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Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.00,0:00:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dear Thich, dear Sanga. My question would be...can you can you forgive everything? Is it possible to forgive everything? And how?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.00,0:00:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes it is possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.00,0:01:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I say that out of his experiences. Those that have undergone a lot of injustice and suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.00,0:01:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has survived many wars in Vietnam and many people have done injustice to his...to him, to his people,to his nation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.00,0:01:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But compassion is possible and forgiveness is possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.00,0:01:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look...er... at those people who have inflicted a lot of suffering to us, and they will see their suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.00,0:01:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have been caught in... in a situation where they cannot be truly happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.00,0:01:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And compassion rise in our heart and when compassion rise in our heart we can forget, we can forgive.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.00,0:02:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The willingness to forgive is not enough, even if you want to forgive but can not forgive.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.00,0:02:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only true understanding can bring about forgiveness.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.00,0:02:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that kind of understanding is possible only when you, you see their suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.00,0:02:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have...they have done horrible things out of their anger, out of their disinclination, their ignorance.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.00,0:02:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we know that people who have a lot of craving, who has... who have a lot of dis-communication, a lot of anger
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.00,0:02:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who do not have any kind... any, anything like compassion and these...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.00,0:02:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these people are not happy people at all, even if they have... they are very powerful,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.00,0:03:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have a lot of money, power and things like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.00,0:03:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we can see their suffering, and because of his practise I can see that suffering
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.00,0:03:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I feel sorry for them and therefore forgiveness is now only their problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.00,0:03:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that applies to the people who make us suffer. Those who come and invade us,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.00,0:03:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and destroyed our home, our family, or even parents who don't know how to love us,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.00,0:03:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who impose their ideas on us. We can see their suffering ...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.00,0:03:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and understanding the suffering, we have compassion. That compassion allows us to forgive.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.00,0:04:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thich does not hold any resentment any...he can embrace everyone in his compassion.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.00,0:04:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The love of the Buddah is possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.00,0:04:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok.