41.180 --> 01:10:43.900
And I dreamt of going home

01:10:44.340 --> 01:10:49.300
to my root temple in central Vietnam
climbing a hill,

01:10:52.480 --> 01:10:53.860
a green hill,

01:10:54.940 --> 01:10:56.340
beautiful trees.

01:10:57.220 --> 01:11:01.560
And half the way to the top of the hill
I woke up

01:11:02.480 --> 01:11:04.760
and realized that I was in exile.

01:11:06.800 --> 01:11:11.020
And the same kind of dream
repeated again and again.

01:11:14.460 --> 01:11:16.220
I was very active.

01:11:16.420 --> 01:11:18.600
I was making friends

01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:20.840
with many people:

01:11:22.740 --> 01:11:24.160
Catholic priests,

01:11:24.560 --> 01:11:26.240
Protestant ministers,

01:11:28.840 --> 01:11:29.960
professors,

01:11:31.000 --> 01:11:32.200
young people,

01:11:33.200 --> 01:11:34.380
children.

01:11:35.580 --> 01:11:39.100
And my practice was the practice
of mindfulness. I try

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.

01:11:47.040 --> 01:11:49.160
I survived by that practice.

01:11:51.160 --> 01:11:55.240
The trees in Europe were so different
from the trees in Vietnam:

01:11:55.240 --> 01:11:59.380
the fruits, the flowers, they're all different.
And the people also.

01:11:59.600 --> 01:12:01.900
So I learnt to make friends

01:12:06.240 --> 01:12:09.940
and play with German children,
French children,

01:12:10.100 --> 01:12:11.600
African children,

01:12:13.260 --> 01:12:14.480
British children.

01:12:14.500 --> 01:12:16.480
I big friend with

01:12:17.980 --> 01:12:20.420
Anglican priest, Catholic priest,

01:12:20.740 --> 01:12:22.860
Protestant ministers and so on.

01:12:29.380 --> 01:12:31.240
But thanks to that practice

01:12:34.600 --> 01:12:35.960
I was able

01:12:36.660 --> 01:12:39.700
to find my true home
in the here and the now.

01:12:44.620 --> 01:12:46.220
And I stop suffering

01:12:46.580 --> 01:12:50.180
and the dream
did not come back anymore.

01:12:56.760 --> 01:13:01.400
People think that I suffer
when I cannot go back to Vetnam, but

01:13:02.620 --> 01:13:03.960
that's not the case.

01:13:04.560 --> 01:13:07.800
If I go to Vietnam,
that will be a joy.

01:13:08.780 --> 01:13:13.980
To be able to offer the teaching to
the monks, the nuns and lay people there

01:13:13.980 --> 01:13:15.460
and talk to the artists,

01:13:18.720 --> 01:13:21.080
to the writers and others.

01:13:21.260 --> 01:13:23.240
But if I cannot go,

01:13:23.240 --> 01:13:25.240
I don't have to suffer.

01:13:27.560 --> 01:13:29.560
I can meet with people, other people

01:13:29.960 --> 01:13:31.060
in other countries,

01:13:31.060 --> 01:13:37.280
like in China, in Korea,
in Japan, in Spain, in England,

01:13:39.400 --> 01:13:40.600
in Canada

01:13:41.900 --> 01:13:42.880
and so on.

01:13:52.520 --> 01:13:54.300
And the formula:

01:13:54.540 --> 01:13:56.140
"I have arrived,

01:13:57.900 --> 01:13:58.900
I'm home"

01:14:04.060 --> 01:14:04.860
is

01:14:09.420 --> 01:14:13.460
the embodiment,
the expression of my practice.

01:14:19.680 --> 01:14:23.500
It express my understanding
of the teaching of the Buddha.

01:14:23.800 --> 01:14:24.460
It is

01:14:25.260 --> 01:14:28.180
the cream of my practice:
I have arrived, I'm home.

01:14:29.100 --> 01:14:34.100
And since the time I've found
my true home, I did not suffer anymore.

01:14:40.600 --> 01:14:43.540
The past is longer a prison for me.

01:14:46.300 --> 01:14:47.320
The future

01:14:50.640 --> 01:14:52.640
is no longer a prison

01:14:53.640 --> 01:14:54.580
for me.

01:14:56.420 --> 01:14:59.140
I'm able to live
in the here and the now.

01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:02.580
I'm able to touch my true home.

01:15:04.480 --> 01:15:06.220
And I know that

01:15:07.840 --> 01:15:08.720
the future

01:15:10.640 --> 01:15:11.740
is available

01:15:13.400 --> 01:15:14.960
through the present.

01:15:17.360 --> 01:15:19.360
This is what I have found.

01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:24.480
When you touch
the present moment deeply,

01:15:27.340 --> 01:15:28.820
you touch the past.

01:15:29.980 --> 01:15:33.360
And if you know how to handle
the present moment properly,

01:15:33.360 --> 01:15:35.140
you heal the past.

01:15:43.280 --> 01:15:47.940
Many think that the past is already gone,
you cannot do anything.

01:15:47.940 --> 01:15:51.920
You cannot go back to the past
and fix things and repair things.

01:15:52.180 --> 01:15:54.840
But according to this teaching
of the Buddha

01:15:56.740 --> 01:16:00.040
the past is still there
with all the pain and suffering.

01:16:02.300 --> 01:16:05.500
If you know how to come home
to the present moment

01:16:05.500 --> 01:16:08.220
and touch the present moment deeply

01:16:08.220 --> 01:16:09.700
you touch the past,

01:16:10.420 --> 01:16:12.420
and you can heal the past.

01:16:14.520 --> 01:16:18.160
And when you heal yourself,
you heal your ancestors.

01:16:18.860 --> 01:16:20.220
And this is possible.

01:16:21.200 --> 01:16:24.040
My ancestors have suffered in me.

01:16:24.560 --> 01:16:26.060
I've also suffered.

01:16:26.680 --> 01:16:28.680
And since I am able to

01:16:29.300 --> 01:16:30.260
touch

01:16:30.920 --> 01:16:34.340
the present moment deeply,
I heal myself

01:16:34.500 --> 01:16:37.880
and I heal my ancestors
including my

01:16:38.940 --> 01:16:39.800
parents,

01:16:40.080 --> 01:16:41.440
my father,

01:16:41.440 --> 01:16:42.940
my mother,

01:16:44.320 --> 01:16:48.940
my brother, my sister,
my grandfather, my grandmother.

01:16:49.680 --> 01:16:51.560
When I practice walking,

01:16:52.200 --> 01:16:54.620
I generate energy of freedom

01:16:57.700 --> 01:16:59.080
and solidity.

01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:03.020
And I feel that all my ancestors

01:17:04.960 --> 01:17:10.140
enjoy the freedom and the solidity
that I generate with the practice of walk.

01:17:15.060 --> 01:17:16.760
Because, to me,

01:17:19.580 --> 01:17:23.160
my ancestors are always alive in me,

01:17:27.340 --> 01:17:30.980
fully present in me,
in every cell of my body.

01:17:31.680 --> 01:17:33.880
And if I'm free, they're free.

01:17:34.220 --> 01:17:36.020
If I heal, they heal.

01:17:37.460 --> 01:17:40.280
When I take a step
with solidity and freedom,

01:17:40.280 --> 01:17:42.460
all of them take the step with me.

01:17:46.460 --> 01:17:49.680
And you have to take that step
with all your being.

01:17:51.940 --> 01:17:55.740
full awareness, full concentration
in order for the step

01:17:57.980 --> 01:18:00.160
to be a really solid,
to be free.

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.

01:18:06.940 --> 01:18:08.940
That is healing and

01:18:09.320 --> 01:18:10.340
nourishing.

01:18:12.360 --> 01:18:15.500
So the act of making a step
is an act of freedom,

01:18:16.040 --> 01:18:17.500
act of liberation.

01:18:17.860 --> 01:18:21.160
You liberate yourself,
you liberate your ancestors.

01:18:23.520 --> 01:18:25.480
It's an act of revolution.

01:18:25.920 --> 01:18:27.920
Please, believe me.

01:18:30.220 --> 01:18:35.540
You cannot make such a step unless 
you invest entirely your body and your mind

01:18:36.320 --> 01:18:37.240
100%

01:18:39.340 --> 01:18:41.120
When you breathe in,

01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:42.880
you bring

01:18:42.880 --> 01:18:44.080
all yourself together,

01:18:44.520 --> 01:18:45.900
body and mind.

01:18:46.660 --> 01:18:48.180
You become one.

01:18:49.860 --> 01:18:53.560
And equipped with that energy
of mindfulness and concentration,

01:18:54.240 --> 01:18:55.520
you make a step

01:18:56.600 --> 01:18:58.600
and you have inside that

01:19:00.080 --> 01:19:01.840
this is your true home.

01:19:04.080 --> 01:19:08.060
You are alive, you are fully present,
you are touching life

01:19:08.680 --> 01:19:10.100
as a reality.

01:19:14.200 --> 01:19:17.700
Your true home
is not an abstract idea,

01:19:17.940 --> 01:19:21.060
it is as a solid reality
that you can touch

01:19:22.520 --> 01:19:25.240
with your feet
with your hand

01:19:26.980 --> 01:19:28.640
and with your mind.

01:19:33.680 --> 01:19:37.080
The kingdom of God
or the pure land of Buddha

01:19:37.080 --> 01:19:38.760
for me
they are not

01:19:39.860 --> 01:19:41.020
abstract ideas.

01:19:41.940 --> 01:19:45.240
It's something you can touch
in every moment, you can live

01:19:46.680 --> 01:19:48.220
in every moment.

01:19:49.540 --> 01:19:51.820
It is available
in the here and the now.

01:19:53.160 --> 01:19:56.320
If you know
how to make yourself available

01:19:56.320 --> 01:19:58.300
then the kingdom
is available,

01:19:58.300 --> 01:20:00.000
the pure land is available,

01:20:00.140 --> 01:20:02.760
your true home is available.

01:20:03.080 --> 01:20:05.000
And nobody can

01:20:05.580 --> 01:20:07.580
take away that true home.

01:20:12.580 --> 01:20:15.120
They can occupy your country,
yes.

01:20:17.740 --> 01:20:20.340
They can put you in prison,
yes.

01:20:21.240 --> 01:20:24.940
But they cannot take away
your true home, your freedom.

01:20:39.960 --> 01:20:42.200
So, it's very important
it's very...

01:20:42.920 --> 01:20:44.900
fundamental, it's very basic

01:20:46.100 --> 01:20:48.300
that you touch your true home.

01:20:50.420 --> 01:20:52.880
And you'll realize your true home

01:20:52.880 --> 01:20:54.580
in the here and the now.

01:20:55.120 --> 01:20:59.360
And the energy with which
you can do so is mindfulness

01:20:59.760 --> 01:21:01.140
and concentration.

01:21:01.580 --> 01:21:04.020
And these are energies of the Buddha.

01:21:06.200 --> 01:21:08.000
All of us have

01:21:08.020 --> 01:21:08.880
the seed

01:21:09.380 --> 01:21:12.540
of mindfulness and concentration in us.

01:21:18.080 --> 01:21:19.520
This is a fact.

01:21:20.220 --> 01:21:23.780
Because all of us
are capable of drinking

01:21:24.640 --> 01:21:26.260
our tea mindfully.

01:21:32.420 --> 01:21:36.180
When I drink my tea,
I want to really drink my tea.

01:21:45.700 --> 01:21:50.560
I might like to breathe in 
to bring my mind home to my body

01:21:51.900 --> 01:21:54.960
and establish myself fully 
in the here and the now.

01:21:55.400 --> 01:21:57.240
You have to be there,

01:21:59.160 --> 01:22:00.160
fully

01:22:01.340 --> 01:22:03.340
and when you are there fully

01:22:05.000 --> 01:22:07.420
the tea will be there for your fully.

01:22:09.720 --> 01:22:12.820
If you are not there,
the tea is just

01:22:18.200 --> 01:22:20.420
something like a...

01:22:20.940 --> 01:22:21.900
ghost

01:22:22.020 --> 01:22:23.480
not very real.

01:22:27.820 --> 01:22:29.820
Mindfulness help you

01:22:32.740 --> 01:22:34.500
to become fully...

01:22:35.320 --> 01:22:36.420
present

01:22:36.740 --> 01:22:39.140
and fully alive
in the here and the now.

01:22:41.800 --> 01:22:45.520
It does not take long
it might take just one step

01:22:45.520 --> 01:22:47.100
one inbreath.

01:22:48.340 --> 01:22:53.780
And by making a step or breathing in
you bring your mind back to your body.

01:22:55.680 --> 01:22:57.080
In your daily life

01:22:58.860 --> 01:23:00.820
your body may be here

01:23:01.620 --> 01:23:03.420
but your mind may be...

01:23:04.280 --> 01:23:05.220
there.

01:23:05.320 --> 01:23:07.560
They go in two different directions.

01:23:10.760 --> 01:23:14.080
And you are in a state of distraction:

01:23:16.100 --> 01:23:17.600
mind and body

01:23:18.420 --> 01:23:20.260
are away from each other.

01:23:20.520 --> 01:23:23.160
Your mind may be occupied,

01:23:23.720 --> 01:23:27.320
preoccupied by
your project, your fear, your anger.

01:23:30.300 --> 01:23:33.300
Caught in the past,
caught in the future.

01:23:33.540 --> 01:23:36.920
But between your mind
and your body there is something:

01:23:37.800 --> 01:23:39.480
your breath.

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,

01:23:54.780 --> 01:23:57.680
and then your body and your mind
come together

01:23:59.040 --> 01:24:00.760
very quickly.

01:24:01.420 --> 01:24:04.320
While breathing in,
you don't think of anything

01:24:04.320 --> 01:24:07.360
you just focus your attention
to your inbreath.

01:24:07.980 --> 01:24:09.000
You focus.

01:24:09.880 --> 01:24:15.500
You invest 100% of yourself into your inbreath,
you become your inbreath.

01:24:16.580 --> 01:24:19.500
There is a concentration
mindfulness of your inbreath

01:24:19.500 --> 01:24:24.280
concentration and your inbreath
that will make body and mind come together

01:24:24.860 --> 01:24:26.440
in just one moment.

01:24:27.020 --> 01:24:30.920
And suddenly you become
fully present, fully alive.

01:24:35.360 --> 01:24:37.620
In the state of being

01:24:37.620 --> 01:24:39.660
you pick up your tea

01:24:40.240 --> 01:24:42.800
and the tea
become a reality,

01:24:46.060 --> 01:24:47.240
not a ghost.

01:24:48.040 --> 01:24:51.840
And when you drink your tea
you are just drinking your tea.

01:24:53.500 --> 01:24:55.500
That's called "mindful drinking".

01:24:56.780 --> 01:24:58.560
There's no thinking.

01:24:58.880 --> 01:25:01.240
Just drinking, deep drinking.

01:25:01.860 --> 01:25:05.620
You are real
and the tea is real.

01:25:06.820 --> 01:25:10.720
And when you are real,
the tea is real, life is real.

01:25:14.240 --> 01:25:16.420
And many people live

01:25:16.740 --> 01:25:18.380
in a dream

01:25:20.400 --> 01:25:21.540
because

01:25:23.080 --> 01:25:27.000
they are not in the present moment,
they don't know what is

01:25:27.920 --> 01:25:29.560
going on in the present moment.

01:25:30.600 --> 01:25:33.980
But because you're able to bring
your mind back to your body

01:25:33.980 --> 01:25:38.120
you are fully present and
you become aware of what is going on.

01:25:38.640 --> 01:25:41.240
What is going on is that I

01:25:41.240 --> 01:25:42.800
enjoy my tea

01:25:44.860 --> 01:25:47.500
There is no thinking at all,
it's only

01:25:49.340 --> 01:25:51.120
drinking of tea.

01:25:51.400 --> 01:25:55.180
In that moment I live deeply
the moment of drinking my tea.

01:26:01.040 --> 01:26:02.800
When I breath in,

01:26:05.080 --> 01:26:07.520
I become fully aware of my inbreath.

01:26:09.340 --> 01:26:12.120
My inbreath becomes
the object of mindfulness.

01:26:12.780 --> 01:26:15.960
My inbreath becomes
the object of my concentration.

01:26:16.520 --> 01:26:20.180
And that's why
my body comes home to my...

01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:21.420
mind.

01:26:21.920 --> 01:26:24.380
My mind comes home
to my body right away.

01:26:25.080 --> 01:26:27.760
Then I become fully present.

01:26:33.140 --> 01:26:36.000
Suppose you,
a group of people,

01:26:37.640 --> 01:26:40.540
stand there and contemplate

01:26:40.720 --> 01:26:42.700
a beautiful sunset.

01:26:50.080 --> 01:26:52.420
If you keep thinking about the past

01:26:52.920 --> 01:26:55.200
or thinking about the future

01:26:55.840 --> 01:26:57.140
and your project,

01:26:57.360 --> 01:27:00.900
you're are not really there
contemplating the sunset.

01:27:06.800 --> 01:27:08.720
The sunset is not for you.

01:27:09.480 --> 01:27:13.180
So if you practice breathing in and out
become and become

01:27:16.280 --> 01:27:20.380
available in the here and the now
and this beautiful sunset is for you.

01:27:20.800 --> 01:27:23.980
Breathing in I know the sunset is there.

01:27:24.020 --> 01:27:26.980
Breathing out I smile
to the beautiful sunset.

01:27:27.280 --> 01:27:29.360
In that moment,
life is real.

01:27:35.880 --> 01:27:37.880
And you have your true home.

01:28:19.260 --> 01:28:21.860
When you go back
to the present moment,

01:28:22.200 --> 01:28:25.240
you might encounter
the wonders of life

01:28:25.640 --> 01:28:29.220
that are refreshing and healing.
You might encounter

01:28:30.580 --> 01:28:31.480
suffering,

01:28:35.200 --> 01:28:36.160
violence,

01:28:37.260 --> 01:28:38.200
hate,

01:28:38.860 --> 01:28:39.800
fear,

01:28:40.280 --> 01:28:41.340
discrimination.

01:28:53.640 --> 01:28:56.160
And if you are a good practitioner,

01:28:57.020 --> 01:28:59.840
you have enough mindfulness in order to

01:29:06.540 --> 01:29:07.420
handle

01:29:09.920 --> 01:29:12.920
whatever need to be handled.

01:29:15.780 --> 01:29:19.680
Suppose anger is coming up
in you

01:29:19.680 --> 01:29:21.120
as an energy.

01:29:24.980 --> 01:29:29.100
As a practitioner,
you don't allow anger to be alone

01:29:30.740 --> 01:29:31.400
in you.

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

01:29:39.280 --> 01:29:41.060
in your body, in your mind

01:29:41.680 --> 01:29:43.360
and maybe around you.

01:29:44.000 --> 01:29:47.100
That is why we practice
mindfulness of anger:

01:29:48.780 --> 01:29:50.640
breathing in I know

01:29:50.800 --> 01:29:52.800
anger is in me,

01:29:52.800 --> 01:29:54.160
breathing out

01:29:54.320 --> 01:29:56.320
I smile to my anger,

01:29:56.740 --> 01:29:58.420
I embrace my anger.

01:30:06.880 --> 01:30:08.980
You have a seed of anger

01:30:10.600 --> 01:30:11.900
deep in yourself.

01:30:15.700 --> 01:30:19.140
But you also have a seed
of mindfulness deep in yourself ,

01:30:19.880 --> 01:30:22.060
you have a seed of compassion
in yourself.

01:30:25.300 --> 01:30:29.600
When anger is touched,
when the seed of anger is touched,

01:30:30.240 --> 01:30:32.280
it manifests in through

01:30:34.000 --> 01:30:36.000
a kind of energy
called anger.

01:30:45.240 --> 01:30:47.860
Suppose this is your consciousness.

01:30:49.280 --> 01:30:51.280
It has two layers.

01:30:52.040 --> 01:30:56.300
The lower layers co is called
store consciousness.

01:31:00.020 --> 01:31:03.960
And the upper layer is called
mind consciousness.

01:31:07.060 --> 01:31:09.060
You have a seed of anger here.

01:31:10.120 --> 01:31:13.200
You also have a seed of joy,

01:31:13.240 --> 01:31:15.160
of mindfulness,

01:31:15.160 --> 01:31:17.920
of compassion, of non-discrimination.

01:31:18.340 --> 01:31:23.380
You have a seed of anger, of despair,
of jealousy, of discrimination

01:31:23.920 --> 01:31:25.920
in the depth of your consciousness.

01:31:27.860 --> 01:31:29.700
But when the seed of anger

01:31:30.160 --> 01:31:32.600
is left alone there,

01:31:33.220 --> 01:31:35.020
in the store consciousness,

01:31:36.000 --> 01:31:40.200
you don't water it, no one come
and touch it, you're okay.

01:31:41.160 --> 01:31:44.300
You can laugh you,
you may have a good time,

01:31:45.420 --> 01:31:49.440
but that does not mean that
you don't have the seed of anger in you.

01:31:51.560 --> 01:31:54.320
As soon you hear
someone saying something

01:31:54.320 --> 01:31:58.380
or doing something
the seed of anger in you is touched.

01:31:59.460 --> 01:32:02.560
And it become a zone of energy

01:32:02.900 --> 01:32:06.060
under the realm of mind consciousness.

01:32:10.620 --> 01:32:11.940
In Buddhism

01:32:11.940 --> 01:32:14.340
we call it a mental formation.

01:32:16.840 --> 01:32:19.060
Anger is a mental formation.

01:32:28.940 --> 01:32:32.280
In my tradition we speak of 51

01:32:33.020 --> 01:32:36.060
categories of mental formations,

01:32:40.480 --> 01:32:43.020
We have a seed
of discrimination in us.

01:32:43.720 --> 01:32:47.760
We have a seed
of non-discrimination in us.

01:32:52.840 --> 01:32:53.900
That is true.

01:32:57.040 --> 01:33:01.560
If the seed of discrimination is watered
every day becomes very important.

01:33:04.000 --> 01:33:08.680
And it doesn't allow the seed
of non-discrimination to manifest.

01:33:09.320 --> 01:33:10.760
If the seed of anger

01:33:11.700 --> 01:33:15.380
becomes stronger and stronger
every day, the seed of compassion

01:33:16.500 --> 01:33:18.500
have less chance.

01:33:19.600 --> 01:33:21.100
And that is why

01:33:22.760 --> 01:33:26.000
every time a negative seed
is touched

01:33:26.000 --> 01:33:27.980
and manifest

01:33:29.440 --> 01:33:31.440
we have to take care of it.

01:33:32.920 --> 01:33:34.920
That is why

01:33:35.480 --> 01:33:38.240
I spoke about mindfulness of anger.

01:33:40.660 --> 01:33:44.020
Mindfulness is the capacity of knowing
what is happening

01:33:44.020 --> 01:33:47.760
what is happening is
anger has manifested.

01:33:49.200 --> 01:33:51.260
So as a practitioner

01:33:51.260 --> 01:33:55.080
you ask the seed of mindfulness
to manifest at the same time.

01:33:57.520 --> 01:34:00.720
And if you are a diligent practitioner

01:34:02.160 --> 01:34:05.340
the seed of mindfulness in you
is strong enough

01:34:07.800 --> 01:34:11.700
and it's very easy for you
to touch and invite it to come up

01:34:12.880 --> 01:34:16.080
and it come up
become a zone of energy.

01:34:21.520 --> 01:34:24.340
Suppose anger is energy 1.

01:34:25.880 --> 01:34:28.180
Mindfulness is energy 2.

01:34:32.280 --> 01:34:35.200
Mindfulness is
mindfulness of something.

01:34:37.020 --> 01:34:38.040
And here

01:34:38.360 --> 01:34:40.240
mindfulness of anger.

01:34:41.740 --> 01:34:43.740
Mindfulness here has

01:34:45.460 --> 01:34:48.020
the following function:
recognizing

01:34:56.280 --> 01:34:58.380
anger as anger.

01:35:00.940 --> 01:35:05.000
Mindfulness of breathing:
breathing in I know this is my inbreath.

01:35:06.080 --> 01:35:08.720
Breathing out
I know this is my outbreath.

01:35:09.040 --> 01:35:11.700
Recognizing inbreath as inbreath,

01:35:11.840 --> 01:35:14.260
recognizing outbreath as outbreath.

01:35:15.380 --> 01:35:18.080
Recognizing drinking as drinking,

01:35:18.560 --> 01:35:21.040
recognizing walking as walking.

01:35:21.080 --> 01:35:23.980
That's the function of mindfulness.

01:35:24.080 --> 01:35:29.060
So, the energy of mindfulness
generated by your breathing, your walking

01:35:29.260 --> 01:35:32.580
has the capacity of recognizing
anger as anger.

01:35:32.760 --> 01:35:34.000
Breathing in

01:35:34.000 --> 01:35:35.140
I know

01:35:35.280 --> 01:35:37.080
anger is in me.

01:35:37.500 --> 01:35:39.040
Breathing out

01:35:39.300 --> 01:35:41.440
I take good care of my anger.

01:35:43.680 --> 01:35:45.360
Recognising anger

01:35:45.440 --> 01:35:47.440
and embracing

01:35:47.620 --> 01:35:48.620
anger.

01:35:54.920 --> 01:35:56.920
This is an art.

01:35:57.220 --> 01:35:58.440
This is a practice,

01:35:58.920 --> 01:36:00.620
there's no fighting.

01:36:00.820 --> 01:36:01.860
Mindfulness

01:36:02.120 --> 01:36:05.080
is generated not to fight anger

01:36:05.100 --> 01:36:08.740
but to recognize anger
and to hold anger

01:36:08.740 --> 01:36:10.700
very tenderly.

01:36:11.880 --> 01:36:13.880
That is Buddhist practice.

01:36:14.580 --> 01:36:17.460
You do not transform yourself
into a battlefield:

01:36:17.620 --> 01:36:20.920
the good fighting the ego.
That's not Buddhism.

01:36:23.100 --> 01:36:26.760
Because you are mindfulness
but you are also anger

01:36:27.500 --> 01:36:30.280
and mindfulness play
the role of a big sister,

01:36:31.800 --> 01:36:35.760
holding the angry,
the suffering younger sister

01:36:35.860 --> 01:36:37.600
and help her to transform.

01:36:46.940 --> 01:36:48.120
A mother

01:36:49.320 --> 01:36:51.320
is working in the kitchen

01:36:52.380 --> 01:36:54.380
and she hear the baby crying.

01:36:55.300 --> 01:36:57.500
She very much care for the baby.

01:36:58.420 --> 01:37:00.260
So she stop,

01:37:00.260 --> 01:37:02.740
walk in the kitchen
she put down

01:37:03.040 --> 01:37:07.040
whatever she's holding
and she goes to the room of the baby.

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.

01:37:13.400 --> 01:37:15.040
That's the mother.

01:37:16.720 --> 01:37:19.820
She doesn't know
what's wrong with the baby yet

01:37:19.840 --> 01:37:24.920
but the first thing she does 
is to pick up the baby and hold her

01:37:25.400 --> 01:37:26.400
mindfully.

01:37:26.720 --> 01:37:29.160
We do the same thing as a practitioner.

01:37:29.400 --> 01:37:32.200
Every time anger or despair come up,

01:37:34.220 --> 01:37:35.820
we generate

01:37:36.620 --> 01:37:38.820
the energy of mindfulness

01:37:38.820 --> 01:37:40.600
in order to recognize

01:37:41.120 --> 01:37:43.120
and to embrace tenderly.

01:37:43.740 --> 01:37:44.740
Tenderly.

01:37:49.980 --> 01:37:54.100
And if we know how to practice
mindful walking or mindful breathing

01:37:54.160 --> 01:37:56.720
we continue to generate mindfulness.

01:37:56.720 --> 01:37:57.700
And we

01:37:58.200 --> 01:38:02.060
hand that energy
in order to recognize and to embrace.

01:38:02.460 --> 01:38:03.260
And

01:38:03.260 --> 01:38:05.120
we can bring relief

01:38:05.940 --> 01:38:06.780
because

01:38:06.900 --> 01:38:08.900
mindfulness as an energy

01:38:09.020 --> 01:38:12.860
embracing anger as another
source of energy tenderly.

01:38:12.860 --> 01:38:15.140
Big brother, younger brother.

01:38:17.720 --> 01:38:19.720
Although the mother has not

01:38:20.560 --> 01:38:25.460
realized what's wrong, but the fact
that she's holding the baby tenderly

01:38:25.900 --> 01:38:30.360
can already bring a relief to the baby
and the baby may stop crying.

01:38:31.040 --> 01:38:35.360
If the mother continue to hold
the baby tenderly with mindfulness

01:38:35.360 --> 01:38:37.180
she'll find out what's wrong.

01:38:38.080 --> 01:38:40.000
The baby may be hungry,

01:38:40.000 --> 01:38:42.000
the baby may have

01:38:42.700 --> 01:38:43.780
fever,

01:38:44.060 --> 01:38:46.440
or the diaper may be too tight.

01:38:47.180 --> 01:38:48.920
As a mother

01:38:49.120 --> 01:38:51.440
she can find it out very quickly.

01:38:51.440 --> 01:38:53.000
As practitioner

01:38:54.260 --> 01:38:57.140
you can find out very easily

01:38:58.120 --> 01:39:00.120
why this anger.

01:39:01.780 --> 01:39:04.480
And you can see the roots
of that anger.

01:39:05.240 --> 01:39:08.960
You find out the nature,
the root of that anger.

01:39:14.240 --> 01:39:17.680
If the mother found out
what is wrong with the baby

01:39:17.800 --> 01:39:19.800
she can fix the situation

01:39:20.060 --> 01:39:21.120
very quickly.

01:39:21.240 --> 01:39:24.600
If the baby is hungry,
she give her some milk,

01:39:27.180 --> 01:39:29.720
if the diaper is too tight,
she just

01:39:31.000 --> 01:39:33.000
undo it and do it again.

01:39:34.740 --> 01:39:38.240
So, after having embraced tenderly

01:39:39.380 --> 01:39:41.380
your anger,

01:39:44.400 --> 01:39:46.400
you might like to continue

01:39:47.020 --> 01:39:51.040
the practice of mindful breathing,
the practice of mindful walking

01:39:51.380 --> 01:39:52.760
and look deeply

01:39:52.760 --> 01:39:55.720
into the nature of your anger

01:39:55.720 --> 01:39:58.700
and find out
what is the root of your anger.

01:39:59.740 --> 01:40:02.780
Recognizing, embracing
and looking deeply.

01:40:08.720 --> 01:40:10.740
Because mindfulness

01:40:11.040 --> 01:40:13.240
is the kind of energy

01:40:15.140 --> 01:40:17.680
carrying with her

01:40:17.780 --> 01:40:19.780
the energy of concentration.

01:40:23.360 --> 01:40:27.040
Wherever mindfulness is,
concentration is also.

01:40:27.420 --> 01:40:30.400
When you are mindful of your inbreath,

01:40:30.620 --> 01:40:33.020
you are concentrated in your inbreath.

01:40:34.200 --> 01:40:38.060
When you are mindful of your tea,
you concentrate on the tea.

01:40:40.000 --> 01:40:41.140
That is why

01:40:42.140 --> 01:40:45.020
the more powerful mindfulness is,

01:40:45.040 --> 01:40:47.820
the more concentration you get.

01:40:47.940 --> 01:40:51.960
With that mindfulness and concentration,
you practice looking deeply

01:40:51.980 --> 01:40:53.980
and you get insight.

01:41:06.360 --> 01:41:09.480
And that insight
is going to liberate you

01:41:10.000 --> 01:41:12.000
transform your anger.

01:41:16.620 --> 01:41:18.100
There is a story

01:41:18.860 --> 01:41:20.480
of a young boy

01:41:21.900 --> 01:41:25.280
who used to come to Plum Village
every summer

01:41:25.340 --> 01:41:27.460
with his younger sister.

01:41:30.500 --> 01:41:35.020
And they practiced mindfulness
as children.

01:41:36.520 --> 01:41:39.740
The boy had difficulty with his father.

01:41:43.700 --> 01:41:45.380
He blamed his father.

01:41:46.900 --> 01:41:51.880
Every time he fall down and get hurt
his father always shouted at him

01:41:51.880 --> 01:41:53.780
instead of coming and help him.

01:41:55.640 --> 01:41:59.160
So, his relationship with his father
was difficult.

01:42:00.020 --> 01:42:03.920
And he vowed that when he grew up
he would not be like his father.

01:42:03.920 --> 01:42:06.060
If he has children and then if

01:42:06.580 --> 01:42:10.700
his child fell down and get hurt
he will not shout at him,

01:42:10.700 --> 01:42:12.620
instead he'll come and try to help.

01:42:12.620 --> 01:42:14.900
That was his determination.

01:42:16.360 --> 01:42:18.360
One day, he was playing

01:42:18.780 --> 01:42:21.940
in the Lower Hamlet of Plum Village

01:42:22.120 --> 01:42:26.800
and her sister were playing
with another little girl on a hammock.

01:42:27.080 --> 01:42:30.560
The girl fell down and get hurt

01:42:30.760 --> 01:42:32.120
and the blood was

01:42:32.460 --> 01:42:33.900
coming down .

01:42:33.900 --> 01:42:36.780
Suddenly, he found himself very angry

01:42:39.720 --> 01:42:45.600
He wanted to shout: "Stupid!
How could you do something like that?"

01:42:50.860 --> 01:42:55.880
And because he had been practicing
mindfulness, he was able

01:42:56.860 --> 01:42:58.860
to refrain from shouting

01:43:00.060 --> 01:43:01.840
and he recognized

01:43:02.440 --> 01:43:05.000
that he was exactly like his father.

01:43:08.720 --> 01:43:10.720
Instead of trying

01:43:11.960 --> 01:43:14.840
to come and help his sister

01:43:16.360 --> 01:43:19.500
he had the tendency to shout at her.

01:43:20.580 --> 01:43:21.460
He hate

01:43:22.640 --> 01:43:24.920
what he has within himself.

01:43:26.640 --> 01:43:29.140
So when he practice

01:43:30.340 --> 01:43:32.540
mindful breathing,
he knew

01:43:32.840 --> 01:43:37.140
that this is the continuation
of his father inside of him.

01:43:38.500 --> 01:43:40.860
He's not different from his father.

01:43:41.240 --> 01:43:42.960
And with that insight

01:43:43.780 --> 01:43:47.420
he turned around
and practiced slow walking

01:43:47.900 --> 01:43:51.420
when he had seen someone coming
to help his sister.

01:43:51.580 --> 01:43:55.460
And during slow walking
he recognized that

01:43:55.920 --> 01:43:57.920
he's a continuation of his father.

01:43:58.340 --> 01:44:02.500
The energy of anger
has been transmitted by his father.

01:44:03.120 --> 01:44:04.820
And if he does not practice

01:44:04.820 --> 01:44:07.900
he's going to become
exactly like his father.

01:44:08.060 --> 01:44:10.000
And he will treat

01:44:10.020 --> 01:44:11.580
his children

01:44:11.620 --> 01:44:13.560
in the future
in the same way.

01:44:13.940 --> 01:44:16.060
That is called Samsara:

01:44:16.720 --> 01:44:17.820
continuation.

01:44:19.340 --> 01:44:22.040
And suddenly he had a desire

01:44:22.440 --> 01:44:27.000
to go home and tell his father
that he has the same kind of energy

01:44:27.000 --> 01:44:30.200
and he would invite his father
to practice with him.

01:44:31.660 --> 01:44:34.000
And when that intention was born in him

01:44:34.000 --> 01:44:38.840
his anger resentment towards his father
began to dissolve.

01:44:43.280 --> 01:44:46.900
What kind of insight did he get?

01:44:47.380 --> 01:44:48.820
He got the insight that

01:44:49.360 --> 01:44:54.220
he is exactly like his father.
He has the same kind of habit energy.

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,

01:45:01.920 --> 01:45:03.640
victim of the transmission

01:45:04.240 --> 01:45:05.880
of that habit energy.

01:45:05.920 --> 01:45:09.480
And he saw that his father
also was a victim of that

01:45:10.280 --> 01:45:11.300
transmission.

01:45:11.580 --> 01:45:14.340
His father may have got it from

01:45:14.340 --> 01:45:16.010
his own father.

01:45:16.740 --> 01:45:19.780
And when he had that insight, his anger...

01:45:22.920 --> 01:45:25.000
vis-a-vis father just...

01:45:27.000 --> 01:45:27.900
stopped.

01:45:28.440 --> 01:45:30.020
He got a transformation.

01:45:30.040 --> 01:45:30.800
I think for...

01:45:31.760 --> 01:45:35.100
a young man of 12
that is a remarkable

01:45:36.940 --> 01:45:37.880
achievement.

01:45:39.200 --> 01:45:43.140
It is inside
that transform our afflictions.

01:45:46.480 --> 01:45:48.880
And mindfulness has the power

01:45:48.880 --> 01:45:52.020
of recognizing, embracing,
looking deeply

01:45:52.120 --> 01:45:56.020
getting the insight
that transform your depth,

01:45:58.100 --> 01:46:00.100
that get you free.

01:46:04.940 --> 01:46:06.260
Transformation

01:46:07.040 --> 01:46:09.040
and healing and freedom.

01:46:20.580 --> 01:46:25.800
And when a young man is liberated
the father in him is liberated

01:46:26.260 --> 01:46:28.400
and the ancestors in him are liberated

01:46:30.260 --> 01:46:32.960
and the circle around samsara.

01:46:44.940 --> 01:46:47.640
What the young man realized

01:46:47.900 --> 01:46:48.940
is that...

01:46:51.980 --> 01:46:53.980
he's not a victim of his father,

01:46:55.880 --> 01:46:58.620
he's a victim of that habit energy.

01:46:59.020 --> 01:47:03.060
And his father also
is a victim of that habit energy.

01:47:05.520 --> 01:47:08.680
And when you are able
to transform you,

01:47:10.420 --> 01:47:14.020
you are in a situation
to help transform him or her.

01:47:14.160 --> 01:47:15.240
The one...

01:47:16.340 --> 01:47:20.060
that you have you have believed
to be your oppressor,

01:47:20.940 --> 01:47:22.940
the source of your suffering.

01:47:26.840 --> 01:47:29.200
And that is my my practice.

01:47:29.820 --> 01:47:31.800
I do not have enemies.

01:47:37.020 --> 01:47:38.060
Even...

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,

01:47:46.240 --> 01:47:47.700
to supress me.

01:47:50.880 --> 01:47:55.220
But they are not my enemies.
They are those I want to help.

01:47:57.580 --> 01:48:02.200
Because I have become free, I have
changed myself, I have transformed myself.

01:48:02.400 --> 01:48:03.480
That's why...

01:48:05.480 --> 01:48:07.380
I do no longer

01:48:08.500 --> 01:48:10.500
see myself as a victim.

01:48:12.000 --> 01:48:17.000
I know that if I can transform myself,
I can help transform them.

01:48:20.740 --> 01:48:22.600
If you practice

01:48:22.600 --> 01:48:26.680
and if you can transform
your mind, your heart

01:48:26.900 --> 01:48:28.900
you become a boddhisatva.

01:48:29.720 --> 01:48:31.180
And then...

01:48:33.420 --> 01:48:37.340
you will be in a position
to help them transform

01:48:37.680 --> 01:48:38.580
those

01:48:41.920 --> 01:48:45.140
you used to consider as oppressors...

01:48:50.220 --> 01:48:51.160
abusers.

01:48:54.880 --> 01:48:59.000
Those you considered to be
the one who discriminate against you

01:49:01.360 --> 01:49:04.540
trying to suppress you,
and kill you and so on.

01:49:05.180 --> 01:49:08.460
They're also
victims of their own ignorance,

01:49:08.860 --> 01:49:12.000
their own anger.
They don't know how to handle

01:49:12.440 --> 01:49:14.940
their craving, their anger,

01:49:16.940 --> 01:49:18.280
their violence,

01:49:18.660 --> 01:49:19.880
their fear.

01:49:22.600 --> 01:49:24.220
So the path...

01:49:24.220 --> 01:49:27.960
is to transform yourself
into a bodhisattva

01:49:28.820 --> 01:49:30.820
with plenty of

01:49:30.820 --> 01:49:33.880
understanding, insight
and compassion

01:49:35.560 --> 01:49:39.200
And when you have these energies,
you are free

01:49:39.920 --> 01:49:43.480
and you are in a position of helping

01:49:44.480 --> 01:49:46.560
other people to become free also.

01:49:48.280 --> 01:49:49.740
This is the path...

01:49:52.420 --> 01:49:54.560
shown to us by the Buddha.

01:49:55.240 --> 01:49:57.240
And every one of us

01:49:57.900 --> 01:50:01.800
has the seed of mindfulness,
concentration and insight

01:50:01.800 --> 01:50:03.800
in himself or in herself.

01:50:04.280 --> 01:50:08.400
You are able to cultivate
these three kinds of energies

01:50:08.400 --> 01:50:10.660
for our own liberation and healing.

01:50:12.040 --> 01:50:17.700
And we shall use the same kind of energy
to help the transformation and healing

01:50:18.620 --> 01:50:20.200
of the world.

01:50:20.960 --> 01:50:22.620
When you look up,

01:50:22.660 --> 01:50:23.860
you see

01:50:25.760 --> 01:50:27.760
a temple.

01:50:28.740 --> 01:50:32.220
The temple is in your heart,
the lotus in your heart.

01:50:32.800 --> 01:50:38.360
Underneath there was the word "smurty".
"Smurty" means mindfulness.

01:50:40.440 --> 01:50:43.680
And then there is the word "samadhi".
It means concentration.

01:50:44.800 --> 01:50:46.800
And there's the word "prashna",

01:50:47.240 --> 01:50:48.760
that is insight.

01:50:49.260 --> 01:50:52.720
And that is the kind of energy
that are in us

01:50:53.260 --> 01:50:55.840
to be cultivated, to develop.

01:50:56.440 --> 01:50:59.080
That is the energy
of the Buddha in us,

01:51:01.640 --> 01:51:03.960
the energy of transformation

01:51:04.820 --> 01:51:06.320
and healing.

01:51:10.620 --> 01:51:12.720
During our retreat

01:51:14.320 --> 01:51:16.200
we practice mindful breathing

01:51:16.540 --> 01:51:17.960
mindful walking.

01:51:19.680 --> 01:51:21.100
That is why

01:51:22.140 --> 01:51:24.580
we are encouraged to use our time

01:51:26.360 --> 01:51:27.840
for the practice.

01:51:27.980 --> 01:51:31.080
If we talk a lot,
there will be no time to...

01:51:32.220 --> 01:51:35.480
enjoy our inbreath-outbreath,
our walking.

01:51:36.300 --> 01:51:41.120
There will be time when we
are encouraged to talk to each other:

01:51:42.020 --> 01:51:43.700
dharma discussions.

01:51:44.580 --> 01:51:47.260
We will be sharing our insights,

01:51:49.700 --> 01:51:52.920
our way of overcoming our suffering.

01:51:57.880 --> 01:52:01.900
And when we practice eating
our lunch, our breakfast,

01:52:02.940 --> 01:52:04.780
we refrain from thinking.

01:52:04.920 --> 01:52:08.000
We establish ourselves
in the here and the now.

01:52:08.760 --> 01:52:12.240
We pay attention only
to the food that we eat.

01:52:13.260 --> 01:52:16.060
When you pick up a piece of bread,

01:52:17.740 --> 01:52:20.800
you do not think of the past,
of the future,

01:52:20.800 --> 01:52:22.360
you just touch the piece of bread...

01:52:22.800 --> 01:52:23.740
deeply.

01:52:24.600 --> 01:52:27.180
And we are able to see
that piece of bread.

01:52:27.660 --> 01:52:32.040
So, if you look deeply into the piece
of bread, you see everything in it.

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The piece of bread you hold
in your hand is the body of the cosmos.

01:52:37.760 --> 01:52:41.080
With a little bit of mindfulness,
you can see

01:52:41.400 --> 01:52:46.920
that the piece of bread is an ambassador
form of the cosmos coming to you.

01:52:47.720 --> 01:52:50.680
And if you can see the piece of bread

01:52:51.260 --> 01:52:55.300
in its true nature,
and then you can put it in your mouth.

01:52:59.160 --> 01:53:02.960
Don't put anything else in your mouth,
like your projects,

01:53:02.960 --> 01:53:06.560
your fear, your anger.
It's not healthy. Just put the bread.

01:53:07.360 --> 01:53:09.880
Just chew the bread,

01:53:09.880 --> 01:53:11.880
mindfully, with joy.

01:53:11.900 --> 01:53:16.020
Don't chew your sorrow, your anger.
It's not good for your health.

01:53:16.720 --> 01:53:18.300
There's no thinking,

01:53:18.300 --> 01:53:19.240
just...

01:53:19.600 --> 01:53:21.900
the process of mindfulness
as chewing.

01:53:25.060 --> 01:53:28.060
We take our time
to enjoy our breakfast

01:53:29.260 --> 01:53:32.020
from time to time,
repose and smile.

01:53:33.260 --> 01:53:35.980
The brother in front of you is you,

01:53:35.980 --> 01:53:38.620
the sister on your left is you.

01:53:39.080 --> 01:53:41.320
They all belong to the sangha.

01:53:42.220 --> 01:53:44.000
And together we generate

01:53:45.560 --> 01:53:47.560
the energy of mindfulness.

01:53:47.560 --> 01:53:51.440
The collective energy of mindfulness
while walking, while sitting,

01:53:51.440 --> 01:53:53.740
while eating,
will be powerful

01:53:53.980 --> 01:53:56.960
and it will penetrate
into each of us.

01:53:58.120 --> 01:54:02.560
We'll be healed by the collective energy
and nourished by the...

01:54:02.860 --> 01:54:04.260
collective energy.

01:54:04.320 --> 01:54:06.300
Alone in our living room

01:54:06.900 --> 01:54:08.880
we can generate

01:54:08.880 --> 01:54:10.720
the energy of mindfulness.

01:54:12.660 --> 01:54:16.040
But compared
to the collective energy of mindfulness,

01:54:16.640 --> 01:54:17.500
well,

01:54:17.860 --> 01:54:19.060
it's not much.

01:54:19.300 --> 01:54:21.560
Therefore, to be in a sangha

01:54:23.100 --> 01:54:27.340
and to allow ourselves to be penetrated
by the collective energy

01:54:27.340 --> 01:54:30.300
of mindfulness with sangha
is very important.

01:54:31.120 --> 01:54:35.480
So, the coming together of a sangha
is a very important fact,

01:54:36.320 --> 01:54:38.600
is a miracle.
And we should

01:54:39.700 --> 01:54:41.840
profit from the opportunity,

01:54:41.840 --> 01:54:46.040
allow ouselves to be transported
by the collective energy of the sangha,

01:54:46.060 --> 01:54:48.060
allow the sangha to embrace our...

01:54:49.660 --> 01:54:50.760
afflictions,

01:54:51.280 --> 01:54:53.280
our pain, our sorrow.

01:54:54.260 --> 01:54:56.260
The sangha is the boat

01:54:57.120 --> 01:54:59.820
that help you to float
on the river of suffering.

01:55:00.460 --> 01:55:02.280
Allow yourself to be

01:55:02.280 --> 01:55:06.960
transported by the sangha
by the collective energy of mindfulness.

01:55:08.540 --> 01:55:11.080
And while eating you enjoy

01:55:11.300 --> 01:55:13.840
the time being with the sangha.

01:55:13.840 --> 01:55:17.940
You smile to your brother and sister
in the practice.

01:55:18.580 --> 01:55:23.300
You allow yourself to be nourished
by the collective energy of the sangha.

01:55:25.160 --> 01:55:27.400
Every moment of our daily life

01:55:27.400 --> 01:55:30.800
mindfulness help us to be
in the here and now.

01:55:30.800 --> 01:55:33.380
And the real practice,
the true practice...

01:55:35.400 --> 01:55:40.160
is to allow every moment of our life
to be a joyful movement.

01:55:43.280 --> 01:55:45.220
That will be

01:55:45.220 --> 01:55:49.160
possible thanks to the power
of mindfulness and concentration

01:55:49.700 --> 01:55:53.180
generated by yourself
and generated by the sangha.

01:55:55.760 --> 01:55:57.760
Tomorrow we shall have a...

01:56:02.440 --> 01:56:07.300
mindfulness walk in the morning,
we shall be walking together.

01:56:07.300 --> 01:56:10.740
We'll walk in such a way
that make the kingdom of God...

01:56:10.740 --> 01:56:13.440
real, available in the here and now.

01:56:13.440 --> 01:56:17.320
There're several of us
that are very used to the practice.

01:56:17.320 --> 01:56:19.700
We'll walk together and generate...

01:56:19.700 --> 01:56:21.180
the collective...

01:56:21.420 --> 01:56:23.400
energy of mindfulness together.

01:56:23.400 --> 01:56:28.040
And you wil see that the kingdom,
the pure land is available.