You are Mother Earth | Brother Phap Dung

That you are the Mother Earth.

So to take care of yourself is also to take care of Mother Earth.

So Mother Earth is not out there as a tree, environment.

It is the carrot and how you eat the carrot.

It is how you take care of your body, how you move,

how you hold something with less tension,

how you carry yourself,

how you shut the door.

Mother Earth is shutting the door.

So how you slam the door is exactly the kind of energy that is being done to Mother Earth,

to how you take care of yourself and how you live and how you're kind to yourself, how to relax,

how to smile more, have fun, celebrate.

So Mother Earth is also in wonder right now.

And are you available to enjoy it?

So Mother Earth is not just crying and in pain.

Mother Earth is also telling us like, wow, you are alive every day.

The sunrise.

Have you seen it lately?

Mother Earth is in the child smiling and do you have time to play with the child?

So it is not just the suffering and the symptom, and the global warming.

It's at the same time,

Mother Earth is celebrating and welcoming you every day,

but you are too caught up with what is wrong with the planet and the human species that you cannot see that actually

those two can happen at the same time.

You can have suffering, pain, but you can have also tears of joy,

laughter of wonder.

So the way we conduct our life, we have to begin to remove the distinction a little bit.

That Mother Earth is out there.

We are Mother Earth.

Our mind is the mind of Mother Earth.

So how we celebrate and how we enjoy our day.

Our life is a gift.

You know, if you waste your life just grumbling over what's wrong with the human species and our planet,

you know, and you move on and there will be many, many other on your path.

So the path of awakening is to see that Mother Earth is not an environment out there that we have to save.

Mother Earth is here, your body, your mind that you need to take care of.

And when we move like that, it tells us that we have to take care of ourselves.

So when you have a feeling of despair, of sadness, of anger, of depression,

there are ways to take care of it.

Taking a breath.

I know Mother Earth is in me.

Breathing out.

I smile to Mother Earth.

So you nourish you begin to nourish these other elements that are also Mother Earth.

This is a daily practice,

so it's not like you wait for some movement or some protest, or some kind of action.

You know, it's every day you can do something for Mother Earth, smile, wake up differently.

And so this energy, if more of us continue to have, we can begin to affect the world.

So don't underestimate the changing of your mind,

and how you move and look at strangers,

and how you project your thoughts.

You know, you don't produce more toxic or

send toxic out and inward to yourself.

So you're not only polluting the environment,

but you're polluting your own body, which is Mother Earth.

So these feelings of ill feelings is toxic for you and for Mother Earth.

So it doesn't help.

So a Bodhisattva is someone who knows how to take care of the toxin.

They manage it, maintain it, don't let it spread.

In fact, they learn how to transform like the mud into a lotus, you see.

So your body is Mother Earth.

Take a look at that.

So how you move and how you walk each step.

You know, people are so involved with, you know, saving Mother Earth.

But look how they are stepping on Mother Earth.

A lot of violence, a lot of rushing, a lot of restlessness.

So, you know, Mother Earth is in your footsteps.

So how you walk,

show your reverence and your love for Mother Earth.

So with each step.

And don't underestimate.

If you cannot do the small little things, don't even think about the big movement.

If you don't know how to take care of yourself each moment, each day.

The path, you know, you cannot last.

So, you know, to lay each brick gently, this is the path.

Don't underestimate.

You might be one, but at least you know, Mother Earth through you is healthy, happy, in wonder, enjoying.

You know, of course, there's like a million others are in living differently.

But at least, you save Mother Earth in yourself.

You change the way you look at things,

and you no longer afraid of these feelings, these frustration, afraid of suffering.

You know how to embrace it, heal it, look into it, understand it,

accept it, and it can be turned into lotus flower.

So all of these toxic things can be transformed.