Our Actions are Our True Legacy | Sister Hien Nghiem (True Dedication)
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Not SyncedDear community, we are August
the 10th in the year 2023, -
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the last day of our Wake Up retreat, -
Not Synced"Love in Action", here
in the Upper Hamlet, -
Not Syncedin the Still Water meditation hall.
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moment sitting here. -
Not SyncedWhen we first started creating
youth retreats, about 15 years ago, -
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find enough young people -
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the next year there was like 65, -
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the year we hit 100, -
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we had 100 registrations! -
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This must have been around 2010. -
Not SyncedThay, there's a hundred
young people in Europe -
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Not SyncedCan you believe it?
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Not SyncedAnd he was like - well done!
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create the Wake Up movement. -
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bit overwhelming! -
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Not Syncedexcellent, it should feel overwhelming!
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don't know how many hundreds -
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so I guess Thay's smiling with -
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you wish for, because it may come true. -
Not SyncedI hope that's going to make it easier,
but hey I think speaking in front of -
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because on the one hand -
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with you all, -
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same feeling that we all do. -
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in this moment. -
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my experience and my practice -
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We will see. -
Not SyncedWe had some little flowers here
thank you, thank you. -
Not SyncedEmotional support flowers,
we also have an emotional -
Not Syncedsupport cello, that we might
need to call on. -
Not SyncedI was 21 when I first came
to Plum Village -
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who as soon as there was -
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mindfulness trainings, I -
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here for three weeks that summer] -
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who was like I am going to wait -
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been here through the summer -
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mindfulness trainings -
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are here for the first time -
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and I have to say, getting on the train -
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trainings in my pocket, in some form -
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It just was! -
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Not SyncedI felt that I had a path.
I felt that I knew what was important to me. -
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I can't fall that far anymore. -
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were a safety net or something. -
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that has been my experience. -
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with my dharma sharing famiy -
Not Syncedlike the path of the five mindfulness
trainings is not exactly -
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Not Syncedits more like this, and thats
definitely been my experience. -
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an experiment, a work in progress -
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like really a training. -
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kind of training we do, we learn -
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Not SyncedAnd by trying things out,
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Not Syncedand by realizing ... oops,
that was not in alignment or -
Not SyncedI have strayed far off my path
at this point -
Not SyncedBut it was wonderful and has been wonderful to
feel that they are part of my life -
Not Syncedand I don't know if your facilitators
shared with you -
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with our five mindfulness trainings -
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Not SyncedSo even if you become monastcs
your monastic name is not as important -
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Not Syncedbecause we are kind of born into our
spiritual path with this practice and -
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Not SyncedAnd so this morning, definitely
more than a hundred of us, -
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possibly closer to two hundred of us -
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