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(A lotus for you)

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Respected Thay, Dear Noble Sangha,

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Welcome to Plum Village.

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This is our first Mindfulness Day,

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of the Spring Retreat, and thank you

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for coming together, as a Sangha.

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There's a Chinese delegation,

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who came by the bus.

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Plum Village is not a school, where you

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come and you learn, and you get a

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degree...no.

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We don't come here even to learn Buddhism.

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Plum Village is not an ordinary community

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where we come and chit-chat,

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to get involved in communication,

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talking with someone, or looking

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for someone to be your friend, to be your lover.

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Plum Village is a practice centre.

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It's a community of practice where we

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devote our energy and time into

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the practice according to the Buddha.

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Our main practice in Plum Village

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is mindfulness.

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Mindfulness means you come back to 
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You bring your wandering mind

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back to the present moment.

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Bring your mind back to the body,

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and you establish yourself in the

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present moment.

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At the end of the monastic retreat,

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we have 10 lazy days.

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Lazy day means there is no schedule

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of the practice. So you are on your own.

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No one remind you to practice,

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no schedule...no community

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schedule for you. So you are on your own.

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It's a time of examination, whether you

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can do it by yourself.

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Because a community practice- it depends

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on individual practice.

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We take refuge in the community.

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It means that you are also taking refuge

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in each individual practice.

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If the Sangha is strong, it means

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everybody is strong.

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Everybody is (can't catch),

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everybody is solid.

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Everyone know the way to go

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back to oneself.

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To be in the present moment.

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So it's so clear.

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Plum Village is a training place.

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Training here is training mindfulness.

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To be alive, to be back to oneself.

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To be alive, and then to touch life.

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So what do we want to be here for?-

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as the monastic?

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What do you want to be here for,

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as an aspirant to become the monastic?

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What do you want to be here - as the lay?

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You want to be here in order to 
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To take the concrete practice and then

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to find ourselves.

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Plum Village is like the mountain that has

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a lot of jewels. You need to take it out.

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You need to know how to collect

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the jewels.

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You need sharp eyes, clear eyes.

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Plum Village Sangha is like a forest,

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where all the trees stand together,

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majestically standing together

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under the sunlight.

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We enter this community,

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we enjoy the majestic energy of

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the forest, in the morning.

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So we don't want to come here

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for anything else than that.

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That's one sutra that the Buddha 
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It's related to this:

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There's a Sutra on

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Majjhima Nikaya, it means

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The Middle Discourse.

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Number 29.

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The Buddha spoke about how to be

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a monastic.

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This discourse was delivered after

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Devadatta left the Sangha.

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Devadatta, he created a lot of problems.

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Devadatta is a cousin of the Buddha.

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When he entered the monastic life,

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after a while he wanted to become

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a Buddha!

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He wanted to be a Buddha.

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He wanted to become a second Buddha.

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He wanted to become the leader

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of the Sangha.

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So when the Buddha was still alive,

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he said, "Dear Buddha,

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let you rest. I will take care

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of the Sangha. I'll become

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you- the leader of the Sangha".

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And the Buddha said." Don't mention that,

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Devadatta, in the Sangha,

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there's beautiful monastics like

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Shariputra, Maha Mogallana, Mahakasyapa

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they are beautiful people, but I don't

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even let them become the leader

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of the Sangha.

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So don't mention about you."

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And he get really upset.

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He left the Sangha and he created a lot

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of problems.

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He divide the Sangha.

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He convinced 500 monks to follow him,

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and he set up a new Sangha.

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This sutra- the Buddha spoke after

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that event.

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The Buddha said." When a young man,

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out of faith, left a lay life,

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and become a monastic. They're called 
'homeless' ".

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Because a monk doesn't have a home.

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A monk lives in the forest,

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with the community, in the monastery.

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So we called all monastics 'are homeless'.

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It's not like people who are homeless and

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wandering in the town.

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It means the people who devote their

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energy, their life, their time
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They don't concern themselves about

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other things, like material comfort,

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or...effective comforts...

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like romantic relationships...

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We don't come here to look for romance.

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Like someone you love, secretly love.

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No.

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You come here to practice.

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When we practice for a while,

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we gain something.

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You gain comforts (not sure..can't catch)

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We...not only gain, but honour..respect...

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We become respected by someone,

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by lay friends, and we become famous,

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renowned. Sometimes they called

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you 'a renowned teacher',

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become famous like a Dharma Teacher.

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Could be a renowned person in the Sangha.

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Of course when you practice for a while,

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you become a Dharma Teacher.

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I could be a renowned person

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in the community.

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This young man left family life, go forth.

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In the language of the Buddha,

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called 'go forth', means you go on,

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you go higher, further, means you

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ordain as a monastic.

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You take the life of a monk or

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a nun, and that's called 'go forth'

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"The reason is that person don't want

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to be a victim of birth, old age,

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death, sorrow, pain, despair.

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That person doesn't want to be a victim of

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suffering, (can't catch) of suffering.

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He believe in the Sangha,

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that is the way to end all the suffering.

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He practices dilligently...many years,

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and he attain 'gaining'.

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He attains honour, he attains renown,

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He is pleased with these,

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his intention is fulfilled when he enjoys

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the gaining. I gain some kind of material

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comfort,I come here I have food, I have

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room, all that...

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He is satisfied with honouring,

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respect by other people.

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He is also satisfied with his position,

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he is renowned.

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And he doesn't want to go on.

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He doesn't want to practice.

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That's good enough for me.

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He praised himself, and he disparaged 
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He criticises the other people."

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The Buddha say he became intoxicated,

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with this gain, honour, renown.

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He will grow into negligence, become

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negligent and he will live in suffering.

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So this is the warning of the Buddha.

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After we practice a while,

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we think that we have enough.

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I become a Dharma Teacher,

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or maybe I go out, I build a temple,

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I have a lot of money, and that's it.

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You stopped practicing, you forget the first

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goal entering the Sangha. The most deepest

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concern entering the Sangha.

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You just stopped right there.

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The Buddha made an example, like a person,

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looking for heartwood. He goes into the

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forest and he found a beautiful giant tree.

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He cut the tree into pieces, into logs.

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but he doesn't know what is the heartwood.

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He only takes trees and branches.

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That person who stopped at gaining,

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and honouring, and renown, is like taking

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the branches and leaves only.

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He didn't take the heartwood.

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The second kind of person, he doesn't

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get satisfied with gaining,

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honour, renown, he becomes diligent

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and goes on practicing.

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He achieves attainment of moral
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Moral discipline. (In Viet)

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He really thinks with discipline,

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with fine manners, with vinaya, with shila.

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He achieves beautifully, radiating the

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energy of moral discipline. He is pleased

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with it, and his intention is fulfilled.

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I have enough.

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He said, I'm the best, so I don't want to

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practice anymore.

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He praises himself and he (can't catch).

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The Buddha said he becomes intoxicated

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into the gaining, attainment of moral

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respect, moral discipline.

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He will grow negligently and falls into

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negligence and he lives in suffering.

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The Buddha says, " This man, this monk,

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only gets the outer bark of the tree".

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Moral discipline, precepts, shila is only

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the outer bark of the tree. Outer bark of

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the tree. You know the tree has bark?

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You only get that.

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You haven't get the heartwood yet.

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The heartwood is the strongest part

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of the tree.

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The third kind of monastic

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he does not (get) satisfied with gaining,

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honour, renown, even moral disciplines.

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He continues to be dilligent in the
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He attains...achieves the concentration.

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The deep samadhi. Samadhi.

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And he is pleased with it.

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His intention is fulfilled, he doesn't

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want to practice anymore. I am great

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samadhi. Sometimes I can fly on the sky.

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You know in the sutra, sometimes they

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spoke about a monk who can fly in the sky.

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They guild.

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He stopped practicing.

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He(is) bragging about his attainment. He

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is satisfied with his attainment of samadhi.

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He lauded himself, he praised himself.

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He disparaged others.

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The Buddha said, he becomes intoxicated

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with attainment of concentraton, grows

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negligently, fall into negligence,

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and he lives in suffering.

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You see, samadhi, but if you stopped...

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you can fall back to suffering.

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If you are satisfied bragging about your

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own practice of samadhi, you can fall back

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into suffering.

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This person only gets the inner bark

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of the tree.

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So there's 2 barks-the outer bark

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and inner bark.

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He didn't get the heartwood yet.

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The fourth person-

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he is not satisfied with concentration,

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with great concentration. He is not satisfied

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with mindfulness. He is radiating with

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light, of mindfulness and concentration,

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but he is not satisfied with that.

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He becomes dilligent, continue to practice

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wholeheartedly, and he achieves the

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non-achieve, the vision.

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Knowledge and vision.

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In Vietnamese it called (in Viet)

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He has the knowledge and vision.

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He can see things deeper than others.

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He is pleased with it, and his intention

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is fulfilled. He doesn't want to practice
anymore.

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So I got the knowledge, I got the insight.

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So I don't want to practice anymore.

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He enjoys life, get caught in

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conversations, sleepy, seeking for 
pleasure.

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He stopped the practice because he is

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satisfied of what he believe he can attain

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The final.

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He praised himself, he disparaged others.

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And the Buddha said, "This monk (is) also

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falling back into suffering. He only get

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the sapwood". Certain place in the

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tree you called sap..sap wood...the

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softer wood where it's (can't catch) sap.

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Sapwood. S-A-P. Sapwood.

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Means softer kind of wood.

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It's not the heartwood yet.

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It helps the tree to grow.

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So it's permeated with sap.

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The Buddha said, "not yet".

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The last person, the last monastic.

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He's not satisfied with the knowledge

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and vision. He is not satisfied with insight.

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He becomes more dilligent in practicing.

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He practices wholeheartedly, and he

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attains what they called

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"perpetual emancipation".

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Unshakeable liberation.

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Perpetual means unshakeable.

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Liberation or emancipation.

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The Buddha said, when a person gets this

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kind of liberation, he will not fall

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back into suffering. He got the heartwood.

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So this Discourse tells us that in

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the practice, we don't stop.

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We don't think that we got it. We've to

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continue to do the daily practice. We cannot

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stop the practice in our daily life.

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When I reflect on this sutra, I see that

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we come to Plum Village, we think that

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we have enough, we get already enough.

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So we just...not really wholeheartedly

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in the Sangha practice. We just live our

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life and let time go by. We feel that

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there is nothing special here.

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Nothing interesting here.

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But as I said in the beginning,

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Plum Village is like a mountain.

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It has so many jewels hidden in the

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mountain, and we need to discover that.

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We need to be wholeheartedly in our daily

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practice. We need to have sharp eyes, to

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be able to see the jewels.

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Especially those who live here for 10 years,

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15 years or 20 years.

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You will see that if we don't enjoy daily

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practice, we fall into that trap of

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satisfaction. I have enough.

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(can't catch) is nothing special.

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Nothing here.

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That's why today I would like to share

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with you what is the jewels

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of Plum Village. We need to know what is

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the jewels. We don't just want to come

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here to gain some kind of comforts,

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to have money, to have food...

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to have special food, to have

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room, comfortable room. We don't want to

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come here to gain material comfort.

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Or emotional comfort.

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Or to become famous.

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To become honourable person.

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We want to come here to get the

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jewels of the Dharma.

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And our Teacher is like a rich man.

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He's like a rich...

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man who owns so much jewels and we are

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the children of our teacher . We live with

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him, but we don't receive anything!

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We behave like a desperate child.

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The first jewel in Plum Village is,

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the practice called

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"I have arrived, I am home".

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So when you want to call the signature,

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the seal of Plum Village is,

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"I have arrived, I am home".

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Means you don't run anymore.

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You make one step and you stop your mind.

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You stop your body and you stop your mind.

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And you enter into the present moment.

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You feel connect with Mother Earth, and

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that's called

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" I have arrived, I am home".

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Sometimes we have not arrived yet.

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Our mind is still thinking a lot.

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We are still looking for something.

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We are still searching for something.

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We miss the first jewel of Plum Village.

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No matter how long we live here,

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we don't have the jewel of Plum Village.

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I have arrived,

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I am home.

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No more running.

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No more aiming.

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No more searching.

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Happiness is not at the end of the road.

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Happiness is on each step of the way.

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Whether we arrived or not.

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Whether our mind stops and

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feel life or not.

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That's important.

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Just that is already important.

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Means the mind and the body comes together.

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And then helps to arrive in the self.

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Arrive in present moment, in life.

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You get some degree of freedom..

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The second seal of Plum Village is

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"dwelling happily in the present moment"

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So the present moment is our destination.

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You know, I begin with the sutra in order

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to speak about Plum Village practice.

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So the sutra is not important, but

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Plum Village practice is important,

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because that's why we come here for! Haha.

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Some people still don't have faith in

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Plum Village practice. They don't have

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faith in the teacher. They are still

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waiting for moments to go away from

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Plum Village. To find something else.

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That's why speaking about the jewels of

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Plum Village is so important.

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Plum Village's seal.

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"arrived, home"

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We have to realise this.

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We have to really experience this.

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Because it's the practice of no running.

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No aiming.

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No searching.

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Not even attainment.

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You don't look for attainment.

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Because each step you feel alive.

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You touch life.

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Each step you come home.

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Mind come back to the body,

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and you become whole. And you will be

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whole by the present moment.

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A lot of nourishing and healing in there.

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So you don't need to run.

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YouI don't need to even search for

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enlightenment, because there is no

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enlightenment at the end of the road.

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You don't need even to become a Buddha.

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Just be yourself.

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To be home sweet home.

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You don't need to be someone else.

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Sometimes we feel like we are nothing.

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We are only a human being full of 
suffering.

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So we want to become someone else.

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But this practice, "home",

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I need to bring my mind back.

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I need to bring myself back.

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On each step I make. So you feel

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Mother Earth when you walk like that.

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You are connecting with Mother Earth.

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it means that you feel yourself.

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So between you and Mother Earth is life,

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is energy of mindfulness.

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Energy of being alive.

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There's a clarity in the mind.

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When you feel Mother Earth, you feel

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yourself and all anxiety stopped.

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All anixety, all worry, all pain

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and sorrow stopped.

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This is very clear when the Buddha

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said, "A young man left home, go forth,

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become a monastic, because of one reason.

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That he doesn't want to be a victim

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of birth, death, old age, sorrow, despair.

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He doesn't want to be a victim of his

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suffering and despair and stress".

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So this can be the way to stop all our

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block of suffering, mass of suffering.

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The second jewel of Plum Village

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practice is dwelling in the present moment.

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Happily. In the present moment.

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The present moment is our destiny.

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So if you don't know where to go-

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present moment. If you want to know

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whether you have mindfulness or not,

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you ask yourself,

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'Am I in the present moment"?

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In the present moment, everything

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becomes alive.

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You are radiating with light,

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and you see light outside.

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Your soul becomes green like grass,

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your mind becomes clear like light.

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Because you enter the present moment.

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There is a formula I like so much,

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when I'm talking about arrived home,

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a formula called velocity.

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Velocity equals distance over time.

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This is when you want to arrive at home.

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We use this physics formula called

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velocity=distance/time.

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When distance is here, here means here.

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You don't make a step.

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Your mind don't run here.

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You don't go anywhere, and time is now,

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means zero. Over zero. Velocity equals zero.

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Means you stopped!

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You are free from velocity.

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Your mind totally stay still.

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Isn't that cool?

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Mathematics can cool the Buddha's teaching.
(Mathematics can make the teaching cool).

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If you want to stop your mind,

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Thay says, "stop thinking radio station"
(Thay says stop non-stop thinking radio)

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If you want to stop your mind-

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Here & Now. Arrived.

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You see, it's very clear.

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Present moment is our destiny.

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Present moment is our country.

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When no one can occupy.

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No one can control that wonderful country

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of yours.

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When you enter the present moment,

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everything becomes so real.

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You can hear song of the bird

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all the time. Now is the time, the bird is singing

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almost all day long. Especially in the

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early morning about 6 o' clock, 6.20.

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In the present moment, flowers (are )

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blooming all the time.

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Your body, your mind, green like the

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meadows, sparkling with light

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in the present moment.

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So this is your destination.

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You don't need to find happiness because

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in the present moment, you have a lot of

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happiness.

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Of course you don't need money to be happy.

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In the present moment, you feel so good.

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All is so great.

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To be one with sunlight.

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Wow, it's so good to see daffodils.

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To really enjoy, touch daffodils.

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The colour of golden colour.

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In the present moment, what we called

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the true peace. We need to get this.

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This is very precious jewel.

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So important dharma seal of Plum Village.

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Anybody can do it.

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Anybody can enter the present moment.

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Dwelling, stay, establish youself

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in the present moment.

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There will be full of happiness.

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Our Teacher has a very famous expression,

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" There is no way to happiness,

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happiness in the way".

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Means you make one step,

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you have to feel arrive and home.

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You enter the present moment and then you

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experience happiness. Because you become

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one with the meadow, you feel the warmth

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of the sunshine in your body.

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That is happiness.

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So happiness is at every step.

548
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
If we don't have this, at the end there

549
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
will be nothing.

550
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Because our mind keeps running.

551
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We don't need to run after happiness,

552
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
after peace, after joy, after well-being.

553
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Happiness, peace, joy, well-being

554
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
are already available. You experience it.

555
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You taste it.

556
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And that requires, "home, arrive".

557
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Mind stop. No velocity.

558
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So these go together.

559
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
True peace.

560
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And the beautiful thing in the present

561
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
moment is the silence.

562
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
If you are too noisy,

563
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you don't feel much.

564
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Can you believe in the morning,

565
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the song of the bird are calling you.

566
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and you are too noisy!

567
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You are talking a lot, non-stop,

568
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and your mind keep thinking.

569
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
thinking, looking of something,

570
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and you really don't know

571
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you missed the morning song of the birds.

572
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So the silence is so important.

573
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The silence inside of the mind.

574
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So if you feel you don't know

575
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
what to do, enjoy the silence.

576
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Sometimes we are afraid of silence.

577
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
At times you are alone,

578
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and you feel don't know what to do.

579
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You want to look for someone else to talk.

580
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You ruin your silence.

581
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You destroy your awareness.

582
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Your clarity of the mind.

583
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
In 10 lazy days I spent time by myself.

584
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
My mentee that goes to the hut,

585
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
they have their own practice.

586
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And I'm their mentor, I also do by myself.

587
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I hide myself in the forest.

588
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I think I have enough noise already.

589
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Sometimes we live together,

590
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
it's too much noise.

591
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
When there's too much noise,

592
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
we don't feel much (of) present moment.

593
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We don't feel much,

594
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the energy of peace, of joy,

595
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
refreshing, healing energy in life.

596
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
In the present moment, what you

597
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
need is silence.

598
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Silence.

599
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The other thing is,

600
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
do one thing at a time.

601
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Don't do multitask.

602
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
One thing at a time.

603
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I have a habit of learning.

604
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I want to learn so much.

605
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Sometimes I learn something,

606
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I read something, but I write something.

607
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Because I am afraid of losing them.

608
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I am afraid I don't have enough time.

609
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So I listen to a Dharma talk,

610
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
but I am writing something.

611
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You just do one thing at a time,

612
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
to really feel the present moment.

613
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You do the garden, and you just do the

614
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
garden. You put all your heart into the

615
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
garden. In one of the lazy day, I worked in

616
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the rose garden. I put all my heart into

617
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
doing the rose garden. I weed the grass,

618
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I cut the grass, I clear away

619
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the weed that occupy the root of the rose.

620
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I trim the rose. So you do one thing at

621
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
a time, you stay in the present moment.

622
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
That's why our teacher says,

623
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"Just breathe"

624
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"Just walk".

625
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So we walk, and that's it.

626
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We don't think about something.

627
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
When we do walking meditation,

628
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
(it) doesn't mean you are thinking about

629
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the dharma talk. No, you just walk,

630
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and the insight comes out.

631
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The talk doesn't come from thinking.

632
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The talk comes from the insight.

633
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The experience.

634
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So just walk, just breath, just eat.

635
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Is that simple enough?

636
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And help to clear the mind!

637
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Because the silence is so important.

638
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The clear mind is so important.

639
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
In order to have clear mind,

640
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the silence, we need to do one thing

641
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
at a time. It helps (us) to concentrate,

642
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
to help us concentrate on one thing.

643
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The practice is 'just breathe'.

644
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I like this so much.

645
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"Just breathe", "Just walk"

646
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
When we eat, we just eat.

647
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Enjoy, taste. The gift of life.

648
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
That's it.

649
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You don't eat and you talk.

650
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
That's why the first 20 minutes, silence

651
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
meal is to just eat. That's the time of

652
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
concentration, of mindfulness.

653
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Of clear mind.

654
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So it's the training process.

655
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I have the feeling that mindfulness

656
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
is like a thread.

657
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
A very thin thread.

658
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You know lotus? When you break the lotus,

659
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
there's a thread.

660
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
There's a very vulnerable thread.

661
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
But it can hold other parts of the

662
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
lotus stem. So mindfulness is

663
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
like a thread. Very fine thread.

664
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
But day by day becomes so powerful.

665
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Because the light becomes so powerful.

666
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It recognise things.

667
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It see things deeper in the realm of

668
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
feelings, in the realm of mind,

669
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
of thoughts.

670
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Not to mention about the green grass,

671
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the flower. These are physical things

672
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you can see them clearly.

673
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
But you can see even your mind,

674
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
your feelings, your thoughts.

675
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So training.

676
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The third jewel of Plum Village practice.

677
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
There's a lot, but these are very

678
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
important jewels that we need to take,

679
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
we need to bring home, we need to possess,

680
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
in order to be a rich practitioner.

681
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So we don't behave like a destitute.

682
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Like a poor child.

683
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
In dwelling in the present moment,

684
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
what you got is the wonders of life.

685
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So you don't need anymore conditions

686
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
for happiness.

687
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The wonders of life.

688
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Everything becomes so real.

689
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So precious.

690
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The third is the continuity.

691
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Continuity or continuum.

692
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
This is called the insight. You need to

693
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
get this insight of continuity.

694
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
(In) Vietnamese called "tuong tục".

695
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We need to have an insight of "tuong tuc".

696
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Continuity.

697
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Our life is not a rock, ok.

698
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Our life is a process.

699
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Our life is a process of energy.

700
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Love and energy. Hate and energy.

701
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And they don't stay the same.

702
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
They always change.

703
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
That's why the Buddha say

704
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
consciousness sometimes behave

705
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
like a river.

706
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It's continually flowing.

707
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Remember the insight of our life

708
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
is continuity.

709
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Our life is flowing all the time.

710
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
This is the teaching on impermance.

711
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So each moment of our lives,

712
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
there is input.

713
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The things come in.

714
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Fresh air, sunshine,

715
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
a smile, a loving thought.

716
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Each moment of our lives,

717
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
there's inputs into what we

718
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
called body and mind. And also

719
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
each moment there is output,

720
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
things coming out.

721
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The way you see things,

722
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the energy goes out, by wavelength.

723
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So you may send out good energy or really

724
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
negative energy.

725
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So society becomes violent or not

726
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
depends on individual way of life.

727
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
What he send out through thoughts,

728
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
through speech and through body energy,

729
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
body language.

730
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The insight of continuity helps you to

731
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
realise the teaching on impermance.

732
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Everything change.

733
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
This is very important insight.

734
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Everything change.

735
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So if you have a despair, don't worry.

736
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Everything will change.

737
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Even you don't want to change,

738
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
it will change by itself.

739
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So don't worry about it- despair.

740
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Say hello to despair.

741
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
As a monk, sometimes I speak about

742
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
myself. Sometimes we feel like, a little bit

743
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
like depressed. (Laughs).

744
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
(Bell)

745
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I'm sure depression is happening to

746
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
everyone right? But as a monk, because we

747
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
are going in, so we face so many energy.

748
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And one of the energy inside of our

749
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
consciousness is depression.

750
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Sometimes I felt the energy depressed.

751
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I feel that my energy goes down.

752
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Luckily I have a practice called

753
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
'gladdening the mind'.

754
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Gladdening the mind.

755
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Cheer up.

756
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I go out of depression just like that.

757
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Sometimes it's just the seed, triggered up.

758
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The seed of depression maybe come from

759
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
our father, our mother, ancestors,

760
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
where they faced, go through challenges

761
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
in their life, and they fall

762
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
into depression. They despair because they

763
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
cannot do things.

764
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
They faced so much suffering in life,

765
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and they fall into despair.

766
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And now it's transmitted to us.

767
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We practice and we encounter

768
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
this energy.

769
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We have the way out,

770
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
by gladdening the mind.

771
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Open the door and walking outside.

772
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Be with nature, and it changes

773
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
this energy of depression.

774
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Continuity means that don't worry.

775
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Don't be despair,

776
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
because things will change.

777
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Sometimes things will change in a year,

778
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
not overnight but one year.

779
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
There's certain seed, that anger

780
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
it takes years to practice.

781
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
That certain seed of anixiety,

782
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
it takes like years to practice

783
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So don't give up, have trust.

784
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Because we have insight of continuity,

785
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the insight of 'tuong tuc".

786
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
'Tuong tuc' means continue,

787
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
flowing all the time,

788
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
There's another word- impermanance.

789
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Don't look into our live as a rock.

790
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
A stone. No.

791
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Look into our life as a river.

792
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Ever-changing energy.

793
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
One energy we change to a different energy.

794
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So if you have a depression, you can change into

795
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
joy and happiness. If you have an anger,

796
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you can change into love.

797
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You can do it with the practice.

798
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So don't stuck in there.

799
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Find a way. A skilful way that fit you.

800
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
In order to change the river of your mind.

801
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We call 'change the seed', because

802
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
all come from seeds.

803
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Our consciousness sometimes,

804
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
is described as 'the totality of seeds".

805
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Like the garden, it embodies every kind

806
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
of seeds in the garden.

807
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
When you faced some kind of depression,

808
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
that's something very normal, but you

809
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
need to change the seed, or

810
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you will be despair for a long time.

811
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Keep this insight of impermance,

812
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
insight of continuity.

813
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The fourth jewel of the practice is the

814
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
insight, why we called insight? because

815
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
it is not thinking. Insight (is what) you

816
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
see, you see directly, that your body

817
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
change, that your mind change.

818
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
If you are able to let go, it change.

819
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Sometimes we don't want to let go.

820
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
When you hate someone, you keep holding

821
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
into that, you keep arguing in the mind

822
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
with that person, and you make it worse!

823
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You don't allow it to flow,

824
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you have it heavy in your mind.

825
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And that person doesn't know anything!

826
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
That's really called 'attachment'.

827
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
This insight helps to remove attachment.

828
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
No attachment.

829
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
No attachment to whatsoever,

830
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
whatsoever in the form, in the feeling,

831
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
in the thinking, in the mind.

832
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
In the person, even in the person that

833
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you don't like, you have to let go.

834
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Because your mind holds on to it,

835
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you suffer a lot.

836
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Because the insight of continuity means

837
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
your mind flow.

838
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Don't hold.

839
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You hold, you ruin the nature of our mind.

840
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The insight of interconnectedness.

841
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Interconnectedness.

842
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
How Teacher usually says, "interbeing".

843
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Interbeing is another word.

844
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So with this insight of changing,

845
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
insight of interbeing,

846
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
we are free.

847
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Because we relate.

848
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
If you hate someone, it means

849
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you hate yourself.

850
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Interbeing. Interconnected.

851
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Your suffering is his suffering.

852
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Your smile is her smile.

853
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So if you want to punish him means

854
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you want to punish her- yourself.

855
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Interbeingness, interconnectedness.

856
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And that is the energy field.

857
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You know, life- in quantum physics, they

858
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
called energy field.

859
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You are just a whole bunch of energy.

860
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I'm moving around, and two energy bombard,

861
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and there is life. Two energy bombard

862
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
bombard means we have a problem.

863
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You love or you hate.

864
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So actually love and hate is just energy.

865
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Collision of energy. In bio-chemistry,

866
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
they called the bonding of the chemical.

867
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Its funny that when you fall in love with

868
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
someone, you actually bonding with her

869
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
in the level of chemistry.

870
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You send out to her the message to say,

871
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"Dopamine I love you"

872
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You know, the dopamine say "I love you",

873
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"I feel good with you",

874
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and you fall in love.

875
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And he do the same thing.

876
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So insight of interbeing, the insight is

877
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
so crucial. Usually we attach our ego,

878
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
so we forgot the insight of interbeing.

879
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Interconnectedness.

880
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We are relating, we are connecting.

881
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
In the level of human being, and

882
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
also in the level of nature.

883
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Of life.

884
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Nowadays at Hanoi, the government

885
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
cuts down all the big trees.

886
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
There's several thousands of big trees and

887
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
they want to cut them down.

888
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
All of them.

889
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You know Hanoi is beautiful because of the

890
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the big trees. It gives shade and

891
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
it also makes the city beautiful.

892
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Now they are cutting it down.

893
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I think some guy in the back wants to get

894
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the wood. That's why they then

895
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
make this plan.

896
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It's really hurt, especially the people

897
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
who live in Hanoi.

898
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
They didn't know the tree is so important

899
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
for life, because we are

900
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
interconnected with tree.

901
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Tree absorbs carbon dioxide,

902
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and releases oxygen for us.

903
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Tree gives us fruits, tree gives us shade.

904
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Tree removes away heat and sunburn.

905
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
But they don't know that.

906
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
They want to make money.

907
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
They want to cut down all the trees.

908
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I mean they are going to kill themselves.

909
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So today we need to pray for the

910
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
trees in Hanoi. They are giant like this.

911
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I think this government is stupid.

912
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
In Vietnam, the government is stupid.

913
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
with all stupid people.

914
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Sorry I have to say that, but they do so

915
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
many things so corrupt.

916
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The insight of interbeing means you are

917
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
not yourself. The insight of no-self.

918
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It's a very important teaching

919
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
of the Buddha. I think Thay Phap Luu

920
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
like the way I talk...(laughs)

921
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
because it's a very sutra thing.

922
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Not a separate existence,

923
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
interbeing is like that.

924
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You are not alone.

925
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You cannot be alone.

926
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
In the level of energy, we always

927
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
exchange. Your sorrow comes out as energy

928
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and I got it. Your happiness,

929
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
as wavelength, comes out and you make

930
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
me happy.

931
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It's goes through your eyes,

932
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
it goes through your body.

933
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Sometimes it goes through your language.

934
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Sometimes you speak beautiful language,

935
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
we feel good. Nowadays in society,

936
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
people speak very rough language.

937
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
They accuse, their language is like knife,

938
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
cutting everything. So we need to change

939
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the way of speaking.

940
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You know the eight-fold path of

941
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the Buddha teaching is right speech.

942
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Loving speech.

943
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We need to speak in a way that create

944
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
peace, happiness, confidence.

945
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We don't want to hurt

946
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
other people. We don't want our speech

947
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
to be like knife, cutting other people up,

948
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
with pain and sorrow.

949
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Interbeing, interconnectedness is like

950
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
that. You are concerned for other people.

951
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Because you are not alone.

952
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You cannot be alone.

953
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You know sometimes I have a feeling

954
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I want to go away by myself.

955
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Because I think I can do better by myself.

956
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So this is very temptation.

957
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Because I think I can do better in the

958
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
practice by myself.

959
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Living in the community sometimes

960
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
is a little bit difficult.

961
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Too much noise...

962
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
too much singing...

963
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
too much playing music.

964
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You hear flute everywhere...

965
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you hear guitar everywhere...sometimes

966
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you feel overwhelming with that.

967
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
A lot of talking. We talk a lot.

968
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
But we don't spend time to be silent.

969
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So that's the temptation to be alone

970
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
is so strong in me.

971
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I've to be very careful with that.

972
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Because actually we need each other.

973
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
One more day, if I give a talk, I'll talk

974
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
about the sutra the Buddha says about

975
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the importance about having friends.

976
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Ananda says it's only half in importance

977
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
in spiritual life. The Buddha says,

978
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"No, Ananda,full of spiritual life.

979
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
If you have a good friend".

980
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
There's a sutra like that. You can

981
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
realise your full potential of spiritual

982
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
life, full enlightenment, with liberation

983
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
with a good friend".

984
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
A good friend, ok.

985
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Not like a noisy guy. (Laughs)

986
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So interbeing is like that. We need to take

987
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
good care of our practice, in order to be

988
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
good for the Sangha. Be good with our Sangha.

989
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
To support our brothers and sisters.

990
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The fifth jewel of Plum Village practice,

991
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
is the insight...this is the very

992
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
important insight of non-duality.

993
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Non-duality.

994
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
This is so important.

995
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Insight. It's not notion.

996
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
All these is not notion.

997
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
All these you need to experience.

998
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
If you learn from the book,

999
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
it's not an insight.

1000
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
If you read from the book, from a sutra,

1001
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
it's not yet the insight.

1002
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You need to experience.

1003
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You need to live your life

1004
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
with the insight of non-duality.

1005
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
What does that mean- non-duality?

1006
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Means there's no right or wrong.

1007
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
There is no you separate from I.

1008
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
There is no body separate from mine.

1009
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
There is no enemy separate from friend.

1010
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Non-duality is like that.

1011
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We're always thinking of right and wrong.

1012
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Good and bad.

1013
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Friend and enemy.

1014
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Right, is that right?

1015
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Most of the time we're thinking like that.

1016
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
That is the main source of suffering.

1017
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It comes from discriminative mind.

1018
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The mind of discrimination.

1019
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Non-duality means the insight of 
non-discrimination.

1020
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The Buddha says there's two views.

1021
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Double view. (In viet).

1022
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You are different from him.

1023
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You, are the perceiver, and

1024
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
he, is the object of your preception,

1025
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
are different. It means double view.

1026
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
If we are caught in that,

1027
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
we have problem right away.

1028
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You begin to judge him.

1029
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You put him in (a) box.

1030
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Whether good monk or bad monk.

1031
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We already have a problem.

1032
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Cannot live together.

1033
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We have to transcend this double view:

1034
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"I'm different from you",

1035
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"I'm judging you".

1036
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"I'm a judge and you become

1037
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
object of my judgement".

1038
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
That's called non-duality.

1039
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Non-discrimination.

1040
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You, are a part of my mind.

1041
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You are the object of my mind.

1042
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
If I don't change my mind,

1043
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
I cannot change you.

1044
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
If you don't like someone in the Sangha,

1045
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
you change your mind.

1046
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Is there anybody you don't like

1047
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
in your Sangha?

1048
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You have to change your mind.

1049
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Non-duality.

1050
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And the same thing is (for)

1051
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
suffering and happiness. You don't throw

1052
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
away suffering in order to run after

1053
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
happiness.

1054
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Suffering make happiness.

1055
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It just like garbage makes flowers.

1056
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Manure, cow manure makes flowers

1057
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and vegetables.

1058
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So if you see something inside of you,

1059
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
called garbage, suffering,

1060
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
don't be afraid.

1061
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Use that to plant lettuce,

1062
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
green mustard, flowers.

1063
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So non-duality is like that.

1064
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So that point, you'll be able to accept

1065
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the whole of life.

1066
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You don't struggle.

1067
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
There is no struggling,

1068
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
There is no clinging.

1069
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Non-duality means no clinging to

1070
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
whatsoever.

1071
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Even enlightenment or happiness.

1072
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Sometimes we live in a community,

1073
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
we feel comfortable with someone,

1074
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
with a group of people, and we

1075
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
don't like the other group.

1076
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Insight of non-duality helps us to

1077
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
remove that behaviour.

1078
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
To open our heart, so that slowly

1079
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
everyone becomes part of your community.

1080
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Everybody becomes part of your love.

1081
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Non-duality.

1082
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We will be free from double grasping.

1083
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The Buddha says (in viet),

1084
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
(in viet), double grasping.

1085
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Remove that.

1086
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We always have this double grasping.

1087
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It's very deep down, controlled by the ego.

1088
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The judge.

1089
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So the ego in the back is doing all these.

1090
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Judging, discriminating.

1091
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You see, it's very powerful.

1092
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It's very powerful insight.

1093
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It helps us to remove the totality

1094
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
of all suffering.

1095
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Non-duality.

1096
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"I am you"

1097
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"I am my father"

1098
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
"I am my teacher"

1099
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Look at the people around us.

1100
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
This is transmitted by our teacher.

1101
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As I say, our teacher is like a rich guy.

1102
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Rich man.

1103
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He has so much jewels and

1104
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he give it to us,

1105
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but we don't receive anything.

1106
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We receive only the bark of the tree,

1107
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the branch, the leaves.

1108
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We don't receive heartwood,

1109
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
the essential, the most important

1110
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of the Buddha's teachings.

1111
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We don't receive yet.

1112
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So if you have in your mind,

1113
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
thinking of going away,

1114
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
go to another school,

1115
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
think about it.

1116
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Have you got the jewels?

1117
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
From Plum Village.

1118
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
From the mountain.

1119
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Good luck.

1120
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Thank you very much.

1121
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
(A lotus for you)