The Greatest Relief | Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh | #mindfulness

There things that do not go well

in our body,

and there are things that do not go well

in our consciousness.

We suffer

and we are motivated by
the desire to practice

so that we can relive
some of our suffering

we know that

you can get some relief

from our suffering

if we know how to practice.

So relief is what we we seek for.

We have some worries,

we have have some fear,

we have some problem with our body,

with our mind

and we can practice according to

the teaching of the Buddha

and get some relief

and maybe in a few days,

in a few weeks we can get some relief,

we can restore the balance

and you are capable of continue our life.

Although the suffering are still there

but not too much

Not many of us want to seek
the greatest relief

so that we can have a total liberation

from fear,

from craving,

from our worries.

We are seeking enough relief so

that we can go out

We can bear that amount of suffering to

continue on our path to survive

but the purpose of the Buddhist practice

is more than that

not only to survive
but to liberate yourself

and the only way
is to go deeper into the nature

of you, of yourself

because we are capable of knowing

that this body is not us.

We don't identify ourself with that body

that is why the way we carry that body

is very light

because there is the wisdom

of non-attachment to the body

if you can look upon your body

not like a self

and then you can also look upon your feelings

not as the self

If you have feeling

and then you have to carry
the burden of your feeling

just like your body

and as a human being

you cannot avoid having feelings

because you have perception
you've got feeling

and sometime we are not capable

of holding your feeling

your feeling is so painful

that you attempted to destroy your body

in order for that feeling to disappear

but there are those of us
who can handle our feeling

we are not caught by our feeling

we do not identify ourself
with that feeling

and therefore we are free
from our feelings

and we know
how to take care of our feelings

so that we don't have to suffer much

we know how to get rid of our fear,

our anger,

our tension,

that is why our feelings

are no longer heavy

like the way they used to be

it's like an an onion

when you remove a layer of the onion

we see nothing in it

but when the boddisattva is looking deeply

into the nature of form and feeling

they find that
there is no substantial nature,

there's no self nature within the body,

and the feeling

and that is why

they are free