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Dear Thich, dear Sanga. My question would be...uh...can you can you forgive everything? And is it possible to forgive everything? And how?

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Yes it is possible.

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And I say that out of his experiences. Those that have undergone a lot of injustice and suffering.

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He has survived many wars in Vietnam and many people have done injustice to his...to him, to his people,to his nation.

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But compassion is possible and forgiveness is possible.

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If you look...er... at those people who have inflicted a lot of suffering to us, and they will see their suffering.

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They have been caught in... in a situation where they cannot be truly happy.

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And compassion arise in our heart and when compassion arise in our heart we can forget, we can forgive.

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The willingness to forgive is not enough, even if you want to forgive but you can not forgive.

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Only true understanding can bring about forgiveness.

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And that kind of understanding is possible only when you, you see their suffering.

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They have...they have done horrible things out of their anger, out of their disinclination, their ignorance.

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And we know that people who have a lot of craving, who have... who have a lot of dis-communication, who have a lot of anger

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who do not have any kind... any, anything like compassion and these...

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these people are not happy people at all, even if they have... they are very powerful,

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have a lot of money, power and things like that.

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And we can see their suffering, and because of his practise I can see that suffering

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and I feel sorry for them and therefore forgiveness is now only their problem.

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So that applies to the people who have made us suffer. Those who come and invade us,

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and destroy our home, our family, or even parents who don't know how to love us,

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who impose their ideas on us. We can see their suffering ...

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...and understanding the suffering, we have compassion. That compassion allows us to forgive.

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Thich does not hold any resentment any...he can embrace everyone in his compassion.

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The love of the Buddha is possible.

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Ok.