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Retraite francophone — 21 mars 2013

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    If I am here, it's because the Sangha is here
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    I smile at my sangha
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    Sangha is here, smile at the sangha
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    Hello, dear friends
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    Today is the 21st of march of the year 2013
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    We are in the mutation of the so called full moon
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    in the New Hamlet, Plum Village
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    We just listened to the chant of
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    the sutra "The heart of the Prajnaparamita"
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    it is about the perfect understanding
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    What is the " perfect understanding"?
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    The word in sanskrit is prajna
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    prajnaparamita
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    that is a sort of understanding, a deep vision,
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    a kind of wisdom
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    that can bring us
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    to the other side, the side of no fear
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    of no anger, of no despair, of liberation (release)freedom
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    the Other Side
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    We talk about the deep vision
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    this deep vision
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    is obtained by the deep insight
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    When we live within mindfulness, we are really here and now
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    And if we look deeply, we will be able to touch
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    the real nature of what is here
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    our body, our mind, the world, a cloud, a pebble
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    so everything can be the subject
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    everything can be the object of our meditation
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    If you look deeply in the nature of a pebble
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    then you can touch its own nature
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    and you can touch,
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    and you can have this Perfect Understanding
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    this deep vision.
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    There are three sorts of energy
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    that can give us this deep vision
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    the first one is the mindfulness, smriti
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    is the energy that allow us to be there
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    here and now
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    this energy which unable us
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    to bring back the body toward the mind, the mind toward the body
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    in order that we can really be here.
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    This is the energy that unable us
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    to be aware of the fact, of all that
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    occurs in the present
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    in our body, in our thoughts
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    in our sensations, etc....
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    It is the energy of mindfulness
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    As practitioner, we know that
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    practice is to generate that energy of mindfulness
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    If you live with mindfulness, you live deeply every moment of life.
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    We do not waste our daily life.
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    We live in depth, we touch the wonders of life in depth
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    to feed oneself, to heal oneself
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    So when we walk, we eat or when we work
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    We are inhabited by the energy of mindfulness
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    The good practitioner
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    is the one who can
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    generate that energy of full consciousness
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    The second energy is the energy of concentration.
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    Samadhi.
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    When to take your attention to something
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    as your breath or a flower,
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    you have the energy of mindfulness
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    If that full awareness is maintained,
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    that gives rise to the concentration.
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    You're focused on that.
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    the breath, a flower, your body, on anything
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    which is the subject of your mindfulness.
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    When you walk
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    mindfulness is your steps.
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    When you breathe, the object of your meditation is breathing.
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    When you drink tea in mindfulness,
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    the object of your meditation is the tea.
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    Mindfulness is always very conscious of something.
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    With a good concentration,
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    a strong concentration,
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    We can drill
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    the object of our meditation.
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    Be a pebble, a cloud, or a flower,
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    We make a breakthrough
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    its true nature,
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    called nature of thusness or the interbeing
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    That understanding, that profound vision,
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    can free us.
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    The Mindfulness, first energy,
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    2 second energy
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    the third is the deep vision.
    It is also an energy.
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    That energy, that profound vision,
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    is there,
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    as a result of our practice.
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    Because our full awareness
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    is strong,
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    and our focus is great enough.
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    With full mindfulness
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    and concentration we can make a breakthrough
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    the nature of things.
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    And to acquire that knowledge, that wisdom,
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    This profound vision, that correct vision,
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    We are liberated
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    In Buddhism is salvation through knowledge,
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    not by grace.
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    That knowledge is the profound vision,
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    perfect understanding.
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    It can be interpreted very well
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    that deep vision
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    as a grace, it is a kind of grace.
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    It is the greatest grace.
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    There is the shore of suffering
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    and the shore
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    of liberation
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    We are standing, sitting, on this shore of suffering,
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    illusion, of fear, of suffering.
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    What can be done to leave that shore
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    to be able
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    to get to the other side?
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    It is the perfect understanding.
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    Deep vision to acquire for meditation.
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    And that is done
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    every day with practice.
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    five trainings to mindfulness
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    they are instruments, utensils,
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    very precious, very important
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    that I can use to acquire
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    that perfect understanding.
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    Because those five trainings to full consciousness
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    they are based on deep insight.
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    It is a global ethic
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    based
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    not a belief, but a profound vision.
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    The vision of the inter being
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    We have already learned the four noble truths of Buddhism.
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    It is time to look,
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    to consider these four truths
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    in the light of the inter being
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    We know that the first truth is the existence
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    of suffering.
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    Buddhism is very practical.
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    Non-philosophical, metaphysical, speculation about being,
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    but methods
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    appropriate, concrete, for power
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    transform suffering into something else.
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    If you think that there is suffering in the world,
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    You agree with Buddha.
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    There is suffering,
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    and you can do something
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    to transform it.
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    So the first truth
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    It is to accept that there is suffering in the world.
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    The first truth is
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    the presence of ill-being,
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    There is ill-being in the body,
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    in the sensations,
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    in the perceptions,
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    in mental states and our conscious knowledge.
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    There is a collective consciousness and individual consciousness.
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    Collective consciousness is made by individual consciousnesses.
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    And individual consciousness is made by the collective consciousness.
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    It is how left and right.
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    We have been in our consciousness the collective consciousness of our society.
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    We have been in our
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    suffering also the suffering of our society.
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    The collective suffering.
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    If we can transform the inside suffering,
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    We help the world, society, at the same time.
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    What you can do for you,
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    you do it for us.
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    If you can breathe
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    and you feel better, you do it not only for you,
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    but for us also.
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    The teaching of Buddha
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    It's pretty simple.
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    But the sages
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    they have transformed it into something very complicated, difficult.
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    Here, in Plum Village, we try to simplify
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    but we always keep the depth of the teaching.
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    Simple but profound.
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    So there is ill-being
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    And when we look in the ill-being
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    with full awareness, with concentration,
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    We will discover the second noble truth:
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    the roots of ill-being
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    The causes of ill-being
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    The foundations of ill-being
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    We have lived in such a way
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    that ill-being has become real.
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    We look to see how ill-being has been installed.
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    It is meditation.
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    We look into the unrest
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    and we see the causes,
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    the elements
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    that you have gathered
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    to establish that ill-being
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    So the second
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    the second noble truth
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    It is the basis of the ill-being
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    Either, the way
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    that leads to ill-being
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    This kind of life, this way of living,
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    that leads to ill-being
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    Thus, the second noble truth can be described
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    as a road.
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    But instead of leading us to happiness,
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    freedom, leads to ill-being
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    The path that leads
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    that it leads to ill-being
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    Buddha said it in a very simple way:
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    "What you have just installed"
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    i.e. your ill-being, your pain, the suffering,
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    the suffering has been installed,
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    as a depression,
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    desperation, ill-being
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    It is what you have just installed.
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    You just installed
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    If you can look at
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    in depth in its true nature,
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    and if you can identify the roots,
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    food sources that you've used to feed him,
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    you're already on the path of liberation.
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    So look into ill-being
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    to see how we have lived,
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    how we have acted, how we discussed,
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    how we thought,
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    so that ill-being
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    is there.
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    That is the root.
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    The second truth
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    is the root
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    of the ill-being.
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    The venerable Shariputra,
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    one of the more intelligent disciples of Buddha,
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    Shariputra,
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    described the
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    the cause of the ill-being,
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    insofar as food.
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    In terms of nutrition.
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    Food
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    It brings
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    ill-being
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    Because Buddha said many times
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    nothing can survive without food.
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    He repeated it many times.
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    Nothing can
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    survive without food.
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    Not your love.
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    If you don't feed your love, it will die
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    If you don't know how to feed your love,
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    It will die.
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    You have to know how to feed your love.
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    It is an art, it is a practice.
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    Your depression is the same.
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    If your depression still exists, it is because you are still feeding them.
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    Your anger, your despair also.
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    If it is still there, it is because you feed it every day.
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    You have to look at, identify this kind of food
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    (e) interrupt it.
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    Cut it.
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    If short discomfort food source,
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    the discomfort will die.
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    Your depression, your desperation, will die.
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    The monk, the venerable Shariputra
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    has helped us a lot
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    describing the second truth in terms of food.
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    Buddha spoke of four types of food.
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    Edible food,
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    prints
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    sensory, what we see, we hear,
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    What we feel, we think, is food.
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    Our ideas, thoughts,
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    they can be
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    harmful,
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    poisoned.
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    They are a type of food.
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    We eat
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    with the eyes, ears, nose, tongue,
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    with the body and thoughts.
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    We have to be very attentive.
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    We should not feed us
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    poisonous things.
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    What you see
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    on the television.
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    What you read
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    in the magazines.
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    The conversations you hear
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    can
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    contain in themselves
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    toxins, poison.
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    Then, we consume it.
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    If we have a depression,
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    It is because we have consumed way such
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    that depression has become real.
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    So we have to identify the sources of food.
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    You have to be very attentive when you see TV,
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    When you read press articles,
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    When listening to a conversation, because those things
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    You can enclose much venom.
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    You should preserve you,
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    protect yourself. Five workouts, especially the fifth,
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    as a discipline, a practice,
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    to protect ourselves, to protect our children and society.
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    It is the engaged Buddhism.
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    Buddha said this:
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    nothing can survive without food.
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    What you have just installed, if you can look in depth
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    in that thing
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    e identify the food source that has brought it with you,
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    you're already on the path of transformation and healing.
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    The second truth brings already
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    the release.
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    It is a profound vision.
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    The deep vision of the second truth,
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    the cause of the discomfort.
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    Then, the third truth
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    It is a cheerful music of the practice note.
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    That is, the transformation is possible.
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    Healing is possible.
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    Peace is possible.
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    The expression has been used
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    "the end of unrest".
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    The end of unrest. What does mean?
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    It means the beginning of welfare.
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    It is the same.
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    When we say "absence of darkness", what do we say?
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    The presence of light.
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    We must read the sutras in this way.
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    The absence of discomfort, i.e. the presence of welfare.
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    Joy, happiness, is possible.
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    It is the third truth.
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    It is a positive, happy, note in the music of the practice.
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    And how?
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    Getting to the end of unrest?
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    There is a way
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    carrying, which leads
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    to the well-being.
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    That destroys the discomfort.
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    The road
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    carrying
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    to the well-being.
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    I.e.,
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    the destruction of the discomfort.
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    To the EESC
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    the unrest.
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    In fact,
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    the third truth
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    called "ceasefire".
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    The truth of cessation.
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    Nirodha.
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    What ceasefire?
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    Cessation
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    the unrest.
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    It is said that this is nirvana.
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    Nirvana.
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    Nirvana is the absence
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    fever.
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    The absence
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    the flames that burn us.
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    The fires of affliction.
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    There is fear,
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    desire,
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    There is despair,
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    the ira, are burning.
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    The fire that burned us in everyday life.
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    Nirvana is the extinction of the flames.
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    The extinction of the flames.
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    The extinction of the flames means the presence of freshness.
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    You can say that nirvana is the freshness.
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    It is springtime.
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    But where can we find the spring,
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    the happiness, nirvana?
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    Buddha said: here and now.
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    It is always available instantly if you know how.
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    The other Bank.
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    Perhaps if you know inspiration once in full consciousness,
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    If you can
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    release,
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    simply you
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    to reach the other shore.
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    A practice
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    as simple as inspiration can take you instantly to the other shore.
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    There are fresh, no fear, no anger, instantly,
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    Thanks to the perfect understanding.
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    Suppose that you feel anger towards that person.
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    Do you think that that person is the cause of your disgrace.
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    You are overwhelmed,
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    are trapped by this idea,
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    by that perception.
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    You want to do something to make the other person suffer
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    to make you feel better.
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    If she suffers, I will feel better.
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    It's crazy,
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    but many think so and act as well.
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    If we look, we see
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    He said something, he has done something,
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    why he said it?, why you did it?
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    It is because there is so much suffering in it.
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    It is a person incapable of managing their suffering.
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    It is a victim of his own suffering
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    and it causes suffering to others.
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    This profound vision instantly dissolves anger.
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    And it motivates you the desire to help that person
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    to suffer less.
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    It may take some seconds
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    having that vision.
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    You can do it. We can all do it.
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    Look deep.
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    If you can recognize, identify that person suffering,
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    and see that he is a victim of his own suffering,
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    the anger in you will disappear.
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    You're in nirvana. You've nirvanizado instantly.
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    So nirvana is not a place,
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    is not a local,
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    nirvana is the release
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    and it is possible to reach it at every moment of our everyday life.
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    With what? With practice, to achieve that deep vision.
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    If we fear death it is because we have not had this profound vision.
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    When you look at things,
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    We see that their nature is the of no birth, no death.
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    You know that
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    It is said: nothing...
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    Lavoisier,
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    Lavoisier is the father of modern chemistry, right?
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    It is a French, non?
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    Lavoisier said: nothing is lost,
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    nothing is created, nothing is lost.
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    He said exactly what he says the sutra
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    perfect understanding.
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    There is birth, there is death.
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    And we all know
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    According to the first law
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    of thermodynamics
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    It can not be,
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    cannot create matter.
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    The matter can not be destroyed.
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    Energy can not be created.
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    Energy cannot be destroyed.
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    Everything is transformed: subject matter,
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    matter into energy, energy in energy, energy in matter.
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    But we can't
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    create or destroy matter or energy.
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    The law of conservation of energy.
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    So science has already touched that.
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    The nature of no birth, no death.
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    And if scientists can apply that
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    in daily life, they will have no more fear,
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    they will not more suffering.
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    From the point of view of the form
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    There are four truths.
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    The first is not the second,
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    the second is not the third, the third is not the fourth.
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    But in the light of the interser
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    We see it otherwise.
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    That is why, in the sutra of perfect understanding
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    It is said: there is no suffering.
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    There is no cessation of suffering.
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    There is no way. Suffering, nor road, nor cause, or road. Why?
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    Because to look at in the light of the interser,
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    We see that all inter - is.
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    For example, the third truth,
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    It is the cessation of the discomfort, which is happiness.
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    It is closely related to the first,
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    the suffering.
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    When we look at happiness
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    with the power of full consciousness, concentration,
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    We will discover that happiness
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    It is made with elements not happiness.
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    Happiness is a thing,
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    just like a flower.
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    When we looked at the flower
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    with full awareness and concentration,
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    We will discover that the flower is made
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    only of elements not flower.
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    The Sun, the rain, the Earth,
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    time, the gardener, things like, a multitude of causes calls not flower.
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    And those elements not flower
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    gather to help that state flower
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    as a wonder of life.
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    Now,
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    If forward
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    light
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    the Sun,
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    rain-cloud,
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    nothing left, the flower is no longer exists.
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    So flower is made only
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    elements do not flower.
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    The flower is empty of a separate existence.
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    The flower is full
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    Cosmos.
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    All cosmos is in flower, the flower is full.
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    But in a separate existence, a separate self,
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    She doesn't have it.
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    If we look in depth, we see that the flower has no
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    a separate self, a separate existence.
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    It is said: the flower may not by itself.
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    The flower must be interser yet.
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    Being interser.
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    But unfortunately
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    the word is not yet in the dictionary.
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    Interser is possible.
    Be not possible.
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    You can't be yourself.
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    If you're not there, I couldn't be here
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    at the same time.
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    So in the light of the interser, happiness
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    It is a type of flower.
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    When you look at happiness
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    you see elements not happiness who have gathered
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    to give birth to happiness.
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    Those elements not happiness
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    It is the element of suffering.
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    When hungry,
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    you want something to eat.
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    If you have joy
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    to eat, it is because there is hunger.
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    If you are not hungry, there is no joy
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    when eating.
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    If you've experienced a war,
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    You can appreciate the peace.
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    The suffering
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    serves as a background
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    so that we can identify the happiness.
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    Most of the time you have happiness
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    but you do not identify it.
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    Happiness is always there.
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    But as we are not aware
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    We believe that happiness is not there.
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    With the very conscious we are really there
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    and we can identify
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    the conditions for happiness that are present.
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    And happiness is there.
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    Nirvana is there, instantly.
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    It is said to be careful,
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    full consciousness, is a source of happiness.
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    It is the practitioner or that
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    You can generate
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    every day, several times,
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    power of full consciousness to identify
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    the conditions of happiness that are here and now.
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    We must not run forward
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    to find conditions of happiness.
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    We have more than enough already here.
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    We hope to be happy.
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    It is a French song.
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    Happiness and suffering
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    interson.
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    You can speak of the benefit of suffering.
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    If you have suffered, it's okay.
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    Because about the second level of suffering,
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    You can better identify
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    conditions of happiness that are already there.
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    More
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    that you need.
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    For example,
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    When you remember that you have eyes
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    still in good condition.
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    Then the eyes are a condition for happiness.
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    A paradise of colours and forms is available.
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    And as I have eyes
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    still in good condition,
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    the paradise of forms and colors exists for me.
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    I'm in paradise.
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    I'm on the other side.
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    You have many conditions like this
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    in you and around you.
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    You have lungs.
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    You can enjoy inspiring and exhaling
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    and an inspiration can already give much happiness.
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    With full consciousness, you know that the air
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    Here it is pure.
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    There is sunshine, there are many conditions of happiness.
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    Happiness is possible.
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    You must not go to find nirvana in another site.
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    In Plum Village, we like to say
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    nirvana is now or never.
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    As the Kingdom of God.
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    The Kingdom of God is now or never.
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    The energy that helps us to identify,
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    to recognize the Kingdom of God,
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    It is full consciousness.
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    And everyone can have full consciousness.
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    An inspiration, an exhalation,
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    a step in full consciousness,
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    that creates, you can create,
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    power of full consciousness
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    with which we can identify
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    the conditions for happiness available.
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    I would ask you to observe this:
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    There is no way
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    to carry happiness.
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    I'm going to deny the fourth truth.
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    In the light of the interser,
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    each truth cannot be denied.
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    As in the sutra Sung this morning.
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    There is no discomfort, there is no road that leads to discomfort,
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    There is no cessation of discomfort, there is no road that leads to the cessation of the discomfort.
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    There is no way
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    to carry happiness.
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    Happiness is the way.
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    Every step, every breath,
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    every gesture, every thought,
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    It can bring happiness.
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    It is thought that the third and the fourth
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    they are different things.
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    I have here
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    the path that leads
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    to happiness. And behold the happiness.
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    So there is a distinction between happiness
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    and the way that it leads to happiness.
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    It is one
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    a vision
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    dualistic
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    It is not the truth.
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    The road can not boot
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    that leads to nirvana nirvana.
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    So every step on this path
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    It reveals to us the nirvana.
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    Nirvana in every step.
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    Nirvana at every breath, nirvana at every step.
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    Nirvana in every moment of daily life.
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    Nirvana is available here and now,
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    as the Kingdom of God.
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    It is not a hope.
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    It is a possible realization here and now.
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    If we can stop the load,
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    you have freedom.
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    And you're in nirvana, in the Kingdom of God.
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    How to load it?
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    You must realize that the load
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    It is the cause of your disgrace.
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    Of your suffering.
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    Why continue hauling the load?
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    It is to continue worth?
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    In the moment in which you can let the load you will be free.
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    Nirvana is yours, the Kingdom of God is yours.
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    I have said to the Christian friends
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    that he should not die in order to enter the Kingdom of God.
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    It will be too late.
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    Too late.
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    The Kingdom,
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    the Gospel says that the Kingdom comes,
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    the Kingdom has been, is here.
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    In fact should be very alive in order to enter the Kingdom.
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    And how
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    do you live?
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    An inspiration in full consciousness
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    brings the mind to the body,
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    and when the mind with the body
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    you are installed at the present time.
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    You are fully
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    present.
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    You are fully alive.
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    With a single step you enter the Kingdom of God, in nirvana.
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    And it is possible today.
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    Then the two truths,
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    the first and the fourth,
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    interson.
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    You can't boot
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    one of the other.
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    To look deeply into happiness,
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    the suffering is seen.
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    Look at the suffering you can see happiness.
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    As the mud and Lotus.
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    No sludge there is no Lotus.
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    The suffering
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    and with perfect understanding
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    good use of discomfort can be.
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    I would ask you to observe
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    There is no
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    Nirvana
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    out of the way.
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    The road is nirvana.
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    The road is happiness.
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    Walk along the road
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    in happiness.
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    Every moment of being,
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    every moment to live,
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    locks up happiness, well-being.
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    We know how
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    manage a suffering,
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    We know how to create
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    a happiness.
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    All of us at both to practitioners,
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    We can act
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    as magicians.
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    That is, we can create a moment of happiness,
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    happiness at the moment, when we want.
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    With what? With full consciousness.
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    With the very conscious we can quickly identify
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    a condition for happiness.
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    For example, around the table,
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    before dinner, look
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    yours
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    with love and say: is a moment of happiness.
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    Think a moment of happiness.
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    You're a magician.
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    You have the power to create happiness for you and others
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    at any time.
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    You can practice to have sufficient peace and compassion
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    to create those moments of happiness in daily life.
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    I conclude that when looking at one of the four truths
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    the other three can be.
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    The four noble truths interson.
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    There is no separate truth, there is a separate self.
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    A truth is made of elements of other truths.
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    So is studied
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    in the light of the interser Buddhism.
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    Buddha is a living being,
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    There is no Buddha outside
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    of living beings.
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    If you want to search to Buddha, you should look at human beings.
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    Because a Buddha
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    It is a person, a being live.
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    And every living being
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    It has Buddha-nature.
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    The safest place to search for Buddha
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    It is in ourselves.
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    The road that leads to happiness
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    that described Buddha, begins with the right view.
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    This fair vision is the basis
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    all practice.
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    Also
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    It is the result of the practice.
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    We rely
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    in the right view to practice
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    and practice
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    It gives us correct vision.
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    Sometimes it is called
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    deep vision, perfect understanding,
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    prajnaparamita.
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    Understanding that leads
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    to the other shore.
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    The correct view is at the base of every practice.
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    With a fair view
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    can
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    practicing correct thinking.
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    The right-thinking
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    is not something harmful,
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    poisonous. There are thoughts
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    harmful, poisoned.
    It is not a good food.
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    Right-thinking without any discrimination.
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    But a right-thinking
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    It is only possible when we have a correct vision.
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    How to have correct vision?
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    We must look
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    deep things.
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    For this reason,
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    which brings us right view
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    is the concentration,
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    right concentration.
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    In the practice of meditation
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    It teaches you to concentrate
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    to be able to play
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    the right view.
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    For example, when looking at a cloud,
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    We recommend you look at how a cloud
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    to be able to play its nature of no birth, no death.
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    Samadhi.
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    SAMA, samadhi.
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    Right concentration.
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    And to have correct concentration
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    It should be practiced
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    the full correct consciousness.
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    Full consciousness.
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    Be aware in everyday life.
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    With the power of full consciousness
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    abundant, vigorous,
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    with a strong concentration,
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    We can Pierce reality to acquire correct view.
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    The right vision is a vision
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    free of all discrimination.
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    Once, a monk
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    called Katyayana,
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    his name in pali is Kaccayana,
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    Buddha asked:
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    dear teacher, you have spoken many times
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    correct vision.
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    What is truly
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    the right view?
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    This time, Buddha said: the right view is a view
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    that transcends the concepts of being and not being.
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    There are many ways
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    talk,
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    describe the correct view, but this time
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    Buddha
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    a fairly accurate statement,
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    pretty short.
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    Buddha said that most of the people
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    It is caught by the notion of being and not being.
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    On the basis of discrimination
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    they can't see the truth.
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    All fear, discomfort,
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    complex,
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    despair, is born
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    on this false vision
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    What is being
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    as opposed to not being.
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    The truth, absolute truth,
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    the ultimate truth, transcends the notion
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    to be and not be.
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    It is something to ponder.
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    It is not a metaphysical speculation.
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    Suppose,
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    We do a brief meditation, together
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    Suppose that you stroke
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    the course of the time.
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    From left to right.
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    Time passes.
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    Time passes.
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    It is the address of the past.
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    And this is the address
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    of the future.
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    At a certain point,
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    someone is born.
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    In the course of time.
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    There is a point here
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    that I can call N.
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    Birth.
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    The birth.
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    What we think of the birth?
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    Generally, it is said to be born
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    It is from not being to be, right?
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    Because I did not exist
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    before the point N.
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    For this reason, the segment
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    ending in N
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    the segment is called not to be.
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    Before he was born, I didn't exist.
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    He belonged to the non-being.
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    And from that moment,
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    I belong
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    to be.
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    It is our way of seeing things, think.
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    Buddha said that think this is not right-thinking.
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    Because it is not a correct view.
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    Most of us think
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    to be born
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    It is not to be, to become.
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    Anyone we get someone.
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    Before ask someone we weren't nobody.
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    If not we will be. It is the way of thinking.
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    If the birth is there, else should be there at the same time.
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    It is death.
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    And we set the day of the death
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    one hundred years after more or less.
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    M.
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    The segment
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    NM
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    life is called.
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    A life.
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    When ando,
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    Road
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    on the segment NM,
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    I'm afraid.
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    Because I think
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    I owe
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    at some point reach M.
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    And I prepare to go from being not to be.
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    There are pairs of opposites
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    in terms of mental categories we have.
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    There are many pairs of opposites.
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    The first is to be and not be.
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    As there is being, there is not to be.
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    If you confirm being, you must confirm the non-being.
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    There are theologians who think
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    in terms of being and not God.
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    They say that God is the basis of be, the Foundation of being.
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    If it is so,
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    who will play the role
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    from Foundation of the non-being?
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    If God is the basis of being,
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    who will be the basis of not being? Satan?
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    So there a God's enemy.
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    God is
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    in the field of self and Satan is in the field not to be.
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    There is a battle.
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    Being and not being
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    According to Buddha, they are nothing more than ideas.
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    They are nothing more than concepts, notions,
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    that it does not apply to reality.
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    As we are caught
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    in this pair of opposites,
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    We're also stuck with
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    by another pair of opposites,
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    the notion of birth and death.
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    Because we think to be born
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    It is from not being to be.
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    We think to die
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    It is to go from being not to be.
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    The idea of birth and death
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    It is not possible without the idea of being and not being.
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    And the fear of death is based
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    the idea of not being.
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    If we can remove the idea of being and not being,
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    We also removed the idea of birth and death,
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    and we are free.
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    It is not be.
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    When we look a cloud,
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    Discover
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    that it is impossible.
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    We try to look at
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    a cloud.
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    A cloud is made up of elements not cloud.
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    Heat,
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    of water from the ocean,
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    from the Lake,
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    our breathing.
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    When we look at the cloud, we see elements not cloud.
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    A cloud
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    It is impermanent, it constantly changes.
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    Its nature is the nature of impermanence.
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    A cloud changes
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    faster than a person.
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    There are changes at any time, a person
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    cells that are born and die,
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    but look, we think that the person is the same.
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    But in a cloud
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    It is easier to see the impermanence.
  • 70:56 - 70:59
    Its shape changes very fast.
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    We see that the cloud
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    a cloud does not die ever.
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    Can a cloud pass
  • 71:19 - 71:21
    to not be?
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    We say that the cloud is, and that one day no longer more.
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    If,
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    the cloud will not be.
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    But it is impossible that a cloud happens to not be.
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    A cloud cannot be reused
  • 71:45 - 71:47
    nothing.
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    A cloud may become hail,
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    rain, snow.
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    Mist.
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    A river. But a cloud can not die.
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    And that fits very well
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    with Lavoisier: nothing is lost.
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    It is impossible that the cloud is lost.
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    You can never become anything.
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    You can only convert into something else.
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    With a very different appearance,
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    but the cloud still lingers.
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    The same must be true for the human being
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    and other beings.
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    We can not die,
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    We continue in other forms,
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    more or less fine, but always continue.
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    There is a medium
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    acquire...
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    The cloud is still there.
  • 74:25 - 74:27
    It is possible to make
  • 74:28 - 74:30
    a beautiful continuation.
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    For a cloud and for us also.
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    Because we will always continue.
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    Like? In Buddhism it is action.
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    We continue on our actions.
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    I think Jean Paul Sartre said something.
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    The man is the sum of their actions.
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    The man is not more than their actions.
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    The value of a human being is seen in his actions.
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    It is very close to Buddha.
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    With a correct vision
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    free of all these notions,
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    You can
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    produce correct thoughts.
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    He is a right-thinking
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    free of all discrimination.
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    A thought that has
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    understanding
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    and love.
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    A thought that can nourish us,
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    You can heal
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    and nourish and heal the world.
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    It is possible for each practitioner
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    produce a right-thinking, a loving thought,
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    a thought of understanding,
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    If we have this base
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    of knowledge, the right view.
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    There is a separate self.
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    You are, therefore I am.
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    I am done
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    elements I, and you're not made of elements not you.
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    I am in you and you are in me.
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    As a novice,
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    I learned how to make a bow to Buddha
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    with a gatha.
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    My teacher told me:
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    before touching the Earth
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    before Buddha,
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    You must breathe
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    and you should read a little poem
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    to get ready for a relationship
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    a real communion with Buddha.
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    This gatha
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    It is as follows:
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    He leans and which is there,
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    It receives the inclination,
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    both are empty in nature.
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    I am made of elements I
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    and you, Buddha, are also made of elements not Buddha.
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    I am also in you and you are also in me.
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    Then you see the interser between you and Buddha.
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    You must see
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    Buddha is made of elements not Buddha
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    and it is empty of a separate self.
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    You are a practitioner,
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    you know you're done
  • 78:10 - 78:13
    elements not you
  • 78:13 - 78:17
    and among those elements not you is the Buddha element in you.
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    You have a seed of understanding,
  • 78:20 - 78:23
    a seed of love, attention,
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    a seed of awakening in you.
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    Buddha in you and you in Buda.
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    Only after seeing that you can make a bow.
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    Then the communication will be perfect.
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    It is the deep vision.
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    When to drink your tea,
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    You can do the same.
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    You're in tea and the tea is in you.
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    You are in the cloud and the cloud is in you.
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    When you have a cup of tea in hand,
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    You can practice
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    You can enjoy, you can look and see
  • 79:05 - 79:06
    to the cloud
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    of which we have spoken
  • 79:10 - 79:12
    It is in your Cup.
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    And you can smile at the cloud in the tea.
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    Thus, you have deep vision.
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    The cloud is now the tea.
  • 79:23 - 79:26
    And now you drink your cloud.
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    It is poetry, but it is also a meditation.
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    Thus, there is a deep communion between you and the world.
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    You can live every moment like this.
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    The correct thought is a thought
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    that has this vision of I.
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    This vision
  • 79:54 - 79:56
    of interser.
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    If the vision of interser and not me is there,
  • 80:00 - 80:05
    There is no more discrimination, there are no more anger.
  • 80:05 - 80:08
    For this reason, a right-thinking me cure,
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    I feed,
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    and he heals and feeds the world.
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    As a practitioner, you must, you can,
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    produce
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    thoughts as well
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    during the day.
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    It is good for our health,
  • 80:26 - 80:30
    It is good for the health of the world.
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    Right view is needed to produce a thought as well.
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    Very healthy.
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    Very nutritious.
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    Very healing.
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    With the right view, you can also produce
  • 80:48 - 80:50
    the correct word.
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    A correct word
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    is a Word
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    based on the vision of the interser, not I.
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    My dear
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    I know that
  • 81:08 - 81:11
    you know you're in me,
  • 81:12 - 81:14
    and I am in you.
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    Intersomos.
  • 81:16 - 81:17
    Our suffering
  • 81:19 - 81:21
    is not an individual question,
  • 81:21 - 81:24
    our happiness
  • 81:24 - 81:27
    It is not something individual.
  • 81:29 - 81:31
    When you say something like,
  • 81:32 - 81:34
    your suffering is my suffering,
  • 81:35 - 81:36
    my happiness is your happiness,
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    If you see it as well, you can say something like this.
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    In a right word there is compassion, love, understanding.
  • 81:49 - 81:50
    And that healthy.
  • 81:51 - 81:54
    That feeds. When you write a letter
  • 81:56 - 81:58
    with loving Word,
  • 81:58 - 82:00
    the healing process
  • 82:02 - 82:04
    It happens instantly.
  • 82:05 - 82:09
    You have not yet sent the letter
  • 82:10 - 82:13
    but the healing has begun.
  • 82:15 - 82:17
    Write a letter,
  • 82:17 - 82:19
    send an email,
  • 82:19 - 82:21
    It is practical.
  • 82:21 - 82:24
    It is necessary that what you say, what you write,
  • 82:25 - 82:27
    take itself
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    compassion, non-discrimination,
  • 82:32 - 82:36
    understanding. That you will heal you and the other person.
  • 82:37 - 82:41
    As a practitioner, you can do it several times a day.
  • 82:43 - 82:45
    Thanks to that correct vision,
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    to that realization deep.
  • 82:58 - 82:59
    What you are doing,
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    the action,
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    It is based also on the right view.
  • 83:08 - 83:12
    There is no discrimination, there is compassion.
  • 83:12 - 83:14
    There is understanding.
  • 83:14 - 83:16
    What you do
  • 83:16 - 83:18
    can
  • 83:18 - 83:24
    protect, sustain, help and nurture.
  • 83:26 - 83:32
    With your body you can protect life, you can help others.
  • 83:32 - 83:35
    You can help to heal, to transform.
  • 83:35 - 83:37
    It is the correct action.
  • 83:39 - 83:41
    The correct action is also based
  • 83:42 - 83:43
    in the right view.
  • 83:44 - 83:45
    In Buddhism we talk
  • 83:46 - 83:50
    continuation in the future in terms of action.
  • 83:52 - 83:53
    Action.
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    In other words, karma,
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    Karma means action. Triple action.
  • 84:07 - 84:09
    The thought is action.
  • 84:10 - 84:11
    Because the thought
  • 84:12 - 84:14
    You can change the world.
  • 84:14 - 84:16
    Or you can
  • 84:16 - 84:18
    destroy the world.
  • 84:18 - 84:20
    The Word also.
  • 84:20 - 84:22
    You can change the world
  • 84:22 - 84:27
    or pushing someone to kill themselves.
  • 84:28 - 84:30
    So the word is very important.
  • 84:30 - 84:31
    The word is action.
  • 84:31 - 84:33
    With your body
  • 84:33 - 84:34
    You can protect,
  • 84:35 - 84:39
    You can support and help.
  • 84:40 - 84:42
    So each day
  • 84:42 - 84:44
    We produce thought,
  • 84:44 - 84:47
    We produce Word and action.
  • 84:48 - 84:50
    It's like an orange.
  • 84:51 - 84:56
    Patio Orange produces beautiful leaves,
  • 84:57 - 84:59
    beautiful flowers, beautiful oranges.
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    We, humans, produce thoughts, words and actions.
  • 85:07 - 85:09
    It is our continuation.
  • 85:09 - 85:11
    Because nothing is lost.
  • 85:13 - 85:14
    We are our actions.
  • 85:15 - 85:17
    And that always endures.
  • 85:18 - 85:19
    Nothing is lost.
  • 85:25 - 85:26
    So there is no death,
  • 85:27 - 85:30
    There are no more than transformation,
  • 85:31 - 85:33
    then in another form.
  • 85:33 - 85:35
    And well we can ensure
  • 85:35 - 85:42
    a beautiful continuation by correct thought, Word and action.
  • 85:44 - 85:46
    We also have,
  • 85:47 - 85:52
    practice, right livelihood.
  • 85:53 - 85:57
    The profession, livelihoods
  • 85:58 - 86:00
    correct.
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    That it does not harm anyone, that does not harm
  • 86:05 - 86:06
    the environment.
  • 86:07 - 86:10
    It is also based on the right view
  • 86:11 - 86:14
    our planet, our society.
  • 86:15 - 86:16
    There are also
  • 86:22 - 86:27
    This practice called diligence,
  • 86:28 - 86:30
    diligence
  • 86:31 - 86:33
    correct.
  • 86:35 - 86:36
    I.e.,
  • 86:36 - 86:40
    proper diligence is our way of eating,
  • 86:41 - 86:42
    our way
  • 86:43 - 86:45
    manage the suffering,
  • 86:45 - 86:49
    our way of creating small joys.
  • 86:50 - 86:52
    The Sangha we support
  • 86:53 - 86:55
    to do so every day.
  • 86:57 - 86:59
    We always, follow
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    It is the proper diligence.
  • 87:01 - 87:06
    It is easy to do with a Sangha us around.
  • 87:07 - 87:09
    So the road
  • 87:10 - 87:12
    described by Buddha
  • 87:13 - 87:17
    as the path,
  • 87:21 - 87:26
    consists of eight elements: right view, right-thinking,
  • 87:26 - 87:31
    correct word, right action, right way of life,
  • 87:31 - 87:34
    proper diligence, full correct consciousness,
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    right concentration.
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    And each element of the path
  • 87:40 - 87:43
    It gives us happiness during practice.
  • 87:45 - 87:49
    The good practice is it makes us well at the moment.
  • 87:51 - 87:53
    We must not wait.
  • 87:54 - 87:56
    If we know how to do an inspiration,
  • 87:57 - 87:59
    we relax,
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    We can come into contact with the wonders of life,
  • 88:03 - 88:05
    We can feed ourselves at the moment.
  • 88:06 - 88:09
    The practice should be nice.
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    The practice should bring happiness, freshness, nirvana,
  • 88:16 - 88:19
    the extinction of the flames instantly.
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    It's time to walk.
Title:
Retraite francophone — 21 mars 2013
Description:

Última enseñanza del retiro.

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Video Language:
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Duration:
01:29:09

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