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(A lotus for you)
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Respected Thay, Dear Noble Sangha,
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Welcome to Plum Village.
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This is our first Mindfulness Day,
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of the Spring Retreat, and thank you
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for coming together, as a Sangha.
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There's a Chinese delegation,
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who came by the bus.
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Plum Village is not a school, where you
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come and you learn, and you get a
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degree...no.
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We don't come here even to learn Buddhism.
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Plum Village is not an ordinary community
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where we come and chit-chat,
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to get involved in communication,
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talking with someone, or looking
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for someone to be your friend, to be your lover.
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Plum Village is a practice centre.
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It's a community of practice where we
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devote our energy and time into
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the practice according to the Buddha.
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Our main practice in Plum Village
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is mindfulness.
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Mindfulness means you come back to
yourself.
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You bring your wandering mind
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back to the present moment.
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Bring your mind back to the body,
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and you establish yourself in the
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present moment.
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At the end of the monastic retreat,
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we have 10 lazy days.
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Lazy day means there is no schedule
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of the practice. So you are on your own.
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No one remind you to practice,
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no schedule...no community
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schedule for you. So you are on your own.
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It's a time of examination, whether you
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can do it by yourself.
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Because a community practice- it depends
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on individual practice.
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We take refuge in the community.
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It means that you are also taking refuge
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in each individual practice.
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If the Sangha is strong, it means
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everybody is strong.
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Everybody is (can't catch),
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everybody is solid.
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Everyone know the way to go
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back to oneself.
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To be in the present moment.
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So it's so clear.
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Plum Village is a training place.
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Training here is training mindfulness.
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To be alive, to be back to oneself.
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To be alive, and then to touch life.
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So what do we want to be here for?-
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as the monastic?
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What do you want to be here for,
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as an aspirant to become the monastic?
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What do you want to be here - as the lay?
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You want to be here in order to
embody the practice.
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To take the concrete practice and then
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to find ourselves.
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Plum Village is like the mountain that has
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a lot of jewels. You need to take it out.
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You need to know how to collect
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the jewels.
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You need sharp eyes, clear eyes.
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Plum Village Sangha is like a forest,
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where all the trees stand together,
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majestically standing together
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under the sunlight.
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We enter this community,
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we enjoy the majestic energy of
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the forest, in the morning.
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So we don't want to come here
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for anything else than that.
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That's one sutra that the Buddha
spoke about.
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It's related to this:
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There's a Sutra on
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Majjhima Nikaya, it means
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The Middle Discourse.
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Number 29.
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The Buddha spoke about how to be
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a monastic.
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This discourse was delivered after
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Devadatta left the Sangha.
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Devadatta, he created a lot of problems.
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Devadatta is a cousin of the Buddha.
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When he entered the monastic life,
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after a while he wanted to become
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a Buddha!
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He wanted to be a Buddha.
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He wanted to become a second Buddha.
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He wanted to become the leader
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of the Sangha.
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So when the Buddha was still alive,
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he said, "Dear Buddha,
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let you rest. I will take care
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of the Sangha. I'll become
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you- the leader of the Sangha".
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And the Buddha said." Don't mention that,
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Devadatta, in the Sangha,
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there's beautiful monastics like
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Shariputra, Maha Mogallana, Mahakasyapa
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they are beautiful people, but I don't
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even let them become the leader
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of the Sangha.
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So don't mention about you."
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And he get really upset.
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He left the Sangha and he created a lot
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of problems.
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He divide the Sangha.
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He convinced 500 monks to follow him,
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and he set up a new Sangha.
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This sutra- the Buddha spoke after
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that event.
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The Buddha said." When a young man,
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out of faith, left a lay life,
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and become a monastic. They're called
'homeless' ".
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Because a monk doesn't have a home.
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A monk lives in the forest,
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with the community, in the monastery.
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So we called all monastics 'are homeless'.
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It's not like people who are homeless and
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wandering in the town.
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It means the people who devote their
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energy, their life, their time
to practice.
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They don't concern themselves about
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other things, like material comfort,
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or...effective comforts...
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like romantic relationships...
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We don't come here to look for romance.
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Like someone you love, secretly love.
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No.
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You come here to practice.
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When we practice for a while,
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we gain something.
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You gain comforts (not sure..can't catch)
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We...not only gain, but honour..respect...
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We become respected by someone,
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by lay friends, and we become famous,
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renowned. Sometimes they called
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you 'a renowned teacher',
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become famous like a Dharma Teacher.
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Could be a renowned person in the Sangha.
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Of course when you practice for a while,
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you become a Dharma Teacher.
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I could be a renowned person
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in the community.
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This young man left family life, go forth.
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In the language of the Buddha,
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called 'go forth', means you go on,
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you go higher, further, means you
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ordain as a monastic.
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You take the life of a monk or
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a nun, and that's called 'go forth'
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"The reason is that person don't want
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to be a victim of birth, old age,
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death, sorrow, pain, despair.
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That person doesn't want to be a victim of
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suffering, (can't catch) of suffering.
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He believe in the Sangha,
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that is the way to end all the suffering.
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He practices dilligently...many years,
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and he attain 'gaining'.
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He attains honour, he attains renown,
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He is pleased with these,
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his intention is fulfilled when he enjoys
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the gaining. I gain some kind of material
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comfort,I come here I have food, I have
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room, all that...
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He is satisfied with honouring,
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respect by other people.
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He is also satisfied with his position,
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he is renowned.
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And he doesn't want to go on.
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He doesn't want to practice.
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That's good enough for me.
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He praised himself, and he disparaged
others.
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He criticises the other people."
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The Buddha say he became intoxicated,
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with this gain, honour, renown.
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He will grow into negligence, become
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negligent and he will live in suffering.
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So this is the warning of the Buddha.
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After we practice a while,
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we think that we have enough.
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I become a Dharma Teacher,
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or maybe I go out, I build a temple,
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I have a lot of money, and that's it.
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You stopped practicing, you forget the first
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goal entering the Sangha. The most deepest
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concern entering the Sangha.
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You just stopped right there.
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The Buddha made an example, like a person,
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looking for heartwood. He goes into the
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forest and he found a beautiful giant tree.
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He cut the tree into pieces, into logs.
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but he doesn't know what is the heartwood.
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He only takes trees and branches.
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That person who stopped at gaining,
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and honouring, and renown, is like taking
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the branches and leaves only.
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He didn't take the heartwood.
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The second kind of person, he doesn't
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get satisfied with gaining,
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honour, renown, he becomes diligent
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and goes on practicing.
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He achieves attainment of moral
discipline.
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Moral discipline. (In Viet)
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He really thinks with discipline,
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with fine manners, with vinaya, with shila.
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He achieves beautifully, radiating the
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energy of moral discipline. He is pleased
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with it, and his intention is fulfilled.
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I have enough.
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He said, I'm the best, so I don't want to
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practice anymore.
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He praises himself and he (can't catch).
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The Buddha said he becomes intoxicated
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into the gaining, attainment of moral
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respect, moral discipline.
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He will grow negligently and falls into
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negligence and he lives in suffering.
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The Buddha says, " This man, this monk,
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only gets the outer bark of the tree".
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Moral discipline, precepts, shila is only
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the outer bark of the tree. Outer bark of
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the tree. You know the tree has bark?
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You only get that.
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You haven't get the heartwood yet.
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The heartwood is the strongest part
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of the tree.
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The third kind of monastic
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he does not (get) satisfied with gaining,
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honour, renown, even moral disciplines.
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He continues to be dilligent in the
practice.
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He attains...achieves the concentration.
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The deep samadhi. Samadhi.
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And he is pleased with it.
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His intention is fulfilled, he doesn't
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want to practice anymore. I am great
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samadhi. Sometimes I can fly on the sky.
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You know in the sutra, sometimes they
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spoke about a monk who can fly in the sky.
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They guild.
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He stopped practicing.
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He(is) bragging about his attainment. He
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is satisfied with his attainment of samadhi.
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He lauded himself, he praised himself.
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He disparaged others.
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The Buddha said, he becomes intoxicated
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with attainment of concentraton, grows
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negligently, fall into negligence,
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and he lives in suffering.
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You see, samadhi, but if you stopped...
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you can fall back to suffering.
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If you are satisfied bragging about your
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own practice of samadhi, you can fall back
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into suffering.
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This person only gets the inner bark
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of the tree.
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So there's 2 barks-the outer bark
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and inner bark.
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He didn't get the heartwood yet.
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The fourth person-
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he is not satisfied with concentration,
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with great concentration. He is not satisfied
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with mindfulness. He is radiating with
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light, of mindfulness and concentration,
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but he is not satisfied with that.
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He becomes dilligent, continue to practice
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wholeheartedly, and he achieves the
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non-achieve, the vision.
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Knowledge and vision.
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In Vietnamese it called (in Viet)
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He has the knowledge and vision.
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He can see things deeper than others.
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He is pleased with it, and his intention
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is fulfilled. He doesn't want to practice
anymore.
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So I got the knowledge, I got the insight.
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So I don't want to practice anymore.
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He enjoys life, get caught in
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conversations, sleepy, seeking for
pleasure.
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He stopped the practice because he is
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satisfied of what he believe he can attain
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The final.
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He praised himself, he disparaged others.
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And the Buddha said, "This monk (is) also
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falling back into suffering. He only get
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the sapwood". Certain place in the
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tree you called sap..sap wood...the
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softer wood where it's (can't catch) sap.
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Sapwood. S-A-P. Sapwood.
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Means softer kind of wood.
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It's not the heartwood yet.
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It helps the tree to grow.
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So it's permeated with sap.
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The Buddha said, "not yet".
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The last person, the last monastic.
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He's not satisfied with the knowledge
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and vision. He is not satisfied with insight.
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He becomes more dilligent in practicing.
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He practices wholeheartedly, and he
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attains what they called
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"perpetual emancipation".
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Unshakeable liberation.
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Perpetual means unshakeable.
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Liberation or emancipation.
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The Buddha said, when a person gets this
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kind of liberation, he will not fall
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back into suffering. He got the heartwood.
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So this Discourse tells us that in
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the practice, we don't stop.
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We don't think that we got it. We've to
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continue to do the daily practice. We cannot
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stop the practice in our daily life.
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When I reflect on this sutra, I see that
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we come to Plum Village, we think that
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we have enough, we get already enough.
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So we just...not really wholeheartedly
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in the Sangha practice. We just live our
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life and let time go by. We feel that
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there is nothing special here.
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Nothing interesting here.
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But as I said in the beginning,
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Plum Village is like a mountain.
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It has so many jewels hidden in the
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mountain, and we need to discover that.
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We need to be wholeheartedly in our daily
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practice. We need to have sharp eyes, to
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be able to see the jewels.
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Especially those who live here for 10 years,
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15 years or 20 years.
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You will see that if we don't enjoy daily
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practice, we fall into that trap of
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satisfaction. I have enough.
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(can't catch) is nothing special.
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Nothing here.
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That's why today I would like to share
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with you what is the jewels
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of Plum Village. We need to know what is
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the jewels. We don't just want to come
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here to gain some kind of comforts,
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to have money, to have food...
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to have special food, to have
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room, comfortable room. We don't want to
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come here to gain material comfort.
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Or emotional comfort.
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Or to become famous.
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To become honourable person.
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We want to come here to get the
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jewels of the Dharma.
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And our Teacher is like a rich man.
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He's like a rich...
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man who owns so much jewels and we are
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the children of our teacher . We live with
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him, but we don't receive anything!
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We behave like a desperate child.
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The first jewel in Plum Village is,
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the practice called
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"I have arrived, I am home".
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So when you want to call the signature,
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the seal of Plum Village is,
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"I have arrived, I am home".
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Means you don't run anymore.
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You make one step and you stop your mind.
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You stop your body and you stop your mind.
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And you enter into the present moment.
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You feel connect with Mother Earth, and
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that's called
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" I have arrived, I am home".
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Sometimes we have not arrived yet.
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Our mind is still thinking a lot.
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We are still looking for something.
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We are still searching for something.
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We miss the first jewel of Plum Village.
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No matter how long we live here,
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we don't have the jewel of Plum Village.
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I have arrived,
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I am home.
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No more running.
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No more aiming.
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No more searching.
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Happiness is not at the end of the road.
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Happiness is on each step of the way.
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Whether we arrived or not.
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Whether our mind stops and
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feel life or not.
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That's important.
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Just that is already important.
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Means the mind and the body comes together.
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And then helps to arrive in the self.
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Arrive in present moment, in life.
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You get some degree of freedom..
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The second seal of Plum Village is
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"dwelling happily in the present moment"
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So the present moment is our destination.
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You know, I begin with the sutra in order
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to speak about Plum Village practice.
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So the sutra is not important, but
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Plum Village practice is important,
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because that's why we come here for! Haha.
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Some people still don't have faith in
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Plum Village practice. They don't have
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faith in the teacher. They are still
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waiting for moments to go away from
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Plum Village. To find something else.
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That's why speaking about the jewels of
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Plum Village is so important.
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Plum Village's seal.
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"arrived, home"
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We have to realise this.
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We have to really experience this.
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Because it's the practice of no running.
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No aiming.
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No searching.
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Not even attainment.
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You don't look for attainment.
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Because each step you feel alive.
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You touch life.
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Each step you come home.
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Mind come back to the body,
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and you become whole. And you will be
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whole by the present moment.
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A lot of nourishing and healing in there.
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So you don't need to run.
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YouI don't need to even search for
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enlightenment, because there is no
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enlightenment at the end of the road.
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You don't need even to become a Buddha.
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Just be yourself.
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To be home sweet home.
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You don't need to be someone else.
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Sometimes we feel like we are nothing.
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We are only a human being full of
suffering.
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So we want to become someone else.
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But this practice, "home",
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I need to bring my mind back.
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I need to bring myself back.
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On each step I make. So you feel
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Mother Earth when you walk like that.
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You are connecting with Mother Earth.
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it means that you feel yourself.
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So between you and Mother Earth is life,
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is energy of mindfulness.
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Energy of being alive.
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There's a clarity in the mind.
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When you feel Mother Earth, you feel
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yourself and all anxiety stopped.
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All anixety, all worry, all pain
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and sorrow stopped.
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This is very clear when the Buddha
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said, "A young man left home, go forth,
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become a monastic, because of one reason.
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That he doesn't want to be a victim
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of birth, death, old age, sorrow, despair.
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He doesn't want to be a victim of his
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suffering and despair and stress".
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So this can be the way to stop all our
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block of suffering, mass of suffering.
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The second jewel of Plum Village
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practice is dwelling in the present moment.
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Happily. In the present moment.
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The present moment is our destiny.
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So if you don't know where to go-
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present moment. If you want to know
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whether you have mindfulness or not,
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you ask yourself,
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'Am I in the present moment"?
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In the present moment, everything
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becomes alive.
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You are radiating with light,
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and you see light outside.
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Your soul becomes green like grass,
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your mind becomes clear like light.
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Because you enter the present moment.
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There is a formula I like so much,
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when I'm talking about arrived home,
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a formula called velocity.
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Velocity equals distance over time.
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This is when you want to arrive at home.
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We use this physics formula called
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velocity=distance/time.
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When distance is here, here means here.
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You don't make a step.
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Your mind don't run here.
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You don't go anywhere, and time is now,
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means zero. Over zero. Velocity equals zero.
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Means you stopped!
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You are free from velocity.
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Your mind totally stay still.
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Isn't that cool?
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Mathematics can cool the Buddha's teaching.
(Mathematics can make the teaching cool).
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If you want to stop your mind,
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Thay says, "stop thinking radio station"
(Thay says stop non-stop thinking radio)
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If you want to stop your mind-
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Here & Now. Arrived.
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You see, it's very clear.
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Present moment is our destiny.
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Present moment is our country.
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When no one can occupy.
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No one can control that wonderful country
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of yours.
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When you enter the present moment,
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everything becomes so real.
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You can hear song of the bird
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all the time. Now is the time, the bird is singing
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almost all day long. Especially in the
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early morning about 6 o' clock, 6.20.
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In the present moment, flowers (are )
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blooming all the time.
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Your body, your mind, green like the
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meadows, sparkling with light
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in the present moment.
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So this is your destination.
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You don't need to find happiness because
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in the present moment, you have a lot of
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happiness.
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Of course you don't need money to be happy.
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In the present moment, you feel so good.
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All is so great.
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To be one with sunlight.
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Wow, it's so good to see daffodils.
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To really enjoy, touch daffodils.
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The colour of golden colour.
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In the present moment, what we called
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the true peace. We need to get this.
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This is very precious jewel.
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So important dharma seal of Plum Village.
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Anybody can do it.
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Anybody can enter the present moment.
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Dwelling, stay, establish youself
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in the present moment.
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There will be full of happiness.
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Our Teacher has a very famous expression,
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" There is no way to happiness,
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happiness in the way".
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Means you make one step,
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you have to feel arrive and home.
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You enter the present moment and then you
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experience happiness. Because you become
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one with the meadow, you feel the warmth
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of the sunshine in your body.
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That is happiness.
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So happiness is at every step.
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If we don't have this, at the end there
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will be nothing.
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Because our mind keeps running.
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We don't need to run after happiness,
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after peace, after joy, after well-being.
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Happiness, peace, joy, well-being
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are already available. You experience it.
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You taste it.
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And that requires, "home, arrive".
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Mind stop. No velocity.
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So these go together.
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True peace.
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And the beautiful thing in the present
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moment is the silence.
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If you are too noisy,
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you don't feel much.
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Can you believe in the morning,
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the song of the bird are calling you.
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and you are too noisy!
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You are talking a lot, non-stop,
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and your mind keep thinking.
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thinking, looking of something,
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and you really don't know
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you missed the morning song of the birds.
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So the silence is so important.
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The silence inside of the mind.
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So if you feel you don't know
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what to do, enjoy the silence.
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Sometimes we are afraid of silence.
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At times you are alone,
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and you feel don't know what to do.
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You want to look for someone else to talk.
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You ruin your silence.
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You destroy your awareness.
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Your clarity of the mind.
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In 10 lazy days I spent time by myself.
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My mentee that goes to the hut,
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they have their own practice.
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And I'm their mentor, I also do by myself.
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I hide myself in the forest.
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I think I have enough noise already.
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Sometimes we live together,
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it's too much noise.
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When there's too much noise,
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we don't feel much (of) present moment.
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We don't feel much,
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the energy of peace, of joy,
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refreshing, healing energy in life.
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In the present moment, what you
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need is silence.
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Silence.
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The other thing is,
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do one thing at a time.
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Don't do multitask.
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One thing at a time.
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I have a habit of learning.
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I want to learn so much.
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Sometimes I learn something,
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I read something, but I write something.
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Because I am afraid of losing them.
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I am afraid I don't have enough time.
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So I listen to a Dharma talk,
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but I am writing something.
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You just do one thing at a time,
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to really feel the present moment.
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You do the garden, and you just do the
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garden. You put all your heart into the
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garden. In one of the lazy day, I worked in
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the rose garden. I put all my heart into
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doing the rose garden. I weed the grass,
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I cut the grass, I clear away
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the weed that occupy the root of the rose.
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I trim the rose. So you do one thing at
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a time, you stay in the present moment.
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That's why our teacher says,
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"Just breathe"
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"Just walk".
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So we walk, and that's it.
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We don't think about something.
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When we do walking meditation,
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(it) doesn't mean you are thinking about
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the dharma talk. No, you just walk,
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and the insight comes out.
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The talk doesn't come from thinking.
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The talk comes from the insight.
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The experience.
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So just walk, just breath, just eat.
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Is that simple enough?
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And help to clear the mind!
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Because the silence is so important.
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The clear mind is so important.
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In order to have clear mind,
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the silence, we need to do one thing
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at a time. It helps (us) to concentrate,
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to help us concentrate on one thing.
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The practice is 'just breathe'.
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I like this so much.
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"Just breathe", "Just walk"
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When we eat, we just eat.
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Enjoy, taste. The gift of life.
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That's it.
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You don't eat and you talk.
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That's why the first 20 minutes, silence
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meal is to just eat. That's the time of
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concentration, of mindfulness.
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Of clear mind.
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So it's the training process.
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I have the feeling that mindfulness
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is like a thread.
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A very thin thread.
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You know lotus? When you break the lotus,
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there's a thread.
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There's a very vulnerable thread.
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But it can hold other parts of the
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lotus stem. So mindfulness is
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like a thread. Very fine thread.
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But day by day becomes so powerful.
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Because the light becomes so powerful.
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It recognise things.
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It see things deeper in the realm of
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feelings, in the realm of mind,
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of thoughts.
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Not to mention about the green grass,
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the flower. These are physical things
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you can see them clearly.
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But you can see even your mind,
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your feelings, your thoughts.
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So training.
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The third jewel of Plum Village practice.
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There's a lot, but these are very
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important jewels that we need to take,
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we need to bring home, we need to possess,
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in order to be a rich practitioner.
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So we don't behave like a destitute.
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Like a poor child.
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In dwelling in the present moment,
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what you got is the wonders of life.
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So you don't need anymore conditions
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for happiness.
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The wonders of life.
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Everything becomes so real.
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So precious.
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The third is the continuity.
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Continuity or continuum.
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This is called the insight. You need to
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get this insight of continuity.
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(In) Vietnamese called "tuong tục".
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We need to have an insight of "tuong tuc".
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Continuity.
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Our life is not a rock, ok.
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Our life is a process.
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Our life is a process of energy.
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Love and energy. Hate and energy.
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And they don't stay the same.
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They always change.
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That's why the Buddha say
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consciousness sometimes behave
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like a river.
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It's continually flowing.
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Remember the insight of our life
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is continuity.
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Our life is flowing all the time.
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This is the teaching on impermance.
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So each moment of our lives,
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there is input.
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The things come in.
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Fresh air, sunshine,
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a smile, a loving thought.
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Each moment of our lives,
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there's inputs into what we
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called body and mind. And also
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each moment there is output,
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things coming out.
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The way you see things,
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the energy goes out, by wavelength.
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So you may send out good energy or really
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negative energy.
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So society becomes violent or not
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depends on individual way of life.
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What he send out through thoughts,
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through speech and through body energy,
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body language.
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The insight of continuity helps you to
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realise the teaching on impermance.
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Everything change.
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This is very important insight.
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Everything change.
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So if you have a despair, don't worry.
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Everything will change.
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Even you don't want to change,
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it will change by itself.
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So don't worry about it- despair.
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Say hello to despair.
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As a monk, sometimes I speak about
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myself. Sometimes we feel like, a little bit
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like depressed. (Laughs).
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(Bell)
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I'm sure depression is happening to
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everyone right? But as a monk, because we
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are going in, so we face so many energy.
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And one of the energy inside of our
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consciousness is depression.
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Sometimes I felt the energy depressed.
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I feel that my energy goes down.
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Luckily I have a practice called
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'gladdening the mind'.
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Gladdening the mind.
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Cheer up.
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I go out of depression just like that.
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Sometimes it's just the seed, triggered up.
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The seed of depression maybe come from
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our father, our mother, ancestors,
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where they faced, go through challenges
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in their life, and they fall
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into depression. They despair because they
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cannot do things.
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They faced so much suffering in life,
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and they fall into despair.
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And now it's transmitted to us.
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We practice and we encounter
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this energy.
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We have the way out,
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by gladdening the mind.
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Open the door and walking outside.
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Be with nature, and it changes
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this energy of depression.
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Continuity means that don't worry.
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Don't be despair,
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because things will change.
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Sometimes things will change in a year,
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not overnight but one year.
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There's certain seed, that anger
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it takes years to practice.
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That certain seed of anixiety,
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it takes like years to practice
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So don't give up, have trust.
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Because we have insight of continuity,
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the insight of 'tuong tuc".
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'Tuong tuc' means continue,
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flowing all the time,
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There's another word- impermanance.
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Don't look into our live as a rock.
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A stone. No.
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Look into our life as a river.
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Ever-changing energy.
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One energy we change to a different energy.
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So if you have a depression, you can change into
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joy and happiness. If you have an anger,
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you can change into love.
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You can do it with the practice.
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So don't stuck in there.
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Find a way. A skilful way that fit you.
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In order to change the river of your mind.
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We call 'change the seed', because
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all come from seeds.
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Our consciousness sometimes,
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is described as 'the totality of seeds".
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Like the garden, it embodies every kind
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of seeds in the garden.
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When you faced some kind of depression,
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that's something very normal, but you
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need to change the seed, or
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you will be despair for a long time.
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Keep this insight of impermance,
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insight of continuity.
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The fourth jewel of the practice is the
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insight, why we called insight? because
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it is not thinking. Insight (is what) you
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see, you see directly, that your body
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change, that your mind change.
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If you are able to let go, it change.
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Sometimes we don't want to let go.
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When you hate someone, you keep holding
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into that, you keep arguing in the mind
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with that person, and you make it worse!
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You don't allow it to flow,
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you have it heavy in your mind.
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And that person doesn't know anything!
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That's really called 'attachment'.
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This insight helps to remove attachment.
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No attachment.
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No attachment to whatsoever,
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whatsoever in the form, in the feeling,
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in the thinking, in the mind.
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In the person, even in the person that
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you don't like, you have to let go.
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Because your mind holds on to it,
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you suffer a lot.
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Because the insight of continuity means
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your mind flow.
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Don't hold.
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You hold, you ruin the nature of our mind.
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The insight of interconnectedness.
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Interconnectedness.
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How Teacher usually says, "interbeing".
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Interbeing is another word.
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So with this insight of changing,
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insight of interbeing,
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we are free.
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Because we relate.
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If you hate someone, it means
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you hate yourself.
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Interbeing. Interconnected.
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Your suffering is his suffering.
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Your smile is her smile.
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So if you want to punish him means
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you want to punish her- yourself.
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Interbeingness, interconnectedness.
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And that is the energy field.
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You know, life- in quantum physics, they
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called energy field.
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You are just a whole bunch of energy.
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I'm moving around, and two energy bombard,
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and there is life. Two energy bombard
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bombard means we have a problem.
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You love or you hate.
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So actually love and hate is just energy.
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Collision of energy. In bio-chemistry,
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they called the bonding of the chemical.
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Its funny that when you fall in love with
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someone, you actually bonding with her
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in the level of chemistry.
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You send out to her the message to say,
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"Dopamine I love you"
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You know, the dopamine say "I love you",
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"I feel good with you",
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and you fall in love.
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And he do the same thing.
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So insight of interbeing, the insight is
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so crucial. Usually we attach our ego,
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so we forgot the insight of interbeing.
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Interconnectedness.
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We are relating, we are connecting.
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In the level of human being, and
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also in the level of nature.
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Of life.
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Nowadays at Hanoi, the government
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cuts down all the big trees.
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There's several thousands of big trees and
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they want to cut them down.
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All of them.
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You know Hanoi is beautiful because of the
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the big trees. It gives shade and
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it also makes the city beautiful.
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Now they are cutting it down.
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I think some guy in the back wants to get
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the wood. That's why they then
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make this plan.
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It's really hurt, especially the people
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who live in Hanoi.
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They didn't know the tree is so important
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for life, because we are
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interconnected with tree.
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Tree absorbs carbon dioxide,
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and releases oxygen for us.
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Tree gives us fruits, tree gives us shade.
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Tree removes away heat and sunburn.
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But they don't know that.
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They want to make money.
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They want to cut down all the trees.
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I mean they are going to kill themselves.
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So today we need to pray for the
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trees in Hanoi. They are giant like this.
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I think this government is stupid.
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In Vietnam, the government is stupid.
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with all stupid people.
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Sorry I have to say that, but they do so
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many things so corrupt.
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The insight of interbeing means you are
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not yourself. The insight of no-self.
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It's a very important teaching
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of the Buddha. I think Thay Phap Luu
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like the way I talk...(laughs)
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because it's a very sutra thing.
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Not a separate existence,
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interbeing is like that.
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You are not alone.
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You cannot be alone.
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In the level of energy, we always
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exchange. Your sorrow comes out as energy
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and I got it. Your happiness,
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as wavelength, comes out and you make
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me happy.
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It's goes through your eyes,
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it goes through your body.
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Sometimes it goes through your language.
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Sometimes you speak beautiful language,
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we feel good. Nowadays in society,
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people speak very rough language.
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They accuse, their language is like knife,
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cutting everything. So we need to change
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the way of speaking.
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You know the eight-fold path of
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the Buddha teaching is right speech.
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Loving speech.
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We need to speak in a way that create
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peace, happiness, confidence.
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We don't want to hurt
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other people. We don't want our speech
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to be like knife, cutting other people up,
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with pain and sorrow.
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Interbeing, interconnectedness is like
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that. You are concerned for other people.
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Because you are not alone.
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You cannot be alone.
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You know sometimes I have a feeling
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I want to go away by myself.
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Because I think I can do better by myself.
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So this is very temptation.
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Because I think I can do better in the
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practice by myself.
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Living in the community sometimes
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is a little bit difficult.
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Too much noise...
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too much singing...
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too much playing music.
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You hear flute everywhere...
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you hear guitar everywhere...sometimes
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you feel overwhelming with that.
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A lot of talking. We talk a lot.
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But we don't spend time to be silent.
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So that's the temptation to be alone
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is so strong in me.
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I've to be very careful with that.
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Because actually we need each other.
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One more day, if I give a talk, I'll talk
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about the sutra the Buddha says about
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the importance about having friends.
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Ananda says it's only half in importance
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in spiritual life. The Buddha says,
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"No, Ananda,full of spiritual life.
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If you have a good friend".
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There's a sutra like that. You can
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realise your full potential of spiritual
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life, full enlightenment, with liberation
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with a good friend".
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A good friend, ok.
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Not like a noisy guy. (Laughs)
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So interbeing is like that. We need to take
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good care of our practice, in order to be
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good for the Sangha. Be good with our Sangha.
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To support our brothers and sisters.
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The fifth jewel of Plum Village practice,
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is the insight...this is the very
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important insight of non-duality.
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Non-duality.
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This is so important.
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Insight. It's not notion.
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All these is not notion.
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All these you need to experience.
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If you learn from the book,
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it's not an insight.
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If you read from the book, from a sutra,
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it's not yet the insight.
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You need to experience.
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You need to live your life
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with the insight of non-duality.
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What does that mean- non-duality?
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Means there's no right or wrong.
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There is no you separate from I.
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There is no body separate from mine.
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There is no enemy separate from friend.
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Non-duality is like that.
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We're always thinking of right and wrong.
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Good and bad.
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Friend and enemy.
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Right, is that right?
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Most of the time we're thinking like that.
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That is the main source of suffering.
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It comes from discriminative mind.
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The mind of discrimination.
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Non-duality means the insight of
non-discrimination.
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The Buddha says there's two views.
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Double view. (In viet).
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You are different from him.
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You, are the perceiver, and
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he, is the object of your preception,
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are different. It means double view.
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If we are caught in that,
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we have problem right away.
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You begin to judge him.
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You put him in (a) box.
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Whether good monk or bad monk.
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We already have a problem.
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Cannot live together.
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We have to transcend this double view:
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"I'm different from you",
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"I'm judging you".
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"I'm a judge and you become
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object of my judgement".
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That's called non-duality.
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Non-discrimination.
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You, are a part of my mind.
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You are the object of my mind.
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If I don't change my mind,
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I cannot change you.
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If you don't like someone in the Sangha,
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you change your mind.
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Is there anybody you don't like
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in your Sangha?
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You have to change your mind.
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Non-duality.
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And the same thing is (for)
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suffering and happiness. You don't throw
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away suffering in order to run after
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happiness.
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Suffering make happiness.
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It just like garbage makes flowers.
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Manure, cow manure makes flowers
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and vegetables.
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So if you see something inside of you,
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called garbage, suffering,
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don't be afraid.
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Use that to plant lettuce,
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green mustard, flowers.
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So non-duality is like that.
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So that point, you'll be able to accept
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the whole of life.
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You don't struggle.
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There is no struggling,
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There is no clinging.
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Non-duality means no clinging to
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whatsoever.
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Even enlightenment or happiness.
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Sometimes we live in a community,
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we feel comfortable with someone,
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with a group of people, and we
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don't like the other group.
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Insight of non-duality helps us to
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remove that behaviour.
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To open our heart, so that slowly
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everyone becomes part of your community.
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Everybody becomes part of your love.
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Non-duality.
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We will be free from double grasping.
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The Buddha says (in viet),
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(in viet), double grasping.
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Remove that.
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We always have this double grasping.
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It's very deep down, controlled by the ego.
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The judge.
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So the ego in the back is doing all these.
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Judging, discriminating.
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You see, it's very powerful.
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It's very powerful insight.
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It helps us to remove the totality
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of all suffering.
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Non-duality.
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"I am you"
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"I am my father"
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"I am my teacher"
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Look at the people around us.
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This is transmitted by our teacher.
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As I say, our teacher is like a rich guy.
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Rich man.
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He has so much jewels and
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he give it to us,
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but we don't receive anything.
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We receive only the bark of the tree,
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the branch, the leaves.
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We don't receive heartwood,
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the essential, the most important
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of the Buddha's teachings.
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We don't receive yet.
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So if you have in your mind,
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thinking of going away,
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go to another school,
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think about it.
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Have you got the jewels?
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From Plum Village.
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From the mountain.
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Good luck.
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Thank you very much.
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(A lotus for you)