The First Mindfulness Training | Thich Nhat Hanh

The Five Mindfulness Trainings

is a kind of lifestyle

that is born from a vision

called interbeing.

Everything is connected
to everything else.

Your happiness and the happiness
of other species inter-are.

If you suffer,
other species will have to...

to suffer with you.

And...

that insight of interbeing helps you to see
that you are linked to everything else.

And to protect...

yourself, you have to protect...

nature and every other species.

The Five Mindfulness Trainings
help us to remove...

discrimination,

fear,

anger.

It makes you feel better in yourself.

The first training is
about protecting life.

Your life

and the life of other species.

And your life and the life of
other species are inter-related.

And when you try to protect
the lives of other species,

you protect your own life.

When you breathe in mindfully,

you can see that Mother Earth

is in you.

And you are in Mother Earth.

And that kind of insight
helps you to remove your fear

of dying,

and helps you to see that
in order to protect yourself,

you have to protect Mother Earth.

Protecting Mother Earth
is to protect yourself.

Protecting other species is
protecting oneself. This is very clear.

Because life is one.

Life cannot be chopped
into several pieces.

And...

to live in such a way
that helps you to protect life

can bring you a lot of joy.

Because that is love itself.

So protecting life

is a joy.

That is the first of the
Five Mindfulness Trainings.